High-energy and ultra-high-energy neutrinos: A Snowmass white paper

Bustamante, Mauricio; Ackermann, M.; Agarwalla, Sanjib Kumar; Álvarez-Muñiz, J.; Batista, Rafael Alves; Argüelles, C.; Clark, Brian; Das, S.; Decoene, Valentin; Denton, Peter B.; Dornic, D.; Dzhilkibaev, Zhan-Arys; Farzan, Yasaman; García, Alfonso; Garzelli, Maria Vittoria; Gläser, Christian; Heijboer, A.; Hörandel, J. R.; Illuminati, G.; Jeong, Yu Seon; Kelley, J. L.; Kelly, Kevin J.; Kheirandish, Ali; Klein, S. R.; Krizmanic, John F.; Larson, M. J.; Lu, Lu; Murase, Kohta; Narang, Ashish; Otte, N.; Prechelt, Remy; Prohira, S.; Reno, Mary Hall; Resconi, E.; Valera, Víctor B.; Vandenbroucke, J.; Wiencke, L.; Wissel, S.; Yoshida, Shigeru; Yuan, Tianlu; Zas, E.; Zhelnin, Pavel; Zhou, Bei; Anchordoqui, Luis A.; Ashida, Yosuke; Bagheri, Mahdi; Balagopal, Aswathi; Basu, Vedant; Beatty, J. J.; Bechtol, K.; Bell, Nicole F.; Bishop, A.; Book, Julia; Brown, A. M.; Burgman, A.; Campana, Michael; Chau, N.; Chen, Thomas Y.; Coleman, Alan; Connolly, A.; Conrad, J. M.; Correa, Pablo; Creque-Sarbinowski, Cyril; Cummings, Austin; Curtis-Ginsberg, Zachary; Dasgupta, P.; Kockere, Simon De; Vries, Krijn de; Deaconu, C.; Desai, Abhishek; DeYoung, Tyce; Matteo, Armando di; Elsäesser, D.; Fürst, Phillip; Fan, Kwok Lung; Fedynitch, Anatoli; Fox, D. B.; Ganster, Erik; Haack, Christian; Hallman, Steffen; Halzen, F.; Haungs, A.; Ishihara, A.; Judd, E. G.; Karg, T.; Karle, A.; Katori, T.; Kochocki, Alina; Kopper, C.; Kowalski, M.; Kravchenko, I.; Kurahashi, N.; Lamoureux, Mathieu; Vargas, H. León; Lincetto, Massimiliano; Liu, Qinrui; Madsen, Jim; Makino, Yuya; Mammo, J.; Márka, Z.; Mayotte, E.; Meagher, K.; Meier, Maximilian; Minh, Martin Ha; Miramonti, L.; Moulai, Marjon; Mulrey, Katharine; Muzio, Marco Stein; Naab, Richard; Nelles, A.; Nichols, William C.; Nozdrina, A.; O’Sullivan, Erin; O’Dell, V.; Osborne, Jesse; Pandey, V.; Paudel, Ek Narayan; Pizzuto, A.; Plum, M.; Aranda, Carlos Pobes; Pyras, Lilly; Raab, Christoph; Rechav, Zoe; Rojo, Juan; Matamala, Oscar Romero; Santander, M.; Savina, Pierpaolo; Schroeder, Frank; Schumacher, Lisa Johanna; Sciutto, S. J.; Sclafani, S.; Seikh, Mohammad Ful Hossain; Silva, Manuel; Singh, Rajeev; Smith, Daniel A.; Spencer, S.; Springer, R. W.; Stachurska, J.; Суворова, О. В.; Taboada, I.; Toscano, S.; Tueros, M.; Twagirayezu, Jean Pierre; Eijndhoven, N. van; Vereš, P.; Vieregg, A. G.; Wang, Winnie; Whitehorn, N.; Winter, Walter; Yildizci, Emre Burak; Yu, Shiqi

doi:10.1016/j.jheap.2022.08.001

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“…Finally, we note that UHE CRs could be accelerated by external shocks during the early afterglow phase (Waxman & Bahcall 2000;Murase 2007;Razzaque 2013), in which PeV-EeV neutrinos are expected and the predicted fluxes have not been reached by the current IceCube. Future UHE neutrino detectors (Ackermann et al 2022) such as IceCube-Gen2, Trinity, and GRAND will be required to test those afterglow models.…”

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Neutrinos from the Brightest Gamma-Ray Burst?

Murase

Mukhopadhyay

Kheirandish

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ApJL

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We discuss implications that can be obtained by searches for neutrinos from the brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB), GRB 221009A. We derive constraints on GRB model parameters such as the cosmic-ray loading factor and dissipation radius, taking into account both neutrino spectra and effective areas. The results are strong enough to constrain proton acceleration near the photosphere, and we find that the single burst limits are comparable to those from stacking analysis. Quasi-thermal neutrinos from subphotospheres and ultra-high-energy neutrinos from external shocks are not yet constrained. We show that GeV–TeV neutrinos originating from neutron collisions are detectable, and urge dedicated analysis on these neutrinos with DeepCore and IceCube as well as ORCA and KM3NeT.

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Neutrinos from the Brightest Gamma-Ray Burst?

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“…After event generation, simplified trigger criteria were applied on these events to simulate detection, requiring that an event is detectable if its peak voltage exceeds 48 mV (about three times the RMS noise voltage), a lower threshold anticipated for future operation with multiple stations. The detection efficiency is calculated as the ratio of the number of detected events to the total number generated, and the mean neutrino acceptance over all angles at a given neutrino energy E ν , AΩ (E ν ) = (E ν )πR 2 D Ω ν , with the exposure E = T live AΩ (E ν ), and inserting the detector livetime T live . The resulting acceptance and exposure as a func-tion of neutrino energy for one TAROGE-M station assuming 50 % duty cycle over one year, i.e., with one full solar-powered Antarctic summer, are shown and compared with those of ANITA-I and III [16] in Fig.…”

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“…UHE cosmic neutrinos, expected to be generated as UHECR interact with radiation or matter nearby the sources or with cosmic background photons, can help resolve the mystery of the cosmic accelerators and understand the Universe at the most extreme energies (see reviews in Ref. [1,2]).…”

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TAROGE-M: radio antenna array on antarctic high mountain for detecting near-horizontal ultra-high energy air showers

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Nam

Chen

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J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys.

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The TAROGE-M radio observatory is a self-triggered antenna array on top of the ∼2700 m high Mt. Melbourne in Antarctica, designed to detect impulsive geomagnetic emission from extensive air showers induced by ultra-high energy (UHE) particles beyond 1017 eV, including cosmic rays, Earth-skimming tau neutrinos, and particularly, the “ANITA anomalous events” (AAE) from near and below the horizon. The six AAE discovered by the ANITA experiment have signal features similar to tau neutrinos but that hypothesis is in tension either with the interaction length predicted by Standard Model or with the flux limits set by other experiments. Their origin remains uncertain, requiring more experimental inputs for clarification. The detection concept of TAROGE-M takes advantage of a high altitude with synoptic view toward the horizon as an efficient signal collector, and the radio quietness as well as strong and near vertical geomagnetic field in Antarctica, enhancing the relative radio signal strength. This approach has a low energy threshold, high duty cycle, and is easy to extend for quickly enlarging statistics. Here we report experimental results from the first TAROGE-M station deployed in January 2020, corresponding to approximately one month of livetime. The station consists of six receiving antennas operating at 180–450 MHz, and can reconstruct source directions of impulsive events with an angular resolution of ∼0.3°, calibrated in situ with a drone-borne pulser system. To demonstrate TAROGE-M's ability to detect UHE air showers, a search for cosmic ray signals in 25.3-days of data together with the detection simulation were conducted, resulting in seven identified candidates. The detected events have a mean reconstructed energy of 0.95-0.31 +0.46 EeV and zenith angles ranging from 25° to 82°, with both distributions agreeing with the simulations, indicating an energy threshold at about 0.3 EeV. The estimated cosmic ray flux at that energy is 1.2-0.9 +0.7 × 10-16 eV-1 km-2 yr-1 sr-1, also consistent with results of other experiments. The TAROGE-M sensitivity to AAEs is approximated by the tau neutrino exposure with simulations, which suggests comparable sensitivity as ANITA's at around 1 EeV energy with a few station-years of operation. These first results verified the station design and performance in a polar and high-altitude environment, and are promising for further discovery of tau neutrinos and AAEs after an extension in the near future.

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“…Astrophysical neutrinos, cosmic rays, and gamma rays are excellent probes of astroparticle physics and HEP [48]. High-energy and UHE cosmic particles probe fundamental physics from the TeV-scale to the EeV-scale and beyond.…”

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Report of the Instrumentation Frontier Working Group for Snowmass 2021

Barbeau¹

2022

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Detector instrumentation is at the heart of scientific discoveries. Cutting edge technologies enable US particle physics to play a leading role worldwide. This report summarizes the current status of instrumentation for High Energy Physics (HEP), the challenges and needs of future experiments and indicates high priority research areas. The Instrumentation Frontier studies detector technologies and Research and Development (R&D) needed for future experiments in collider physics, neutrino physics, rare and precision physics and at the cosmic frontier. It is divided into more or less diagonal areas with some overlap among a few of them. We lay out five high-level key messages that are geared towards ensuring the health and competitiveness of the US detector instrumentation community, and thus the entire particle physics landscape.

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High-energy and ultra-high-energy neutrinos: A Snowmass white paper

Cited by 55 publications

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Neutrinos from the Brightest Gamma-Ray Burst?

Neutrinos from the Brightest Gamma-Ray Burst?

TAROGE-M: radio antenna array on antarctic high mountain for detecting near-horizontal ultra-high energy air showers

Report of the Instrumentation Frontier Working Group for Snowmass 2021

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