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The surface detector array of the Pierre Auger Observatory is sensitive to Earth-skimming tau neutrinos that interact in Earth's crust. Tau leptons from ντ charged-current interactions can emerge and decay in the atmosphere to produce a nearly horizontal shower with a significant electromagnetic component. The data collected between 1 January2004 and 31 August 2007 are used to place an upper limit on the diffuse flux of ντ at EeV energies. Assuming an Eν-2 differential energy spectrum the limit set at 90% C.L. is Eν2dNντ/dEν<1.3×10-7GeVcm-2s-1sr-1 in the energy range 2×1017eV

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Documento: Artículo
Título:Upper Limit on the Diffuse Flux of Ultrahigh Energy Tau Neutrinos from the Pierre Auger Observatory
Autor:Multitudinario:453
Filiación:Centro de Investigaciones en Láseres y Aplicaciones, CITEFA, CONICET, Argentina
Centro Atómico Constituyentes, CNEA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Centro Atómico Constituyentes, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, CONICET, Argentina
Centro Atómico Constituyentes, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, UTN-FRBA, Argentina
Centro Atómico Bariloche, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina
Departamento de Física, Centro Atómico Bariloche, CONICET, Argentina
Centro Atómico Bariloche, Comision Nacional de Energía Atómica and Instituto Balseiro (CNEA-UNC), San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina
Departamento de Física, FCEyN, Universidad de Buenos Aires y CONICET, Argentina
Departamento de Física, Universidad Nacional de la Plata, Fundación Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Argentina
IFLP, Universidad Nacional de la Plata, CONICET, La Plata, Argentina
Instituto de Astronomía y Física Del Espacio (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Pierre Auger Southern Observatory, Malargüe, Argentina
Pierre Auger Southern Observatory, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Malargüe, Argentina
Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, FR-Mendoza, Argentina
Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, FR-Mendoza and Fundación Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Argentina
University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Universidad Catolica de Bolivia, La Paz, Bolivia
Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Bolivia
Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Universidade de Sao Paulo, Inst. de Fisica, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, IFGW, Campinas, SP, Brazil
Univ. Estadual de Feira de Santana, Brazil
Universidade Estadual Do Sudoeste da Bahia, Vitoria da Conquista, BA, Brazil
Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, BA, Brazil
Universidade Federal Do ABC, Santo André, SP, Brazil
Univ. Federal Do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Física, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Univ. Federal Fluminense, Inst. de Fisica, Niterói, RJ, Brazil
Charles University, Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics, Prague, Czech Republic
Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
Institut de Physique Nucléaire, Université Paris-Sud, IN2P3/CNRS, Orsay, France
Laboratoire AstroParticule et Cosmologie, Université Paris 7, IN2P3/CNRS, Paris, France
Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire, Université Paris-Sud, IN2P3/CNRS, Orsay, France
Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies, Universités Paris 6 and 7, IN2P3/CNRS, Paris Cedex 05, France
Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, IN2P3/CNRS, Université Grenoble 1 et INPG, Grenoble, France
Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik, Germany
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany
RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Aachen, Germany
Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik (IEKP), Karlsruhe, Germany
Universität Siegen, Siegen, Germany
Università de l'Aquila, Sezione INFN, Aquila, Italy
Università di Milano, Sezione INFN, Milan, Italy
Università del Salento, Sezione INFN, Lecce, Italy
Università di Napoli Federico II, Sezione INFN, Napoli, Italy
Università di Roma II Tor Vergata, Sezione INFN, Roma, Italy
Università di Catania, Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
Università di Torino, Sezione INFN, Torino, Italy
Università Del Salento, Sezione INFN, Lecce, Italy
Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Palermo (INAF), Palermo, Italy
Istituto di Fisica Dello Spazio Interplanetario (INAF), Università di Torino, Sezione INFN, Torino, Italy
INFN, Laboratori Nazionali Del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Florence, Italy
Sezione INFN di Napoli, Napoli, Italy
Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados Del IPN (CINVESTAV), México, D.F., Mexico
Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo, Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico, D.F., Mexico
IMAPP, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Kernfysisch Versneller Instituut, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
NIKHEF, Amsterdam, Netherlands
ASTRON, Dwingeloo, Netherlands
Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Krakow, Poland
University of ŁódŹ, ŁódŹ, Poland
LIP, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal
J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Laboratory for Astroparticle Physics, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia
Instituto de Física Corpuscular, CSIC-Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), Spain
Universidad de Granada, C.A.F.P.E., Granada, Spain
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Institute of Integrated Information Systems, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Colorado State University, Pueblo, CO, United States
Fermilab, Batavia, IL, United States
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United States
New York University, New York, NY, United States
Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States
Southern University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi Institute, Chicago, IL, United States
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, United States
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States
Institute for Nuclear Science and Technology, Hanoi, Viet Nam
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, United States
Palabras clave:Earth (planet); Electromagnetism; Space research; Diffuse Flux; Pierre Auger Observatory; High energy physics
Año:2008
Volumen:100
Número:21
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.211101
Título revista:Physical Review Letters
Título revista abreviado:Phys Rev Lett
ISSN:00319007
CODEN:PRLTA
Registro:https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_00319007_v100_n21_p_Multitudinario

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(2008) . Upper Limit on the Diffuse Flux of Ultrahigh Energy Tau Neutrinos from the Pierre Auger Observatory. Physical Review Letters, 100(21).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.211101
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Multitudinario:453. "Upper Limit on the Diffuse Flux of Ultrahigh Energy Tau Neutrinos from the Pierre Auger Observatory" . Physical Review Letters 100, no. 21 (2008).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.211101
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Multitudinario:453. "Upper Limit on the Diffuse Flux of Ultrahigh Energy Tau Neutrinos from the Pierre Auger Observatory" . Physical Review Letters, vol. 100, no. 21, 2008.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.211101
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Multitudinario:453. Upper Limit on the Diffuse Flux of Ultrahigh Energy Tau Neutrinos from the Pierre Auger Observatory. Phys Rev Lett. 2008;100(21).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.211101