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Neutrinos in the cosmic ray flux with energies near 1 EeV and above are detectable with the Surface Detector array (SD) of the Pierre Auger Observatory. We report here on searches through Auger data from 1 January 2004 until 20 June 2013. No neutrino candidates were found, yielding a limit to the diffuse flux of ultrahigh energy neutrinos that challenges the Waxman-Bahcall bound predictions. Neutrino identification is attempted using the broad time structure of the signals expected in the SD stations, and is efficiently done for neutrinos of all flavors interacting in the atmosphere at large zenith angles, as well as for "Earth-skimming" neutrino interactions in the case of tau neutrinos. In this paper the searches for downward-going neutrinos in the zenith angle bins 60°-75°and 75°-90°as well as for upward-going neutrinos, are combined to give a single limit. The 90% C.L. single-flavor limit to the diffuse flux of ultrahigh energy neutrinos with an E-2 spectrum in the energy range 1.0×1017eV-2.5×1019eV is Eν2dNν/dEν<6.4×10-9GeVcm-2s-1sr-1. © Published by the American Physical Society 2015.

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Documento: Artículo
Título:Improved limit to the diffuse flux of ultrahigh energy neutrinos from the Pierre Auger observatory
Autor:Multitudinario:464
Filiación:Universität Siegen, Siegen, Germany
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas-LIP, Instituto Superior Técnico-IST, Universidade de Lisboa-UL, Portugal
Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino (INAF), Università di Torino and Sezione INFN, Torino, Italy
Fermilab, Batavia, IL, United States
Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris 11, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Física, São Paulo, S.P., Brazil
Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro (CNEA-UNCuyo-CONICET), San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States
Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Facultad Regional Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA CONICET, UNSAM), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Mexico, D.F., Mexico
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Università di Napoli Federico II, Sezione INFN, Napoli, Italy
IMAPP, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Lehman College, City University of New York, New York, United States
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
University of Bucharest, Physics Department, Romania
Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia
Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies (LPNHE), Universités Paris 6 et Paris 7, CNRS-IN2P3, Paris, France
Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS/IN2P3, France
Observatorio Pierre Auger and Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Malargüe, Argentina
New York University, New York, NY, United States
University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology-Campus South-Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik (IEKP), Karlsruhe, Germany
Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany
Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica E. De Giorgi, Università del Salento, Sezione INFN, Lecce, Italy
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology-Campus North, Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany
Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Física, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Krakow, Poland
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
'Horia Hulubei' National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
Colorado State University, Pueblo, CO, United States
Universidad de Granada, C.A.F.P.E., Granada, Spain
Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, Mexico
Università di Milano, Sezione INFN, Milan, Italy
Università di Roma II Tor Vergata and Sezione INFN, Roma, Italy
Institute of Space Sciences, Bucharest, Romania
Università di Catania, Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
Università di Torino, Sezione INFN, Torino, Italy
Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, IFGW, Campinas, SP, Brazil
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, United States
Observatorio Pierre Auger, Malargüe, Argentina
Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), Université Paris 11, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States
University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi Institute, Chicago, IL, United States
SUBATECH, École des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France
Station de Radioastronomie de Nançay, Observatoire de Paris, CNRS/INSU, Nançay, France
Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio (IAFE CONICET-UBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Departamento de Física, FCEyN, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Universidade Federal Fluminense, EEIMVR, Volta Redonda, RJ, Brazil
Nikhef, Science Park, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Física de São Carlos, São Carlos, S.P., Brazil
Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Spain
Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United States
Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche e Chimiche, Università dell'Aquila, INFN, Italy
KVI-Center for Advanced Radiation Technology, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
IFLP, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, CONICET, La Plata, Argentina
RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Aachen, Germany
ASTRON, Dwingeloo, Netherlands
Experimental Particle Physics Department, J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Laboratory for Astroparticle Physics, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States
Instituto de Física de Rosario (IFIR)-CONICET/U.N.R., Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas U.N.R., Rosario, Argentina
Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA CONICET, UNSAM), Universidad Tecnológica Nacional-Facultad Regional Mendoza (CONICET/CNEA), Mendoza, Argentina
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology-Campus, North-Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik, Germany
University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland
Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Brazil
Palacky University, RCPTM, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Universidade Federal do ABC, Santo André, SP, Brazil
Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN (CINVESTAV), Mexico, D.F., Mexico
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, RS, Brazil
Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics, Prague, Czech Republic
Centro de Investigaciones en Láseres y Aplicaciones, CITEDEF, CONICET, Argentina
Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States
Unidad Profesional Interdisciplinaria en Ingeniería y Tecnologías Avanzadas del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (UPIITA-IPN), Mexico, D.F., Mexico
Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, BA, Brazil
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, United States
Gran Sasso Science Institute (INFN), L'Aquila, Italy
Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Palermo (INAF), Palermo, Italy
Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Engenharia de Lorena, Lorena, SP, Brazil
Año:2015
Volumen:91
Número:9
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.91.092008
Título revista:Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Título revista abreviado:Phys Rev D Part Fields Gravit Cosmol
ISSN:15507998
CODEN:PRVDA
Registro:https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_15507998_v91_n9_p_Multitudinario

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(2015) . Improved limit to the diffuse flux of ultrahigh energy neutrinos from the Pierre Auger observatory. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 91(9).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.91.092008
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Multitudinario:464. "Improved limit to the diffuse flux of ultrahigh energy neutrinos from the Pierre Auger observatory" . Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 91, no. 9 (2015).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.91.092008
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Multitudinario:464. "Improved limit to the diffuse flux of ultrahigh energy neutrinos from the Pierre Auger observatory" . Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, vol. 91, no. 9, 2015.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.91.092008
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Multitudinario:464. Improved limit to the diffuse flux of ultrahigh energy neutrinos from the Pierre Auger observatory. Phys Rev D Part Fields Gravit Cosmol. 2015;91(9).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.91.092008