Probing the origin of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays with neutrinos in the EeV energy range using the Pierre Auger Observatory

0520759 - FZÚ 2021 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Aab, A. - Abreu, A. - Aglietta, M. - Bakalová, Alena - Blažek, Jiří - Boháčová, Martina - Chudoba, Jiří - Ebr, Jan - Juryšek, Jakub - Mandát, Dušan - Palatka, Miroslav - Pech, Miroslav - Prouza, Michael - Řídký, Jan - dos Santos, Eva M. Martins - Schovánek, Petr - Tobiška, Petr - Trávníček, Petr - Vícha, Jakub - Yushkov, Alexey … Total 391 authors
Probing the origin of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays with neutrinos in the EeV energy range using the Pierre Auger Observatory.
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. Roč. 2019, č. 10 (2019), s. 1-28, č. článku 022. ISSN 1475-7516. E-ISSN 1475-7516
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT LTT18004; GA MŠMT EF16_013/0001402
Grant - others:OP VVV - AUGER-CZ(XE) CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_013/0001402
Research Infrastructure: AUGER-CZ - 90038
Institutional support: RVO:68378271
Keywords : cosmic ray experiments * cosmological neutrinos * ultra high energy cosmic rays * neutrino astronomy
OECD category: Particles and field physics
Impact factor: 5.210, year: 2019
Method of publishing: Limited access
https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2019/10/022

Neutrinos with energies above 10(17) eV are detectable with the Surface Detector Array of the Pierre Auger Observatory. The identification is efficiently performed for neutrinos of all flavors interacting in the atmosphere at large zenith angles, as well as for Earth-skimming tau neutrinos with nearly tangential trajectories relative to the Earth. No neutrino candidates were found in similar to 14.7 years of data taken up to 31 August 2018. This leads to restrictive upper bounds on their flux. The 90% C.L. single-flavor limit to the diffuse flux of ultra-high-energy neutrinos with an E-nu(-2) spectrum in the energy range 1.0 x 10(17) eV-2.5 x 10(19) eV is E(2)dN(nu)/dE(nu) < 4.4 x 10(-9) GeV cm(-2) s(-1) sr(-1), placing strong constraints on several models of neutrino production at EeV energies and on the properties of the sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0305434