Observation of high-energy neutrinos using Cerenkov detectors embedded deep in Antarctic ice.

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Observation of high-energy neutrinos using Cerenkov detectors embedded deep in Antarctic ice.

P. Loaiza C. Pérez De Los Heros P. B. Price Jodi Cooley Ignacio Taboada P. Ekström J. E. Jacobsen S. Young Yuan He Lars Bergström C. Reed Staffan Carius H. G. Sander G. Barouch Stefan Richter H. S. Matis K. Rawlins T. Mikolajski H. Heukenkamp T. Thon Matthias Leuthold D. Ross T. Scheider James Madsen P. Askebjer R. C. Bay P. Steffen L. Köpke R. G. Stokstad Francis Halzen N. Starinsky R. Wischnewski Jan Conrad T. Feser B. Erlandsson R. Schwarz H. Rubinstein Kurt Woschnagg David A. Schneider A. Biron M. Hellwig D. M. Lowder S. Hundertmark J. P Dewulf Ariel Goobar E. Andres Q. Sun Markus Gaug Dmitry Chirkin J. Rodríguez Martino P. Miocinovic G. C. Hill L. Thollander Y. Minaeva T. C. Miller P. O. Hulth L. Gray Kael Hanson James Kim Albrecht Karle J. Booth D. Bertrand A. Chen A. Goldschmidt H. Haase Steven W. Barwick H. Leich Olga Botner M. Vander Donckt D. Bierenbaum Caroline Costa H. Wissing W. Wu E. Schneider D. F. Cowen R. Morse Paolo Desiati Glenn Spiczak J. Ludvig A. Silvestri K. H. Becker T. Deyoung Christopher Wiebusch M. M. Boyce I. Liubarsky R. Porrata Xinhua Bai A. Mihalyi S. Tilav Adam Bouchta P. C. Mock M. Solarz Hakki ÖGelman Allan Hallgren T. Schmidt Ole Streicher Ch. Weinheimer T. Neunhöffer Joakim Edsjö V. Kandhadai P. Romenesko Pawel Marciniewski F. M. Newcomer G. B. Yodh M. Kowalski C. Walck E. Dalberg P. Doksus P. Lindahl Christian Spiering Nicholas G. Usechak J. Dailing B. Koci A. Richards Wolfgang Rhode P. Niessen D. Steele Dave Nygren R. Hardtke

subject

Physics Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array Multidisciplinary Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Solar neutrino Astronomy Astrophysics Solar neutrino problem Cosmic neutrino background Neutrino detector Measurements of neutrino speed High Energy Physics::Experiment Neutrino Neutrino astronomy

description

Neutrinos are elementary particles that carry no electric charge and have little mass. As they interact only weakly with other particles, they can penetrate enormous amounts of matter, and therefore have the potential to directly convey astrophysical information from the edge of the Universe and from deep inside the most cataclysmic high-energy regions. The neutrino's great penetrating power, however, also makes this particle difficult to detect. Underground detectors have observed low-energy neutrinos from the Sun and a nearby supernova2, as well as neutrinos generated in the Earth's atmosphere. But the very low fluxes of high-energy neutrinos from cosmic sources can be observed only by much larger, expandable detectors in, for example, deep water3,4 or ice5. Here we report the detection of upwardly propagating atmospheric neutrinos by the ice-based Antarctic muon and neutrino detector array (AMANDA). These results establish a technology with which to build a kilometre-scale neutrino observatory necessary for astrophysical observations1.

year	journal	country	edition	language
2001-03-01	Nature

10.1038/35068509 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11260705