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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Search for Neutrino-Induced Cascades with AMANDA

Christian SpieringD. J. BoersmaI. LiubarskyA. GroßWolfgang RhodeT. HauschildtM. SolarzJodi CooleyR. GanugapatiT. BurgessC. H. WiebuschK. RawlinsP. EkströmKarl-heinz KampertD. F. CowenMarek KowalskiAdam BouchtaD. BertrandP. B. PriceC.p. BurgessM. WalterD. HubertT. NeunhöfferKael HansonOthmane BouhaliT. O. B. SchmidtJ. L. KelleyAllan HallgrenL. KöpkeM. KestelAlbrecht KarleWolfgang WagnerS. HundertmarkKurt WoschnaggJ. W. NamL. ThollanderS. BöserT. DeyoungR. MorseJames MadsenTorsten HarenbergDmitry ChirkinS. RichterJ. HodgesK. H. SulankeK. HultqvistJames E. BraunR. NahnhauerA. SilvestriJ.k. BeckerP. O. HulthH. S. MatisDavid A. SchneiderR. PorrataGerald PrzybylskiM. RibordyK. HelbingR. C. BayFrancis HalzenG. C. HillMatthias LeutholdD. R. NygrenH. WissingJ. Rodríguez MartinoGlenn SpiczakP. HerquetPaolo DesiatiL. GerhardtA. C. PohlHeiko GeenenHakki ÖGelmanP. SteffenB. HugheyJ. AhrensPawel MarciniewskiOlga BotnerPh. OlbrechtsElisa ResconiKyle T. MandliT. MessariusJan ConradT. FeserAnna DavourM. HellwigH. G. SanderM. KrasbergR. SchwarzJanet JacobsenP. MiocinovicY. MinaevaK. KuehnB. CollinK. SchinarakisM. BarteltH. LeichXinhua BaiYajun WangK. MunichS. SchlenstedtC. De ClercqS. TilavMarkus AckermannS. W. BarwickR. HardtkeR. G. StokstadR. WischnewskiP. NiessenK.-h. BeckerC. WalckI. TaboadaThomas K. GaisserG. B. YodhT. CastermansC. Pérez De Los HerosT. BeckaMichael StamatikosH. AlbrechtD. SteeleElisa BernardiniC. P. McparlandA. Goldschmidt

subject

PhysicsAMANDAParticle physicsMuonPhysics::Instrumentation and DetectorsSolar neutrinoAstrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical PhenomenaHadronHigh Energy Physics::PhenomenologyAstrophysics (astro-ph)FluxFOS: Physical sciencesAstronomy and AstrophysicsElectronAstrophysicsNeutrino astronomyAMANDA; Neutrino astronomy; Neutrino telescopesHigh Energy Physics::ExperimentNeutrino telescopesNeutrino astronomyNeutrinoEvent (particle physics)

description

We report on a search for electro-magnetic and/or hadronic showers (cascades) induced by high energy neutrinos in the data collected with the AMANDA II detector during the year 2000. The observed event rates are consistent with the expectations for atmospheric neutrinos and muons. We place upper limits on a diffuse flux of extraterrestrial electron, tau and muon neutrinos. A flux of neutrinos with a spectrum $\Phi \propto E^{-2}$ which consists of an equal mix of all flavors, is limited to $E^2 \Phi(E)=8.6 x 10^{-7} GeV/(cm^{2} s sr)$ at a 90% confidence level for a neutrino energy range 50 TeV to 5 PeV. We present bounds for specific extraterrestrial neutrino flux predictions. Several of these models are ruled out.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2004-05-11
https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0405218