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RESEARCH PRODUCT
Limits on diffuse fluxes of high energy extraterrestrial neutrinos with the AMANDA-B10 detector
P. DoksusT. HauschildtAdam BouchtaM. SolarzK. H. SulankeAllan HallgrenK. HultqvistA. SilvestriP. NiessenH. LeichJodi CooleyR. PorrataP. RomeneskoK.-h. BeckerElisa ResconiK. RawlinsS. YoungM. GaugP. B. PriceOlga BotnerS. RichterJames MadsenP. LindahlMatthias LeutholdD. R. NygrenT. O. B. SchmidtChristian SpieringKyle T. MandliJ. Rodríguez MartinoP. EkströmT. NeunhöfferP. SteffenS. BoeserM. RibordyH. S. MatisYajun WangS. SchlenstedtKurt WoschnaggJan ConradT. FeserElisa BernardiniJ. AhrensC. WiedemannI. LiubarskyJames KimP. MiocinovicFrancis HalzenAlbrecht KarleS. HundertmarkT. DeyoungPh. HerquetL. KöpkeM. HellwigA. C. PohlA. BironKael HansonY. MinaevaH. G. SanderMichael StamatikosC. P. McparlandR. HardtkePaolo DesiatiPawel MarciniewskiXinhua BaiStaffan CariusGerald PrzybylskiC. Pérez De Los HerosT. BeckaDmitry ChirkinA. GoldschmidtR. SchwarzT. C. MillerK. KuehnK. SchinarakisDavid A. SchneiderC. H. WiebuschJ. E. JacobsenHakki ÖGelmanG. C. HillT. CastermansR. WischnewskiD. SteeleT. BurgessR. G. StokstadPh. OlbrechtsL. GerhardtAnna DavourS. TilavHeiko GeenenD. BertrandI. TaboadaP. C. MockR. MorseC. De ClercqD. RossOthmane BouhaliR. GanugapatiGlenn SpiczakD. F. CowenB. HugheyJulie LamoureuxS. W. BarwickMarek KowalskiR. C. BayW. WuWolfgang RhodeC. WalckWolfgang WagnerThomas K. GaisserG. B. YodhP. O. HulthH. WissingT. Messariussubject
PhysicsPhysics::Instrumentation and Detectorsmedia_common.quotation_subjectAstrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical PhenomenaAstrophysics (astro-ph)High Energy Physics::PhenomenologyFOS: Physical sciencesGeneral Physics and AstronomyQuasarCosmic rayAstrophysicsAstrophysicsUniverseMassless particlePhysics::Popular PhysicsExtraterrestrial lifeHigh Energy Physics::ExperimentNeutrinoNeutrino oscillationLeptonmedia_commondescription
Data from the AMANDA-B10 detector taken during the austral winter of 1997 have been searched for a diffuse flux of high energy extraterrestrial muon-neutrinos, as predicted from, e.g., the sum of all active galaxies in the universe. This search yielded no excess events above those expected from the background atmospheric neutrinos, leading to upper limits on the extraterrestrial neutrino flux. For an assumed E^-2 spectrum, a 90% classical confidence level upper limit has been placed at a level E^2 Phi(E) = 8.4 x 10^-7 GeV cm^-2 s^-1 sr^-1 (for a predominant neutrino energy range 6-1000 TeV) which is the most restrictive bound placed by any neutrino detector. When specific predicted spectral forms are considered, it is found that some are excluded.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003-03-10 |