Study of horizontal air showers from EAS-TOP: a possible tool for UHE neutrino detection?

✍ Scribed by G. Navarra; M. Aglietta; B. Alessandro; P. Antonioli; F. Arneodo; V.S. Berezinsky; L. bergamasco; M. Bertaina; C. Castagnoli; A. Castellina; A. Chiavassa; G.Cini Castagnoli; B.D'Ettorre Piazzoli; G. Di Sciascio; W. Fulgione; P. Galeotti; A.Z. Gazizov; P.L. Ghia; M. Iacovacci; G. Mannocchi; C. Morello; G. Navarra; O. Saavedra; G.C. Trinchero; P. Vallania; S. Vernetto; C. Vigorito

• Book ID: 104355630
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 266 KB
• Volume: 70
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0920-5632
• DOI: 10.1016/s0920-5632(98)00485-x

✦ Synopsis

Horizontal Air Showers, i.e. events observed at "quasi" horizontal incidence, are studied from EAS-TOP at Campo Imperatore (National Gran Sass0 Laboratories). The "reality" of such events as due to deeply penetrating particles is discussed from the experimental point of view.

We deduce:

-the measurement of the HE muon flux at E, = 20 TeV: F,,(> 20 TeV) = (1.3 f 0.4) x 10-"cm-2s-'ar-1, -the upper limit to the extraterrestrial HE neutrino flux: I,(> 105GeV) < 5.2 x 10-Qcm-2a-1ar-1. The possibility to develop the technique for UHE v detection is discussed.