TeV to PeV neutrinos and gamma-rays with Mountain SHALON Mirror Cherenkov Telescope
✍ Scribed by V.G. Sinitsyna; T.P. Arsov; F.I. Musin; S.I. Nikolsky; V.Y. Sinitsyna; G.F. Platonov
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 375 KB
- Volume
- 175-176
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0920-5632
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✦ Synopsis
Problems in observation of extensive air showers generated by neutrinos are connected with an extremely small cross-section of inelastic collisions of neutrinos with nuclei. However, two facts allow to search for showers generated by neutrinos: (1) a hadron cascade with a primary energy of more than 10 13 eV leaves a mountain ridge to the atmosphere from a depth ∼ 300 g/cm 2 without any essential loss of the total energy in the hadron cascade, and (2) air Cherenkov radiation from such hadron cascades will be observed with a 7.5 km distant telescope over an area of more than 7 × 10 5 m 2 . This partially compensates for the small cross-section of inelastic neutrino collisions. Observations have been carried out since 1992 at the high mountain Tien-Shan station using the SHALON Cherenkov mirror telescope with ∼ 11.2 m 2 mirror area and image matrix of 144 PMT with full angle > 8 • . The telescope characteristics allowed to start searching for local neutrino sources with energy 10 13 -10 16 eV on EAS generated in the mountain-range located at some 7.5 and more kilometers from the gamma-telescope (in Russian the abbreviation SHALON means -the Extensive Air Showers from Neutrino).