VUB - Free University of Brussels
Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest (BE1) · Belgium
ERC Starting Grant · 2018
Radio detection of the PeV - EeV cosmic-neutrino flux
With the detection of the high-energy cosmic-neutrino flux by the IceCube neutrino observatory at the South-Pole, IceCube opened the field of neutrino astronomy. Nevertheless, due to the steeply falling energy spectrum, IceCube runs low in statistics at energies above a few PeV. To probe this flux at the highest energies (>PeV), therefore asks for an even larger detection volume than the cubic-kilometer currently instrumented by IceCube. Due to its long attenuation length the radio signal is an ideal probe to cover such a large volume. When a high-energy cosmic neutrino interacts in a dense medium like ice, a relativistic particle cascade is induced. In 1962 Askaryan already predicted that…
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