|
Records |
Links |
|
Author |
ANTARES Collaboration (Adrian-Martinez, S. et al); Baret, B.; Barrios-Marti, J.; Hernandez-Rey, J.J.; Sanchez-Losa, A.; Tönnis, C.; Zornoza, J.D.; Zuñiga, J. |
|
|
Title |
Stacked search for time shifted high energy neutrinos from gamma ray bursts with the ANTARES neutrino telescope |
Type |
Journal Article |
|
Year |
2017 |
Publication |
European Physical Journal C |
Abbreviated Journal |
Eur. Phys. J. C |
|
|
Volume |
77 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
20 - 10pp |
|
|
Keywords |
|
|
|
Abstract |
A search for high-energy neutrino emission correlated with gamma-ray bursts outside the electromagnetic prompt-emission time window is presented. Using a stacking approach of the time delays between reported gammaray burst alerts and spatially coincident muon-neutrino signatures, data from the Antares neutrino telescope recorded between 2007 and 2012 are analysed. One year of public data from the IceCube detector between 2008 and 2009 have been also investigated. The respective timing profiles are scanned for statistically significant accumulations within 40 days of the Gamma Ray Burst, as expected from Lorentz Invariance Violation effects and some astrophysical models. No significant excess over the expected accidental coincidence rate could be found in either of the two data sets. The average strength of the neutrino signal is found to be fainter than one detectable neutrino signal per hundred gamma-ray bursts in the Antares data at 90% confidence level. |
|
|
Address |
[Adrian-Martinez, S.; Ardid, M.; Felis, I.; Martinez-Mora, J. A.; Saldana, M.] Univ Politecn Valencia, Inst Invest Gestio Integrada Zones Costaneres IGI, C Paranimf 1, Gandia 46730, Spain, Email: baret@in2p3.fr; |
|
|
Corporate Author |
|
Thesis |
|
|
|
Publisher |
Springer |
Place of Publication |
|
Editor |
|
|
|
Language |
English |
Summary Language |
|
Original Title |
|
|
|
Series Editor |
|
Series Title |
|
Abbreviated Series Title |
|
|
|
Series Volume |
|
Series Issue |
|
Edition |
|
|
|
ISSN |
1434-6044 |
ISBN |
|
Medium |
|
|
|
Area |
|
Expedition |
|
Conference |
|
|
|
Notes |
WOS:000398371100001 |
Approved |
no |
|
|
Is ISI |
yes |
International Collaboration |
yes |
|
|
Call Number |
IFIC @ pastor @ |
Serial |
3021 |
|
Permanent link to this record |
|
|
|
|
Author |
ANTARES Collaboration (Albert, A. et al); Barrios-Marti, J.; Hernandez-Rey, J.J.; Illuminati, G.; Lotze, M.; Tönnis, C.; Zornoza, J.D.; Zuñiga, J. |
|
|
Title |
Search for high-energy neutrinos from bright GRBs with ANTARES |
Type |
Journal Article |
|
Year |
2017 |
Publication |
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |
Abbreviated Journal |
Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. |
|
|
Volume |
469 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
906-915 |
|
|
Keywords |
acceleration of particles; neutrinos; gamma-ray burst: individual: GRB 080916C; gamma-ray burst: individual: GRB 110918A; gamma-ray burst: individual: GRB 130427A; gamma-ray burst: individual: GRB 130505A |
|
|
Abstract |
Gamma-ray bursts are thought to be sites of hadronic acceleration, thus neutrinos are expected from the decay of charged particles, produced in p gamma interactions. The methods and results of a search for muon neutrinos in the data of the ANTARES neutrino telescope from four bright GRBs (GRB 080916C, GRB 110918A, GRB 130427A and GRB 130505A) observed between 2008 and 2013 are presented. Two scenarios of the fireball model have been investigated: the internal shock scenario, leading to the production of neutrinos with energies mainly above 100 TeV, and the photospheric scenario, characterized by a low-energy component in neutrino spectra due to the assumption of neutrino production closer to the central engine. Since no neutrino events have been detected in temporal and spatial coincidence with these bursts, upper limits at 90 per cent confidence level on the expected neutrino fluxes are derived. The non-detection allows for directly constraining the bulk Lorentz factor of the jet Gamma and the baryon loading f(p). |
|
|
Address |
[Albert, A.; Drouhin, D.; Racca, C.] Univ Haute Alsace, GRPHE, Inst Univ Technol Colmar, 34 Rue Grillenbreit BP 50568, F-68008 Colmar, France, Email: silvia.celli@gssi.infn.it |
|
|
Corporate Author |
|
Thesis |
|
|
|
Publisher |
Oxford Univ Press |
Place of Publication |
|
Editor |
|
|
|
Language |
English |
Summary Language |
|
Original Title |
|
|
|
Series Editor |
|
Series Title |
|
Abbreviated Series Title |
|
|
|
Series Volume |
|
Series Issue |
|
Edition |
|
|
|
ISSN |
0035-8711 |
ISBN |
|
Medium |
|
|
|
Area |
|
Expedition |
|
Conference |
|
|
|
Notes |
WOS:000402825000062 |
Approved |
no |
|
|
Is ISI |
yes |
International Collaboration |
yes |
|
|
Call Number |
IFIC @ pastor @ |
Serial |
3159 |
|
Permanent link to this record |
|
|
|
|
Author |
ANTARES Collaboration (Albert, A. et al); Barrios-Marti, J.; Coleiro, A.; Hernandez-Rey, J.J.; Illuminati, G.; Lotze, M.; Tönnis, C.; Zornoza, J.D.; Zuñiga, J. |
|
|
Title |
All-flavor Search for a Diffuse Flux of Cosmic Neutrinos with Nine Years of ANTARES Data |
Type |
Journal Article |
|
Year |
2018 |
Publication |
Astrophysical Journal Letters |
Abbreviated Journal |
Astrophys. J. Lett. |
|
|
Volume |
853 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
L7 - 5pp |
|
|
Keywords |
astroparticle physics; neutrinos |
|
|
Abstract |
The ANTARES detector is at present the most sensitive neutrino telescope in the northern hemisphere. The highly significant cosmic neutrino excess observed by the Antarctic IceCube detector can be studied with ANTARES, exploiting its complementing field of view, exposure, and lower energy threshold. Searches for an all-flavor diffuse neutrino signal, covering nine years of ANTARES data taking, are presented in this Letter. Upward-going events are used to reduce the atmospheric muon background. This work includes for the first time in ANTARES both track-like (mainly nu mu) and shower-like (mainly nu(e)) events in this kind of analysis. Track-like events allow for an increase of the effective volume of the detector thanks to the long path traveled by muons in rock and/ or sea water. Shower-like events are well reconstructed only when the neutrino interaction vertex is close to, or inside, the instrumented volume. A mild excess of high-energy events over the expected background is observed in nine years of ANTARES data in both samples. The best fit for a single power-law cosmic neutrino spectrum, in terms of perflavor flux at 100 TeV, is Phi(1f)(0) (100 TeV) = (1.7 +/- 1.0) x 10(-18) GeV-1 cm(-2) s(-1) sr(-1) with spectral index Gamma = 2.4(-0.4)(+0.5) .The null cosmic flux assumption is rejected with a significance of 1.6 sigma . |
|
|
Address |
[Albert, A.; Drouhin, D.; Racca, C.] Inst Univ Technol Colmar, Univ Haute Alsace, GRPHE, 34 Rue Grillenbreit BP, F-505686800 Colmar, France, Email: lfusco@bo.infn.it; |
|
|
Corporate Author |
|
Thesis |
|
|
|
Publisher |
Iop Publishing Ltd |
Place of Publication |
|
Editor |
|
|
|
Language |
English |
Summary Language |
|
Original Title |
|
|
|
Series Editor |
|
Series Title |
|
Abbreviated Series Title |
|
|
|
Series Volume |
|
Series Issue |
|
Edition |
|
|
|
ISSN |
2041-8205 |
ISBN |
|
Medium |
|
|
|
Area |
|
Expedition |
|
Conference |
|
|
|
Notes |
WOS:000423182700004 |
Approved |
no |
|
|
Is ISI |
yes |
International Collaboration |
yes |
|
|
Call Number |
IFIC @ pastor @ |
Serial |
3456 |
|
Permanent link to this record |
|
|
|
|
Author |
ATLAS Collaboration (Aaboud, M. et al); Alvarez Piqueras, D.; Barranco Navarro, L.; Cabrera Urban, S.; Castillo Gimenez, V.; Cerda Alberich, L.; Costa, M.J.; Fernandez Martinez, P.; Ferrer, A.; Fiorini, L.; Fuster, J.; Garcia, C.; Garcia Navarro, J.E.; Gonzalez de la Hoz, S.; Higon-Rodriguez, E.; Jimenez Pena, J.; King, M.; Lacasta, C.; Lacuesta, V.R.; Mamuzic, J.; Marti-Garcia, S.; Melini, D.; Mitsou, V.A.; Pedraza Lopez, S.; Rodriguez Rodriguez, D.; Romero Adam, E.; Ros, E.; Salt, J.; Sanchez Martinez, V.; Soldevila, U.; Sanchez, J.; Valero, A.; Valls Ferrer, J.A.; Vos, M. |
|
|
Title |
Measurement of the cross-section for producing a W boson in association with a single top quark in pp collisions at root s=13 TeV with ATLAS |
Type |
Journal Article |
|
Year |
2018 |
Publication |
Journal of High Energy Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. High Energy Phys. |
|
|
Volume |
01 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
063 - 42pp |
|
|
Keywords |
Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments) |
|
|
Abstract |
The inclusive cross-section for the associated production of a W boson and top quark is measured using data from proton-proton collisions at root s = 13TeV. The dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 3.2 fb(-1), and was collected in 2015 by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Events are selected requiring two opposite sign isolated leptons and at least one jet; they are separated into signal and control regions based on their jet multiplicity and the number of jets that are identified as containing b hadrons. The Wt signal is then separated from the t ($) over bar background using boosted decision tree discriminants in two regions. The cross-section is extracted by fitting templates to the data distributions, and is measured to be sigma(Wt) = 94 +/- 10 (stat:)(-22)(+28) (syst:) +/- 2 (lumi:) pb. The measured value is in good agreement with the SM prediction of sigma(theory) = 71: 7 +/- 1: 8 (scale) +/- 3: 4 (PDF) pb [1]. |
|
|
Address |
[Jackson, P.; Lee, L.; Petridis, A.; White, M. J.] Univ Adelaide, Dept Phys, Adelaide, SA, Australia, Email: atlas.publications@cern.ch |
|
|
Corporate Author |
|
Thesis |
|
|
|
Publisher |
Springer |
Place of Publication |
|
Editor |
|
|
|
Language |
English |
Summary Language |
|
Original Title |
|
|
|
Series Editor |
|
Series Title |
|
Abbreviated Series Title |
|
|
|
Series Volume |
|
Series Issue |
|
Edition |
|
|
|
ISSN |
1029-8479 |
ISBN |
|
Medium |
|
|
|
Area |
|
Expedition |
|
Conference |
|
|
|
Notes |
WOS:000423212200001 |
Approved |
no |
|
|
Is ISI |
yes |
International Collaboration |
yes |
|
|
Call Number |
IFIC @ pastor @ |
Serial |
3457 |
|
Permanent link to this record |
|
|
|
|
Author |
Campanario, F.; Kerner, M.; Zeppenfeld, D. |
|
|
Title |
Z gamma production in vector-boson scattering at next-to-leading order QCD |
Type |
Journal Article |
|
Year |
2018 |
Publication |
Journal of High Energy Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. High Energy Phys. |
|
|
Volume |
01 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
160 - 19pp |
|
|
Keywords |
NLO Computations; Phenomenological Models |
|
|
Abstract |
Cross sections and differential distributions for Z gamma production in association with two jets via vector boson fusion are presented at next-to-leading order in QCD. The leptonic decays of the Z boson with full off-shell effects and spin correlations are taken into account. The uncertainties due to different scale choices and pdf sets are studied. Furthermore, we analyze the effect of including anomalous quartic gauge couplings at NLO QCD. |
|
|
Address |
[Campanario, Francisco] Univ Valencia, CSIC, IFIC, Theory Div, E-46980 Valencia, Spain, Email: francisco.campanario@ific.uv.es; |
|
|
Corporate Author |
|
Thesis |
|
|
|
Publisher |
Springer |
Place of Publication |
|
Editor |
|
|
|
Language |
English |
Summary Language |
|
Original Title |
|
|
|
Series Editor |
|
Series Title |
|
Abbreviated Series Title |
|
|
|
Series Volume |
|
Series Issue |
|
Edition |
|
|
|
ISSN |
1029-8479 |
ISBN |
|
Medium |
|
|
|
Area |
|
Expedition |
|
Conference |
|
|
|
Notes |
WOS:000423794800002 |
Approved |
no |
|
|
Is ISI |
yes |
International Collaboration |
yes |
|
|
Call Number |
IFIC @ pastor @ |
Serial |
3469 |
|
Permanent link to this record |
|
|
|
|
Author |
AGATA Collaboration (Kaya, L. et al); Gadea, A. |
|
|
Title |
Identification of high-spin proton configurations in Ba-136 and Ba-137 |
Type |
Journal Article |
|
Year |
2019 |
Publication |
Physical Review C |
Abbreviated Journal |
Phys. Rev. C |
|
|
Volume |
99 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
014301 - 19pp |
|
|
Keywords |
|
|
|
Abstract |
The high-spin structures of Ba-136 and Ba-137 are investigated after multinucleon-transfer (MNT) and fusion-evaporation reactions. Ba-136 is populated in a Xe-136 + U-238 MNT reaction employing the high-resolution Advanced GAmma Tracking Array (AGATA) coupled to the magnetic spectrometer PRISMA at the Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Italy, and in two Be-9 + Te-130 fusion-evaporation reactions using the High-efficiency Observatory for gamma-Ray Unique Spectroscopy (HORUS) at the FN tandem accelerator of the University of Cologne, Germany. Furthermore, both isotopes are populated in an elusive reaction channel in the B-11 + Te-130 fusion-evaporation reaction utilizing the HORUS gamma-ray array. The level scheme above the J(pi) = 10(+) isomer in Ba-136 is revised and extended up to an excitation energy of approximately 5.5 MeV. From the results of angular-correlation measurements, the E-x = 3707- and E-x = 4920-keV states are identified as the bandheads of positive- and negative-parity cascades. While the high-spin regimes of both Te-132 and Xe-134 are characterized by high-energy 12(+) -> 10(+) transitions, the Ba-136 E2 ground-state band is interrupted by negative-parity states only a few hundred keV above the J(pi) = 10(+) isomer. Furthermore, spins are established for several hitherto unassigned high-spin states in Ba-137. The new results close a gap along the high-spin structure of N < 82 Ba isotopes. Experimental results are compared to large-scale shell-model calculations employing the GCN50:82, Realistic SM, PQM130, and SN100PN interactions. The calculations suggest that the bandheads of the positive-parity bands in both isotopes are predominantly of proton character. |
|
|
Address |
[Kaya, L.; Vogt, A.; Reiter, P.; Mueller-Gatermann, C.; Blazhev, A.; Arnswald, K.; Birkenbach, B.; Droste, M.; Eberth, J.; Fransen, C.; Hess, H.; Hetzenegger, R.; Hirsch, R.; Jolie, J.; Lewandowski, L.; Rosiak, D.; Saed-Samii, N.; Seidlitz, M.; Weinert, M.; Wolf, K.; Zell, K. O.] Univ Cologne, Inst Kernphys, D-50937 Cologne, Germany, Email: levent.kaya@ikp.uni-koeln.de |
|
|
Corporate Author |
|
Thesis |
|
|
|
Publisher |
Amer Physical Soc |
Place of Publication |
|
Editor |
|
|
|
Language |
English |
Summary Language |
|
Original Title |
|
|
|
Series Editor |
|
Series Title |
|
Abbreviated Series Title |
|
|
|
Series Volume |
|
Series Issue |
|
Edition |
|
|
|
ISSN |
2469-9985 |
ISBN |
|
Medium |
|
|
|
Area |
|
Expedition |
|
Conference |
|
|
|
Notes |
WOS:000454768000002 |
Approved |
no |
|
|
Is ISI |
yes |
International Collaboration |
yes |
|
|
Call Number |
IFIC @ pastor @ |
Serial |
3859 |
|
Permanent link to this record |
|
|
|
|
Author |
ATLAS Collaboration (Aaboud, M. et al); Alvarez Piqueras, D.; Bailey, A.J.; Barranco Navarro, L.; Cabrera Urban, S.; Castillo, F.L.; Castillo Gimenez, V.; Cerda Alberich, L.; Costa, M.J.; Escobar, C.; Estrada Pastor, O.; Ferrer, A.; Fiorini, L.; Fuster, J.; Garcia, C.; Garcia Navarro, J.E.; Gonzalez de la Hoz, S.; Higon-Rodriguez, E.; Jimenez Pena, J.; Lacasta, C.; Lozano Bahilo, J.J.; Madaffari, D.; Mamuzic, J.; Marti-Garcia, S.; Melini, D.; Miñano, M.; Mitsou, V.A.; Pedraza Lopez, S.; Rodriguez Bosca, S.; Rodriguez Rodriguez, D.; Salt, J.; Soldevila, U.; Sanchez, J.; Valero, A.; Valls Ferrer, J.A.; Vos, M. |
|
|
Title |
Search for long-lived particles in final states with displaced dimuon vertices in pp collisions at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector |
Type |
Journal Article |
|
Year |
2019 |
Publication |
Physical Review D |
Abbreviated Journal |
Phys. Rev. D |
|
|
Volume |
99 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
012001 - 32pp |
|
|
Keywords |
|
|
|
Abstract |
A search is performed for a long-lived particle decaying into a final state that includes a pair of muons of opposite-sign electric charge, using proton-proton collision data collected at root s = 13 TeV by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 32.9 fb(-1). No significant excess over the Standard Model expectation is observed. Limits at 95% confidence level on the lifetime of the long-lived particle are presented in models of new phenomena including gauge-mediated supersymmetry or decay of the Higgs boson, H, to a pair of dark photons, Z(D). Lifetimes in the range c tau = 1-2400 cm are excluded, depending on the parameters of the model. In the supersymmetric model, the lightest neutralino is the next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle, with a relatively long lifetime due to its weak coupling to the gravitino, the lightest supersymmetric particle. The lifetime limits are determined for very light gravitino mass and various assumptions for the neutralino mass in the range 300-1000 GeV. In the dark photon model, the lifetime limits are interpreted as exclusion contours in the plane of the coupling between the Z(D) and the Standard Model Z boson versus the Z(D) mass (in the range 20-60 GeV), for various assumptions for the H -> Z(D)Z(D) branching fraction. |
|
|
Address |
[Duvnjak, D.; Jackson, P.; Oliver, J. L.; Petridis, A.; Qureshi, A.; Sharma, A. S.; White, M. J.] Univ Adelaide, Dept Phys, Adelaide, SA, Australia |
|
|
Corporate Author |
|
Thesis |
|
|
|
Publisher |
Amer Physical Soc |
Place of Publication |
|
Editor |
|
|
|
Language |
English |
Summary Language |
|
Original Title |
|
|
|
Series Editor |
|
Series Title |
|
Abbreviated Series Title |
|
|
|
Series Volume |
|
Series Issue |
|
Edition |
|
|
|
ISSN |
2470-0010 |
ISBN |
|
Medium |
|
|
|
Area |
|
Expedition |
|
Conference |
|
|
|
Notes |
WOS:000454769000001 |
Approved |
no |
|
|
Is ISI |
yes |
International Collaboration |
yes |
|
|
Call Number |
IFIC @ pastor @ |
Serial |
3861 |
|
Permanent link to this record |
|
|
|
|
Author |
ANTARES Collaboration (Albert, A. et al); Barrios-Marti, J.; Coleiro, A.; Colomer, M.; Hernandez-Rey, J.J.; Illuminati, G.; Lotze, M.; Zornoza, J.D.; Zuñiga, J. |
|
|
Title |
The search for high-energy neutrinos coincident with fast radio bursts with the ANTARES neutrino telescope |
Type |
Journal Article |
|
Year |
2019 |
Publication |
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |
Abbreviated Journal |
Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. |
|
|
Volume |
482 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
184-193 |
|
|
Keywords |
acceleration of particles; neutrinos; astroparticle physics; radio continuum: transients; methods: data analysis |
|
|
Abstract |
In the past decade, a new class of bright transient radio sources with millisecond duration has been discovered. The origin of these so-called fast radio bursts (FRBs) is still a mystery, despite the growing observational efforts made by various multiwavelength and multimessenger facilities. To date, many models have been proposed to explain FRBs, but neither the progenitors nor the radiative and the particle acceleration processes at work have been clearly identified. In this paper, we assess whether hadronic processes may occur in the vicinity of the FRB source. If they do, FRBs may contribute to the high-energy cosmic-ray and neutrino fluxes. A search for these hadronic signatures was carried out using the ANTARES neutrino telescope. The analysis consists in looking for high-energy neutrinos, in the TeV-PeV regime, that are spatially and temporally coincident with the detected FRBs. Most of the FRBs discovered in the period 2013-2017 were in the field of view of the ANTARES detector, which is sensitive mostly to events originating from the Southern hemisphere. From this period, 12 FRBs were selected and no coincident neutrino candidate was observed. Upper limits on the per-burst neutrino fluence were derived using a power-law spectrum, dN/DE nu proportional to E-nu(-gamma), for the incoming neutrino flux, assuming spectral indexes gamma = 1.0, 2.0, 2.5. Finally, the neutrino energy was constrained by computing the total energy radiated in neutrinos, assuming different distances for the FRBs. Constraints on the neutrino fluence and on the energy released were derived from the associated null results. |
|
|
Address |
[Turpin, D.] Chinese Acad Sci, Natl Astron Observ, Key Lab Space Astron & Technol, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China, Email: dornic@cppm.in2p3.fr; |
|
|
Corporate Author |
|
Thesis |
|
|
|
Publisher |
Oxford Univ Press |
Place of Publication |
|
Editor |
|
|
|
Language |
English |
Summary Language |
|
Original Title |
|
|
|
Series Editor |
|
Series Title |
|
Abbreviated Series Title |
|
|
|
Series Volume |
|
Series Issue |
|
Edition |
|
|
|
ISSN |
0035-8711 |
ISBN |
|
Medium |
|
|
|
Area |
|
Expedition |
|
Conference |
|
|
|
Notes |
WOS:000454575300014 |
Approved |
no |
|
|
Is ISI |
yes |
International Collaboration |
yes |
|
|
Call Number |
IFIC @ pastor @ |
Serial |
3860 |
|
Permanent link to this record |
|
|
|
|
Author |
Chiang, C.W.; Cottin, G.; Eberhardt, O. |
|
|
Title |
Global fits in the Georgi-Machacek model |
Type |
Journal Article |
|
Year |
2019 |
Publication |
Physical Review D |
Abbreviated Journal |
Phys. Rev. D |
|
|
Volume |
99 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
015001 - 21pp |
|
|
Keywords |
|
|
|
Abstract |
Off the beaten track of scalar singlet and doublet extensions of the Standard Model, triplets combine an interesting LHC phenomenology with an explanation for neutrino masses. The Georgi-Machacek model falls into this category, but it has never been fully explored in a global fit. We use the HEPfit package to combine recent experimental Higgs data with theoretical constraints and obtain strong limits on the mixing angles and mass differences between the heavy new scalars as well as their decay widths. We also find that the current signal strength measurements allow for a Higgs to vector boson coupling with an opposite sign to the Standard Model, but this possibility can be ruled out by the lack of direct evidence for heavy Higgs states. For these hypothetical particles, we identify the dominant decay channels and extract bounds on their branching ratios from the global fit, which can be used to single out the decay patterns relevant for the experimental searches. |
|
|
Address |
[Chiang, Cheng-Wei; Cottin, Giovanna] Natl Taiwan Univ, Dept Phys, Taipei 10617, Taiwan, Email: chengwei@phys.ntu.edu.tw; |
|
|
Corporate Author |
|
Thesis |
|
|
|
Publisher |
Amer Physical Soc |
Place of Publication |
|
Editor |
|
|
|
Language |
English |
Summary Language |
|
Original Title |
|
|
|
Series Editor |
|
Series Title |
|
Abbreviated Series Title |
|
|
|
Series Volume |
|
Series Issue |
|
Edition |
|
|
|
ISSN |
2470-0010 |
ISBN |
|
Medium |
|
|
|
Area |
|
Expedition |
|
Conference |
|
|
|
Notes |
WOS:000454768700004 |
Approved |
no |
|
|
Is ISI |
yes |
International Collaboration |
yes |
|
|
Call Number |
IFIC @ pastor @ |
Serial |
3862 |
|
Permanent link to this record |
|
|
|
|
Author |
Donini, A.; Palomares-Ruiz, S.; Salvado, J. |
|
|
Title |
Neutrino tomography of Earth |
Type |
Journal Article |
|
Year |
2019 |
Publication |
Nature Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
Nat. Phys. |
|
|
Volume |
15 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
37-40 |
|
|
Keywords |
|
|
|
Abstract |
Cosmic-ray interactions with the atmosphere produce a flux of neutrinos in all directions with energies extending above the TeV scale(1). The Earth is not a fully transparent medium for neutrinos with energies above a few TeV, as the neutrinonucleon cross-section is large enough to make the absorption probability non-negligible(2). Since absorption depends on energy and distance travelled, studying the distribution of the TeV atmospheric neutrinos passing through the Earth offers an opportunity to infer its density profiles(3-7). This has never been done, however, due to the lack of relevant data. Here we perform a neutrino-based tomography of the Earth using actual data-one-year of through-going muon atmospheric neutrino data collected by the IceCube telescope(8). Using only weak interactions, in a way that is completely independent of gravitational measurements, we are able to determine the mass of the Earth and its core, its moment of inertia, and to establish that the core is denser than the mantle. Our results demonstrate the feasibility of this approach to study the Earth's internal structure, which is complementary to traditional geophysics methods. Neutrino tomography could become more competitive as soon as more statistics is available, provided that the sources of systematic uncertainties are fully under control. |
|
|
Address |
[Donini, Andrea; Palomares-Ruiz, Sergio; Salvado, Jordi] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular IFIC, Valencia, Spain, Email: sergiopr@ific.uv.es |
|
|
Corporate Author |
|
Thesis |
|
|
|
Publisher |
Nature Publishing Group |
Place of Publication |
|
Editor |
|
|
|
Language |
English |
Summary Language |
|
Original Title |
|
|
|
Series Editor |
|
Series Title |
|
Abbreviated Series Title |
|
|
|
Series Volume |
|
Series Issue |
|
Edition |
|
|
|
ISSN |
1745-2473 |
ISBN |
|
Medium |
|
|
|
Area |
|
Expedition |
|
Conference |
|
|
|
Notes |
WOS:000454733100017 |
Approved |
no |
|
|
Is ISI |
yes |
International Collaboration |
no |
|
|
Call Number |
IFIC @ pastor @ |
Serial |
3863 |
|
Permanent link to this record |