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Prof. TsungChe Liu (劉宗哲教授) (Project assistant professor of electrophysics department of NCTU)

"Observation of an Unusual Upward-going Cosmic-ray-like Event in the Third Flight of ANITA"

時間/地點: 2020-12-04 14:00 [S4-1013]

摘要:

We report on an upward traveling, radio-detected cosmic-ray-like impulsive event with characteristics closely matching an extensive air shower. This event, observed in the third flight of the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA), a NASA-sponsored long-duration balloon payload, is consistent with a similar event reported in a previous flight. These events may be produced by the atmospheric decay of an upward-propagating τ-lepton produced by a ντ interaction, although their relatively steep arrival angles create tension with the standard model (SM) neutrino cross section. Each of the two events have a posteriori background estimates of <∼ 10−2 events. If these are generated by τ-lepton decay, then either the charged-current ντ cross section is suppressed at EeV energies, or the events arise at moments when the peak flux of a transient neutrino source was much larger than the typical expected cosmogenic background neutrinos

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.05088.pdf

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