Limits on diffuse fluxes of high energy extraterrestrial neutrinos with the AMANDA-B10 detector
Creators
- Ahrens, J.
- Bai, X.
- Barwick, S.W.
- Bay, R.C.
- Becka, T.
- Becker, K.-H.
- Bernardini, E.
- Bertrand, D.
- Binon, F.
- Boeser, S.
- Botner, O.
- Bouchta, A.
- Bouhali, O.
- Burgess, T.
- Carius, S.
- Castermans, T.
- Chirkin, D.
- Conrad, J.
- Cooley, J.
- Cowen, D.F.
- Davour, A.
- De Clercq, C.
- DeYoung, T.
- Desiati, P.
- Doksus, P.
- Ekstrom, P.
- Feser, T.
- Gaisser, T.K.
- Ganugapati, R.
- Gaug, M.
- Geenen, H.
- Gerhardt, L.
- Goldschmidt, A.
- Hallgren, A.
- Halzen, F.
- Hanson, K.
- Hardtke, R.
- Hauschildt, T.
- Hellwig, M.
- Herquet, P.
- Hill, G.C.
- Hulth, P.O.
- Hughey, B.
- Hultqvist, K.
- Hundertmark, S.
- Jacobsen, J.
- Karle, A.
- Kuehn, K.
- Kim, J.
- Kopke, L.
- Kowalski, M.
- Lamoureux, J.I.
- Leich, H.
- Leuthold, M.
- Lindahl, P.
- Liubarsky, I.
- Madsen, J.
- Mandli, K.
- Marciniewski, P.
- Matis, H.S.
- McParland, C.P.
- Messarius, T.
- Miller, T.C.
- Minaeva, Y.
- Miocinovic, P.
- Mock, P.C.
- Morse, R.
- Neunhoffer, T.
- Niessen, P.
- Nygren, D.R.
- Ogelman, H.
- Olbrechts, P.
- Perez de los Heros, C.
- Pohl, A.C.
- Porrata, R.
- Price, P.B.
- Przybylski, G.T.
- Rawlins, K.
- Resconi, E.
- Rhode, W.
- Ribordy, M.
- Richter, S.
- Rodriguez Martino, J.
- Romenesko, P.
- Ross, D.
- Sander, H.-G.
- Schlenstedt, S.
- Schinarakis, K.
- Schmidt, T.
- Schneider, D.
- Schwarz, R.
- Silvestri, A.
- Solarz, M.
- Stamatikos, M.
- Spiczak, G.M.
- Spiering, C.
- Steele, D.
- Steffen, P.
- Stokstad, R.G.
- Sulanke, K.-H.
- Taboada, I.
- Tilav, S.
- Wagner, W.
- Walck, C.
- Wang, Y.-R.
- Wiebusch, C.H.
- Wiedemann, C.
- Wischnewski, R.
- Wissing, H.
- Woschnagg, K.
- Wu, W.
- Yodh, G.
- Young, S.
- Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA (United States)
Description
Data from the AMANDA-B10 detector taken during the austral winter of 1997 have been searched for a diffuse flux of high energy extraterrestrial muon-neutrinos, as predicted from, e.g., the sum of all active galaxies in the universe. This search yielded no excess events above those expected from the background atmospheric neutrinos, leading to upper limits on the extraterrestrial neutrino flux. For an assumed E-2 spectrum, a 90 percent classical confidence level upper limit has been placed at a level E2 Phi(E) = 8.4 x 10-7 GeV cm-2 s-11 sr-1 (for a predominant neutrino energy range 6-1000 TeV) which is the most restrictive bound placed by any neutrino detector. When specific predicted spectral forms are considered, it is found that some are excluded
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review Letters
- Journal Volume
- 90
- Journal Page Range
- [v p.]
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
- CODEN
- PRLTAO
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 34085523
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ENERGY RANGE; GALAXIES; MUON NEUTRINOS; NEUTRINOS; UNIVERSE
- Descriptors DEC
- ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; NEUTRINOS
Optional Information
- Contract/Grant/Project number
- AC03-76SF00098
- Notes
- Journal Publication Date: 2003
- Funding organization
- USDOE Director. Office of Science. Computational and Technology Research (United States)
- Secondary number(s)
- LBNL--53535