Published March 11, 2003 | Version v1
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Limits on diffuse fluxes of high energy extraterrestrial neutrinos with the AMANDA-B10 detector

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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

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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

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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