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Accelerator Measurements of the Askaryan effect in Rock Salt: A Roadmap Toward Teraton Underground Neutrino Detectors | | P. W. Gorham
; D. Saltzberg
; R. C. Field
; E. Guillian
; R. Milincic
; D. Walz
; D. Williams
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6 Dec 2004 | | Journal: | Phys.Rev. D72 (2005) 023002 | | Subject: | Astrophysics; Accelerator Physics; Instrumentation and Detectors | astro-ph hep-ex physics.acc-ph physics.ins-det | | Affiliation: | University of Hawaii at Manoa, UCLA, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center | | Abstract: | We report on further SLAC measurements of the Askaryan effect: coherent radio emission from charge asymmetry in electromagnetic cascades. We used synthetic rock salt as the dielectric medium, with cascades produced by GeV bremsstrahlung photons at the Final Focus Test Beam. We extend our prior discovery measurements to a wider range of parameter space and explore the effect in a dielectric medium of great potential interest to large scale ultra-high energy neutrino detectors: rock salt (halite), which occurs naturally in high purity formations containing in many cases hundreds of cubic km of water-equivalent mass. We observed strong coherent pulsed radio emission over a frequency band from 0.2-15 GHz. A grid of embedded dual-polarization antennas was used to confirm the high degree of linear polarization and track the change of direction of the electric-field vector with azimuth around the shower. Coherence was observed over 4 orders of magnitude of shower energy. The frequency dependence of the radiation was tested over two orders of magnitude of UHF and microwave frequencies. We have also made the first observations of coherent transition radiation from the Askaryan charge excess, and the result agrees well with theoretical predictions. Based on these results we have performed a detailed and conservative simulation of a realistic GZK neutrino telescope array within a salt-dome, and we find it capable of detecting 10 or more contained events per year from even the most conservative GZK neutrino models. | | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0412128 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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