2001/11/30 by Daniele Fargion
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-ph #astro-ph #quant-ph
published as Proceedings of the EPS International Conference on High Energy Physics, Budapest, 2001 (D. Horvath, P. Levai, A. Patkos,eds.), JHEP PrHEP-hep2001/208 · 5 pages, 3 figures, HEP2001 Conference, 13 July,Budapest. Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2001
arxiv created 2001/12/02 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
Upward and Horizontal Tau Air-showers (UPTAUS and HORTAUS) emerging from the Earth crust, mountain chains or deep plate boundaries are the most powerful signals of Ultra High Energy UHE anti neutrinos electron at PeV and neutrino and anti-neutrino tau at energies near and above 1015-1019 eV. The large tau Air-showers multiplicity N in secondaries Nopt =1012 Etau/ PeV, Ngamma= 108 Etau/PeV, Ne- e+= 2 107 Etau/PeV, Nmu = 3 105 Etau/PeV0.85, make easy their discover. UHE nutau, nutau because neutrino flavor mixing, numu <--> nutau, should be as abundant as numu, bar-numu. Also barnue, near the Glashow W resonance peak, Ebarnue= M2W / 2me = 6.3 1015 eV, may generate tau Air-showers. The HORTAUS may test the UHE neutrino interactions leading to additional fine-tuned test of New TeV Physics in Mountain Valleys and Earth crust horizontal edges. UPTAUS or HORTAUS, beaming toward high mountains, air-planes, ballons and satellites should flash gamma, muon, X and Cherenkov lights toward detectors. Such UPTAUS might already hit nearby satellite GRO gamma detectors flashing it by short (millisecond), hard, diluted gamma-burst at the edge of BATSE threshold. We claimed their identity with the observed BATSE 78 Terrestrial Gamma Flashes (TGF). The TGF clustering toward Galactic Center and Plane, known AGNs source strongly support their UHE Tau neutrino origin.