Measuring high energy neutrino-nucleon cross sections with future neutrino telescopes

2002/03/31 by Dan Hooper · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Collider #Cross section (physics) #Flux (metallurgy) #High energy #Measurements of neutrino speed #Neutrino #Neutrino Physics Research #Neutrino astronomy #Neutrino detector #Neutrino oscillation #Nuclear physics #Nucleon #Opacity #Particle physics #Physics #Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology #Solar neutrino #Solar neutrino problem #astro-ph #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.65.097303

published as Phys.Rev. D65 (2002) 097303 · 4 pages, 5 figures

arxiv created 2002/04/17 · openalex publication_date 2002/05/21 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Next generation kilometer-scale neutrino telescopes, such as ICECUBE, can test standard model predictions for neutrino-nucleon cross sections at energies well beyond the reach of collider experiments. At energies near a PeV and higher, the Earth becomes opaque to neutrinos. At these energies, the ratio of upgoing and downgoing events can be used to measure the total neutrino-nucleon cross section given the presence of an adequate high energy neutrino flux.

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