Searching for neutrino radio flashes from the Moon with LOFAR

Stijn Buitink; Arthur Corstanje; Emilio Enriquez; Heino Falcke; Wilfred Frieswijk; Jörg Hörandel; Maaijke Mevius; Anna Nelles; Satyendra Thoudam; Pim Schellart; Olaf Scholten; Sanderter Veen; Martin Van Den Akker

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Searching for neutrino radio flashes from the Moon with LOFAR

Stijn Buitink, Arthur Corstanje, Emilio Enriquez, Heino Falcke, Wilfred Frieswijk, Jörg Hörandel, Maaijke Mevius, Anna Nelles, Satyendra Thoudam, Pim Schellart, Olaf Scholten, Sanderter Veen, Martin Van Den Akker

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Abstract

Ultra-high-energy neutrinos and cosmic rays produce short radio flashes through the Askaryan effect when they impact on the Moon. Earthbound radio telescopes can search the Lunar surface for these signals. A new generation of lowfrequency, digital radio arrays, spearheaded by LOFAR, will allow for searches with unprecedented sensitivity. In the first stage of the NuMoon project, low-frequency observations were carried out with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope, leading to the most stringent limit on the cosmic neutrino flux above 10²³ eV. With LOFAR we will be able to reach a sensitivity of over an order of magnitude better and to decrease the threshold energy.

Original language	British English
Title of host publication	5th International Workshop on Acoustic and Radio EeV Neutrino Detection Activities, ARENA 2012
Pages	27-31
Number of pages	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4807515
State	Published - 2013
Event	5th International Workshop on Acoustic and Radio EeV Neutrino Detection Activities, ARENA 2012 - Erlangen, Germany Duration: 19 Jun 2012 → 22 Jun 2012

Publication series

Name	AIP Conference Proceedings
Volume	1535
ISSN (Print)	0094-243X
ISSN (Electronic)	1551-7616

Conference

Conference	5th International Workshop on Acoustic and Radio EeV Neutrino Detection Activities, ARENA 2012
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Erlangen
Period	19/06/12 → 22/06/12

Keywords

cosmic rays
Moon
neutrinos
radio emission
radio telescopes

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Buitink, S., Corstanje, A., Enriquez, E., Falcke, H., Frieswijk, W., Hörandel, J., Mevius, M., Nelles, A., Thoudam, S., Schellart, P., Scholten, O., Veen, S., & Van Den Akker, M. (2013). Searching for neutrino radio flashes from the Moon with LOFAR. In 5th International Workshop on Acoustic and Radio EeV Neutrino Detection Activities, ARENA 2012 (pp. 27-31). (AIP Conference Proceedings; Vol. 1535). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4807515

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Searching for neutrino radio flashes from the Moon with LOFAR. / Buitink, Stijn; Corstanje, Arthur; Enriquez, Emilio et al.
5th International Workshop on Acoustic and Radio EeV Neutrino Detection Activities, ARENA 2012. 2013. p. 27-31 (AIP Conference Proceedings; Vol. 1535).

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