Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8132675 | Astroparticle Physics | 2018 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
A search for tau neutrino induced showers with the MAGIC telescopes is presented. The MAGIC telescopes located at an altitude of 2200â¯m a.s.l. in the Canary Island of La Palma, can point towards the horizon or a few degrees below across an azimuthal range of about 80°. This provides a possibility to search for air showers induced by tau leptons arising from interactions of tau neutrinos in the Earth crust or the surrounding ocean. In this paper we show how such air showers can be discriminated from the background of very inclined hadronic showers by using Monte Carlo simulations. Taking into account the orography of the site, the point source acceptance and the event rates expected have been calculated for a sample of generic neutrino fluxes from photo-hadronic interactions in AGNs. The analysis of about 30 h of data taken towards the sea leads to a 90% C.L. point source limit for tau neutrinos in the energy range from 1.0â¯Ãâ¯1015 eV to 3.0â¯Ãâ¯1018 eV of about EνÏ2ÃÏ(EνÏ)<2.0Ã10â4 GeV cmâ2 sâ1 for an assumed power-law neutrino spectrum with spectral index γ=â2. However, with 300 h and in case of an optimistic neutrino flare model, limits of the level down to EνÏ2ÃÏ(EνÏ)<8.4Ã10â6 GeV cmâ2 sâ1 can be expected.
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Authors
M.L. Ahnen, S. Ansoldi, L.A. Antonelli, C. Arcaro, D. Baack, A. BabiÄ, B. Banerjee, P. Bangale, U. Barres de Almeida, J.A. Barrio, J. Becerra González, W. Bednarek, E. Bernardini, R.Ch. Berse, A. Berti, W. Bhattacharyya, A. Biland, O. Blanch,