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CFNUL 2/2000 Searching Scalar Resonances with Ultra-high Energy Neutrinos 0 0 0 L. Br¨uchera,1 , P. Ker¨anena,2 , J. Maalampib,3 2 v a Centro de F´ısica Nuclear de Universidade de Lisboa, o N Av. Prof. Gama Pinto 2, 1649-003 Lisboa, Portugal 9 b Department of Physics, Unversity of Helsinki 1 and v Helsinki Institute of Physics, 8 3 P.O. Box 9, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland 1 1 1 0 0 / h p - p February 1, 2008 e h : v Abstract i X We study the prospects of detecting signals of a resonant scattering of high-energy cosmic r neutrinos on electrons in the atmosphere. Such a process is possible through an s-channel ex- a change of a isotriplet scalar particle predicted by some particle physics theories. We estimate the event rates for a reference detector setup with plausible assumptions on the interaction strengths and energy resolutions. We find as the most promising process the resonance pro- duction of tau neutrinos whose signature would be a ”quiet” (in contrast with a hadronic ”bang”) production of the tau lepton followed by a more noisy decay in downstream. PACS number(s): 12.60.Fr, 13.15.+g, 13.85.Tp, 14.80.Cp, 96.40.Pq, 96.40.Tv, 98.70.Sa