Radio Detection of High Energy Particles NIKHEF高能粒子探测NIKHEF.pptVIP

Peter Gorham/John Learned Askaryan’s Excess: Tuning In to Cosmogenic NeutrinosRadio detection of high energy particles Peter Gorham/John Learned University of Hawaii Jet Propulsion Lab With much help from: David Saltzberg Dawn Williams (UCLA), Chuck Naudet, Kurt Liewer, George Resch (d. 2001) –JPL ( many others at SLAC, Argonne, LANL) Scientific goal: Neutrinos from beyond the Edge GZK cosmic rays: From whence??! And How?? Standard Model: We see the punch-through tail from distant sources: QSO’s, GRBs… If so: GZK neutrinos are the signature Necessary and sufficient to confirm standard GZK model If detected: a new standard candle of EeV neutrinos(!) What role does radio detection play? Standard model GZK n flux: 1 per km2 per day over 2p steradian Interaction probability per km of water: ~0.2% A cubic Km detector may expect to see 1 event every 2 years in its fiducial volume! How can we get the ~100 km3-sr volumetric apertures needed to detect GZK neutrinos at an acceptable rate? Answer: Askaryan process: coherent radio Cherenkov emission EM cascades produce a charge asymmetry, thus a radio pulse Process is coherent ? Quadratic rise of power with cascade energy Radio emission exceeds optical secondary EM radiation at ~10 PeV, becomes completely dominant at EeV energies Askaryan Confirmation: SLAC Lunacee II Lunacee II target in SLAC Final Focus Test Beam area Shower profile observed by radio (~2GHz) Is it coherent Cherenkov radiation? Yes! Coherence and absolute field strength Current Initiatives in Radio Detection Goldstone Lunar Ultra-high energy neutrino Experiment (GLUE) Started at JPL in 1998, UCLA (Saltzberg) joined 1999; accepted to NASA Deep Space Network Radio Astronomy program 2000; ongoing Radio Ice Cherenkov Experiment (RICE) Ongoing: Above AMANDA array at south pole station, U. Kansas, Bartol, Florida Salt-dome Shower Array (SalSA) Goal: ~100 km^3 w.e. AMANDA-like radio array within a large salt dome Near term efforts: testbed