Muon neutrino astronomy is drown within a polluted atmospheric neutrino noise: indeed recent ICECUBE neutrino records at (TeVs), couldn't find any muon neutrino point source [1] being blurred by such a noisy sky. However at 24 GeV energy atmospheric muon neutrinos, while rising vertically along the terrestrial diameter, should disappear (or be severely depleted) while converting into tau flavor: any rarest vertical E-mu similar or equal to 12 GeV muon track at South Pole Deep Core volume, pointing back to North Pole, might be tracing mostly a noise-free astrophysical signal. The corresponding Deep Core 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 channels trigger maybe point in those directions and inside that energy range without much background. Analogous nu(mu) suppression do not occur so efficiently elsewhere (as SuperKamiokande) because of a much smaller volume, an un-ability to test the muon birth place, its length, its expected energy. Also the smearing of the terrestrial rotation makes Deep Core ideal: along the South-North Pole the solid angle is almost steady, the flavor nu(mu) <-> nu(tau) conversion persist while the Earth is spinning around the stable poles-axis. Therefore Deep Core detector at South Pole, may scan at E-nu mu similar or equal to 18-27 GeV energy windows, into a narrow vertical cone Delta theta similar or equal to 30 degrees for a novel nu(mu), (nu) over bar (mu) astronomy almost noise-free, pointing back toward the North Pole. Unfortunately muon (at E, 12 GeV) trace their arrival direction mostly spread around an unique string in a zenith-cone solid angle. To achieve also an azimuth angular resolution a two string detection at once is needed. Therefore the doubling of the Deep Core string number, (two new arrays of six string each, achieving an average detection distance of 36.5 m), is desirable, leading to a larger Deep Core detection mass (more than double) and a sharper zenith and azimuth angular resolution by two-string vertical axis detection. Such an improvement may show a noise free (at least factor ten) muon neutrino astronomy. This enhancement may also be a crucial probe of a peculiar anisotropy foreseen for atmospheric anti-muon, in CPT violated physics versus conserved one, following a hint by recent Minos results.

A 20 GeVs transparent neutrino astronomy from the North Pole? / Fargion, Daniele; D., Darmiento. - In: NUCLEAR PHYSICS B-PROCEEDINGS SUPPLEMENTS. - ISSN 0920-5632. - STAMPA. - 212-213:(2011), pp. 146-153. (Intervento presentato al convegno Cosmic Ray International Seminars (CRIS 2010) tenutosi a Catania, ITALY nel SEP 13-17, 2010) [10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2011.03.021].

A 20 GeVs transparent neutrino astronomy from the North Pole?

FARGION, Daniele;
2011

Abstract

Muon neutrino astronomy is drown within a polluted atmospheric neutrino noise: indeed recent ICECUBE neutrino records at (TeVs), couldn't find any muon neutrino point source [1] being blurred by such a noisy sky. However at 24 GeV energy atmospheric muon neutrinos, while rising vertically along the terrestrial diameter, should disappear (or be severely depleted) while converting into tau flavor: any rarest vertical E-mu similar or equal to 12 GeV muon track at South Pole Deep Core volume, pointing back to North Pole, might be tracing mostly a noise-free astrophysical signal. The corresponding Deep Core 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 channels trigger maybe point in those directions and inside that energy range without much background. Analogous nu(mu) suppression do not occur so efficiently elsewhere (as SuperKamiokande) because of a much smaller volume, an un-ability to test the muon birth place, its length, its expected energy. Also the smearing of the terrestrial rotation makes Deep Core ideal: along the South-North Pole the solid angle is almost steady, the flavor nu(mu) <-> nu(tau) conversion persist while the Earth is spinning around the stable poles-axis. Therefore Deep Core detector at South Pole, may scan at E-nu mu similar or equal to 18-27 GeV energy windows, into a narrow vertical cone Delta theta similar or equal to 30 degrees for a novel nu(mu), (nu) over bar (mu) astronomy almost noise-free, pointing back toward the North Pole. Unfortunately muon (at E, 12 GeV) trace their arrival direction mostly spread around an unique string in a zenith-cone solid angle. To achieve also an azimuth angular resolution a two string detection at once is needed. Therefore the doubling of the Deep Core string number, (two new arrays of six string each, achieving an average detection distance of 36.5 m), is desirable, leading to a larger Deep Core detection mass (more than double) and a sharper zenith and azimuth angular resolution by two-string vertical axis detection. Such an improvement may show a noise free (at least factor ten) muon neutrino astronomy. This enhancement may also be a crucial probe of a peculiar anisotropy foreseen for atmospheric anti-muon, in CPT violated physics versus conserved one, following a hint by recent Minos results.
2011
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A 20 GeVs transparent neutrino astronomy from the North Pole? / Fargion, Daniele; D., Darmiento. - In: NUCLEAR PHYSICS B-PROCEEDINGS SUPPLEMENTS. - ISSN 0920-5632. - STAMPA. - 212-213:(2011), pp. 146-153. (Intervento presentato al convegno Cosmic Ray International Seminars (CRIS 2010) tenutosi a Catania, ITALY nel SEP 13-17, 2010) [10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2011.03.021].
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