Development of electron neutrino showers at mid and high

Development of electron neutrino showers at mid and high

NEUTRINO2010, XXIV International Conference on Neutrino Physics and
Astrophysics, Athens, GREECE
Contribution ID : 152
Type : not specified
Development of electron neutrino showers at mid
and high altitudes in the atmosphere
JEM-EUSO is a mission intended to detect the fluorescence light produced by the secondary charge particles
generated by ultra high energy cosmic rays interacting in the Earth atmosphere. It will be installed in the
Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) of the International Space Station. The very large exposure of the telescope is ideal for the detection of high energy neutrinos. The information carried by the high energy neutrino
component is of grate importance for the understanding of several processes related to ultra high energy
cosmic ray physics. In particular, they are produced in photo-hadronic interactions in the acceleration sites,
during propagation of the cosmic rays in the intergalactic medium and as a main product of the decay of super
heavy relic particles. In this work we use a combination of the PYTHIA interaction code with the CONEX
shower simulation package in order to produce fast one-dimensional simulations of electron neutrino initiated air showers. We study in detail the characteristics of longitudinal profiles of these showers which, in
regions of large air density are dominated by the LPM effect. We believe that these characteristics have grate
importance for its identification.
Summary
Primary author(s) : SUPANITSKY, Daniel (Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares - UNAM, Mexico); MEDINA-TANCO, Gustavo (Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM, Mexico)
Presenter(s) : SUPANITSKY, Daniel (Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares - UNAM, Mexico)