A radio astronomy method of detecting neutrinos and other superhigh-energy elementary particles
Abstract
The possibility of using radio telescopes to detect radiation from electron-photon and hadron cascades produced by interactions of neutrinos and other superhigh-energy (greater than about 10 to the 20th eV) particles with the moon and other celestial bodies is discussed. Existing radio telescopes are already theoretically capable of detecting such radiation. The detection threshold could be lowered by using antennas placed on satellites orbiting the moon or other planets. Special geostationary satellites could detect radio emissions from cascades produced by neutrinos in the Antarctic ice.
- Publication:
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Pisma v Zhurnal Eksperimentalnoi i Teoreticheskoi Fiziki
- Pub Date:
- September 1989
- Bibcode:
- 1989PZETF..50..233D
- Keywords:
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- Elementary Particle Interactions;
- Energetic Particles;
- High Energy Interactions;
- Neutrinos;
- Radio Astronomy;
- Electron Photon Cascades;
- Hadrons;
- Particle Theory;
- Radio Telescopes;
- Space Radiation