Accelerator measurements of the Askaryan effect in rock salt: A roadmap toward teraton underground neutrino detectors

Gorham, P. W.; Saltzberg, D.; Field, R. C.; Guillian, E.; Milinčić, R.; Miočinović, P.; Walz, D.; Williams, D.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.72.023002

Accelerator measurements of the Askaryan effect in rock salt: A roadmap toward teraton underground neutrino detectors

Journal Article · Thu Jul 21 00:00:00 EDT 2005 · Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.72.023002· OSTI ID:1442457

Gorham, P. W. ^[1]; Saltzberg, D. ^[2]; Field, R. C. ^[3]; Guillian, E. ^[1]; Milinčić, R. ^[1]; Miočinović, P. ^[1]; Walz, D. ^[3]; Williams, D. ^[4]

Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI (United States)
Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States)
Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States); Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)

Here, we report on further SLAC measurements of the Askaryan effect: coherent radio emission from charge asymmetry in electromagnetic cascades. We used synthetic rock salt as the dielectric medium, with cascades produced by GeV bremsstrahlung photons at the Final Focus Test Beam. We extend our prior discovery measurements to a wider range of parameter space and explore the effect in a dielectric medium of great potential interest to large-scale ultra-high-energy neutrino detectors: rock salt (halite), which occurs naturally in high purity formations containing in many cases hundreds of km³ of water-equivalent mass. We observed strong coherent pulsed radio emission over a frequency band from 0.2–15 GHz. A grid of embedded dual-polarization antennas was used to confirm the high degree of linear polarization and track the change of direction of the electric-field vector with azimuth around the shower. Coherence was observed over 4 orders of magnitude of shower energy. The frequency dependence of the radiation was tested over 2 orders of magnitude of UHF and microwave frequencies. We have also made the first observations of coherent transition radiation from the Askaryan charge excess, and the result agrees well with theoretical predictions. Based on these results we have performed a detailed and conservative simulation of a realistic GZK neutrino telescope array within a salt dome, and we find it capable of detecting 10 or more contained events per year from even the most conservative GZK neutrino models.

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Research Organization:: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515

OSTI ID:: 1442457

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 20711100

Report Number(s):: SLAC-PUB--10911

Journal Information:: Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, Journal Name: Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 72; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 1550-7998

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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