Muons on the Moon

Conference · Thu Mar 15 04:00:00 EST 1990 · AIP Conference Proceedings (American Institute of Physics); (USA)

OSTI ID:6375464

Stenger, V J ^[1]

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1. University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI (USA)

Neutrino astronomy on the earth is currently signal-limited, rather than background-limited. Thus the absence of atmospheric muon background on the moon does not provide any obvious advantage in the search for point sources, although some advantage may exists for diffuse sources. A lunar detector for neutrino astronomy will still have to be as large as any on earth. The earlier suggestion that a window around 1 GeV exist, where backgrounds on earth are large, is shown to not provide for likely detectable sources.

• OSTI ID: 6375464
• Report Number(s): CONF-8905272--
• Conference Information: Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings (American Institute of Physics); (USA) Journal Volume: 202:1
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
ASTROPHYSICS
CHARGED PARTICLE DETECTION
COSMIC MUONS
COSMIC NEUTRINOS
COSMIC RADIATION
DETECTION
DUMAND PROJECT
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
EXPERIMENT PLANNING
FERMIONS
IONIZING RADIATIONS
LEPTONS
MASSLESS PARTICLES
MOON
MUON DETECTION
MUONS
NEUTRINO DETECTION
NEUTRINOS
PLANNING
RADIATION DETECTION
RADIATIONS
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
SATELLITES