Stellar Cartography: Using A Forest As A Neutrino Detector

The primary challenge in detecting ultrahigh energy (UHE) neutrinos with energies exceeding 1016 eV is to instrument a large enough volume to detect the extremely low flux, which falls as ∼E−2.

We explore in this article the feasibility of using the forest as a detector. Trees have been shown to be efficient broadband antennas, and may, without damage to the tree, be instrumented with a minimum of apparatus.

A large scale array of such trees may be the key to achieving the requisite target volumes for UHE neutrino astronomy.

Steven Prohira

Comments: two pages, no figures. To be submitted
Subjects: High Energy Physics – Experiment (hep-ex); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); High Energy Physics – Phenomenology (hep-ph)
Cite as: arXiv:2401.14454 [hep-ex] (or arXiv:2401.14454v1 [hep-ex] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2401.14454
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From: Steven Prohira
[v1] Thu, 25 Jan 2024 19:00:01 UTC (9 KB)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14454
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