The sensitivity of the next generation of lunar Cherenkov observations to UHE neutrinos and cosmic rays

Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 318-332

  James, C W ^a   Protheroe, R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coherent radio emission; Lunar Cherenkov technique; UHE cosmic ray detection; UHE neutrino detection; UHE neutrino flux limits

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVES; ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; COSMIC RAY DETECTORS; COSMIC RAYS; COSMOLOGY; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW INTERACTIONS; GLUES; GLUING; IONIZING RADIATION; MOON; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; POPULATION STATISTICS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TELESCOPES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

COHERENT RADIO EMISSION; LUNAR CHERENKOV TECHNIQUE; UHE COSMIC RAY DETECTION; UHE NEUTRINO DETECTION; UHE NEUTRINO FLUX LIMITS;

NEUTRONS;

EID: 57849112683     PISSN: 09276505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2008.10.007     Document Type: Article

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