dc.contributor.author | Gorham, P. W. | |
dc.contributor.author | Nam, J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Romero-Wolf, A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Hoover, S. | |
dc.contributor.author | Allison, P. | |
dc.contributor.author | Banerjee, O. | |
dc.contributor.author | Beatty, J. J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Belov, K. | |
dc.contributor.author | Besson, David Zeke | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-10-30T19:29:02Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-10-30T19:29:02Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-08-08 | |
dc.identifier.citation | P. W. Gorham et al. (ANITA Collaboration). Characteristics of Four Upward-Pointing Cosmic-Ray-like Events Observed with ANITA, 2016. American Physical Society. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.071101 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/25223 | |
dc.description.abstract | We report on four radio-detected cosmic-ray (CR) or CR-like events observed with the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA), a NASA-sponsored long-duration balloon payload. Two of the four were previously identified as stratospheric CR air showers during the ANITA-I flight. A third stratospheric CR was detected during the ANITA-II flight. Here, we report on characteristics of these three unusual CR events, which develop nearly horizontally, 20–30 km above the surface of Earth. In addition, we report on a fourth steeply upward-pointing ANITA-I CR-like radio event which has characteristics consistent with a primary that emerged from the surface of the ice. This suggests a possible τ-lepton decay as the origin of this event, but such an interpretation would require significant suppression of the standard model τ-neutrino cross section. | en_US |
dc.publisher | American Physical Society | en_US |
dc.rights | © 2016 American Physical Society | en_US |
dc.title | Characteristics of Four Upward-Pointing Cosmic-Ray-like Events Observed with ANITA | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
kusw.kuauthor | Besson, David Zeke | |
kusw.kudepartment | Physics and Astronomy | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.071101 | en_US |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | en_US |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | en_US |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | |