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arxiv: 1504.05397 · v2 · submitted 2015-04-21 · 🌌 astro-ph.HE

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An improved limit to the diffuse flux of ultra-high energy neutrinos from the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration: Alexander Aab , Pedro Abreu , Marco Aglietta , Eun-Joo Ahn , Imen Al Samarai , Ivone Albuquerque , Ingomar Allekotte , Patrick Allison
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Alejandro Almela Jesus Alvarez Castillo Jaime Alvarez-Mu\~niz Rafael Alves Batista Michelangelo Ambrosio Amin Aminaei Luis Anchordoqui Sofia Andringa Carla Aramo Victor Manuel Aranda Fernando Arqueros Nicusor Arsene Hern\'an Gonzalo Asorey Pedro Assis Julien Aublin Maximo Ave Michel Avenier Gualberto Avila Nafiun Awal Alina Mihaela Badescu Kerri B Barber Julia B\"auml Colin Baus Jim Beatty Karl Heinz Becker Jose A Bellido Corinne Berat Mario Edoardo Bertaina Xavier Bertou Peter Biermann Pierre Billoir Simon G Blaess Alberto Blanco Miguel Blanco Carla Bleve Hans Bl\"umer Martina Boh\'a\v{c}ov\'a Denise Boncioli Carla Bonifazi Nataliia Borodai Jeffrey Brack Iliana Brancus Ariel Bridgeman Pedro Brogueira William C Brown Peter Buchholz Antonio Bueno Stijn Buitink Mario Buscemi Karen S Caballero-Mora Barbara Caccianiga Lorenzo Caccianiga Marina Candusso Laurentiu Caramete Rossella Caruso Antonella Castellina Gabriella Cataldi Lorenzo Cazon Rosanna Cester Alan G Chavez Andrea Chiavassa Jose 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Neutrinos in the cosmic ray flux with energies near 1 EeV and above are detectable with the Surface Detector array of the Pierre Auger Observatory. We report here on searches through Auger data from 1 January 2004 until 20 June 2013. No neutrino candidates were found, yielding a limit to the diffuse flux of ultra-high energy neutrinos that challenges the Waxman-Bahcall bound predictions. Neutrino identification is attempted using the broad time-structure of the signals expected in the SD stations, and is efficiently done for neutrinos of all flavors interacting in the atmosphere at large zenith angles, as well as for "Earth-skimming" neutrino interactions in the case of tau neutrinos. In this paper the searches for downward-going neutrinos in the zenith angle bins $60^\circ-75^\circ$ and $75^\circ-90^\circ$ as well as for upward-going neutrinos, are combined to give a single limit. The $90\%$ C.L. single-flavor limit to the diffuse flux of ultra-high energy neutrinos with an $E^{-2}$ spectrum in the energy range $1.0 \times 10^{17}$ eV - $2.5 \times 10^{19}$ eV is $E_\nu^2 dN_\nu/dE_\nu < 6.4 \times 10^{-9}~ {\rm GeV~ cm^{-2}~ s^{-1}~ sr^{-1}}$.

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