An improved limit to the diffuse flux of ultra-high energy neutrinos from the Pierre Auger Observatory
Creators: name: The Pierre Auger Collaboration
name: Aab, Alexander
name: Abreu, Pedro
name: Aglietta, Marco
name: Ahn, Eun-Joo
name: Samarai, Imen Al
name: Albuquerque, Ivone
name: Allekotte, Ingomar
name: Allison, Patrick
name: Almela, Alejandro
name: Castillo, Jesus Alvarez
name: Alvarez-Muñiz, Jaime
name: Batista, Rafael Alves
name: Ambrosio, Michelangelo
name: Aminaei, Amin
name: Anchordoqui, Luis
name: Andringa, Sofia
name: Aramo, Carla
name: Aranda, Victor Manuel
name: Arqueros, Fernando
name: Arsene, Nicusor
name: Asorey, Hernán Gonzalo
name: Assis, Pedro
name: Aublin, Julien
name: Ave, Maximo
name: Avenier, Michel
name: Avila, Gualberto
name: Awal, Nafiun
name: Badescu, Alina Mihaela
name: Barber, Kerri B
name: Bäuml, Julia
name: Baus, Colin
name: Beatty, Jim
name: Becker, Karl Heinz
name: Bellido, Jose A
name: Berat, Corinne
name: Bertaina, Mario Edoardo
name: Bertou, Xavier
name: Biermann, Peter
name: Billoir, Pierre
name: Blaess, Simon G
name: Blanco, Alberto
name: Blanco, Miguel
name: Bleve, Carla
name: Blümer, Hans
name: Boháčová, Martina
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name: Brogueira, Pedro
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name: Buchholz, Peter
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name: Caccianiga, Lorenzo
name: Candusso, Marina
name: Caramete, Laurentiu
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name: Castellina, Antonella
name: Cataldi, Gabriella
name: Cazon, Lorenzo
name: Cester, Rosanna
name: Chavez, Alan G
name: Chiavassa, Andrea
name: Chinellato, Jose Augusto
name: Chudoba, Jiri
name: Cilmo, Marco
name: Clay, Roger W
name: Cocciolo, Giuseppe
name: Colalillo, Roberta
name: Coleman, Alan
name: Collica, Laura
name: Coluccia, Maria Rita
name: Conceição, Ruben
name: Contreras, Fernando
name: Cooper, Mathew J
name: Cordier, Alain
name: Coutu, Stephane
name: Covault, Corbin
name: Cronin, James
name: Dallier, Richard
name: Daniel, Bruno
name: Dasso, Sergio
name: Daumiller, Kai
name: Dawson, Bruce R
name: de Almeida, Rogerio M
name: de Jong, Sijbrand J
name: De Mauro, Giuseppe
name: Neto, Joao de Mello
name: De Mitri, Ivan
name: de Oliveira, Jaime
name: de Souza, Vitor
name: del Peral, Luis
name: Deligny, Olivier
name: Dembinski, Hans
name: Dhital, Niraj
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name: D'Olivo, Juan Carlos
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Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: 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 $E_ν^2 dN_ν/dE_ν&lt; 6.4 \times 10^{-9}~ {\rm GeV~ cm^{-2}~ s^{-1}~ sr^{-1}}$.
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