Prospects for lunar satellite detection of radio pulses from ultrahigh energy neutrinos interacting with the moon.
The Moon provides a huge effective detector volume for ultrahigh energy cosmic neutrinos, which generate coherent radio pulses in the lunar surface layer due to the Askaryan effect. In light of presently considered lunar missions, we propose radio measurements from a Moon-orbiting satellite. First systematic Monte Carlo simulations demonstrate the detectability of Askaryan pulses from neutrinos with energies above 10(20) eV at the very low fluxes predicted in different scenarios.
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Swedish Institute of Space Physics, P.O. Box 537, SE-751 21 Uppsala, Sweden.
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