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  • Observation of an Unusual U...
    Gorham, P W; Rotter, B; Allison, P; Banerjee, O; Batten, L; Beatty, J J; Bechtol, K; Belov, K; Besson, D Z; Binns, W R; Bugaev, V; Cao, P; Chen, C C; Chen, C H; Chen, P; Clem, J M; Connolly, A; Cremonesi, L; Dailey, B; Deaconu, C; Dowkontt, P F; Fox, B D; Gordon, J W H; Hast, C; Hill, B; Hughes, K; Huang, J J; Hupe, R; Israel, M H; Javaid, A; Lam, J; Liewer, K M; Lin, S Y; Liu, T C; Ludwig, A; Macchiarulo, L; Matsuno, S; Miki, C; Mulrey, K; Nam, J; Naudet, C J; Nichol, R J; Novikov, A; Oberla, E; Olmedo, M; Prechelt, R; Prohira, S; Rauch, B F; Roberts, J M; Romero-Wolf, A; Russell, J W; Saltzberg, D; Seckel, D; Schoorlemmer, H; Shiao, J; Stafford, S; Stockham, J; Stockham, M; Strutt, B; Varner, G S; Vieregg, A G; Wang, S H; Wissel, S A

    Physical review letters, 10/2018, Letnik: 121, Številka: 16
    Journal Article

    We report on an upward traveling, radio-detected cosmic-ray-like impulsive event with characteristics closely matching an extensive air shower. This event, observed in the third flight of the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA), a NASA-sponsored long-duration balloon payload, is consistent with a similar event reported in a previous flight. These events could be produced by the atmospheric decay of an upward-propagating τ lepton produced by a ν_{τ} interaction, although their relatively steep arrival angles create tension with the standard model neutrino cross section. Each of the two events have a posteriori background estimates of ≲10^{-2} events. If these are generated by τ-lepton decay, then either the charged-current ν_{τ} cross section is suppressed at EeV energies, or the events arise at moments when the peak flux of a transient neutrino source was much larger than the typical expected cosmogenic background neutrinos.