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Gorham, P W; Nam, J; Romero-Wolf, A; Hoover, S; Allison, P; Banerjee, O; Beatty, J J; Belov, K; Besson, D Z; Binns, W R; Bugaev, V; Cao, P; Chen, C; Chen, P; Clem, J M; Connolly, A; Dailey, B; Deaconu, C; Cremonesi, L; Dowkontt, P F; DuVernois, M A; Field, R C; Fox, B D; Goldstein, D; Gordon, J; Hast, C; Hebert, C L; Hill, B; Hughes, K; Hupe, R; Israel, M H; Javaid, A; Kowalski, J; Lam, J; Learned, J G; Liewer, K M; Liu, T C; Link, J T; Lusczek, E; Matsuno, S; Mercurio, B C; Miki, C; Miočinović, P; Mottram, M; Mulrey, K; Naudet, C J; Ng, J; Nichol, R J; Palladino, K; Rauch, B F; Reil, K; Roberts, J; Rosen, M; Rotter, B; Russell, J; Ruckman, L; Saltzberg, D; Seckel, D; Schoorlemmer, H; Stafford, S; Stockham, J; Stockham, M; Strutt, B; Tatem, K; Varner, G S; Vieregg, A G; Walz, D; Wissel, S A; Wu, F
Physical review letters, 2016-Aug-12, Letnik: 117, Številka: 7Journal Article
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.
