University of Pennsylvania
Department of Physics and Astronomy
High Energy Physics Seminar


From the Moon to the Mines: Radio Detection of EHE Neutrinos
Dawn Williams
University of California at Los Angeles


Abstract


Extremely high energy neutrinos interacting in solid material produce electromagnetic cascades with a charge excess. Cherenkov radiation from this charge excess is coherent at radio frequencies, enabling the detection of EHE neutrinos in radio-transparent materials such as ice, salt and the lunar regolith. I will present the results of the Goldstone search for EHE neutrino signals from the lunar regolith and plans for a cubic kilometer scale detector in a salt mine.