Extensive air showers with TeV-scale quantum gravity

Luis Anchordoqui, Haim Goldberg, Thomas McCauley, Thomas Paul, Stephen Reucroft, and John Swain
Phys. Rev. D 63, 124009 – Published 14 May 2001
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Abstract

One of the possible consequences of the existence of extra degrees of freedom beyond the electroweak scale is the increase of neutrino-nucleon cross sections (σνN) beyond standard model predictions. At ultrahigh energies this may allow the existence of neutrino-initiated extensive air showers. In this paper, we examine the most relevant observables of such showers. Our analysis indicates that the future Pierre Auger Observatory could be potentially powerful in probing models with large compact dimensions.

  • Received 5 February 2001

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.63.124009

©2001 American Physical Society

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Luis Anchordoqui, Haim Goldberg, Thomas McCauley, Thomas Paul, Stephen Reucroft, and John Swain

  • Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115

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Vol. 63, Iss. 12 — 15 June 2001

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