Discovering the Highest Energy Neutrinos with the Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations (PUEO)
A.G. Vieregg*, Q. Abarr, P. Allison, J. Ammerman Yebra, J. Alvarez-Muñiz, J.J. Beatty,
D.Z. Besson, P. Chen, Y. Chen, X. Cheng, J.M. Clem, A. Connolly, L. Cremonesi, C. Deaconu, J. Flaherty, D. Frikken, P.W. Gorham, C. Hast, C. Hornhuber, J.J. Huang, K. Hughes, A. Hynous, Y. Ku, C.Y. Kuo, T.C. Liu, Z. Martin, C. Miki, J. Nam, R.J. Nichol, K. Nishimura, A. Novikov, A. Nozdrina, E. Oberla, S. Prohira, R. Prechelt, B.F. Rauch, J.M. Roberts, A. Romero-Wolf, J.W. Russell, D. Seckel, J. Shiao, D.J.B. Smith, D. Southall, G.S. Varner, S.H. Wang, Y.H. Wang, S.A. Wissel, R. Young, E. Zas and A. Zeollaet al. (click to show)
Pre-published on:
July 08, 2021
Published on:
March 18, 2022
Abstract
The Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations (PUEO) is a NASA Long-Duration Balloon Mission that has been selected for concept development. PUEO has unprecedented sensitivity to ultra-high energy neutrinos above $10^{18}$ eV. PUEO will be sensitive to both Askaryan emission from neutrino-induced cascades in Antarctic ice and geomagnetic emission from upward-going air showers that are a result of tau neutrino interactions. PUEO is also especially well-suited for point source and transient searches. Compared to its predecessor ANITA, PUEO achieves better than an order-of-magnitude improvement in sensitivity and lowers the energy threshold for detection, by implementing a coherent phased array trigger, adding more channels, optimizing the detection bandwidth, and implementing real-time filtering. Here we discuss the science reach and plans for PUEO, leading up to a 2024 launch.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.395.1029
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