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| author | Argüelles, Carlos A. Lazar, Jeffrey Thompson, William Zhelnin, Pavel |
| author_facet | Argüelles, Carlos A. Lazar, Jeffrey Thompson, William Zhelnin, Pavel |
| contents | While IceCube's detection of astrophysical neutrinos at energies up to a few PeV has opened a new window to our Universe, much remains to be discovered regarding these neutrinos' origin and nature. In particular, the difficulty of differentiating electron- and tau-neutrino charged-current (CC) events limits our ability to measure precisely the flavor ratio of this flux. The Tau Air-Shower Mountain-Based Observatory (TAMBO) is a next-generation neutrino observatory capable of producing a high-purity sample of tau-neutrino CC events in the energy range from 1 PeV--100 PeV, i.e. just above the IceCube measurements. An array of water Cherenkov tanks and plastic scintillators deployed in the Colca Canyon will observe the air-shower produced when a tau lepton, produced in a tau-neutrino CC interaction, emerges from the opposite face and decays in the air. In this contribution, I will present the performance studies for TAMBO -- including the expected rates, effective areas, and discrimination potential -- as well as the simulation on which these studies are based. |
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| spellingShingle | Simulation and Performance Studies for the Tau Air-Shower Mountain-Based Observatory Argüelles, Carlos A. Lazar, Jeffrey Thompson, William Zhelnin, Pavel High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Experiment While IceCube's detection of astrophysical neutrinos at energies up to a few PeV has opened a new window to our Universe, much remains to be discovered regarding these neutrinos' origin and nature. In particular, the difficulty of differentiating electron- and tau-neutrino charged-current (CC) events limits our ability to measure precisely the flavor ratio of this flux. The Tau Air-Shower Mountain-Based Observatory (TAMBO) is a next-generation neutrino observatory capable of producing a high-purity sample of tau-neutrino CC events in the energy range from 1 PeV--100 PeV, i.e. just above the IceCube measurements. An array of water Cherenkov tanks and plastic scintillators deployed in the Colca Canyon will observe the air-shower produced when a tau lepton, produced in a tau-neutrino CC interaction, emerges from the opposite face and decays in the air. In this contribution, I will present the performance studies for TAMBO -- including the expected rates, effective areas, and discrimination potential -- as well as the simulation on which these studies are based. |
| title | Simulation and Performance Studies for the Tau Air-Shower Mountain-Based Observatory |
| topic | High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Experiment |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08524 |