Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 071103 (2007) [4 pages]Prospects for Lunar Satellite Detection of Radio Pulses from Ultrahigh Energy Neutrinos Interacting with the MoonReceived 11 April 2006; revised 28 November 2006; published 14 February 2007 The Moon provides a huge effective detector volume for ultrahigh energy cosmic neutrinos, which generate coherent radio pulses in the lunar surface layer due to the Askaryan effect. In light of presently considered lunar missions, we propose radio measurements from a Moon-orbiting satellite. First systematic Monte Carlo simulations demonstrate the detectability of Askaryan pulses from neutrinos with energies above 1020 eV at the very low fluxes predicted in different scenarios. © 2007 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.071103
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.071103
PACS:
95.55.Vj, 07.87.+v, 95.55.Jz, 98.70.Sa
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