Current Status of Simulation for the Tau Air-Shower Mountain-Based Observatory

Lazar J.; Zhelnin P.; Alvarez-Muñiz J.; Argüelles C.; Bazo J.; Bellido J.; Bustamente M.; Carvalho W., Jr.; Cummings A.; Delgado D.; Fernández P.; Gago A.; Garcia-Soto A.; Kheirandish A.; Romero-Wolf A.; Safa I.; Schoorlemmer H.; Thompson W.G.; Vincent A.; Wissel S.; Zas E. · Proceedings of Science (2024)

Resumen

While IceCube’s detection 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 differentiating νe and ντ charged-current (CC) events in the energy 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 ντ CC events in the energy range from 1-100 PeV, i.e. just above the IceCube measurements. An array of water Cherenkov tanks and plastic scintillators deployed on one face of the Colca Canyon will observe the air-shower produced when a τ lepton, produced in a ντ CC interaction, emerges from the opposite face and decays in the air. In this contribution, I will present the current status of the TAMBO simulation, including preliminary sensitivities to various flux models. © Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons.