出版社:SISSA, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
摘要:Searches for physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics are performed at accelerators
worldwide. Although having poorer detection capabilities and large beam uncertainties, ultra high
energy cosmic ray (UHECR) experiments present a unique opportunity to look for new physics far
beyond the TeV. Nearly horizontal energetic neutrinos, seeing a large atmospheric target volume
and with negligible background from "ordinary" cosmic rays, are ideal to explore rare processes.
The sensitivity of present and planned experiments to different new physics scenarios is estimated,
including mini black-holes, excited leptons and leptoquarks.