Astrophysical Searches For Exotic Phenomena In Ultrahigh Energy Neutrino-Nucleon Scattering

Abstract

We investigate the potential of near-future neutrino telescopes like NESTOR for searches for exotic processes in ultrahigh energy neutrino-quark scattering. (NESTOR is the acronym for NEutrinos, from Supernovae and TeV sources, Ocean Range ... a water Cherenkov detector to be constructed in the Mediterranean off the coast of Greece). We consider signatures such as muon bundles and/or contained cascades from the nonperturbative production of multiple weak gauge bosons in the Standard Model, compositeness and leptoquark production.

Comments: Invited talk presented by A. Ringwald at the 3rd NESTOR International Conference, 19-21 October 1993, Pylos, Greece. 24 pages, LaTeX, 10 figures appended as uu-encoded file. DESY 94-026, UCLA/94/TEP/9