https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201921602008
ARIANNA: Measurement of cosmic rays with a radio neutrino detector in Antarctica
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, USA
★ e-mail: christian.glaser@uci.edu, CG is supported by the German Research Foundation, (DFG), on grant GL 914/1-1.
Published online: 24 September 2019
The ARIANNA detector aims to detect neutrinos with energies above 1016 eV by instrumenting 0.5 Teratons of ice with a surface array of a thousand independent radio detector stations in Antarctica. The Antarctic ice is transparent to the radio signals caused by the Askaryan effect which allows for a cost-effective instrumentation of large volumes. Several pilot stations are currently operating successfully at the Moore’s Bay site (Ross Ice Shelf) and at the South Pole. As the ARIANNA detector stations are positioned at the surface, the more abundant cosmic-ray air showers are also measured and serve as a direct way to prove the capabilities of the detector. We will present measured cosmic rays and will show how the incoming direction, polarization and electric field of the cosmicray pulse can be reconstructed from single detector stations comprising 4 upward and 4 downward facing LPDA antennas.
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