Radio detection of air showers with the ARIANNA experiment on the Ross Ice Shelf

Barwick, S. W.; Besson, D.; Burgman, A.; Chiem, E.; Hallgren, A.; Hanson, Jordan C.; Klein, S. R.; Kleinfelder, S.; Nelles, A.; Persichilli, Christopher; Phillips, Shawn H.; Prakash, T.; Reed, C.; Shively, Savannah; Tatar, J.; Unger, E.; Walker, James Alfred; Yodh, G.

doi:10.1016/j.astropartphys.2017.02.003

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“…Many aspects of data processing, detector simulation and reconstruction are similar between radio detectors for cosmic rays and neutrinos. Radio neutrino detectors such as ARIANNA are even cosmic-ray detectors themselves [13]. Hence, many analysis methods and strategies from the cosmic-ray community can be transferred to neutrino detectors allowing to benefit from the maturity of radio cosmic-ray observations.…”

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“…This framework builds on extensive experience with both Monte-Carlo studies and data analysis of cosmicray as well as neutrino detectors [8,9,10,13,14,15]. It is also based on many years of experience with the software needs of large radio cosmic-ray experiments, in particular the experience with existing software projects such as Offline [16,17], the reconstruction framework of the Pierre Auger Observatory and its radio extension AERA, the LOFAR cosmic-ray software [18], the Physics eXtension Library (PXL) for high-energy physics and the web analysis framework VISPA [19].…”

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NuRadioReco: a reconstruction framework for radio neutrino detectors

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While the radio detection of cosmic rays has advanced to a standard method in astroparticle physics, the radio detection of neutrinos is just about to start its full bloom. The successes of pilot-arrays have to be accompanied by the development of modern and flexible software tools to ensure rapid progress in reconstruction algorithms and data processing. We present NuRa-dioReco as such a modern Python-based data analysis tool. It includes a suitable data-structure, a databaseimplementation of a time-dependent detector, modern browser-based data visualization tools, and fully separated analysis modules. We describe the framework and examples, as well as new reconstruction algorithms to obtain the full three-dimensional electric field from distributed antennas which is needed for high-precision energy reconstruction of particle showers.Keywords Neutrino astronomy · radio detection · reconstruction framework · signal processing · cosmic ray · Askaryan · air shower PACS 07.05.Kf · 95.85.Ry · 95.55.Vj · 95.85.Bh

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NuRadioReco: a reconstruction framework for radio neutrino detectors

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“…Cosmic rays are identified by upward-facing LPDA's [39]. This capability, in conjunction with the near surface location, will tag the most dangerous background events induced by cosmic-ray air showers, e.g., from muon ionization in the ice or shower core interactions with the snow surface.…”

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A search for cosmogenic neutrinos with the ARIANNA test bed using 4.5 years of data

Anker¹,

Barwick²,

Bernhoff³

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J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys.

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The primary mission of the ARIANNA ultra-high energy neutrino telescope is to uncover astrophysical sources of neutrinos with energies greater than 10 16 eV. A pilot array, consisting of seven ARIANNA stations located on the surface of the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica, was commissioned in November 2014. We report on the search for astrophysical neutrinos using data collected between November 2014 and February 2019. A straight-forward template matching analysis yielded no neutrino candidates, with a signal efficiency of 79%. We find a 90% confidence upper limit on the diffuse neutrino flux of E 2 Φ = 1.7 × 10 −6 GeVcm −2 s −1 sr −1 for a decade wide logarithmic bin centered at a neutrino energy of 10 18 eV, which is an order of magnitude improvement compared to the previous limit reported by the ARIANNA collaboration. The ARIANNA stations, including purpose built cosmic-ray stations at the Moore's Bay site and demonstrator stations at the South Pole, have operated reliably. Sustained operation at two distinct sites confirms that the flexible and adaptable architecture can be deployed in any deep ice, radio quiet environment. We show that the scientific capabilities, technical innovations, and logistical requirements of ARIANNA are sufficiently well understood to serve as the basis for large area radio-based neutrino telescope with a wide field-of-view.

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“…• Once data from all contributing antennas have been collected and written to disk, it will be possible to discriminate background event from EAS in an offline analysis based on the distinct features of the two types of signals. In particular, it has been shown already that EAS radio signatures clearly differ from background events: for example their time traces are usually much shorter [22], while their amplitude [23] and polarization [24] patterns at ground are very specific. Taking advantage of these specific features thus makes it possible to perform a very efficent rejection of the background signals from radio data only [21].…”

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The GRAND project and GRANDProto300 experiment

Martineau‐Huynh

2019

EPJ Web Conf.

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The Giant Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) is a proposal for a giant observatory of ultra-high energy cosmic particles (neutrinos, cosmic rays and gamma rays). It will be composed of twenty subarrays of 10 000 antennas each, totaling a detection area of 200 000 km 2 . GRAND will reach unprecedented sensitivity to neutrinos allowing to detect cosmogenic neutrinos while its sub-degree angular resolution will also make it possible to hunt for point sources and possibly start neutrino astronomy. Combined with its gigantic exposure to ultra-high energy cosmic rays and gamma rays, GRAND will be a powerful tool to solve the century-long mistery of the nature and origin of the particles with highest energy in the Universe. On the path to GRAND, the GRANDProto300 experiment will be deployed in 2020 over a total area of 200 km 2 . It primarly aims at validating the detection concept of GRAND, but also proposes a rich science program centered on a precise and complete measurement of the air showers initiated by cosmic rays with energies between 10 16.5 and 10 18 eV, a range where we expect to observe the transition between the Galactic and extra-galactic origin of cosmic rays. *

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Radio detection of air showers with the ARIANNA experiment on the Ross Ice Shelf

Cited by 104 publications

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NuRadioReco: a reconstruction framework for radio neutrino detectors

NuRadioReco: a reconstruction framework for radio neutrino detectors

A search for cosmogenic neutrinos with the ARIANNA test bed using 4.5 years of data

The GRAND project and GRANDProto300 experiment

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