Development Toward a Ground-Based Interferometric Phased Array for Radio Detection of High Energy Neutrinos
Abstract
The in-ice radio interferometric phased array technique for detection of high energy neutrinos looks for Askaryan emission from neutrinos interacting in large volumes of glacial ice, and is being developed as a way to achieve a low energy threshold and a large effective volume at high energies. The technique is based on coherently summing the impulsive Askaryan signal from multiple antennas, which increases the signal-to-noise ratio for weak signals. We report here on measurements and a simulation of thermal noise correlations between nearby antennas, beamforming of impulsive signals, and a measurement of the expected improvement in trigger efficiency through the phased array technique. We also discuss the noise environment observed with an analog phased array at Summit Station, Greenland, a possible site for an interferometric phased array for radio detection of high energy neutrinos.
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@article{arxiv.1605.03525,
title = {Development Toward a Ground-Based Interferometric Phased Array for Radio Detection of High Energy Neutrinos},
author = {J. Avva and K. Bechtol and T. Chesebro and L. Cremonisi and C. Deaconu and A. Gupta and A. Ludwig and W. Messino and C. Miki and R. Nichol and E. Oberla and M. Ransom and A. Romero-Wolf and D. Saltzberg and C. Schlupf and N. Shipp and G. Varner and A. G. Vieregg and S. A. Wissel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.03525},
year = {2017}
}
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13 Pages, 14 Figures