Initial performance of the Radar Echo Telescope for Cosmic Rays, RET-CR
Abstract
The Radar Echo Telescope for Cosmic Rays (RET-CR), a pathfinder instrument for the radar echo method of ultrahigh energy (UHE) neutrino detection, was initially deployed near Summit Station, Greenland, in May 2023. After a 4 week commissioning period, 9 days of data were taken before the instrument went offline. In this article, we describe the instrument as it was deployed, and the initial performance of the detector. We show that the technical aspects of running a radar based particle cascade detector in the ice have been demonstrated. Analysis of the 2023 data informed improvements that were incorporated into the May-August 2024 deployment, which has just concluded at time of writing. Results from the 2024 run will be presented in forthcoming publications.
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@article{arxiv.2409.07511,
title = {Initial performance of the Radar Echo Telescope for Cosmic Rays, RET-CR},
author = {P. Allison and J. Beatty and D. Besson and A. Connolly and A. Cummings and C. Deaconu and S. De Kockere and K. D. de Vries and D. Frikken and C. Hast and E. Huesca Santiago and C. -Y. Kuo and A. Kyriacou and U. A. Latif and J. Loonen and I. Loudon and V. Lukic and C. McLennan and K. Mulrey and J. Nam and K. Nivedita and A. Nozdrina and E. Oberla and S. Prohira and J. P. Ralston and M. F. H. Seikh and R. S. Stanley and S. Toscano and D. Van den Broeck and N. van Eijndhoven and S. Wissel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.07511},
year = {2024}
}
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