We describe a new experiment to search for neutrinos with energies above 3 x 10^18 eV based on the observation of short duration radio pulses that are emitted from neutrino-initiated cascades. The primary objective of the ANtarctic Impulse Transient Antenna (ANITA) mission is to measure the flux of Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin (GZK) neutrinos and search for neutrinos from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). We present first results obtained from the successful launch of a 2-antenna prototype instrument (called ANITA-lite) that circled Antarctica for 18 days during the 03/04 Antarctic campaign and show preliminary results from attenuation length studies of electromagnetic waves at radio frequencies in Antarctic ice. The ANITA detector is funded by NASA, and the first flight is scheduled for December 2006.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0411007,
title = {Status of ANITA and ANITA-lite},
author = {A. Silvestri and S. W. Barwick and J. J. Beatty and D. Z. Besson and W. R. Binns and B. Cai and J. M. Clem and A. Connolly and D. F. Cowen and P. F. Dowkontt and M. A. DuVernois and P. A. Evenson and D. Goldstein and P. W. Gorham and C. L. Hebert and M. H. Israel and H. Krawzczynski and J. G. Learned and K. M. Liewer and J. T. Link and S. Matsuno and P. Miocinovic and J. Nam and C. J. Naudet and R. Nichol and M. Rosen and D. Saltzberg and D. Seckel and G. S. Varner and F. Wu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0411007},
year = {2011}
}
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9 pages, 8 figures, to be published in Proceedings of International School of Cosmic Ray Astrophysics, 14th Course: "Neutrinos and Explosive Events in the Universe", Erice, Italy, 2-13 July 2004