White Paper: ARIANNA-200 high energy neutrino telescope
Abstract
The proposed ARIANNA-200 neutrino detector, located at sea-level on the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, consists of 200 autonomous and independent detector stations separated by 1 kilometer in a uniform triangular mesh, and serves as a pathfinder mission for the future IceCube-Gen2 project. The primary science mission of ARIANNA-200 is to search for sources of neutrinos with energies greater than 10^17 eV, complementing the reach of IceCube. An ARIANNA observation of a neutrino source would provide strong insight into the enigmatic sources of cosmic rays. ARIANNA observes the radio emission from high energy neutrino interactions in the Antarctic ice. Among radio based concepts under current investigation, ARIANNA-200 would uniquely survey the vast majority of the southern sky at any instant in time, and an important region of the northern sky, by virtue of its location on the surface of the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. The broad sky coverage is specific to the Moore's Bay site, and makes ARIANNA-200 ideally suited to contribute to the multi-messenger thrust by the US National Science Foundation, Windows on the Universe - Multi-Messenger Astrophysics, providing capabilities to observe explosive sources from unknown directions. The ARIANNA architecture is designed to measure the angular direction to within 3 degrees for every neutrino candidate, which too plays an important role in the pursuit of multi-messenger observations of astrophysical sources.
Keywords
Cite
@article{arxiv.2004.09841,
title = {White Paper: ARIANNA-200 high energy neutrino telescope},
author = {A. Anker and P. Baldi and S. W. Barwick and D. Bergman and H. Bernhoff and D. Z. Besson and N. Bingefors and O. Botner and P. Chen and Y. Chen and D. García-Fernández and G. Gaswint and C. Glaser and A. Hallgren and J. C. Hanson and J. J. Huang and S. R. Klein and S. A. Kleinfelder and C. -Y. Kuo and R. Lahmann and U. Latif and T. Liu and Y. Lyu and S. McAleer and J. Nam and A. Novikov and A. Nelles and M. P. Paul and C. Persichilli and I. Plaisier and J. Y. Shiao and J. Tatar and A. van Vliet and S. -H. Wang and Y. -H. Wang and C. Welling},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.09841},
year = {2020}
}