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The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) collaboration has reported a total of three neutrino candidates from the experiment's first three flights. One of these was the lone candidate in a search for Askaryan radio emission, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-23 Alex Pizzuto , Anastasia Barbano , Teresa Montaruli , Justin Vandenbroucke

The Antarctic Ross Ice Shelf Antenna Neutrino Array (ARIANNA) is a high-energy neutrino detector designed to record the Askaryan electric field signature of cosmogenic neutrino interactions in ice. To understand the inherent radio-frequency…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-21 S. W. Barwick , E. C. Berg , D. Z. Besson , J. C. Hanson , S. R. Klein , S. A. Kleinfelder , M. Piasecki , K. Ratzlaff , C. Reed , M. Roumi , T. Stezelberger , J. Tatar , J. Walker , R. Young , L. Zou

The ARIANNA experiment seeks to observe the diffuse flux of neutrinos in the 10^8 - 10^10 GeV energy range using a grid of radio detectors at the surface of the Ross Ice Shelf of Antarctica. The detector measures the coherent Cherenkov…

Interactions of ultrahigh energy neutrinos of cosmological origin in large volumes of dense, radio-transparent media can be detected via coherent Cherenkov emission from accompanying electromagnetic showers. Antarctic ice meets the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-09 George M. Frichter , John P. Ralston , Douglas W. McKay

The ARIANNA experiment is currently taking data in its pilot-phase on the Ross ice-shelf. Fully autonomous stations measure radio signals in the frequency range from 100 MHz to 1 GHz. The seven station HRA was completed in December 2014,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 Anna Nelles

We investigate whether transition radiation from a particle shower crossing the interface between Earth and air and induced by an Earth-skimming neutrino can explain the upward event announced recently by the ANITA Collaboration. While the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 Pavel Motloch , Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz , Paolo Privitera , Enrique Zas

ANITA's fourth long-duration balloon flight in late 2016 detected 29 cosmic-ray (CR)-like events on a background of $0.37^{+0.27}_{-0.17}$ anthropogenic events. CRs are mainly seen in reflection off the Antarctic ice sheets, creating a…

The Antarctic Ross Iceshelf Antenna Neutrino Array (ARIANNA) is a proposed detector for ultra-high energy astrophysical neutrinos. It will detect coherent radio Cherenkov emission from the particle showers produced by neutrinos with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Lisa Gerhardt , Spencer R. Klein , Thorsten Stezelberger , Steve Barwick , Kamlesh Dookayka , Jordan Hanson , Ryan Nichol

The ARIANNA concept utilizes the Ross Ice Shelf near the coast of Antarctica to increase the sensitivity to cosmogenic neutrinos by roughly an order of magnitude when compared to the sensitivity of existing detectors and those under…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Steven W. Barwick

The measurement of ultra-high energy (UHE) neutrinos (E $>$ \SI{e16}{eV}) opens a new field of astronomy with the potential to reveal the sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays especially if combined with observations in the…

One of the most promising techniques for detecting ultra-high energy neutrinos involves the use of radio antennas to observe the 10-1000 MHz radiation generated by the showers that neutrinos induce in large volumes of ice. The expected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-05 Alan Coleman , Christian Glaser , Ryan Rice-Smith , Steven Barwick , Dave Besson

Despite 100 years of effort, we still know very little about the origin of ultra-high energy cosmic rays. The observation of neutrinos produced when cosmic-ray protons with energies above $4\times 10^{19}$ eV interact with the cosmic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-17 Spencer R. Klein

The ANITA balloon experiment has recently observed several ~EeV cascade events at an angle below the horizon that renders any Standard Model (SM) interpretation unlikely as the Earth is significantly opaque to all SM particles at such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-27 John F. Cherry , Ian Shoemaker

The redshifted 21 cm line, arising from neutral hydrogen, offers a unique probe into the intergalactic medium and the first stars and galaxies formed in the early universe. However, detecting this signal is a challenging task because of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-09 Shijie Sun , Jiaqin Xu , Minquan Zhou , Shenzhe Xu , Fengquan Wu , Haoran Zhang , Juyong Zhang , Bin Ma , Zhaohui Shang , Xuelei Chen

The ARIANNA in-ice radio detector explores the detection of UHE neutrinos with shallow detector stations on the Ross Ice Shelf and the South Pole. Here, we present recent results that lay the foundation for future large-scale experiments.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-17 Christian Glaser

The ANITA experiment has observed two unusual upgoing air shower events which are consistent with the $\tau$-lepton decay origin. However, these events are in contradiction with the standard neutrino-matter interaction models as well as the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-29 Guo-yuan Huang

The ANITA collaboration has recently announced the supposed observation of two upward going cosmic ray showers at earth emergence angles $27^{\circ}$ and $35^{\circ}$ with reconstructed energy $\sim$0.6~EeV. Upward air showers (UAS) are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-04 Austin Cummings , Roberto Aloisio , Mario Bertaina , Francesca Bisconti , Francesco Fenu , Francesco Salamida