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Experimental efforts to measure neutrinos by radio-frequency (RF) signals resulting from neutrino interactions in-ice have intensified over the last decade. Recent calculations indicate that one may dramatically improve the sensitivity of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-16 R. Alvarez , D. Z. Besson , I. Bikov , J. C. Hanson , A. M. Johannesen , J. Macy , S. Prohira , J. Stockham , M. Stockham , Al. Zheng , Am. Zheng

Radio-based detection of high-energy particles is growing in maturity. In this chapter, we focus on the detection of neutrinos with energies in excess of 10 PeV that interact in the thick, radio-transparent ice found in the polar regions.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-07 Steven Barwick , Christian Glaser

To better understand the effect of ice properties on the capabilities of radio experiments designed to measure ultra-high energy neutrinos (UHEN), we recently considered the timing and amplitude characteristics of radio-frequency (RF)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-16 DaveZ Besson , Ilya Kravchenko , Krishna Nivedita

The ARIANNA detector aims to detect neutrinos with energies above \SI{e16}{eV} by instrumenting 0.5 Teratons of ice with a surface array of a thousand independent radio detector stations in Antarctica. The Antarctic ice is transparent to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-23 Christian Glaser

We present measurements of radio transmission in the $\sim$100 MHz range through a $\sim100$ m deep region below the surface of the ice at Summit Station, Greenland, called the firn. In the firn, the index of refraction changes due to the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 C. Deaconu , A. G. Vieregg , S. A. Wissel , J. Bowen , S. Chipman , A. Gupta , C. Miki , R. J. Nichol , D. Saltzberg

From an elevation of ~38 km, the balloon-borne ANtarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) is designed to detect the up-coming radio frequency (RF) signal resulting from a sub-surface neutrino-nucleon collision. Although no neutrinos have…

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 RICE experiment seeks observation of ultra-high energy (UHE; >100 PeV) neutrinos interacting in Antarctic ice, by measurement of the radiowavelength Cherenkov radiation resulting from the collision of a neutrino with an ice molecule.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-30 Ilya Kravchenko , Dave Seckel , Dave Besson , John Ralston , John Taylor , Ken Ratzlaff , Rob Young

Sensitivity to ultra-high-energy neutrinos ($E>10^{17}$eV) can be obtained cost-efficiently by exploiting the Askaryan effect in ice, where a particle cascade induced by the neutrino interaction produces coherent radio emission that can be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-06 Jakob Beise , Christian Glaser

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

The ARIANNA experiment aims to detect the radio signals of cosmogenic neutrinos. It is running in its pilot phase on the Ross Ice-shelf, and one station has been installed at South Pole. The ARIANNA concept is based on installing high-gain…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-23 Anna Nelles

Radiowave detection of the Cherenkov radiation produced by neutrino-ice collisions requires an understanding of the radiofrequency (RF) response of cold polar ice. We herein report on a series of radioglaciological measurements performed…

The upper $100 \, \mathrm{m}$ to $150 \, \mathrm{m}$ of the polar ice sheet, called the firn, has a time-dependent density due to seasonal variations in the surface temperature and snow accumulation. We present RF simulations of an in-ice…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-18 Alexander Kyriacou , Steven Prohira , Dave Besson

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 Askaryan Radio Array (ARA) is a neutrino experiment at the South Pole, designed to detect radio-frequency emissions produced by interactions of ultra-high energy (UHE) neutrinos with the Antarctic ice. The array consists of five…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-03 Pawan Giri

The Askaryan Radio Array (ARA) experiment at the South Pole is designed to detect high-energy neutrinos which, via in-ice interactions, produce coherent radiation at frequencies up to 1000 MHz. In Dec. 2018, a custom high-amplitude…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 T. M. Jordan , D. Z. Besson , I. Kravchenko , U. Latif , B. Madison , A. Novikov , A. Shultz

Models for the source and propagation of cosmic rays are stressed by observations of cosmic rays with energies $E>10^{20}$ eV. A key discriminant between different models may be complementary observations of neutrinos with energies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 D. Seckel

To detect ultra-high-energy neutrinos, experiments such as the Askaryan Radio Array and the Radio Neutrino Observatory in Greenland target the radio emission induced by these particles as they cascade in the ice. This is done by, amongst…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-20 Simon Chiche , Simona Toscano , Krijn D. de Vries
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