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Detection of high-energy neutrinos via the radio technique allows for an exploration of the neutrino energy range from $\sim10^{16}$\~eV to $\sim10^{20}$\~eV with unprecedented precision. These Askaryan detectors have matured in two pilot…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-07 Christian Glaser

We present the first direct experimental evidence for the charge excess in high energy particle showers predicted nearly 40 years ago by Askaryan. We directed bremsstrahlung photons from picosecond pulses of 28.5 GeV electrons at the SLAC…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-10-31 David Saltzberg , Peter Gorham , Dieter Walz , Clive Field , Richard Iverson , Allen Odian , George Resch , Paul Schoessow , Dawn Williams

To detect ultra-high-energy neutrinos, experiments such as ARA and RNO-G target the radio emission induced by these particles as they cascade in the ice, using deep in-ice antennas at the South Pole or in Greenland. In this context, it is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-13 Simon Chiche , Krijn D. de Vries , Simona Toscano

The radio approach for detecting the ultra-high energy cosmic neutrinos has become a mature field. The Cherenkov signals in radio detection are originated from the charge excess of particle showers due to Askaryan effect. The conventional…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-02-01 Chia-Yu Hu , Chih-Ching Chen , Pisin Chen

High energy particle showers produce coherent Cherenkov radio emission in dense, radio-transparent media such as cold ice. Using PYTHIA and GEANT simulation tools, we make a comparative study among electromagnetic (EM) and hadronic showers…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Shahid Hussain , Douglas W. McKay

We have found a radio-wave-reflection effect in rock salt for the detection of ultra-high energy neutrinos which are expected to be generated in Greisen, Zatsepin, and Kuzmin (GZK) processes in the universe. When an UHE neutrino interacts…

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

Cosmic rays are messengers from highly energetic events in the Universe. These rare ultra-high-energy particles can be detected efficiently and in an affordable way using large arrays of radio antennas. Linearly polarized geomagnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-16 Ek Narayan Paudel , Alan Coleman , Frank G. Schroeder

PeV neutrinos produce particle showers when they interact with the atomic nuclei in ice. We briefly describe characteristics of these showers and the radio Cherenkov signal produced by the showers. We study pulses from electromagnetic (em),…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Shahid Hussain , Douglas W. McKay

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

Using detailed Monte Carlo simulations we have characterized the features of the radio emission of inclined air showers in the Ultra-High Frequency band (300 MHz - 3 GHz). The Fourier-spectrum of the radiation is shown to have a sizable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-09 Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz , Washington R. Carvalho , Andrés Romero-Wolf , Matías Tueros , Enrique Zas

The Askaryan Radio Array (ARA) is a five-station, in-ice radio detector located at the South Pole searching for particle cascades from cosmogenic and astrophysical neutrinos with $\geq10^{17}$ eV of energy. Cascades in this energy regime…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-23 Abigail Bishop , Alan Salcedo Gomez , Marco Stein Muzio

We present an approximation for the numerical calculation of Cherenkov radio pulses in the Fraunhofer limit from very high energy showers in dense media. We compare it to full Montecarlo simulations in ice studying its range of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-30 J. Alvarez-Muñiz , R. A. Vázquez , E. Zas

Over the last years, radio detection has matured to become a competitive method for the detection of air showers. Arrays of thousands of antennas are now envisioned for the detection of cosmic rays of ultra high energy or neutrinos of…

We report on studies of the viability and sensitivity of the Askaryan Radio Array (ARA), a new initiative to develop a Teraton-scale ultra-high energy neutrino detector in deep, radio-transparent ice near Amundsen-Scott station at the South…

The Askaryan Radio Array (ARA), located near the South Pole, is among the first experiments there designed to detect ultra-high energy neutrinos through the Askaryan effect. When such neutrinos interact in dense media like ice, they…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-26 Mohammad Ful Hossain Seikh , Dave Besson , Pawan Giri

The CORSIKA program, usually used to simulate extensive cosmic ray air showers, has been adapted to work in a water or ice medium. The adapted CORSIKA code was used to simulate hadronic showers produced by neutrino interactions. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 S. Bevan , S. Danaher , J. Perkin , S. Ralph , C. Rhodes , L. Thompson , T. Sloan , D. Waters