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Development of a Sub-glacial Radio Telescope for the Detection of GZK Neutrinos

By Thomas Meures (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Year
2015
ISBN
978-3-319-18755-6, 978-3-319-18756-3
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-18756-3
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9711616 bytes)
Series
Springer Theses
Edition
1
Pages
159\165
Time added
2015-07-18 18:00:00
Beam Physics; Astrophysics and Astroparticles; MeaParticle Acceleration and Detection

Description

The goal of the project presented in this book is to detect neutrinos created by resonant interactions of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays on the CMB photon field filling the Universe. In this pioneering first analysis, the author puts forward much of the analysis framework, including calibrations of the electronic hardware and antenna geometry, as well as the development of algorithms for event reconstruction and data reduction. While only two of the 37 stations planned for the Askaryan Radio Array were used in this assessment of 10 months of data, the analysis was able to exclude neutrino fluxes above 10 PeV with a limit not far from the best current limit set by the IceCube detector, a result which establishes the radio detection technique as the path forward to achieving the massive volumes needed to detect these ultrahigh energy neutrinos.

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