Radio detection of air showers with the ARIANNA experiment on the Ross Ice Shelf
Abstract
The ARIANNA hexagonal radio array (HRA) is an experiment in its pilot phase designed to detect cosmogenic neutrinos of energies above 1016 eV. The most neutrino-like background stems from the radio emission of air showers. Here this article reports on dedicated efforts of simulating and detecting the signals of cosmic rays. A description of the fully radio self-triggered data-set, the properties of the detected air shower signals in the frequency range of 100–500 MHz and the consequences for neutrino detection are given. 38 air shower signals are identified by their distinct waveform characteristics, are in good agreement with simulations and their signals provide evidence that neutrino-induced radio signals will be distinguishable with high efficiency in ARIANNA. The cosmic ray flux at a mean energy of 6.5$$_{-1.0}^{+1.2} $$×1017 eV is measured to be 1.1$$_{-0.7}^{+1.0} $$ ×10-16 eV-1 km-2 sr-1 yr-1 and one five-fold coincident event is used to illustrate the capabilities of the ARIANNA detector to reconstruct arrival direction and energy of air showers.
- Authors:
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- University of California, Irvine, CA (United States)
- University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (United States); Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow (Russia)
- Uppsala University (Sweden)
- The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (United States)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); University of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC); German Research Foundation (DFG); National Science Foundation (NSF); Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1532237
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1398610
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231; AC-76SF00098; NE2031/1-1; PLR-08339133; PHY-0970175; PLR-1126672; PLR-141366; PHY-1607719; PHY-1607199.
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Astroparticle Physics
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 90; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0927-6505
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; cosmic rays; neutrinos; radio emission
Citation Formats
Barwick, S. W., Besson, D. Z., Burgman, A., Chiem, E., Hallgren, A., Hanson, J. C., Klein, S. R., Kleinfelder, S. A., Nelles, A., Persichilli, C., Phillips, S., Prakash, T., Reed, C., Shively, S. R., Tatar, J., Unger, E., Walker, J., and Yodh, G. Radio detection of air showers with the ARIANNA experiment on the Ross Ice Shelf. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.astropartphys.2017.02.003.
Barwick, S. W., Besson, D. Z., Burgman, A., Chiem, E., Hallgren, A., Hanson, J. C., Klein, S. R., Kleinfelder, S. A., Nelles, A., Persichilli, C., Phillips, S., Prakash, T., Reed, C., Shively, S. R., Tatar, J., Unger, E., Walker, J., & Yodh, G. Radio detection of air showers with the ARIANNA experiment on the Ross Ice Shelf. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2017.02.003
Barwick, S. W., Besson, D. Z., Burgman, A., Chiem, E., Hallgren, A., Hanson, J. C., Klein, S. R., Kleinfelder, S. A., Nelles, A., Persichilli, C., Phillips, S., Prakash, T., Reed, C., Shively, S. R., Tatar, J., Unger, E., Walker, J., and Yodh, G. 2017.
"Radio detection of air showers with the ARIANNA experiment on the Ross Ice Shelf". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2017.02.003. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1532237.
@article{osti_1532237,
title = {Radio detection of air showers with the ARIANNA experiment on the Ross Ice Shelf},
author = {Barwick, S. W. and Besson, D. Z. and Burgman, A. and Chiem, E. and Hallgren, A. and Hanson, J. C. and Klein, S. R. and Kleinfelder, S. A. and Nelles, A. and Persichilli, C. and Phillips, S. and Prakash, T. and Reed, C. and Shively, S. R. and Tatar, J. and Unger, E. and Walker, J. and Yodh, G.},
abstractNote = {The ARIANNA hexagonal radio array (HRA) is an experiment in its pilot phase designed to detect cosmogenic neutrinos of energies above 1016 eV. The most neutrino-like background stems from the radio emission of air showers. Here this article reports on dedicated efforts of simulating and detecting the signals of cosmic rays. A description of the fully radio self-triggered data-set, the properties of the detected air shower signals in the frequency range of 100–500 MHz and the consequences for neutrino detection are given. 38 air shower signals are identified by their distinct waveform characteristics, are in good agreement with simulations and their signals provide evidence that neutrino-induced radio signals will be distinguishable with high efficiency in ARIANNA. The cosmic ray flux at a mean energy of 6.5$_{-1.0}^{+1.2} $×1017 eV is measured to be 1.1$_{-0.7}^{+1.0} $ ×10-16 eV-1 km-2 sr-1 yr-1 and one five-fold coincident event is used to illustrate the capabilities of the ARIANNA detector to reconstruct arrival direction and energy of air showers.},
doi = {10.1016/j.astropartphys.2017.02.003},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1532237},
journal = {Astroparticle Physics},
issn = {0927-6505},
number = C,
volume = 90,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Feb 15 00:00:00 EST 2017},
month = {Wed Feb 15 00:00:00 EST 2017}
}
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