Radio detection of air showers with the ARIANNA experiment on the Ross Ice Shelf

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.

doi:10.1016/j.astropartphys.2017.02.003

Title: Radio detection of air showers with the ARIANNA experiment on the Ross Ice Shelf

Journal Article · Wed Feb 15 00:00:00 EST 2017 · Astroparticle Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2017.02.003· OSTI ID:1532237

Barwick, S. W. ^[1]; Besson, D. Z. ^[2]; Burgman, A. ^[3]; Chiem, E. ^[1]; Hallgren, A. ^[3]; Hanson, J. C. ^[4]; Klein, S. R. ^[5]; Kleinfelder, S. A. ^[1]; Nelles, A. ^[1]; Persichilli, C. ^[1]; Phillips, S. ^[1]; Prakash, T. ^[1]; Reed, C. ^[1]; Shively, S. R. ^[1]; Tatar, J. ^[1]; Unger, E. ^[3]; Walker, J. ^[1]; Yodh, G. ^[1]

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)

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.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC); German Research Foundation (DFG); National Science Foundation (NSF); Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231; AC-76SF00098; NE2031/1-1; PLR-08339133; PHY-0970175; PLR-1126672; PLR-141366; PHY-1607719; PHY-1607199.

OSTI ID:: 1532237

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1398610

Journal Information:: Astroparticle Physics, Vol. 90, Issue C; ISSN 0927-6505

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