Measurement of acoustic properties of South Pole ice for neutrino astronomy
South Pole ice is predicted to be the best medium for acoustic neutrino detection. Moreover, ice is the only medium in which all three dense-medium detection methods (optical, radio, and acoustic) can be used to monitor the same interaction volume. Events detected in coincidence between two methods...
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ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.0811.1087 2023-05-15T18:21:42+02:00 Measurement of acoustic properties of South Pole ice for neutrino astronomy Vandenbroucke, Justin 2008 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.0811.1087 https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.1087 unknown arXiv https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2009.03.064 arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/ Astrophysics astro-ph FOS Physical sciences article-journal Article ScholarlyArticle Text 2008 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.0811.1087 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2009.03.064 2022-04-01T15:02:10Z South Pole ice is predicted to be the best medium for acoustic neutrino detection. Moreover, ice is the only medium in which all three dense-medium detection methods (optical, radio, and acoustic) can be used to monitor the same interaction volume. Events detected in coincidence between two methods allow significant background rejection confidence, which is necessary to study rare GZK neutrinos. In 2007 and 2008 the South Pole Acoustic Test Setup (SPATS) was installed as a research and development project associated with the IceCube experiment. The purpose of SPATS is to measure the acoustic ice properties at the South Pole in order to determine the feasibility of a future large hybrid array. The deployment and performance of SPATS are described, as are first results and work in progress on the sound speed, background noise, and attenuation. : 8 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, uses elsart5p.cls, to appear in the proceedings of the Acoustic and Radio EeV Neutrino detection Activities (ARENA) 2008 conference Text South pole DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) South Pole |
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South Pole ice is predicted to be the best medium for acoustic neutrino detection. Moreover, ice is the only medium in which all three dense-medium detection methods (optical, radio, and acoustic) can be used to monitor the same interaction volume. Events detected in coincidence between two methods allow significant background rejection confidence, which is necessary to study rare GZK neutrinos. In 2007 and 2008 the South Pole Acoustic Test Setup (SPATS) was installed as a research and development project associated with the IceCube experiment. The purpose of SPATS is to measure the acoustic ice properties at the South Pole in order to determine the feasibility of a future large hybrid array. The deployment and performance of SPATS are described, as are first results and work in progress on the sound speed, background noise, and attenuation. : 8 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, uses elsart5p.cls, to appear in the proceedings of the Acoustic and Radio EeV Neutrino detection Activities (ARENA) 2008 conference |
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Measurement of acoustic properties of South Pole ice for neutrino astronomy |
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