Drilling deep in South Pole Ice
To detect the tiny flux of ultra-high energy neutrinos from active galactic nuclei or from interactions of highest energy cosmic rays with the microwave background photons needs target masses of the order of several hundred cubic kilometers. Clear Antarctic ice has been discussed as a favorable mate...
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| description | To detect the tiny flux of ultra-high energy neutrinos from active galactic nuclei or from interactions of highest energy cosmic rays with the microwave background photons needs target masses of the order of several hundred cubic kilometers. Clear Antarctic ice has been discussed as a favorable material for hybrid detection of optical, radio and acoustic signals from ultra-high energy neutrino interactions. To apply these technologies at the adequate scale hundreds of holes have to be drilled in the ice down to depths of about 2500 m to deploy the corresponding sensors. To do this on a reasonable time scale is impossible with presently available tools. Remote drilling and deployment schemes have to be developed to make such a detector design reality. After a short discussion of the status of modern hot water drilling we present here a design of an autonomous melting probe, tested 50 years ago to reach a depth of about 1000 m in Greenland ice. A scenario how to build such a probe today with modern technologies is sketched. A first application of such probes could be the deployment of calibration equipment at any required position in the ice, to study its optical, radio and acoustic transmission properties. : 4 pages, 3 figures, contribution to the Workshop ARENA2014, June 9-12 2014, Annapolis |
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| spelling | ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.1410.5267 2025-01-16T19:21:37+00:00 Drilling deep in South Pole Ice Karg, Timo Nahnhauer, Rolf 2014 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1410.5267 https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.5267 unknown arXiv arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/ Instrumentation and Detectors physics.ins-det Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics astro-ph.IM FOS Physical sciences Preprint Article article CreativeWork 2014 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1410.5267 2022-04-01T12:46:34Z To detect the tiny flux of ultra-high energy neutrinos from active galactic nuclei or from interactions of highest energy cosmic rays with the microwave background photons needs target masses of the order of several hundred cubic kilometers. Clear Antarctic ice has been discussed as a favorable material for hybrid detection of optical, radio and acoustic signals from ultra-high energy neutrino interactions. To apply these technologies at the adequate scale hundreds of holes have to be drilled in the ice down to depths of about 2500 m to deploy the corresponding sensors. To do this on a reasonable time scale is impossible with presently available tools. Remote drilling and deployment schemes have to be developed to make such a detector design reality. After a short discussion of the status of modern hot water drilling we present here a design of an autonomous melting probe, tested 50 years ago to reach a depth of about 1000 m in Greenland ice. A scenario how to build such a probe today with modern technologies is sketched. A first application of such probes could be the deployment of calibration equipment at any required position in the ice, to study its optical, radio and acoustic transmission properties. : 4 pages, 3 figures, contribution to the Workshop ARENA2014, June 9-12 2014, Annapolis Report Antarc* Antarctic Greenland South pole South pole DataCite Antarctic Greenland South Pole |
| spellingShingle | Instrumentation and Detectors physics.ins-det Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics astro-ph.IM FOS Physical sciences Karg, Timo Nahnhauer, Rolf Drilling deep in South Pole Ice |
| title | Drilling deep in South Pole Ice |
| title_full | Drilling deep in South Pole Ice |
| title_fullStr | Drilling deep in South Pole Ice |
| title_full_unstemmed | Drilling deep in South Pole Ice |
| title_short | Drilling deep in South Pole Ice |
| title_sort | drilling deep in south pole ice |
| topic | Instrumentation and Detectors physics.ins-det Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics astro-ph.IM FOS Physical sciences |
| topic_facet | Instrumentation and Detectors physics.ins-det Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics astro-ph.IM FOS Physical sciences |
| url | https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1410.5267 https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.5267 |