The Radar Echo Telescope for Cosmic Rays: Pathfinder Experiment for a Next-Generation Neutrino Observatory
The Radar Echo Telescope for Cosmic Rays (RET-CR) is a recently initiated experiment designed to detect the englacial cascade of a cosmic-ray initiated air shower via in-ice radar, toward the goal of a full-scale, next-generation experiment to detect ultra high energy neutrinos in polar ice. For cos...
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ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.2104.00459 2023-05-15T16:41:05+02:00 The Radar Echo Telescope for Cosmic Rays: Pathfinder Experiment for a Next-Generation Neutrino Observatory Prohira, S. de Vries, K. D. Allison, P. Beatty, J. Besson, D. Connolly, A. Dasgupta, P. Deaconu, C. De Kockere, S. Frikken, D. Hast, C. Santiago, E. Huesca Kuo, C. -Y. Latif, U. A. Lukic, V. Meures, T. Mulrey, K. Nam, J. Nozdrina, A. Oberla, E. Ralston, J. P. Sbrocco, C. Stanley, R. S. Torres, J. Toscano, S. Broeck, D. Van den van Eijndhoven, N. Wissel, S. 2021 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2104.00459 https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.00459 unknown arXiv https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.104.102006 arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/ Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics astro-ph.IM High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena astro-ph.HE High Energy Physics - Experiment hep-ex FOS Physical sciences article-journal Article ScholarlyArticle Text 2021 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2104.00459 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.104.102006 2022-03-10T14:36:28Z The Radar Echo Telescope for Cosmic Rays (RET-CR) is a recently initiated experiment designed to detect the englacial cascade of a cosmic-ray initiated air shower via in-ice radar, toward the goal of a full-scale, next-generation experiment to detect ultra high energy neutrinos in polar ice. For cosmic rays with a primary energy greater than 10 PeV, roughly 10% of an air-shower's energy reaches the surface of a high elevation ice-sheet ($\gtrsim$2 km) concentrated into a radius of roughly 10 cm. This penetrating shower core creates an in-ice cascade many orders of magnitude more dense than the preceding in-air cascade. This dense cascade can be detected via the radar echo technique, where transmitted radio is reflected from the ionization deposit left in the wake of the cascade. RET-CR will test the radar echo method in nature, with the in-ice cascade of a cosmic-ray initiated air-shower serving as a test beam. We present the projected event rate and sensitivity based upon a three part simulation using CORSIKA, GEANT4, and RadioScatter. RET-CR expects $\sim$1 radar echo event per day. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ice Sheet DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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The Radar Echo Telescope for Cosmic Rays (RET-CR) is a recently initiated experiment designed to detect the englacial cascade of a cosmic-ray initiated air shower via in-ice radar, toward the goal of a full-scale, next-generation experiment to detect ultra high energy neutrinos in polar ice. For cosmic rays with a primary energy greater than 10 PeV, roughly 10% of an air-shower's energy reaches the surface of a high elevation ice-sheet ($\gtrsim$2 km) concentrated into a radius of roughly 10 cm. This penetrating shower core creates an in-ice cascade many orders of magnitude more dense than the preceding in-air cascade. This dense cascade can be detected via the radar echo technique, where transmitted radio is reflected from the ionization deposit left in the wake of the cascade. RET-CR will test the radar echo method in nature, with the in-ice cascade of a cosmic-ray initiated air-shower serving as a test beam. We present the projected event rate and sensitivity based upon a three part simulation using CORSIKA, GEANT4, and RadioScatter. RET-CR expects $\sim$1 radar echo event per day. |
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Prohira, S. de Vries, K. D. Allison, P. Beatty, J. Besson, D. Connolly, A. Dasgupta, P. Deaconu, C. De Kockere, S. Frikken, D. Hast, C. Santiago, E. Huesca Kuo, C. -Y. Latif, U. A. Lukic, V. Meures, T. Mulrey, K. Nam, J. Nozdrina, A. Oberla, E. Ralston, J. P. Sbrocco, C. Stanley, R. S. Torres, J. Toscano, S. Broeck, D. Van den van Eijndhoven, N. Wissel, S. |
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Prohira, S. de Vries, K. D. Allison, P. Beatty, J. Besson, D. Connolly, A. Dasgupta, P. Deaconu, C. De Kockere, S. Frikken, D. Hast, C. Santiago, E. Huesca Kuo, C. -Y. Latif, U. A. Lukic, V. Meures, T. Mulrey, K. Nam, J. Nozdrina, A. Oberla, E. Ralston, J. P. Sbrocco, C. Stanley, R. S. Torres, J. Toscano, S. Broeck, D. Van den van Eijndhoven, N. Wissel, S. |
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The Radar Echo Telescope for Cosmic Rays: Pathfinder Experiment for a Next-Generation Neutrino Observatory |
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The Radar Echo Telescope for Cosmic Rays: Pathfinder Experiment for a Next-Generation Neutrino Observatory |
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The Radar Echo Telescope for Cosmic Rays: Pathfinder Experiment for a Next-Generation Neutrino Observatory |
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The Radar Echo Telescope for Cosmic Rays: Pathfinder Experiment for a Next-Generation Neutrino Observatory |
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The Radar Echo Telescope for Cosmic Rays: Pathfinder Experiment for a Next-Generation Neutrino Observatory |
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radar echo telescope for cosmic rays: pathfinder experiment for a next-generation neutrino observatory |
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