Simulation of radio signals from cosmic-ray cascades in air and ice as observed by in-ice Askaryan radio detectors ...

• Main Authors: De Kockere, Simon, Broeck, Dieder Van den, Latif, Uzair Abdul, de Vries, Krijn D., van Eijndhoven, Nick, Huege, Tim, Buitink, Stijn
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: arXiv 2024
• Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena astro-ph.HE; Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics astro-ph.IM; FOS Physical sciences; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2403.15358; https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15358

A new generation of neutrino observatories will search for PeV-EeV neutrinos interacting in the ice by detecting radio pulses. Extended air showers propagating into the ice will form an important background and could be a valuable calibration signal. We present results from a Monte-Carlo simulation framework developed to fully simulate radio emission from cosmic-ray particle cascades as observed by in-ice radio detectors in the polar regions. The framework involves a modified version of CoREAS (a module of CORSIKA 7) to simulate in-air radio emission and a GEANT4-based framework for simulating in-ice radio emission from cosmic-ray showers as observed by in-ice antennas. The particles that reach the surface of the polar ice sheet at the end of the CORSIKA 7 simulation are injected into the GEANT4-based shower simulation code that takes the particles and propagates them further into the ice sheet, using an exponential density profile for the ice. The framework takes into account curved ray paths caused by the ... : 18 pages, 18 figures ...