Design and Sensitivity of the Radio Neutrino Observatory in Greenland (RNO-G)

• Published in: Journal of Instrumentation
• Main Authors: Aguilar, J. A., Allison, P., Connolly, A., Dasgupta, P., De Kockere, S., De Vries, K. D., Deaconu, C., Duvernois, M. A., Feigl, N., García-Fernández, D., Glaser, C., Hallgren, A., Beatty, J. J., Hallmann, Steffen, Hanson, J. C., Hendricks, B., Hokanson-Fasig, B., Hornhuber, C., Hughes, K., Karle, A., Kelley, J. L., Klein, S. R., Krebs, R., Bernhoff, H., Lahmann, R., Magnuson, M., Meures, T., Meyers, Zachary Samuel, Nelles, A., Novikov, A., Oberla, E., Oeyen, B., Pandya, H., Plaisier, Ilse, Besson, D., Pyras, Lilly, Ryckbosch, D., Scholten, O., Seckel, D., Smith, D., Southall, D., Torres, J., Toscano, S., Van Den Broeck, D. J., Van Eijndhoven, N., Bingefors, N., Vieregg, A. G., Welling, Christoph, Wissel, S., Young, R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Inst. of Physics 2021
• Subjects: info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/610; sensitivity; observatory; hardware; cascade; ice; radio wave: detector; neutrino; Greenland
• Online Access: https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/456634; https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/search?p=id:%22PUBDB-2021-01574%22

This article presents the design of the Radio Neutrino Observatory Greenland (RNO-G) and discusses its scientific prospects. Using an array of radio sensors, RNO-G seeks to measure neutrinos above 10 PeV by exploiting the Askaryan effect in neutrino-induced cascades in ice. We discuss the experimental considerations that drive the design of RNO-G, present first measurements of the hardware that is to be deployed and discuss the projected sensitivity of the instrument. RNO-G will be the first production-scale radio detector for in-ice neutrino signals.