Overview of the ANITA project

The ANITA project is designed to investigate ultra-high energy (>10^17 eV) cosmic ray interactions throughout the universe by detecting the neutrinos created in those interactions. These high energy neutrinos are detectable through their interactions within the Antarctic ice sheet, which ANITA wi...

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Main Authors: Liewer, K., Barwick, S., Beatty, J., Besson, D., Clem, J., Coutu, S., DuVernois, M., Evenson, P., Gorham, P., Halzen, F., Jacobson, A., Kieda, D., Learned, J., Liewer, K. M., Lowe, S., Naudet, C., Odian, A., Saltzberg, D., Seckel, D.
Language:English
Published: 2004
Subjects:
ANITA high energy neutrinos Antarctica balloon
Antarctic
The Antarctic
Antarc*
Antarctica
Ice Sheet
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2014/9793
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Summary:The ANITA project is designed to investigate ultra-high energy (>10^17 eV) cosmic ray interactions throughout the universe by detecting the neutrinos created in those interactions. These high energy neutrinos are detectable through their interactions within the Antarctic ice sheet, which ANITA will use as a detector target that effectively converts the neutrino interactions to radio pulses. This paper will give an overview of the project including scientific objectives, detection description and mission design.

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