Hardware development for the Radio Neutrino Observatory in Greenland (RNO-G)

• Published in: Proceedings of 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2021)
• Main Authors: Smith, Daniel, Aguilar, Juan A., Allison, Patrick, Beatty, James J., Bernhoff, Hans, Besson, David Zeke, Bingefors, Nils, Botner, Olga, Bouma, Sjoerd, Buitink, Stijn, Carter, Katie, Cataldo, Maddalena, Clark, Brian A., Curtis-Ginsberg, Zachary, Connolly, Amy L., Dasgupta, Paramita, De Kockere, Simon, de Vries, Krijn D., Deaconu, Cosmin, DuVernois, Michael A., Glaser, Christian, Hallgren, Allan, Hallmann, Steffen, Hanson, Jordan C., Hendricks, Bryan, Hokanson-Fasig, Benjamin, Hornhuber, Christian, Hughes, Kaeli, Karle, Albrecht, Kelley, John L., Klein, Spencer R., Krebs, Ryan, Lahmann, Robert, Latif, Uzair Abdul, Magnuson, Mitchell, Meures, Thomas, Meyers, Zachary S., Mulrey, Katharine, Nelles, Anna, Novikov, Alexander, Oberla, Eric, Oeyen, Bob, Pandya, Hershal, Plaisier, Ilse, Pyras, Lilly, Ryckbosch, Dirk, Scholten, Olaf, Seckel, David, Smith, D., Southall, Daniel, Torres, Jorge, Toscano, Simona, Tosi, Delia, Van Den Broeck, Dieder J., van Eijndhoven, Nick, Vieregg, Abigail G., Welling, Christoph, Wissel, Stephanie, Young, Robert, Zink, Adrian, Rno-g, missing
• Other Authors: Keilhauer, B, Kappes, A
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: POS 2022
• Subjects: Physics and Astronomy; Greenland
• Online Access: https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8716298; http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8716298; https://doi.org/10.22323/1.395.1058; https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8716298/file/8716299

The Radio Neutrino Observatory in Greenland (RNO-G) is designed to make the first observations of ultra-high energy neutrinos at energies above 10 PeV, playing a unique role in multi-messenger astrophysics as the world's largest in-ice Askaryan radio detection array. The experiment will be composed of 35 autonomous stations deployed over a 5 x 6 km grid near NSF Summit Station in Greenland. The electronics chain of each station is optimized for sensitivity and low power, incorporating 150 - 600 MHz RF antennas at both the surface and in ice boreholes, low-noise amplifiers, custom RF-over-fiber systems, and an FPGA-based phased array trigger. Each station will consume 25 W of power, allowing for a live time of ~70% from a solar power system. The communications system is composed of a high-bandwidth LTE network and an ultra-low power LoRaWAN network. I will also present on the calibration and DAQ systems, as well as status of the first deployment of 10 stations in Summer 2021.