Development Of A Sub-glacial Radio Telescope For The Detection Of Gzk Neutrinos (springer Theses)

℗ℓThe goal of the project presented in this book is to detect neutrinos created by resonant interactions of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays on the CMB photon field filling the Universe. In this pioneering first analysis, the author puts forward much of the analysis framework, including calibrations of the electronic hardware and antenna geometry, as well as the development of algorithms for event reconstruction and data reduction. While only two of the 37 stations planned for the Askaryan Radio Array were used in this assessment of 10 months of data, the analysis was able to exclude neutrino fluxes above 10 PeV with a limit not far from the best current limit set by the IceCube detector, a result which establishes the radio detection technique as the path forward to achieving the massive volumes needed to detect these ultrahigh energy neutrinos ℗lThe goal of the project presented in this book is to detect neutrinos created by resonant interactions of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays on the CMB photon field filling the Universe. In this pioneering first analysis, the author puts forward much of the analysis framework, including calibrations of the electronic hardware and antenna geometry, as well as the development of algorithms for event reconstruction and data reduction. While only two of the 37 stations planned for the Askaryan Radio Array were used in this assessment of 10 months of data, the analysis was able to exclude neutrino fluxes above 10 PeV with a limit not far from the best current limit set by the IceCube detector, a result which establishes the radio detection technique as the path forward to achieving the massive volumes needed to detect these ultrahigh energy neutrinos Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Introduction....Pages 1-9 Front Matter....Pages 11-11 The GZK Neutrino Flux....Pages 13-23 The Askaryan Effect in Dense Media....Pages 25-34 Front Matter....Pages 35-35 The Askaryan Radio Array (ARA)....Pages 37-57 The Calibration of the Ice Ray Sampler (IRS2) Chip....Pages 59-79 The Calibration of the ARA Station Geometry....Pages 81-92 Front Matter....Pages 93-93 Simulations....Pages 95-100 Algorithms for the ARA Data Analysis....Pages 101-124 Signal Discrimination in the ARA02-ARA03 Data....Pages 125-138 Data Analysis Results....Pages 139-148 Summary and Outlook....Pages 149-154 Back Matter....Pages 155-159