Searching for air showers with RNO-G

Henrichs J, Aguilar JA, Allison P, Besson D, Bishop A, Botner O, Bouma S, Buitink S, Cataldo M, Clark BA, Couberly K, Curtis-Ginsberg Z, Dasgupta P, de Kockere S, de Vries KD, Deaconu C, DuVernois MA, Eimer A, Glaser C, Hallgren A, Hallmann S, Hanson JC, Hendricks B, Henrichs J, Heyer N, Hornhuber C, Hughes K, Karg T, Karle A, Kelley JL, Korntheuer M, Kowalski M, Kravchenko I, Krebs R, Lahmann R, Latif U, Mammo J, Marsee MJ, Meyers Z, Michaels K, Mulrey K, Muzio M, Nelles A, Novikov A, Nozdrina A, Oberla E, Oeyen B, Plaisier I, Punsuebsay N, Pyras LM, Ryckbosch D, Scholten O, Seckel D, Seikh MF, Smith D, Stoffels J, Southall D, Terveer K, Toscano S, Tosi D, Van Den Broeck DJ, van Eijndhoven N, Vieregg AG, Vischer J, Welling C, Williams DR, Wissel S, Young R, Zink A (2023)

Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2023

Journal

PoS - Proceedings of Science SISSA

Publisher: Sissa Medialab Srl

Book Volume: 424

Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of Science

Event location: Santiago de Compostela

Abstract

The Radio Neutrino Observatory - Greenland (RNO-G) is an in-ice neutrino detector, using radio emission to target the first measurement of neutrinos beyond PeV energies. In total 35 stations are planned for the detector, resulting in a detection volume of around 100 km³. Each of these stations is equipped with deep antennas embedded ∼ 100 m into the ice and downward-pointing log-periodic dipole antennas (LPDA) buried ∼ 3 m into the snow. At each station, three additional buried LPDA are pointing towards the sky and thus can be used to look for cosmic-ray induced air-showers. These air showers are a background for the RNO-G detector and therefore important to understand, but they also can be used as a calibration tool. In order to find the air-shower signals, we apply an analysis based on template matching to the data. We present the current status of the analysis targeting the detection of cosmic-rays induced air showers. This includes the presentation of a method to create a complete template set and a first look at RNO-G data.

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Additional Organisation(s)

Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics (ECAP)

Involved external institutions

University of Chicago Uppsala University Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) University of Kansas (KU) Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) / Free University of Brussels Ohio State University University of Wisconsin - Madison Michigan State University University of Nebraska-Lincoln Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) The University of Alabama Radboud University Nijmegen University of Delaware (UDEL) Universiteit Gent (UGent) / Ghent University Whittier College

How to cite

APA:

Henrichs, J., Aguilar, J.A., Allison, P., Besson, D., Bishop, A., Botner, O.,... Zink, A. (2023). Searching for air showers with RNO-G. In Proceedings of Science. Santiago de Compostela, ES: Sissa Medialab Srl.

MLA:

Henrichs, Jakob, et al. "Searching for air showers with RNO-G." Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Acoustic and Radio EeV Neutrino Detection Activities, ARENA 2022, Santiago de Compostela Sissa Medialab Srl, 2023.

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