Speaker
Description
The Askaryan Radio Array (ARA) is a gigaton size neutrino radio telescope located at the near geographic South Pole. ARA has five independent stations designed to detect Askaryan emission coming from the interaction between ultra-high energy neutrinos ( > 10 PeV ) and Antarctic ice. Each station corresponds of 16 antenna clusters deployed in a matrix shape under ~200 m deep in the ice. The simulated neutrino template, including the detector response model, was implemented as a new search technique for reducing background noise and increasing the vertex reconstruction resolution. The template is designed to scan through the data by the matched filter method, inspired by LIGO, looking for a low SNR neutrino signature and ultimately aiming to lower the detector's energy threshold. I will present the estimated sensitivity improvements to ARA analyses through the application of the template technique with results from simulation and data.
Keywords
Template: Matched filter; ARA; Askaryan Radio Array; UHE Neutrinos; Neutrinos; Astrophysics; South Pole; Askaryan; Antenna; Radio; Sensitivity; Analysis
| Subcategory | Experimental Results |
|---|---|
| Collaboration | other (fill field below) |
| other Collaboration | ARA |
