In situ, broadband measurement of the radio frequency attenuation length at Summit Station, Greenland

Aguilar JA, Allison P, Beatty JJ, Besson D, Bishop A, Botner O, Bouma S, Buitink S, Cataldo M, Clark BA, Curtis-Ginsberg Z, Connolly A, Dasgupta P, De Kockere S, De Vries KD, Deaconu C, Duvernois MA, Glaser C, Hallgren A, Hallmann S, Hanson JC, Hendricks B, Hornhuber C, Hughes K, Karle A, Kelley JL, Kravchenko , Mulrey K, Nelles A, Novikov A, Nozdrina A, Oberla E, Oeyen B, Pan Y, Pandya H, Plaisier I, Punsuebsay N, Pyras LM, Ryckbosch D, Scholten O, Seckel D, Seikh MFH, Smith D, Southall D, Torres J, Toscano S, Tosi D, Van Den Broeck DJ, Van Eijndhoven N, Vieregg AG, Welling C, Williams DR, Wissel S, Young R, Zink A, Krebs R, Lahmann R, Latifll U, Mammo J, Meyers Z, Michaels K (2022)

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2022

Journal

DOI: 10.1017/jog.2022.40

Abstract

Over the last 25 years, radiowave detection of neutrino-generated signals, using cold polar ice as the neutrino target, has emerged as perhaps the most promising technique for detection of extragalactic ultra-high energy neutrinos (corresponding to neutrino energies in excess of 0.01 Joules, or 10(17) electron volts). During the summer of 2021 and in tandem with the initial deployment of the Radio Neutrino Observatory in Greenland (RNO-G), we conducted radioglaciological measurements at Summit Station, Greenland to refine our understanding of the ice target. We report the result of one such measurement, the radio-frequency electric field attenuation length L-alpha. We find an approximately linear dependence of L-alpha on frequency with the best fit of the average field attenuation for the upper 1500 m of ice: < L-alpha > = ((1154 +/- 121) - (0.81 +/- 0.14) (v/MHz)) m for frequencies v is an element of [145 - 3501 MHz.

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Universiteit Gent (UGent) / Ghent University Belgium (BE) Ohio State University United States (USA) (US) Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) United States (USA) (US) University of Wisconsin - Madison United States (USA) (US) University of Kansas (KU) United States (USA) (US) Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) / Free University of Brussels Belgium (BE) Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) Belgium (BE) University of Chicago United States (USA) (US) University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) United States (USA) (US) University of Delaware (UDEL) United States (USA) (US) University of Nebraska-Lincoln United States (USA) (US) Uppsala University Sweden (SE) Whittier College United States (USA) (US) Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY Germany (DE) Michigan State University United States (USA) (US) Radboud University Nijmegen Netherlands (NL)

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APA:

Aguilar, J.A., Allison, P., Beatty, J.J., Besson, D., Bishop, A., Botner, O.,... Michaels, K. (2022). In situ, broadband measurement of the radio frequency attenuation length at Summit Station, Greenland. Journal of Glaciology. https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jog.2022.40

MLA:

Aguilar, J. A., et al. "In situ, broadband measurement of the radio frequency attenuation length at Summit Station, Greenland." Journal of Glaciology (2022).

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