Triboelectric backgrounds to radio-based polar ultra-high energy neutrino (UHEN) experiments

Aguilar JA, Anker A, Allison P, Archambault S, Baldi P, Barwick SW, Beatty JJ, Beise J, Besson D, Bishop A, Bondarev E, Botner O, Bouma S, Buitink S, Cataldo M, Chen CC, Chen CH, Chen P, Chen YC, Choi T, Clark BA, Clay W, Curtis-Ginsberg Z, Connolly A, Cremonesi L, Dasgupta P, Davies J, De Kockere S, De Vries KD, Deaconu C, Duvernois MA, Flaherty J, Friedman E, Gaior R, Gaswint G, Glaser C, Hallgren A, Hallmann S, Ham YB, Hanson JC, Harty N, Hendricks B, Hoffman KD, Hong E, Hornhuber C, Hsu SY, Hu L, Huang JJ, Huang MH, Hughes K, Ishihara A, Jee G, Jung J, Karle A, Kelley JL, Klein SR, Kleinfelder SA, Kim J, Kim KC, Kim MC, Kravchenko I, Krebs R, Ku Y, Kuo CY, Kurusu K, Kwon HJ, Lahmann R, Landsman H, Latif U, Lee C, Leung CH, Li CJ, Liu J, Liu TC, Lu MY, Madison K, Mammo J, Mase K, Mcaleer S, Meures T, Meyers Z, Michaels K, Mikhailova M, Mulrey K, Nam J, Nichol RJ, Nir G, Nelles A, Novikov A, Nozdrina A, Oberla E, Oeyen B, Osborn J, Pan Y, Pandya H, Paul MP, Persichilli C, Pfendner C, Plaisier I, Punsuebsay N, Pyras LM, Rice-Smith R, Roth J, Ryckbosch D, Scholten O, Seckel D, Seikh MFH, Shiao YS, Shin BK, Shultz A, Smith D, Southall D, Tatar J, Torres J, Toscano S, Tosi D, Touart J, Van Den Broeck DJ, Van Eijndhoven N, Varner GS, Vieregg AG, Wang MZ, Wang SH, Wang YH, Welling C, Williams DR, Wissel S, Xie C, Yoshida S, Young R, Zhao L, Zink A (2023)

Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2023

Journal

Book Volume: 145

Article Number: 102790

DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2022.102790

Abstract

In the hopes of observing the highest-energy neutrinos (E> 1 EeV) populating the Universe, both past (RICE, AURA, ANITA) and current (RNO-G, ARIANNA, ARA and TAROGE-M) polar-sited experiments exploit the impulsive radio emission produced by neutrino interactions. In such experiments, rare single event candidates must be unambiguously identified above backgrounds. Background rejection strategies to date primarily target thermal noise fluctuations and also impulsive radio-frequency signals of anthropogenic origin. In this paper, we consider the possibility that 'fake' neutrino signals may also be generated naturally via the `triboelectric effect' This broadly describes any process in which force applied at a boundary layer results in displacement of surface charge, leading to the production of an electrostatic potential difference AV. Wind blowing over granular surfaces such as snow can induce such a potential difference, with subsequent coronal discharge. Discharges over timescales as short as nanoseconds can then lead to radio-frequency emissions at characteristic MHz-GHz frequencies.

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National Taiwan University (NTU) Taiwan (TW) Chiba University / 千葉大学 Japan (JP) Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI) / 한국극지연구소 Korea, Republic of (KR) Weizmann Institute of Science Israel (IL) Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) Belgium (BE) Korea University of Science and Technology (UST) / 과학기술연합대학원대학교 Korea, Republic of (KR) University of Wisconsin - Madison United States (USA) (US) University College London (UCL) United Kingdom (GB) Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) / Free University of Brussels Belgium (BE) University of Chicago United States (USA) (US) University of California Irvine United States (USA) (US) Ohio State University United States (USA) (US) Uppsala University Sweden (SE) Michigan State University United States (USA) (US) University of Kansas (KU) United States (USA) (US) Whittier College United States (USA) (US) University of Delaware (UDEL) United States (USA) (US) Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) United States (USA) (US) University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) United States (USA) (US) Chungnam National University (CNU) Korea, Republic of (KR) University of Nebraska-Lincoln United States (USA) (US) Radboud University Nijmegen Netherlands (NL) Universiteit Gent (UGent) / Ghent University Belgium (BE) Denison University United States (USA) (US) University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa United States (USA) (US) University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) United States (USA) (US) Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY Germany (DE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) United States (USA) (US)

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APA:

Aguilar, J.A., Anker, A., Allison, P., Archambault, S., Baldi, P., Barwick, S.W.,... Zink, A. (2023). Triboelectric backgrounds to radio-based polar ultra-high energy neutrino (UHEN) experiments. Astroparticle Physics, 145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2022.102790

MLA:

Aguilar, J. A., et al. "Triboelectric backgrounds to radio-based polar ultra-high energy neutrino (UHEN) experiments." Astroparticle Physics 145 (2023).

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