TY - JOUR
T1 - Investigating signal properties of UHE particles using in-ice radar for the RET experiment
AU - The Radar Echo Telescope Collaboration
AU - Van den Broeck, Dieder
AU - Santiago, Enrique Huesca
AU - Latif, Uzair
AU - Lukic, Vesna
AU - Prohira, S.
AU - de Vries, K. D.
AU - Allison, P.
AU - Beatty, J.
AU - Besson, D.
AU - Connolly, A.
AU - Dasgupta, P.
AU - Deaconu, C.
AU - De Kockere, S.
AU - Frikken, D.
AU - Hast, C.
AU - Huesca Santiago, E.
AU - Kuo, C. Y.
AU - Latif, U. A.
AU - Lukic, V.
AU - Meures, T.
AU - Mulrey, K.
AU - Nam, J.
AU - Nozdrina, A.
AU - Oberla, E.
AU - Ralston, J. P.
AU - Sbrocco, C.
AU - Stanley, R. S.
AU - Torres, J.
AU - Toscano, S.
AU - Van den Broeck, D.
AU - van Eijndhoven, N.
AU - Wissel, S.
N1 - Funding Information:
RET-CR is supported by the National Science Foundation under award numbers NSF/PHY-2012980 and NSF/PHY-2012989. This work is also supported by the Flemish Foundation for Scientific Research FWO-12ZD920N, the European Research Council under the EU-ropean Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 805486), and the Belgian Funds for Scientific Research (FRS-FNRS). A. Connolly acknowledges support from NSF Award #1806923. S. Wissel was supported by NSF CAREER Awards #1752922 and #2033500. DZB is grateful for support from the U.S. National Science Foundation-EPSCoR (RII Track-2 FEC, award ID 2019597). We express our gratitude to R. Dallier, L. Martin, J-L. Beney and the CODALEMA experiment for providing electronics and hardware to be used in the surface radio stations of RET-CR. Computing resources were provided by the Ohio Supercomputer Center.
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PY - 2022/3/18
Y1 - 2022/3/18
N2 - The Radar Echo Telescope (RET) experiment plans to use the radar technique to detect Ultra-High Energy (UHE) cosmic rays and neutrinos in the polar ice sheets. Whenever an UHE particle collides with an ice molecule, it produces a shower of relativistic particles, which leaves behind an ionization trail. Radio waves can be reflected off this trail and be detected in antennas. It is critical to understand such a radar signal’s key properties as that will allow us to do vertex, angular and energy reconstruction of the primary UHE particle. We will discuss various simulation methods, which will fundamentally rely on ray tracing, to recreate the radar signal and test our reconstruction methods.
AB - The Radar Echo Telescope (RET) experiment plans to use the radar technique to detect Ultra-High Energy (UHE) cosmic rays and neutrinos in the polar ice sheets. Whenever an UHE particle collides with an ice molecule, it produces a shower of relativistic particles, which leaves behind an ionization trail. Radio waves can be reflected off this trail and be detected in antennas. It is critical to understand such a radar signal’s key properties as that will allow us to do vertex, angular and energy reconstruction of the primary UHE particle. We will discuss various simulation methods, which will fundamentally rely on ray tracing, to recreate the radar signal and test our reconstruction methods.
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85145020178
SN - 1824-8039
VL - 395
JO - Proceedings of Science
JF - Proceedings of Science
M1 - 1211
T2 - 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2021
Y2 - 12 July 2021 through 23 July 2021
ER -