Speaker
Stijn Buitink
(Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
Description
Detection of ultra-high-energy neutrinos requires vast natural
detector volumes of ice or rock. The Moon itself is the largest
detector mass available. Earthbound radio telescopes can search the
Lunar surface for radio flashes, produced by neutrinos through the
Askaryan mechanism. A new generation of low-frequency, digital radio
arrays, spearheaded by LOFAR, will allow for searches of unprecedented
sensitivity.
The NuMoon program aims to use LOFAR to search the Moon for neutrino or cosmic-ray induced radio flashes. In this talk I will present the progress that is being made to prepare the instrument for NuMoon science runs, and discuss the experimental challenges and expected sensitivity.
Author
Stijn Buitink
(Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
