Speaker
Corey Reed
Description
Part of a new generation of neutrino telescopes, the ARIANNA experiment uses low noise, low power and inexpensive technology to search for extremely high energy cosmic neutrinos. The telescope measures the intense radio pulse emitted by the charged particle showers resulting from neutrino interactions in the Ross Ice Shelf of Antarctica. Four stations have been installed in the ice to take both environmental as well as radio pulse data. The stations are powered by solar and wind generators, and data is sent north via wireless
Internet and satellite modem peripherals. The performance of the stations will be discussed, and first results from data taken in Antarctica will be presented. The effectiveness of the Ross Ice Shelf as a radio quiet environment will be examined, the angular precision of the detector will be explored and a first search for neutrino
events will be described.
