Speaker
Dr
Eric Grashorn
(Ohio State University)
Description
The ANITA (ANtarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna)
experiment is a balloon-borne, broadband antenna array flown over the
Antarctic continent, designed to detect coherent Cherenkov emission from cosmogenic neutrinos. It is also sensitive to radio emission from ultra high
energy cosmic rays. The first
ANITA payload completed a 35 day flight during the Austral summer of
2006-2007, observing 16 cosmic rays. Detailed Monte Carlo studies
have revealed that these cosmic rays have energies of order 10^{19}
eV. These cosmic rays comprise the highest energy sample
detected in radio.
Author
Dr
Eric Grashorn
(Ohio State University)
