White Paper: ARIANNA-200 high energy neutrino telescope

A. Anker; P. Baldi; S. W. Barwick; D. Bergman; H. Bernhoff; D. Z. Besson; N. Bingefors; O. Botner; P. Chen; Y. Chen; D. García-Fernández; G. Gaswint; C. Glaser; A. Hallgren; J. C. Hanson; J. J. Huang; S. R. Klein; S. A. Kleinfelder; C. -Y. Kuo; R. Lahmann; U. Latif; T. Liu; Y. Lyu; S. McAleer; J. Nam; A. Novikov; A. Nelles; M. P. Paul; C. Persichilli; I. Plaisier; J. Y. Shiao; J. Tatar; A. van Vliet; S. -H. Wang; Y. -H. Wang; C. Welling

arXiv · 2004.09841

White Paper: ARIANNA-200 high energy neutrino telescope

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The proposed ARIANNA-200 neutrino detector, located at sea-level on the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, consists of 200 autonomous and independent detector stations separated by 1 kilometer in a uniform triangular mesh, and serves as a pathfinder mission for the future IceCube-Gen2 project. The primary science mission of ARIANNA-200 is to search for sources of neutrinos with energies greater than 10^17 eV, complementing the reach of IceCube. An ARIANNA observation of a neutrino source would provide strong insight into the enigmatic sources of cosmic rays. ARIANNA observes the radio emission from high energy neutrino interactions in the Antarctic ice. Among radio based concepts under current investigation, ARIANNA-200 would uniquely survey the vast majority of the southern sky at any instant in time, and an important region of the northern sky, by virtue of its location on the surface of the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. The broad sky coverage is specific to the Moore's Bay site, and makes ARIANNA-200 ideally suited to contribute to the multi-messenger thrust by the US National Science Foundation, Windows on the Universe - Multi-Messenger Astrophysics, providing capabilities to observe explosive sources from unknown directions. The ARIANNA architecture is designed to measure the angular direction to within 3 degrees for every neutrino candidate, which too plays an important role in the pursuit of multi-messenger observations of astrophysical sources.

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A. Anker, P. Baldi, S. W. Barwick, D. Bergman, H. Bernhoff, D. Z. Besson, N. Bingefors, O. Botner, P. Chen, Y. Chen, D. García-Fernández, G. Gaswint, C. Glaser, A. Hallgren, J. C. Hanson, J. J. Huang, S. R. Klein, S. A. Kleinfelder, C. -Y. Kuo, R. Lahmann, U. Latif, T. Liu, Y. Lyu, S. McAleer, J. Nam, A. Novikov, A. Nelles, M. P. Paul, C. Persichilli, I. Plaisier, J. Y. Shiao, J. Tatar, A. van Vliet, S. -H. Wang, Y. -H. Wang, C. Welling. 2020-04-21. White Paper: ARIANNA-200 high energy neutrino telescope. https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.09841

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