Journal Article

PUBDB-2022-01805

http://join2-wiki.gsi.de/foswiki/pub/Main/Artwork/join2_logo100x88.png Reconstructing the neutrino energy for in-ice radio detectors: A study for the Radio Neutrino Observatory Greenland (RNO-G)

Aguilar, J. A. ; Allison, P. ; Beatty, J. J. ; Bernhoff, H. ; Besson, D.Extern* ; Bingefors, N. ; Botner, O. ; Bouma, S. ; Buitink, S. ; Carter, K. ; Cataldo, M. ; Clark, B. A. ; Curtis-Ginsberg, Z. ; Connolly, A. ; Dasgupta, P. ; de Kockere, S. ; de Vries, K. D. ; Deaconu, C. ; DuVernois, M. A. ; Glaser, C.Extern* ; Hallgren, A. ; Hallmann, S.Extern*DESY* ; Hanson, J. C. ; Hendricks, B. ; Hokanson-Fasig, B. ; Hornhuber, C. ; Hughes, K. ; Karle, A. ; Kelley, J. L. ; Klein, S. R. ; Krebs, R. ; Lahmann, R. ; Latif, U. ; Magnuson, M. ; Meures, T. ; Meyers, Z. S.Extern*DESY* ; Mulrey, K. ; Nelles, A.Extern*DESY* ; Novikov, A. ; Oberla, E. ; Oeyen, B. ; Pandya, H. ; Plaisier, I.DESY* ; Pyras, L.DESY* ; Ryckbosch, D. ; Scholten, O. ; Seckel, D. ; Smith, D. ; Southall, D. ; Torres, J. ; Toscano, S. ; Tosi, D.Extern* ; Broeck, D. J. V. D. ; van Eijndhoven, N. ; Vieregg, A. G. ; Welling, C. (Corresponding author)DESY* ; Wissel, S. ; Young, R. ; Zink, A.

2022
Springer Heidelberg

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Please use a persistent id in citations: doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10034-4

Report No.: arXiv:2107.02604

Abstract: Since summer 2021, the Radio Neutrino Observatory in Greenland (RNO-G) is searching for astrophysical neutrinos at energies ${>10}$ PeV by detecting the radio emission from particle showers in the ice around Summit Station, Greenland. We present an extensive simulation study that shows how RNO-G will be able to measure the energy of such particle cascades, which will in turn be used to estimate the energy of the incoming neutrino that caused them. The location of the neutrino interaction is determined using the differences in arrival times between channels and the electric field of the radio signal is reconstructed using a novel approach based on Information Field Theory. Based on these properties, the shower energy can be estimated. We show that this method can achieve an uncertainty of 13% on the logarithm of the shower energy after modest quality cuts and estimate how this can constrain the energy of the neutrino. The method presented in this paper is applicable to all similar radio neutrino detectors, such as the proposed radio array of IceCube-Gen2.

Keyword(s): neutrino: energy ; showers: energy ; neutrino: interaction ; neutrino: detector ; radio wave ; observatory ; ice ; IceCube ; cascade ; electric field ; quality

Note: 23 pages, 20 figures, version accepted at EPJ-C

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Contributing Institute(s):

1. IceCube+NG (Z_ICE)
2. RADIO (Z-RAD)

Research Program(s):

1. 613 - Matter and Radiation from the Universe (POF4-613) (POF4-613)
2. RadNu - Radio detection of the PeV - EeV cosmic-neutrino flux (805486) (805486)

Experiment(s):

1. IceCube South Pole Neutrino Observatory

Appears in the scientific report 2022

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