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@ARTICLE{Aguilar:485829,
author = {Aguilar, J. A. and Anker, A. and Allison, P. and
Archambault, S. and Baldi, P. and Barwick, S. W. and Beatty,
J. J. and Beise, J. and Besson, D. and Bishop, A. and
Bondarev, E. and Botner, O. and Bouma, S. and Buitink, S.
and Cataldo, M. and Chen, C. C. and Chen, C. H. and Chen, P.
and Chen, Y. C. and Choi, T. and Clark, B. A. and Clay, W.
and Curtis-Ginsberg, Z. and Connolly, A. and Cremonesi, L.
and Dasgupta, P. and Davies, J. and de Kockere, S. and de
Vries, K. D. and Deaconu, C. and DuVernois, M. A. and
Flaherty, J. and Friedman, E. and Gaior, R. and Gaswint, G.
and Glaser, C. and Hallgren, A. and Hallmann, S. and Ham,
Y.-B. and Hanson, J. C. and Harty, N. and Hendricks, B. and
Hoffman, K. D. and Hong, E. and Hornhuber, C. and Hsu, S. Y.
and Hu, L. and Huang, J. J. and Huang, M.-H. and Hughes, K.
and Ishihara, A. and Jee, G. and Jung, J. and Karle, A. and
Kelley, J. L. and Klein, S. R. and Kleinfelder, S. A. and
Kim, J. and Kim, K.-C. and Kim, M.-C. and Kravchenko, I. and
Krebs, R. and Ku, Y. and Kuo, C. Y. and Kurusu, K. and Kwon,
Hyuck-Jin and Lahmann, R. and Landsman, H. and Latif, U. and
Lee, C. and Leung, C.-H. and Li, C.-J. and Liu, J. and Liu,
T.-C. and Lu, M.-Y. and Madison, K. and Mammo, J. and Mase,
K. and McAleer, S. and Meures, T. and Meyers, Z. S. and
Michaels, K. and Mikhailova, M. and Mulrey, K. and Nam, J.
and Nichol, R. J. and Nir, G. and Nelles, A. and Novikov, A.
and Nozdrina, A. and Oberla, E. and Oeyen, B. and Osborn, J.
and Pan, Y. and Pandya, H. and Paul, M. P. and Persichilli,
C. and Pfendner, C. and Plaisier, Ilse and Punsuebsay, N.
and Pyras, L. and Rice-Smith, R. and Roth, J. and Ryckbosch,
D. and Scholten, O. and Seckel, D. and Seikh, M. F. H. and
Shiao, Y.-S. and Shin, B.-K. and Shultz, A. and Smith, D.
and Southall, D. and Tatar, J. and Torres, J. and Toscano,
S. and Tosi, D. and Touart, J. and Van Den Broeck, D. J. and
van Eijndhoven, N. and Varner, G. S. and Vieregg, A. G. and
Wang, M.-Z. and Wang, S.-H. and Wang, Y. H. and Welling, C.
and Williams, D. R. and Wissel, S. and Xie, C. and Yoshida,
S. and Young, R. and Zhao, L. and Zink, A.},
title = {{T}riboelectric backgrounds to radio-based polar ultra-high
energy neutrino ({UHEN}) experiments},
journal = {Astroparticle physics},
volume = {145},
issn = {0927-6505},
address = {Amsterdam [u.a.]},
publisher = {Elsevier Science},
reportid = {PUBDB-2022-06878, arXiv:2103.06079},
pages = {102790},
year = {2023},
abstract = {In the hopes of observing the highest-energy neutrinos (E>1
EeV) populating the Universe, both past (RICE, AURA, ANITA)
and current (RNO-G, ARIANNA, ARA and TAROGE-M) polar-sited
experiments exploit the impulsive radio emission produced by
neutrino interactions. In such experiments, rare single
event candidates must be unambiguously identified above
backgrounds. Background rejection strategies to date
primarily target thermal noise fluctuations and also
impulsive radio-frequency signals of anthropogenic origin.
In this paper, we consider the possibility that ‘fake’
neutrino signals may also be generated naturally via the
‘triboelectric effect.’ This broadly describes any
process in which force applied at a boundary layer results
in displacement of surface charge, leading to the production
of an electrostatic potential difference ΔV. Wind blowing
over granular surfaces such as snow can induce such a
potential difference, with subsequent coronal discharge.
Discharges over timescales as short as nanoseconds can then
lead to radio-frequency emissions at characteristic
MHz–GHz frequencies. Using data from various past (RICE,
AURA, SATRA, ANITA) and current (RNO-G, ARIANNA and ARA)
neutrino experiments, we find evidence for such backgrounds,
which are generally characterized by: (a) a threshold wind
velocity which likely depends on the experimental trigger
criteria and layout; for the experiments considered herein,
this value is typically O(10 m/s), (b) frequency spectra
generally shifted to the low-end of the frequency regime to
which current radio experiments are typically sensitive
(100–200 MHz), (c) for the strongest background signals,
an apparent preference for discharges from above-surface
structures, although the presence of more isotropic, lower
amplitude triboelectric discharges cannot be excluded.},
keywords = {neutrino, UHE (INSPIRE) / cosmic radiation, UHE (INSPIRE) /
potential, electrostatic (INSPIRE) / noise, thermal
(INSPIRE) / neutrino, interaction (INSPIRE) / charge,
surface (INSPIRE) / frequency, spectrum (INSPIRE) /
background (INSPIRE) / ARIANNA (INSPIRE) / ANITA (INSPIRE) /
fluctuation (INSPIRE) / radio wave (INSPIRE) / structure
(INSPIRE) / velocity (INSPIRE) / trigger (INSPIRE) /
Neutrino (autogen) / Ultra-high energy cosmic rays (autogen)
/ Background rejection (autogen) / Triboelectric effect
(autogen)},
cin = {Z-RAD},
ddc = {540},
cid = {I:(DE-H253)Z-RAD-20210408},
pnm = {613 - Matter and Radiation from the Universe (POF4-613)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-613},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-MLZ)NOSPEC-20140101},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000892600400003},
eprint = {2103.06079},
howpublished = {arXiv:2103.06079},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
SLACcitation = {$\%\%CITATION$ = $arXiv:2103.06079;\%\%$},
doi = {10.1016/j.astropartphys.2022.102790},
url = {https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/485829},
}