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@PHDTHESIS{Bouma:638549,
      author       = {Bouma, Sjoerd},
      othercontributors = {Nelles, Anna and Kampert, Karl-Heinz},
      title        = {{D}irection {R}econstruction of {R}adio {S}ignals in
                      {N}eutrino {D}etectors in {I}ce},
      school       = {Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg},
      type         = {Dissertation},
      publisher    = {Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)},
      reportid     = {PUBDB-2025-04103},
      pages        = {150},
      year         = {2025},
      note         = {Dissertation, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität
                      Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2025},
      abstract     = {One of the major outstanding questions in astroparticle
                      physics is the origin of ultra-high energy cosmic rays.
                      Because charged cosmic rays are deflected by (inter)galactic
                      magnetic fields, they do not point back to their sources,
                      and photons are scattered by the low-energy background
                      radiation that is present throughout the universe. This
                      leaves neutrinos as the prime messenger to identify the
                      sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays. Due to their very
                      low expected flux, any experiment aiming to detect
                      ultra-high energy neutrinos needs to have a very large
                      effective volume. This requirement can be fulfilled by
                      detecting the radio emission from particle cascades in ice,
                      which can travel kilometre-scale distances before being
                      attenuated, allowing for a sparser and therefore more
                      cost-effective detector array. The Radio Neutrino
                      Observatory Greenland (RNO-G) is the first full-scale in-ice
                      radio detector, and the proposed successor to the optical
                      IceCube telescope, IceCube-Gen2, is expected to include a
                      500-square-kilometre in-ice radio array. These experiments
                      will be the first in-ice radio observatories with a
                      realistic chance of detecting ultra-high energy neutrinos.
                      However, in order to identify these neutrinos and their
                      sources, one has to be able to distinguish them from
                      background signals as well as reconstruct their arrival
                      direction from radio data. This thesis contains
                      contributions to the reconstruction algorithms for
                      wind-induced impulsive events, cosmic-ray air showers and
                      neutrinos. The first two serve to better understand two of
                      the more common sources of background signals for in-ice
                      radio detectors, whereas the latter is crucial to identify
                      the sources of ultra-high energy neutrinos. The
                      uncertainties on the reconstructed neutrino direction turn
                      out to be strongly asymmetric, necessitating a
                      two-dimensional treatment.},
      keywords     = {Radio, Neutrinos, Cosmic Rays, Reconstruction, RNO-G,
                      IceCube-Gen2 (Other)},
      cin          = {Z-RAD},
      cid          = {I:(DE-H253)Z-RAD-20210408},
      pnm          = {613 - Matter and Radiation from the Universe (POF4-613) /
                      DFG project G:(GEPRIS)389908307 - Ein großskaliger
                      Radiodetektor für Neutrinosignale im Antarktischen Eis
                      (389908307)},
      pid          = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-613 / G:(GEPRIS)389908307},
      experiment   = {EXP:(DE-H253)RNO-G-20230101},
      typ          = {PUB:(DE-HGF)11},
      doi          = {10.25593/OPEN-FAU-2262},
      url          = {https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/638549},
}