TY - JOUR
T1 - Towards interferometric triggering on air showers induced by tau neutrino interactions
AU - Hughes, Kaeli
AU - Alvarez-Muñiz, J.
AU - Carvalho, W.
AU - Cummings, A.
AU - Deaconu, C.
AU - Hallinan, G.
AU - Ludwig, A.
AU - Oberla, E.
AU - Paciaroni, C.
AU - Rodriguez, A.
AU - Romero-Wolf, A.
AU - Schoorlemmer, H.
AU - Southall, D.
AU - Strutt, B.
AU - Vasquez, M.
AU - Vieregg, A.
AU - Wissel, S.
AU - Zas, E.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported in part by the National Science Foundation NSF CAREER Award #1752922 and the Frost Fund at the California Polytechnic State University. K. Hughes is supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program under Grant No. (DGE-1746045). We also thank the staff at the National Science Foundation White Mountain Research Station for lending us their support and expertise. This work was completed with the support of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago, and in part with resources provided by the University of Chicago's Research Computing Center.
Funding Information:
This work is supported in part by the National Science Foundation NSF CAREER Award #1752922 and the Frost Fund at the California Polytechnic State University. K. Hughes is supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program under Grant No. (DGE-1746045). We also thank the staff at the National Science Foundation White Mountain Research Station for lending us their support and expertise. This work was completed with the support of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago, and in part with resources provided by the University of Chicago’s Research Computing Center.
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PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - The Beamforming Elevated Array for COsmic Neutrinos (BEACON) Experiment aims to implement a new interferometric trigger targeting air showers initiated by the decay of tau leptons created during neutrino interactions in the earth at energies greater than 100 PeV. Over the past decade, interferometric techniques have been successfully implemented in analysis for many of the leading UHE particle experiments. BEACON has included interferometry at the trigger level, by implementing a beamforming technique in which signals are coherently summed, improving overall sensitivity and providing robust rejection against man-made backgrounds. A two-antenna short-term interferometer and a four-antenna long-term interferometer, both targeting the 30-80 MHz range, were installed on White Mountain near Bishop, California, as part of a months-long site study of man-made backgrounds and rates. Successfully suppressing man-made backgrounds will lead future iterations of BEACON to trigger on both cosmic rays from above and tau lepton air showers from tau neutrino interactions near the horizon.
AB - The Beamforming Elevated Array for COsmic Neutrinos (BEACON) Experiment aims to implement a new interferometric trigger targeting air showers initiated by the decay of tau leptons created during neutrino interactions in the earth at energies greater than 100 PeV. Over the past decade, interferometric techniques have been successfully implemented in analysis for many of the leading UHE particle experiments. BEACON has included interferometry at the trigger level, by implementing a beamforming technique in which signals are coherently summed, improving overall sensitivity and providing robust rejection against man-made backgrounds. A two-antenna short-term interferometer and a four-antenna long-term interferometer, both targeting the 30-80 MHz range, were installed on White Mountain near Bishop, California, as part of a months-long site study of man-made backgrounds and rates. Successfully suppressing man-made backgrounds will lead future iterations of BEACON to trigger on both cosmic rays from above and tau lepton air showers from tau neutrino interactions near the horizon.
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85086271871
SN - 1824-8039
VL - 358
JO - Proceedings of Science
JF - Proceedings of Science
T2 - 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2019
Y2 - 24 July 2019 through 1 August 2019
ER -