Re:South Pole Topography
by cozzyd on Sunday February 05, 2023 @03:50PM
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The drifting at south pole is rather benign compared to places like Summit Station Greenland. My experiments in Greenland get buried twice as fast as the ones at Pole :)
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Can you briefly outline what experiments you setup on both sides of the earth? Thank you!
Looks like they are related to being an Experimental Particle Astrophysicist. But, Yes! I'd like to hear more.
Once I looked at applying to work in Antarctica but life hasn't taken me in that direction. It is still a weird backup type idea I keep in the back of my mind.
The two experiments I'm talking about are are named the Askaryan Radio Array (ARA) and the Radio Neutrino Observatory - Greenland (RNO-G).
Basically we're looking for really energetic neutrinos by burying radio antennas (and readout electronics) in the ice. If a really energetic neutrino interacts in the ice, it will produce a particle shower, which, at really high energies (like > 10-100 PeV) will produce detectable radio emission. Since there is lots of ice both in Antarctica and in Greenland, we have detectors in both places.