Re:South Pole Topography
by Diederich on Sunday February 05, 2023 @11:15PM
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Can you briefly outline what experiments you setup on both sides of the earth? Thank you!
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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.