A New Blogger at Quantum Diaries: MICHAEL DUVERNOIS | ICECUBE RESEARCH CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN | USA
ScienceSprings welcomes Michael Duvernois.
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“Greetings from the South Pole
As a new Quantum Diarist, I wanted to introduce myself and my research work. And say hello from the bottom of the world. I am at the South Pole Station working on a new neutrino experiment called ARA, the Askaryan Radio Array.
This project is a second generation effort to look at the the highest-energy (GZK) neutrinos using radio detection of the coherent (Askaryan) emission from showers in dense materials. We’re building at the South Pole to take advantage of the largest block of dense, radio-transparent media on Earth, the 3km thick ice sheet that covers the continent. This is my second summer season at Pole working on ARA, last year we installed an engineering detector that has operated quite successfully throughout the year and now we’re installing the first production detector station. Ultimately we’re aiming for a detector array covering about 100 square kilometers with the antennas capable of detecting signals down to the bedrock below. A truly large detector. It’s much larger, but optimized for higher-energy events, than the IceCube detector completed last summer season at the Pole.”
So, Michael is giving us a view of another work project devoted to the research on neutrinos.
Please see the full very interesting post here.
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