Searching for Ultra-high Energy Cosmogenic Neutrinos with ANITA

by Prof. Peter Gorham (UHM)

Thursday Oct 4, 2007, 3:30 PM → 4:30 PM Pacific/Honolulu

Wat 112 (University of Hawaii, Manoa)

The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna, a NASA long duration balloon payload with an array of 40 broadband UHF antennas, surveys of order 1M cubic km of ice in its field of view at any time for impulsive radio events associated with ultra-high energy neutrino interactions.
We describe the physics and astrophysics that motivates ANITA, the background for the technique, and report on some preliminary results of ANITA's first full-payload flight, completed in January of this year.

* Informal gathering and light refreshment at 3:15 pm.