Calibration of the Radio Neutrino Observatory in Greenland (RNO-G)

Welling, Christoph; Aguilar, Juanan; Allison, Patrick; Besson, Dave; Bishop, Abigail; Botner, Olga; Bouma, Sjoerd; Buitink, Stijn; Castiglioni, Whitmaur; Cataldo, Maddalena; Clark, Brian; Coleman, Alan; Couberly, Kenny; Dasgupta, Paramita; De Kockere, Simon; de Vries, Krijn; Deaconu, Cosmin; DuVernois, Michael; Eimer, Anna; on behalf of the RNO-G collaboration,; Aguilar, J. A. Aguilar; Allison, P.; Besson, D. Z.; Bishop, A.; Botner, O.; Bouma, S.; Buitink, S.; Castiglioni, W.; Cataldo, M.; Clark, B.~A.; Coleman, A.; Couberly, K.; Dasgupta, P.; De Kockere, S.; de Vries, K.~D.; DuVernois, M.~A.; Eimer, A.; Glaser, C.; Gluesenkamp, T.; Hallgren, A.; Hallmann, S.; Hanson, J.~C.; Hendricks, B.; Henrichs, J.; Heyer, N.; Hornhuber, C.; Hughes, K.; Karg, T.; Karle, A.; Kelley, J.~L.; Korntheuer, M.; Kowalski, M.; Kravchenko, I.; Krebs, R.; Lahmann, Robert; Lehmann, P.; Latif, U. A.; Laub, P.; Liu, H.; Mammo, J.; Marsee, M.~J.; Meyers, Z.~S.; Mikhailova, M.; Michaels, K.; Mulrey, K.; Muzio, Marco Stein; Nelles, Anna; Novikov, A.; Nozdrina, A.; Oberla, E.; Oeyen, B.; Plaisier, I.; Punsuebsay, N.; Pyras, L.; Ryckbosch, D.; Schlüter, F.; Scholten, O.; Seckel, D.; Seikh, M.~F.~H.; Smith, D. J.B.; Stoffels, J.; Southall, D.; Terveer, K.; Toscano, S.; Tosi, D.; Van Den Broeck, D.~J.; van Eijndhoven, N.; Vieregg, A.~G.; Vischer, J.~Z.; Welling, C.; Williams, D.~R.; Wissel, S. A.; Young, R.; Zink, A.

doi:10.22323/1.444.1054

Abstract

The Radio Neutrino Observatory Greenland (RNO-G) is a radio detector for neutrinos with energies above 10 PeV. It is currently under construction at Summit Station, Greenland, with 7 out of 35 stations deployed so far. By measuring the radio pulses that are emitted when ultra-high energy neutrinos interact in ice, each station can detect neutrinos over distances of several kilometer and functions as an independent detector. A station consists of a total of 24 antennas, which are divided into a shallow component of 9 logarithmic-periodic dipole antennas near the surface, and a deep component of dipole and slot antennas inside boreholes down to 100m depth.
We present an overview of the calibration efforts for RNO-G and show first results of ice property studies, which are crucial for the RNO-G station calibration.