Unveiling the Ultra-High Energy Universe with Neutrinos

揭开中微子超高能量宇宙的面纱

• 批准号: 1903885
• 负责人: Brian Clark
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: Clark, Brian Allen
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-08-01 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1903885&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Unveiling; Ultra; Energy; Universe; Neutrinos

Brian Clark is awarded an NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship to conduct a program of research and education at Michigan State University. He will study very light, very penetrating subatomic particles called neutrinos. In particular, his work will involve designing and implementing searches for ultra-high energy (UHE) neutrinos by detecting the faint radio signal produced when a neutrino interacts with the Earth. He will develop techniques for extracting important information from detected neutrinos, such as their energy, the direction in the universe they came from, and the type of neutrino, called neutrino flavor. He will work with existing neutrino detectors at the South Pole and help to develop a future larger Radio Neutrino Observatory. Alongside this research, he will mentor undergraduate students who are involved in a summer research program. He will supervise research projects related to his work and will guide the students in their professional development. The project, if successful, will yield the detection of Ultra-High Energy (UHE) neutrinos, which, like gravitational waves, are probes of processes hidden to electromagnetic radiation, and it would thus advance the goals of the NSF Windows on the Universe Big Idea. The proposed scientific program will generate the world's most sensitive search for a diffuse flux of neutrinos with energies above 100 PeV, and potentially lead to the first observation of UHE neutrinos. Energy reconstruction will allow a precise measurement of the flux of UHE neutrinos and determine their overall spectrum. Direction reconstruction will enable a search for point sources, and flavor determination will make possible tests of neutrino oscillations on cosmic-scale baselines. The educational component of his work will be to advise and mentor young researchers through an established summer research program, thus helping to promote a more capable and diverse STEM workforce.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

布莱恩·克拉克被授予美国国家科学基金会天文学和天体物理学博士后奖学金，负责密歇根州立大学的研究和教育项目。他将研究被称为中微子的非常轻、非常穿透的亚原子粒子。特别是，他的工作将涉及通过探测中微子与地球相互作用时产生的微弱无线电信号来设计和实施对超高能中微子的搜索。他将开发从探测到的中微子中提取重要信息的技术，如它们的能量，它们来自宇宙的方向，以及中微子的类型，称为中微子味道。他将与南极现有的中微子探测器合作，并帮助开发未来更大的射电中微子天文台。除了这项研究，他还将指导参与暑期研究项目的本科生。他将监督与他的工作相关的研究项目，并指导学生的专业发展。如果该项目成功，将产生对超高能(UHE)中微子的探测，这种中微子就像引力波一样，是对隐藏在电磁辐射中的过程的探测，因此它将推进美国国家科学基金会关于宇宙大构想的窗口的目标。拟议中的科学计划将产生世界上最灵敏的搜索能量超过100PeV的弥散中微子的计划，并可能导致首次观测到超高能中微子。能量重建将允许精确测量UHE中微子的通量，并确定它们的总光谱。方向重建将使寻找点源成为可能，而气味确定将使在宇宙尺度基线上测试中微子振荡成为可能。他工作的教育部分将是通过一个既定的暑期研究计划为年轻研究人员提供建议和指导，从而帮助促进一支更有能力和多样化的STEM工作队伍。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Long-baseline horizontal radio-frequency transmission through polar ice

穿过极地冰的长基线水平射频传输

• DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2020/12/009
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
• 影响因子: 6.4
• 作者: Allison, P.;Archambault, S.;Beatty, J.J.;Besson, D.Z.;Chen, C.C.;Chen, C.H.;Chen, P.;Christenson, A.;Clark, B.A.;Clay, W.
• 通讯作者: Clay, W.

NuRadioMC: simulating the radio emission of neutrinos from interaction to detector

• DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-7612-8
• 发表时间: 2019-06
• 期刊: The European Physical Journal C
• 作者: C. Glaser;Daniel Garc'ia-Fern'andez;A. Nelles;J. Alvarez-Muñiz;S. Barwick;D. Besson;B. Clark;A. Connolly;C. Deaconu;Krijn de Vries;J. Hanson;B. Hokanson-Fasig;R. Lahmann;U. Latif;S. Kleinfelder;C. Persichilli;Yue Pan;Carl Pfender;I. Plaisier;D. Seckel;J. Torres;S. Toscano;N. Eijndhoven;A. Vieregg;C. Welling;T. Winchen;S. Wissel

Triboelectric backgrounds to radio-based polar ultra-high energy neutrino (UHEN) experiments

• DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2022.102790
• 发表时间: 2022-10
• 期刊: Astroparticle Physics
• 影响因子: 3.5
• 作者: J. Aguilar;A. Anker;P. Allison;S. Archambault;P. Baldi;S. Barwick;J. Beatty;J. Beise;D. Besson;A. Bishop;E. Bondarev;O. Botner;S. Bouma;S. Buitink;M. Cataldo;C. Chen;C.-H. Chen;P. Chen;Y. Chen;T. Choi;B. Clark;W. Clay;Z. Curtis-Ginsberg;A. Connolly;L. Cremonesi;P. Dasgupta;J. Davies;S. de Kockere;K. de Vries;C. Deaconu;M. DuVernois;J. Flaherty;E. Friedman;R. Gaior;G. Gaswint;C. Glaser;A. Hallgren;S. Hallmann;Young-bae Ham;J. Hanson;N. Harty;B. Hendricks;K. Hoffman;E. Hong;C. Hornhuber;S. Hsu;L. Hu;J. Huang;M. Huang;K. Hughes;A. Ishihara;G. Jee;J. Jung;A. Karle;J. Kelley;S. Klein;S. Kleinfelder;J. Kim;K. Kim;M.-C. Kim;I. Kravchenko;R. Krebs;Y. Ku;C. Kuo;K. Kurusu;H. Kwon;R. Lahmann;H. Landsman;U. Latif;C. Lee;C. Leung;C.-J. Li;J. Liu;T. Liu;M. Lu;K. Madison;J. Mammo;K. Mase;S. McAleer;T. Meures;Z. Meyers;K. Michaels;M. Mikhailova;K. Mulrey;J. Nam;R. Nichol;G. Nir;A. Nelles;A. Novikov;A. Nozdrina;E. Oberla;B. Oeyen;J. Osborn;Y. Pan;H. Pandya;M. P. Paul;C. Persichilli;C. Pfendner;I. Plaisier;N. Punsuebsay;L. Pyras;R. Rice-Smith;J. Roth;D. Ryckbosch;O. Scholten;D. Seckel;M. Seikh;Y. Shiao;B. Shin;A. Shultz;D. Smith;D. Southall;J. Tatar;J. Torres;S. Toscano;D. Tosi;J. Touart;D. J. Van Den Broeck;N. van Eijndhoven;G. Varner;A. Vieregg;M. Wang;S. Wang;Y. Wang;C. Welling;D. Williams;S. Wissel;C. Xie;S. Yoshida;R. Young;L. Zhao;A. Zink

Design and sensitivity of the Radio Neutrino Observatory in Greenland (RNO-G)

• DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/16/03/p03025
• 发表时间: 2020-10
• 期刊: Journal of Instrumentation
• 影响因子: 1.3
• 作者: J. Aguilar;P. Allison;J. Beatty;H. Bernhoff;D. Besson;N. Bingefors;O. Botner;S. Buitink;K. Carter;B. Clark;A. Connolly;P. Dasgupta;S. D. Kockere;K. D. Vries;C. Deaconu;M. DuVernois;N. Feigl;D. García-Fernández;C. Glaser;A. Hallgren;S. Hallmann;J. Hanson;B. Hendricks;B. Hokanson-Fasig;C. Hornhuber;K. Hughes;A. Karle;J. Kelley;S. Klein;R. Krebs;R. Lahmann;M. Magnuson;T. Meures;Z. Meyers;A. Nelles;A. Novikov;E. Oberla;B. Oeyen;H. Pandya;I. Plaisier;L. Pyras;D. Ryckbosch;O. Scholten;D. Seckel;D. Smith;D. Southall;J. Torres;S. Toscano;D. V. D. Broeck-D.-V.-D.-Broeck-2131955910;N. Eijndhoven;A. Vieregg;C. Welling;S. Wissel;R. Young;A. Zink

Simulation and sensitivities for a phased IceCube-Gen2 deployment

分阶段 IceCube-Gen2 部署的模拟和灵敏度

• DOI: 10.22323/1.395.1186
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2021
• 作者: Abbasi, Rasha;Ackermann, Markus;Adams, Jenni;Aguilar, Juanan;Ahlers, M.;Ahrens, Maryon;Alispach, Cyril Martin;Allison, Patrick;Alves Junior, Antonio Augusto;Amin, Najia Moureen
• 通讯作者: Amin, Najia Moureen