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Studies in particle astrophysics with the ANITA experiment

Banerjee, Oindree
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1532097132391735

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2018, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Physics.
The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) is a NASA long-duration balloon experiment with the primary goal of detecting ultra-high-energy ($>10^{18}\,\mbox{eV}$) neutrinos via the Askaryan Effect. In the fourth ANITA mission, the Tunable Universal Filter Frontend (TUFF) boards were deployed for mitigation of narrow-band, anthropogenic noise with tunable, switchable notch filters. They contributed to a factor of 2.8 higher total instrument livetime in ANITA-4 compared to ANITA-3. A search for a diffuse flux of ultra-high-energy neutrinos was conducted using the data collected during the ANITA-3 flight with a new approach where the Antarctic ice area is sectioned off into bins and a search is performed with different thresholds in different bins. The binned analysis methods were extended to the development of a search for neutrinos from Gamma Ray Bursts, implementing constraints in time, and for the first time, in direction. Lower analysis thresholds were achieved in a feasibility search even when extending the search to include longer afterglow periods.
Amy Connolly (Advisor)
203 p.
Physics
The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna; physics

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  • Banerjee, O. (2018). Studies in particle astrophysics with the ANITA experiment [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1532097132391735

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Banerjee, Oindree. Studies in particle astrophysics with the ANITA experiment. 2018. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1532097132391735.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Banerjee, Oindree. "Studies in particle astrophysics with the ANITA experiment." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1532097132391735

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