ANtarctic Impulse Transient Antenna
- ANtarctic Impulse Transient Antenna
The ANtarctic Impulsive Transient Array (ANITA) has been designed to study neutrinos with energies on the order of 1018 eV by detecting the radio pulses emitted by their interacting with the Antarctic ice sheet. This is to be accomplished using an array of 36 radio attenas (Cylindrically arranged with an approximate radius of 3m and a height of 5m.) suspended from a helium balloon.
Experimental Time Frame
ANITA launched from McMurdo, Antarctica in the summer of 2006-07.The array should travel around the continent with the circumpolar winds for approximately a month before being recovered by the CSBF. Each successive mission (if funded) would be at two year intervals.
Funding
ANITA is currently being funded by NASA.
Collaborators
The current ANITA collaboration team includes members from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, University of California, Los Angeles, Ohio State University, the University of California at Irvine, Washington University, and the University of Minnesota at Twin Cities.
Related Links
* [http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0503304 Tuning into UHE Neutrinos in Antarctica - The ANITA Experiment]
* [http://www.ps.uci.edu/~anita/ University of California article]
* [http://www.phys.hawaii.edu/~anita/web/index.htm University of Hawaii article]
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