Status and plans for the Askaryan Radio Array (ARA)

by Dr Michael Duvernois (University of Wisconsin, Icecube)

Thursday Sep 29, 2011, 3:30 PM → 4:30 PM Pacific/Honolulu

112 (Watanabe Hall)

The science motivations and hardware designs for a new extremely-high energy astrophysical neutrino detector being built at the South Pole will be discussed. The ARA experiment builds on radio pulse measurement techniques of the ANITA balloon experiment and in-ice detectors at Pole from the IceCube experiment. Test hardware was deployed last year, and a full station is currently being tested (upstairs in the physics building at UH) for deployment this year.