Proceedings of 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2021)
Modeling and Validating RF-Only Interferometric Triggering with Cosmic Rays for BEACON
July 2021 • Andrew Zeolla, Stephanie Wissel, Jaime Álvarez-Muñiz, W. Rodrigues de Carvalho, A. C. Cummings, Z. Curtis-Ginsberg, Cosmin Deaconu, K. Hughes, Andrew…
When Earth-skimming tau neutrinos interact within the Earth, they generate upgoing tau leptons that can decay in the atmosphere, forming extensive air showers. The Beamforming Elevated Array for COsmic Neutrinos (BEACON) is a novel detector concept that utilizes a radio interferometer atop a mountain to search for the radio emission due to these extensive air showers. The prototype, located at the White Mountain Research Station in California, consists of 4 crossed-dipole antennas operating in the 30-80 MHz range …