Construction, commissioning and operation of the Radio Neutrino Observatory in Greenland (RNO-G)
Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: The Radio Neutrino Observatory Greenland (RNO-G) is searching for Askaryan radio signals from ultra-high-energy neutrinos ($E \ge 100\,$PeV) interacting in ice. RNO-G is currently under construction near the apex of the Greenland ice sheet with 8 stations already operational and collecting science data. The constructed observatory will consist of 35 autonomously operating stations deployed over an area of about 50$\,$km$^2$. Its projected sensitivity will allow to test several models of astrophysical and cosmogenic neutrinos with the potential to detect neutrinos above 100$\,$PeV. Each RNO-G station features 24 radio antennas installed in three 100$\,$m-deep-boreholes with a diameter of 30$\,$cm and shallow trenches beneath the surface. The stations are powered by solar and wind energy and are each equipped with low-power electronics for data readout and wireless communication to a central server at the nearby NFS-operated Summit Station. RNO-G is the first experiment probing the large-scale in-ice radio detection with tens of stations and hundreds of channels over a large area. It is designed to withstand the harsh conditions of an Arctic environment, with scalability in mind. As such, its construction and operation provides invaluable insights for the development and construction of the planned 500$\,$km$^2$ radio detector of the IceCube-Gen2 facility. In this contribution, I will give an overview of recent deployment activities, the operation of the 8 deployed stations and discuss the hardware performance.
DOI: 10.22323/1.501.1168
Authors: Felix Schlüter, Sanyukta Agarwal, Juan Antonio Aguilar, Nathaniel Alden, Shoukat Ali, Patrick Allison, Michael Betts, Dave Besson, Abigail Bishop, Olga Botner, Sjoerd Bouma, Stijn Buitink, Ruben Camphyn, Jason Chan, Simon Chiche, Brian Clark, Alan Coleman, Kenneth Couberly, Simon De Kockere, Krijn de Vries, Cosmin Deaconu, Pawan Giri, Christian Glaser, Thorsten Glüsenkamp, Heidi Gui, Allan Hallgren, Steffen Hallmann, Jordan Hanson, Klaus Helbing, Bryan L. Hendricks, Jakob Henrichs, Nils Heyer, Christian Hornhuber, Enrique Huesca Santiago, Kaeli Hughes, Annanay Jaitly, Timo Karg, Albrecht Karle, John Kelley, Claudio Kopper, michael Korntheuer, Marek Kowalski, Ilya Kravchenko, Ryan Krebs, Mirko Kugelmeier, Robert Lahmann, Martin Liu, Mathew Marsee, Katharine Mulrey, Marco Muzio, Anna Nelles, Alexander Novikov, Alisa Nozdrina, Eric Oberla, Bob Oeyen, Noppadol Punsuebsay, Lilly Pyras, Martin Langgård Ravn, Adam Rifaie, Dirk Ryckbosch, Olaf Scholten, Dave Seckel, Mohammad Seikh, Zeynep Su Selcuk, Juliana Stachurska, Jethro Stoffels, Simona Toscano, Delia Tosi, James Tutt, Dieder Jan Van Den Broeck, Nick van Eijndhoven, Abigail G. Vieregg, Aishwarya Vijai, Christoph Welling, Dawn Williams, Philipp Windischhofer, Stephanie Wissel, Rob Young, Adrian Zink
Institution: Université Libre de Bruxelles
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Climate action
Open Access status: hybrid
Awards: Infrastructure to enhance IceCube, G1876581842, Collaborative Research: WoU-MMA: New Advancements to Enable Multi-Messenger Neutrino Astrophysics with the Radio Neutrino Observatory in Greenland, RII Track-2 FEC: The IceCube EPSCoR Initiative (IEI) - IceCube and the Data Revolution, G434337789, G6461067166, Reconstruction of the properties of ultra-high energy neutrinos from radio detector data using deep learning, Collaborative Research: WoU-MMA: Ultrahigh Energy Neutrinos with the Radio Neutrino Observatory in Greenland, Collaborative Research: WoU-MMA: New Advances to Enable Multi-Messenger Neutrino Astrophysics with the Radio Neutrino Observatory in Greenland, Collaborative Research: WoU-MMA: Ultrahigh Energy Neutrinos with the Radio Neutrino Observatory in Greenland, Collaborative Research: WoU-MMA: New Advancements to Enable Multi-Messenger Neutrino Astrophysics with the Radio Neutrino Observatory in Greenland, Discovering neutrinos of extreme energies with the Radio Neutrino Observatory Greenland, WoU-MMA: Cosmic Ray and Background Identification with RNO-G
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