Direction Reconstruction for the Radio Neutrino Observatory Greenland (RNO-G)
Ilse Plaisier, J. A. Aguilar, P. Allison, J. J. Beatty, Hans Bernhoff, D. Besson, N. Bingefors, O. Botner, Sjoerd Bouma, S. Buitink, Katie Carter, Maddalena Cataldo, Brian Clark, Zachary Curtis-Ginsberg, A. Connolly, P. Dasgupta, Simon De Kockere, K. D. de Vries, Cosmin Deaconu, M. A. DuVernois, Christian Gläser, A. Hallgren, S. Hallmann, J. Hanson, Bryan L. Hendricks, Benjamin Hokanson-Fasig, Christian Hornhuber, K. Hughes, A. Karle, J. L. Kelley, Spencer R. Klein, Ryan Krebs, R. Lahmann, Uzair Abdul Latif, Mitchell Magnuson, Thomas Meures, Z. S. Meyers, Katharine Mulrey, A. Nelles, Alexander Novikov, Eric Oberla, Bob Oeyen, Hershal Pandya, Lilly Pyras, D. Ryckbosch, O. Schölten, D. Seckel, Daniel Smith, Daniel Southall, Jorge Torres, S. Toscano, Delia Tosi, Dieder Van den Broeck, N. van Eijndhoven, A. G. Vieregg, Christoph Welling, Stephanie Wissel, Robert Young, A. Zink
Abstract
Direction reconstruction for the Radio Neutrino Observatory Greenland The Radio Neutrino Observatory Greenland (RNO-G) is planned to be the first large-scale implementation of the in-ice radio detection technique. It targets astrophysical as well as cosmogenic neutrinos with energies above 10 PeV. The deep component of a single RNO-G station consists of three strings with antennas to capture horizontal as well as vertical polarization. This contribution shows a model-based approach to reconstruct the direction of the neutrinos with an RNO-G station. The timing of the waveforms is used to reconstruct the vertex position and the shape and amplitude of the waveform are used to reconstruct the viewing angle as well as the polarization, which will add up to the zenith and azimuth direction of the neutrino. We present the achieved angular resolution and discuss implications for the science of RNO-G.