Overview of the ANITA project

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4858, Issue , 2002, Pages 265-276

  Barwick, Steven ^b   Beatty, James ^c   Besson, David ^d   Clem, John ^e   Coutu, Stephane ^c   DuVernois, Michael ^f   Evenson, Paul ^e   Gorham, Peter ^g   Halzen, Francis ^k   Jacobson, Abram ^h   Kieda, David ⁱ   Learned, John ^g   Liewer, Kurt M ^a   Lowe, Stephen ^a   Naudet, Charles ^a   Odian, Allen ^k   Saltzberg, David ^j   Seckel, David ^e  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^h LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^k NONE

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Author keywords

ANITA; Antarctica; Balloon; High energy neutrinos

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAYS; ENERGY ABSORPTION; GAMMA RAYS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; RADIATION DETECTORS;

ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; NEUTRINOS; ULTRAHIGH ENERGY COSMIC RAY;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 0037853314     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.458546     Document Type: Conference Paper

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