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2023
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Precision measurement of the index of refraction of deep glacial ice at radio frequencies at Summit Station, Greenland
J. A. Aguilar, P. Allison, D. Besson, A. Bishop, O. Botner, S. Bouma, S. Buitink, W. Castiglioni, M. Cataldo, B. A. Clark, A. Coleman, K. Couberly, Z. Curtis-Ginsberg, P. Dasgupta, S. de Kockere, K. D. de Vries, Cosmin Deaconu, M. A. DuVernois, A. Eimer, C. Glaser, A. Hallgren, S. Hallmann, J. C. Hanson, B. Hendricks, J. Henrichs, N. Heyer, C. Hornhuber, K. Hughes, T. Karg, A. Karle, J. L. Kelley, M. Korntheuer, M. Kowalski, I. Kravchenko, R. Krebs, R. Lahmann, P. Lehmann, U. Latif, P. Laub, C. H. Liu, J. S. Mammo, M. J. Marsee, Z. S. Meyers, K. Michaels, K. Mulrey, M. Muzio, A. Nelles, A. Novikov, A. Nozdrina, E. Oberla, B. Oeyen, I. Plaisier, N. Punsuebsay, L. Pyras, D. Ryckbosch, Felix Schlüter, O. Scholten, D. Seckel, Mohammad Ful Hossain Seikh, D. Smith, J. Stoffels, D. Southall, K. Terveer, S. Toscano, D. Tosi, Dieder Van den Broeck, N. van Eijndhoven, A. G. Vieregg, J. Z. Vischer, C. Welling, D. R. Williams, Stephanie Wissel, R. Young, A. Zink
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Glacial ice is used as a target material for the detection of ultra-high energy neutrinos, by measuring the radio signals that are emitted when those neutrinos interact in the ice. Thanks to the large attenuation length at radio frequencies, these signals can be detected over distances of several kilometers. One experiment taking advantage of this is the Radio Neutrino Observatory Greenland (RNO-G), currently under construction at Summit Station, near the apex of the Greenland ice sheet. These experiments require a thorough understanding of the dielectric properties of ice at radio frequencies. Towards this goal, calibration campaigns have been undertaken at Summit, during which we recorded radio reflections off internal layers in the ice sheet. Using data from the nearby GISP2 and GRIP ice cores, we show that these reflectors can be associated with features in the ice conductivity profiles; we use this connection to determine the index of refraction of the bulk ice as n=1.778 +/- 0.006.
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