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The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) was conceived to be the most sensitive instrument for the detection of UHE neutrinos (\(E_{\nu }>10^{18}\) eV) to date. A balloon-borne array of radio antennas, ANITA observes the Antarctic ice sheet and searches for the impulsive radio emission expected to arise when an UHE neutrino interacts in the ice.
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There is the possibility that interactions of some down-going neutrinos may be observable by ANITA through reflected signals, particularly if the interactions take place within one of the two large ice-shelfs in Antarctica where the coefficient of reflection from the ice-sea-water boundary is very high and the ice thickness is \({<}1\) km [16].
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Mottram, M.J. (2012). The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna. In: A Search for Ultra-High Energy Neutrinos and Cosmic-Rays with ANITA-2. Springer Theses. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30032-5_4
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