Wednesday 02 May 2018 

Speaker: Linda Cremonesi (University College London)


Title: "Overview of the ANITA Experiment”

Abstract: The ANtarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) is a long-duration balloon payload funded 
by NASA, with an array of radio antennas. ANITA scans the Antarctic ice looking for Askaryan radio 
emission coming from ultra-high-energy (>E19 eV) neutrinos interactions. Extensive air showers coming 
from ultra-high-energy cosmic rays and hadronic showers from tau neutrinos can also be detected by ANITA 
via geomagnetic radio emission. This talk will present the latest results of the ANITA-3 diffuse neutrino 
search, the ultra high energy cosmic ray analysis and the two events that we currently cannot explain with
Standard Model cross-sections.