P. Allison, J. Beatty, D. Besson, A. Connolly, A. Cummings, C. Deaconu, S. De Kockere, K. D. de Vries, D. Frikken, C. Hast, E. Huesca Santiago, C. -Y. Kuo, A. Kyriacou, U. A. Latif, J. Loonen, I. Loudon, V. Lukic, C. McLennan, K. Mulrey, J. Nam, K. Nivedita, A. Nozdrina, E. Oberla, S. Prohira, J. P. Ralston, M. F. H. Seikh, R. S. Stanley, S. Toscano, D. Van den Broeck, N. van Eijndhoven, S. Wissel
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Abstract
The Radar Echo Telescope for Cosmic Rays (RET-CR), a pathfinder instrument
for the radar echo method of ultrahigh energy (UHE) neutrino detection, was
initially deployed near Summit Station, Greenland, in May 2023. After a 4 week
commissioning period, 9 days of data were taken before the instrument went
offline. In this article, we describe the instrument as it was deployed, and
the initial performance of the detector. We show that the technical aspects of
running a radar based particle cascade detector in the ice have been
demonstrated. Analysis of the 2023 data informed improvements that were
incorporated into the May-August 2024 deployment, which has just concluded at
time of writing. Results from the 2024 run will be presented in forthcoming
publications.