A giant balloon in Antarctica sees neutrino surprises. An Antarctic neutrino telescope captures ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. Utilizing the icy glow of Antarctica and giant balloons, suddenly there is suddenly something mysterious that is ultra high energy light.

Antarctic Antarctic Antarctic (ANITA) Antarctic Antarna (ANITA) is a radio wave radio mounted on a giant balloon weighing 8,000 pounds and flown at an altitude of more than 120,000 feet (36.5 km).

This equipment is used to detect radio waves that produce high-energy cosmic neutrino destroyed crashing into the ice on land. Although all this time ANITA has not caused a signature, but has found another energy that is ultra high cosmic energy. These are protons and loads from space with mysterious high energy. Initially, unexpected radio wave patterns are called and unraveled by ANITA.

Then Eric W. Grashorn from Ohio State University in Columbus and colleagues noted that some radio waves have similar patterns in frequency distribution. Grashornwara as an "open discovery". The research team is currently analyzing the signal generated by using light when the kos kos accumulates with the molecules in the air. These spiral electrons pass through the Earth's magnetic field, emitting radio waves as they have been detected and reported in the Physical Review of this Letter, ANITA has made a sign of about 16 ultra-high cosmic rays with an average energy pulse of 1.5 × 1019eV derived from the interaction between rays cosmic in the air with Antarctic geomagnetic fields, a process known as eosynchrotron emissions.

Measurements in the first 300-900 MHz range were triggered, the first ultrawide bands, on the first surface, and the highest energy samples of cosmic rays collected first by radio technique. Characters are inconsistent with ground-based geosynchrotron models. Approximately 100% of the emission is polarized on a plane perpendicular to the projected geomagnetic field.

Approximately 14 events appear to have an inversion phase due to the reflection of radio light from the ice surface and two foreign bodies visible from the face of the horizon. The use of proper analysis, researchers to the exact angle 2 ° when the energy comes.

"They have found a new way to detect high-energy cosmic rays," said Francis Halzen of the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Halzen is an IceCube collaborator, a giant neutrino telescope buried in Antarctic ice. With wide capabilities, today's balloon telescopes can rival the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina built specifically to detect cosmic rays. Halzen considers that the cosmic ray detection technique by ANITA can be the same as the original neutrino mission.