Simulation Analysis of Coincident Events in ARA and IceCube

The Askaryan Radio Array (ARA) is an experiment aiming to detect ultra-high energy (>10 PeV) neutrinos at the South Pole. ARA has five stations of antennas designed to detect radio-frecuency radiation emitted from relativistic particle showers produced by neutrinos interacting within the ice. IceCube is a cubic-kilometer detector, a few kilometers away from ARA, with the target of detecting high-energy neutrinos (up to 10 PeV). IceCube uses arrays of photomultiplier tubes to record optical signals of Cherenkov radiation emitted by moving charged leptons also produced by neutrinos interacting in ice. Since IceCube has measured neutrinos up to a few PeV, ARA can also search for radio emission from some of the same neutrino interactions. A detection by ARA coincident with an event reported by IceCube would be the first definitive detection of a neutrino with the radio technique and it would come with a confirmation that it came from a neutrino interaction. In this talk, I will present a simulation analysis of neutrino coincident detection by IceCube and ARA.