Hydrophone calibration based on microcontrollers for acoustic detection of UHE neutrinos

Author

Ooppakaew, W. ; Danaher, S. ; Veledar, O.

Author_Institution

Northumbria Univ., Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

fYear

2010

fDate

21-23 July 2010

Firstpage

785

Lastpage

790

Abstract

This paper discuses hydrophone calibration for generation of artificial Ultra High Energy (UHE) neutrino-induced pulses. Signal processing techniques are applied to hydrophone modelling. A bipolar acoustic generation module is built using PIC microcontrollers for processing and control. The NI-USB6211 commercial module is used for comparison. The modelling is compared to experimental data generated in a laboratory water tank. The result from simulation and experiment are compared showing excellent agreement. This opens the way to excite steerable hydrophone arrays which is not possible with current hardware.

Keywords

acoustic signal detection; acoustic signal processing; acoustic transducer arrays; astronomical instruments; cosmic ray apparatus; hydrophones; microcontrollers; neutrino detection; NI-USB6211 module; acoustic detection; acoustic generation module; cosmic ray detection; hydrophone calibration; microcontrollers; neutrino detection; signal processing method; Computer languages; Hardware; Mathematical model; Neutrino sources; Acoustic detection; Hydrophone calibration; Microcontroller; UHE neutrinos;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communication Systems Networks and Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP), 2010 7th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Newcastle upon Tyne

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8858-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-86135-369-6

Type

conf

Filename

5580325