Radio detection of air showers with the ARIANNA experiment on the Ross Ice Shelf

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The ARIANNA hexagonal radio array (HRA) is an experiment in its pilot phase designed to detect cosmogenic neutrinos of energies above 10^16 eV.

• The most neutrino-like background stems from the radio emission of air showers.
• This article reports on dedicated efforts of simulating and detecting the signals of cosmic rays.
• A description of the fully radio self-triggered data-set, the properties of the detected air shower signals in the frequency range of \unit[100-500]{MHz} and the consequences for neutrino detection are given.