LOFAR is a new form of radio telescope which can detect radio emission from air showers induced by very high-energy cosmic rays. It can also look for radio emission from particle cascades on the Moon induced by ultra high-energy cosmic rays or neutrinos. To complement the radio detection, we are setting up a small particle detector array LORA (LOfar Radboud Air shower array) within an area of ∼300 m diameter in the LOFAR core. It will help in triggering and confirming the radio detection of air showers with the LOFAR antennas. In this paper, we present a short overview about LORA and discuss its current status.
@article{arxiv.1102.0946,
title = {An air shower array for LOFAR: LORA},
author = {S. Thoudam and G. v. Aar and M. v. d. Akker and L. Bähren and A. Corstanje and H. Falcke and J. R. Hörandel and A. Horneffer and C. James and M. Mevius and O. Scholten and K. Singh and S. ter Veen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.0946},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
10 pages (using article.cls), 6 figures, accepted for the proceedings of 22nd European Cosmic Ray Symposium, 3-6 August 2010, Finland