Investigation on the energy and mass composition of cosmic rays using LOPES radio data
Abstract
The sensitivity to the mass composition as well as the reconstruction of the energy of the primary particle are explored here by leveraging the features of the radio lateral distribution function. For the purpose of this analysis, a set of events measured with the LOPES experiment is reproduced with the latest CoREAS radio simulation code. Based on simulation predictions, a method which exploits the slope of the radio lateral distribution function is developed (Slope Method) and directly applied on measurements. As a result, the possibility to reconstruct both the energy and the depth of the shower maximum of the cosmic ray air shower using radio data and achieving relatively small uncertainties is presented.
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@article{arxiv.1309.2410,
title = {Investigation on the energy and mass composition of cosmic rays using LOPES radio data},
author = {N. Palmieri and W. D. Apel and J. C. Arteaga and L. Bähren and K. Bekk and M. Bertaina and P. L. Biermann and J. Blümer and H. Bozdog and I. M. Brancus and A. Chiavassa and K. Daumiller and V. de Souza and F. Di Pierro and P. Doll and R. Engel and H. Falcke and D. Fuhrmann and H. Gemmeke and C. Grupen and A. Haungs and D. Heck and J. R. Hörandel and A. Horneffer and D. Huber and T. Huege and P. G. Isar and K. H. Kampert and D. Kang and O. Krömer and J. Kuijpers and K. Link and P. Łuczak and M. Ludwig and H. J. Mathes and M. Melissas and C. Morello and J. Oehlschläger and T. Pierog and J. Rautenberg and H. Rebel and M. Roth and C. Rühle and A. Saftoiu and H. Schieler and A. Schmid and F. G. Schröder and O. Sima and G. Toma and G. C. Trinchero and A. Weindl and J. Wochele and M. Wommer and J. Zabierowski and J. A. Zensus - LOPES Collaboration -},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.2410},
year = {2013}
}
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10 pages, 6 figures, Proceedings for International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC) 2013, Rio De Janeiro; paper ID 439