Radio Pulses from Cosmic Ray Air Showers
Abstract
The first experiment in which radio emission was detected from high energy particles is described. An array of dipoles was operated by a team of British and Irish physicists in 1964-5 at the Jodrell Bank Radio Observatory in conjunction with a simple air shower trigger. The array operated at 44 MHz with 2.75 MHz bandwidth. Out of 4,500 triggers a clear bandwidth-limited radio pulse was seen in 11 events. This corresponded to a cosmic ray trigger threshold of 5x10^16 eV and was of intensity close to that predicted. The early experiments which followed this discovery and their interpretation is described.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0102342,
title = {Radio Pulses from Cosmic Ray Air Showers},
author = {Trevor C. Weekes},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0102342},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
11 pages, 4 figures. Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Radio Detection of High Energy Particles, UCLA, Nov 16-18, 2000, to be published by the AIP