Vectorial Radio Interferometry with LOPES 3D
Abstract
One successful detection technique for high-energy cosmic rays is based on the radio signal emitted by the charged particles in an air shower. The LOPES experiment at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, has made major contributions to the evolution of this technique. LOPES was reconfigured several times to improve and further develop the radio detection technique. In the latest setup LOPES consisted of 10 tripole antennas. With this, LOPES 3D was the first cosmic ray experiment measuring all three vectorial field components at once and thereby gaining the full information about the electric field vector. We present an analysis based on the data taken with special focus on the benefits of a direct measurement of the vertical polarization component. We demonstrate that by measuring all polarization components the detection and reconstruction efficiency is increased and noisy single channel data can be reconstructed by utilising the information from the other two channels of one antenna station.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1308.2512,
title = {Vectorial Radio Interferometry with LOPES 3D},
author = {D. Huber 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 B. Fuchs and D. Fuhrmann and H. Gemmeke and C. Grupen and A. Haungs and D. Heck and J. R. Hörandel and A. Horneffer 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 N. Palmieri 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},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.2512},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
Proceedings of 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference, RIO 2013