English
Related papers

Related papers: Air Shower Measurements with the LOPES Radio Anten…

200 papers

Based on a new approach to the detection of radio transients associated with extensive air showers induced by ultra high energy cosmic rays, the experimental apparatus CODALEMA is in operation, measuring about 1 event per day corresponding…

Analysis of radio signals from cosmic-ray induced air showers has been shown to be a reliable method to extract shower parameters such as primary energy and depth of shower maximum. The required detailed air shower simulations take 1 to 3…

A surface array of radio antennas will enhance the performance of the IceTop array and enable new, complementary science goals. First, the accuracy for cosmic-ray air showers will be increased since the radio array provides a calorimetric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Frank G. Schröder

Cosmic rays are routinely measured at LOFAR, both with a dense array of antennas and with the LOFAR Radboud air shower Array (LORA) which is an array of plastic scintillators. In this paper, we present two results relating to the cosmic-ray…

Studies of the radio detection of Extensive Air Showers is the goal of the demonstrative experiment CODALEMA. Previous analysis have demonstrated that detection around $5.10^{16}$ eV was achieved with this set-up. New results allow for the…

The extensive air shower (EAS) experiment KASCADE has started data taking at the laboratory site of the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe. The major goal is to determine the elemental composition of the primary cosmic ray particles in the energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-19 K. -H. Kampert

The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) is an extension of the Pierre Auger Cosmic-Ray Observatory. It is used to detect radio emission from extensive air showers with energies beyond $10^{17}~$eV in the $30 - 80~$MHz frequency band. After…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-20 Christian Glaser

Issues relating to extensive air showers observation by a space-borne fluorescence detector and the effects of clouds on the observations are investigated using Monte Carlo simulation. The simulations assume the presence of clouds with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Abu-Zayyad , C. C. H. Jui , E. C. Loh

We explore the possibilities of measuring the longitudinal profile of individual air showers beyond $X_{\rm max}$ when using very dense radio arrays such as SKA. The low-frequency part of the Square Kilometre Array, to be built in…

Some performances of the present CODALEMA experiment, set up to analyse radio-detected Extensive Air Shower (EAS) events, are presented. Characteristics of the EAS electric field distribution sampled on a 600~m long axis are discussed.

The detection of extensive air showers (EAS) through their radio signal is becoming one of the most promising techniques for the study of Neutrinos and Cosmic rays at the highest energies. For the design, optimization and characterization…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Matias Tueros , Anne Zilles

The detection of extensive air showers (EAS) induced by cosmic rays via radio signals has undergone significant advancements in the last two decades. Numerous ultra-high energy cosmic ray experiments routinely capture radio pulses in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-14 Carlo S. Cruz Sanchez , Patricia M. Hansen , Matias Tueros , Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz , Diego G. Melo

The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) is a distributed, sparse ground antenna array designed to detect the radio emission from highly inclined extensive air showers induced by ultra-high-energy particles in the atmosphere. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-02 Lukas Gülzow , Tim Huege , Kumiko Kotera , Olivier Martineau , Markus Roth , Felix Schlüter

Next-generation radio experiments such as the Radio Detector of the upgraded Pierre Auger Observatory and the planned GRAND and BEACON arrays target the detection of ultra-high-energy particle air showers arriving at low elevation angles.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-24 Simon Chiche , Chao Zhang , Felix Schlüter , Kumiko Kotera , Tim Huege , Krijn D. de Vries , Matias Tueros , Marion Guelfand

The recent progress in the radio detection technique for air showers paves the path to future cosmic-ray radio detectors. Digital radio arrays allow for a measurement of the air-shower energy and depth of its maximum with a resolution…

The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) aims to detect highly inclined extensive air showers (EAS) with down-going and up-going trajectories. Several working groups in the GRAND collaboration are developing methods to…

Air fluorescence measurements of cosmic ray energy must be corrected for attenuation of the atmosphere. In this paper we show that the air-showers themselves can yield a measurement of the aerosol attenuation in terms of optical depth,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 s Eye Collaboration

The LOFAR radio telescope is able to measure the radio emission from cosmic ray induced air showers with hundreds of individual antennas. This allows for precision testing of the emission mechanisms for the radio signal as well as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-22 T Winchen , A Bonardi , S Buitink , A Corstanje , H Falcke , B M Hare , J R Hörandel , P Mitra , K Mulrey , A Nelles , J P Rachen , L Rossetto , P Schellart , O Scholten , S ter Veen , S Thoudam , T N G Trinh

A new approach to simulate fluorescence photons produced in extensive air showers is described. A Monte Carlo program based on CORSIKA produces the fluorescence photons for each charged particle in the development of the shower. This method…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vitor de Souza , Henrique M. J. Barbosa , Carola Dobrigkeit

The radio detection of extensive air showers provides a powerful method for studying the origin of high-energy cosmic rays. The Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) offers unprecedentedly detailed measurements of the radio emission footprint.…