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The possibilities of measuring Extremely High Energy Cosmic Rays (EHECR) by radio detection of electromagnetic pulses radiated during the development of extensive air showers in the atmosphere are investigated. We present the demonstrative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 O. Ravel , R. Dallier , L. Denis , T. Gousset , F. Haddad , P. Lautridou , A. Lecacheux , E. Morteau , C. Rosolen , C. Roy

By analysing the radio emissions from air showers using interferometry, we can estimate their properties. In this contribution, we apply interferometry to reconstruct air-shower parameters based on measurements taken with the Auger…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-08 Pim van Dillen

Cosmic-ray particles with ultra-high energies (above $10^{18}$ eV) are studied through the properties of extensive air showers which they initiate in the atmosphere. The Pierre Auger Observatory detects these showers with unprecedented…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 J. Vicha , J. Chudoba

The Cherenkov radio pulse emitted by hadronic showers in ice is calculated for showers of energies in the EeV range. This is obtained with three dimensional simulations of both shower development and the coherent radio pulse emitted as the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-04-17 Jaime Alvarez-Muniz , Washington R. Carvalho , Matias Tueros , Enrique Zas

We investigate the feasibility of detecting extensive air showers via their geo-synchrotron X-ray emission from high-altitude platforms. Starting from first principles, we derive a differential expression for the number of emitted photons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-14 Rodrigo Alberto Torres Saavedra , Caterina Trimarelli , Roberto Aloisio , John F. Krizmanic , Johannes Eser , Austin Cummings

Detection of the mostly geomagnetically generated radio emission of cosmic-ray air showers provides an alternative to air-Cherenkov and air-fluorescence detection, since it is not limited to clear nights. Like these established methods, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-20 Frank G. Schröder

Radio emission from air showers enables measurements of cosmic particle kinematics and identity. The radio signals are detected in broadband Megahertz antennas among continuous background noise. We present two deep learning concepts and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-22 M. Erdmann , F. Schlueter , R. Smida

Computer simulations of radio energy transfer in the ionospheric layer with random small-scale irregularities for the case of a point ground-based source and total reflection have been carried out using specially designed algorithm based on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. A. Zabotin , E. S. Kovalenko

Reconstruction of the curvatures of radio wavefronts of air showers initiated by ultra high energy cosmic rays is discussed based on minimization algorithms commonly used. We emphasize the importance of the convergence process induced by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-19 Ahmed Rebai , Tarek Salhi , Pascal Lautridou , Olivier Ravel

Detection of (ultra-) high-energy cosmic rays with the use of radio frequency emission from extensive air showers has been proven as complimentary to existing ground array detection techniques. Great progress has been made in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Sijbrand de Jong

Radio-detection is becoming an established technique for the detection of air showers induced by cosmic particles. This is in particular true at the highest energies, where very large detection areas are required. A proper description of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-04 Valentin Decoene , Olivier Martineau-Huynh , Matias Tueros

Cosmic ray shower detection using large radio arrays has gained significant traction in recent years. With massive improvements in signal modelling and microscopic simulations, the analysis of incoming events is still severely limited by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-29 Pranav Sampathkumar , Tim Huege , Andreas Haungs , Ralph Engel

The radio intensity and polarization footprint of a cosmic-ray induced extensive air shower is determined by the time-dependent structure of the current distribution residing in the plasma cloud at the shower front. In turn, the time…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-17 Olaf Scholten , Gia Trinh , Krijn D. de Vries , Brian M. Hare

To interpret the mean depth of cosmic ray air shower maximum and its dispersion, we parametrize those two observables as functions of the first two moments of the $\ln A$ distribution. We examine the goodness of this simple method through…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-07-01 Pierre Auger Collaboration

Radio emission in extensive air showers arises from an interaction with the geomagnetic field and is subject of theoretical studies. This radio emission has advantages for the detection of high energy cosmic rays compared to secondary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-05 S. Nehls , LOPES Collaboration

The simulation of the extensive air showers was performed by investigating the longitudinal development parameters (N and Xmax) by using AIRES system version 19.04.0. The simulation was performed at the energy range (10^18-10^20 eV) for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-04 Abbas Rahi Raham , A. A. Al-Rubaiee , Majida H. Al-Kubaisy

Over the last several decades, radio detection of air showers has been widely used to detect ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. We developed an experiment under controlled laboratory conditions at SLAC with which we measured the radio-frequency…

We present a macroscopic calculation of coherent electro-magnetic radiation from air showers initiated by ultra-high energy cosmic rays, based on currents obtained from three-dimensional Monte Carlo simulations of air showers in a realistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Klaus Werner , Krijn D. De Vries , Olaf Scholten

Radio detection of air-showers is a mature technique that has gained momentum over the past decades. With increasingly large-scale experiments, massive air-shower simulations are needed to evaluate the radio signal at each antenna position.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-15 Simon Chiche , Olivier Martineau-Huynh , Kumiko Kotera , Matias Tueros , Krijn D. de Vries

In this article we review the progress made in understanding the main characteristics of coherent \v{C}erenkov radiation induced by high energy showers in dense media. A specific code developed for this purpose is described because it took…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz , Enrique Zas