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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 study the frequency and angular dependences of Cherenkov radio pulses originated by the excess of electrons in electromagnetic showers in different dense media. We develop a simple model to relate the main characteristics of the electric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz , Enrique Marqués , Ricardo A. Vázquez , Enrique Zas

An in-depth characterization of coherent radio Cherenkov pulses from particle showers in dense dielectric media, referred to as the Askaryan effect, is presented. The time-domain calculation developed in this article is based on a form…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-04-17 Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz , Andrés Romero-Wolf , Enrique Zas

Radio Cherenkov radiation is arguably the most efficient mechanism for detecting showers from ultra-high energy particles of 1 PeV and above. Showers occuring in Antarctic ice should be detectable at distances up to 1 km. We report on…

The detection of electromagnetic pulses from high energy showers is used as a means to search for Ultra-High Energy cosmic ray and neutrino interactions. An approximate formula has been obtained to numerically evaluate the radio pulse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-09 Daniel García-Fernández , Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz , Washington R. Carvalho , Andrés Romero-Wolf , Enrique Zas

We present an approximation for the numerical calculation of Cherenkov radio pulses in the Fraunhofer limit from very high energy showers in dense media. We compare it to full Montecarlo simulations in ice studying its range of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-30 J. Alvarez-Muñiz , R. A. Vázquez , E. Zas

The radio approach for detecting the ultra-high energy cosmic neutrinos has become a mature field. The Cherenkov pulse in radio detection originates from the charge excess of particle showers due to Askaryan effect. The conventional way of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-04-29 Chia-Yu Hu , Chih-Ching Chen , Pisin Chen

Atmospheric Cherenkov technique is an established methodology to study TeV energy gamma rays. Here we carry out systematic monte carlo simulation studies of the timing information of Cherenkov photons. Extensive studies have already been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. R. Chitnis , P. N. Bhat

Radio Cherenkov emission underlines detection of high energy particles via a signal growing like the particle-energy-squared. Cosmic ray-induced electromagnetic showers are a primary application. While many studies have treated the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Roman V. Buniy , John P. Ralston

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

We compare in detail the results of simulations of electromagnetic showers in ice in the GeV-TeV energy range, using both the GEANT package and the ZHS Monte Carlo, a code specifically designed to calculate coherent Cerenkov radio pulses…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 J. Alvarez-Muniz , E. Marques , R. A. Vazquez , E. Zas

As charged particles surpass the speed of light in an optical medium they produce radiation - analogously to the way jet planes surpass the speed of sound and produce a sonic boom. This radiation emission, known as the Cherenkov effect, is…

A method for fast simulation of the Cherenkov light generated by electromagnetic showers is described. The parametrization for the longitudinal profile is used and fluctuations and correlations of the parameters are taken into account in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 L. B. Bezrukov , A. V. Butkevich

PeV neutrinos produce particle showers when they interact with the atomic nuclei in ice. We briefly describe characteristics of these showers and the radio Cherenkov signal produced by the showers. We study pulses from electromagnetic (em),…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Shahid Hussain , Douglas W. McKay

The radio approach for detecting the ultra-high energy cosmic neutrinos has become a mature field. The Cherenkov signals in radio detection are originated from the charge excess of particle showers due to Askaryan effect. The conventional…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-02-01 Chia-Yu Hu , Chih-Ching Chen , Pisin Chen

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

We present the calculation of coherent radio pulses emitted by extensive air showers induced by ultra-high energy cosmic rays accounting for reflection on the Earth's surface. Results have been obtained with a simulation program that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-10 Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz , Washington R. Carvalho , Daniel García-Fernández , Harm Schoorlemmer , Enrique Zas

A wide field-of-view Cherenkov telescope has been working in the surroundings of the Yakutsk array experiment since 2012. Its main function is to measure the waveform of the Cherenkov radiation signal induced by extensive air showers of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-01 A. A. Ivanov , S. V. Matarkin , L. V. Timofeev

High-energy cosmic rays passing through the Earth's atmosphere produce extensive showers whose charges emit radio frequency pulses. Despite the low density of the Earth's atmosphere, this emission should be affected by the air refractive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. Meyer-Vernet , A. Lecacheux , D. Ardouin
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