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Radio detection of extensive air showers initiated in the Earth's atmosphere has made tremendous progress in the last decade. Today, radio detection is routinely used in several cosmic-ray observatories. The physics of the radio emission in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-12 Tim Huege

Angular distributions of extensive air showers with different number of charged particles in the range 2.5x10^5--4x10^7 are derived using the experimental data obtained with the EAS MSU array. Possible approximations of the obtained…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Yu. Zotov , N. N. Kalmykov , G. V. Kulikov , V. P. Sulakov

The physics of radio emission from cosmic-ray induced air showers is shortly summarized. It will be shown that the radio signal at different distances from the shower axis provides complementary information on the longitudinal shower…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Olaf Scholten , Krijn D. de Vries , Klaus Werner

The emission of radio waves from air showers has been attributed to the so-called geomagnetic emission process. At frequencies around 50 MHz this process leads to coherent radiation which can be observed with rather simple setups. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-07-03 Pierre Auger Collaboration

Radio emission from cosmic ray air showers has the potential to become an additional, cost-effective observing technique for cosmic ray research, being largely complementary to the well-established particle detector and air fluorescence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tim Huege , Heino Falcke

A precise understanding of the radio emission from extensive air showers is of fundamental importance for the design of cosmic ray radio detectors as well as the analysis and interpretation of their data. In recent years, tremendous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 T. Huege

Evidence of azimuthal asymmetries in the time structure and signal size has been found in non-vertical showers as a function of zenith angle. These asymmetries arise because of the different paths traveled by particles in the upper and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Maria Teresa Dova

We present LOFAR measurements of radio emission from extensive air showers. We find that this emission is strongly polarized, with a median degree of polarization of nearly $99\%$, and that the angle between the polarization direction of…

Recent progress has shown that the geomagnetic field exerts a more significant impact than expected on the behavior of charged secondary particles in inclined air showers. In this study, we for the first time combine it with atmospheric…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-27 Si-Zhe Wu , Chao Zhang , Ruo-Yu Liu , Xi-Shui Tian , Zhuo Li

Radio antennas have become a standard tool for the detection of cosmic-ray air showers in the energy range above $10^{16}\,$eV. The radio signal of these air showers is generated mostly due to the deflection of electrons and positrons in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-28 Frank G. Schröder

The mass composition of cosmic rays contains important clues about their origin. Accurate measurements are needed to resolve long-standing issues such as the transition from Galactic to extragalactic origin, and the nature of the cutoff…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 S. Buitink , A. Corstanje , J. E. Enriquez , H. Falcke , J. R. Hörandel , T. Huege , A. Nelles , J. P. Rachen , P. Schellart , O. Scholten , S. ter Veen , S. Thoudam , T. N. G. Trinh

Very inclined extensive air showers (EAS), with both down-going and up-going trajectories, are particularly targeted by the next generation of extended radio arrays, such as GRAND. Methods to reconstruct the incoming direction, core…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Valentin Decoene , Olivier Martineau-Huynh , Matìas Tueros , Simon Chiche

The lateral density distributions (LDD) of inclined cosmic ray air shower are asymmetric and the corresponding iso-density contours are of increasing eccentric ellipses with zenith angles of different showers. The polar asymmetry of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-08 Animesh Basak , Rajat K. Dey

In this study, the necessity of the simulation study for exploring the interactions of ultra-high energy particles cosmic rays was examined. Different hadronic interaction models such as (SIBYLL, QGSJET, and EPOS) were simulated by using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-06 Kadhom F. Fadhel , A. A. Al-Rubaiee

The particle lateral distribution function (LDF) of air showers at a given altitude is sensitive to the mass composition and primary energy of cosmic rays. Studies of the LDF are difficult to perform due to experimental effects such as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-22 J. A. Morales-Soto , J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez , J. D. Álvarez

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…

The reconstruction of very inclined air showers is a new challenge for next-generation radio experiments such as the AugerPrime radio upgrade, BEACON, and GRAND, which focus on the detection of ultra-high-energy particles. To tackle this,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-01 Marion Guelfand , Simon Chiche , Kumiko Kotera , Simon Prunet , Tanguy Pierog

New analysis of lateral distributions (LD) of electrons, muons and charged particles in extensive air showers generated by $10^{15}-10^{19}$ eV cosmic rays has been made with respect to the scaling formalism for LD and air shower…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-22 Roman Raikin , Tatyana Serebryakova , Nikolay Volkov , Anatoly Lagutin

In this paper, we present results obtained from the measurements of radio emission at frequency of 32 MHz with energy more than 10$^{19}$ eV. Generalized formula that describe lateral distribution and depends on main characteristic of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-26 S. Knurenko , I. Petrov , Z. Petrov