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Since 2014, the University Campus of the Hellenic Open University (HOU) hosts the Astroneu array which is dedicated to the detection of Extensive Air Showers (EAS) induced by high energy Cosmic Rays (CR). The Astroneu array incorporates 9…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Stavros Nonis , Antonios Leisos , Apostolos Tsirigotis , Ioannis Gkialas , Kostas Papageorgiou , Spyros Tzamarias

Results will be shown from the ASTRONEU array developed and operated in the outskirts of Patras, Greece. An array of 9 scintillator detectors and 3 antennas were deployed to study Extensive Air Showers (EAS) as a tool for calibrating an…

We report on the design and the expected performance of a low cost hybrid detection system suitable for operation as an autonomous unit in strong electromagnetic noise environments. The system consists of three particle detectors…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-03-24 A. G. Tsirigotis , A. Leisos , S. Nonis , M. Petropoulos , G. Georgis , K. Papageorgiou , I. Gkialas , I. Manthos , S. E. Tzamarias

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…

Antenna arrays are beginning to make important contributions to high energy astroparticle physics supported by recent progress in the radio technique for air showers. This article provides an update to my more extensive review published in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-17 Frank G. Schröder

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

We present a reconstruction algorithm for extensive air showers with zenith angles between 65$^\circ$ and 85$^\circ$ measured with radio antennas in the 30-80 MHz band. Our algorithm is based on a signal model derived from CoREAS…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Tim Huege , Felix Schlüter

Digital radio arrays have become an effective tool to measure air showers at energies around and above 100 PeV. Compared to optical techniques, the radio technique is not restricted to clear nights. Thanks to recent progress on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-28 Frank G. Schröder

Recently radio signals originating from extensive air showers have been observed at the Pierre Auger Observatory. In this note we present software to simulate the response of an array of antenna detectors and to reconstruct the radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Stefan Fliescher

Radio detection is now an established technique for the study of ultra-high-energy (UHE) cosmic rays with energies above $\sim10^{17}$ eV. The next-generation of radio experiments aims to extend this technique to the observation of UHE…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-14 Marion Guelfand , Valentin Decoene , Olivier Martineau-Huynh , Simon Prunet , Matías Tueros , Oscar Macias , Aurélien Benoit-Lévy

Sparse digital antenna arrays constitute a promising detection technique for future large-scale cosmic-ray observatories. It has recently been shown that this kind of instrumentation can provide a resolution of the energy and of the shower…

We present the design and science case for a new array of radio antennas to be located at the Pierre Auger Observatory. Six stations of three SKALA antennas each will be deployed around a single water-Cherenkov surface detector triggering…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-04 Stef Verpoest , Frank Schroeder , Alexander Novikov , Alan Coleman , Benjamin Flaggs , Andreas Weindl , Megha Venugopal , Carmen Merx , Andreas Haungs

The detection of inclined air showers (zenith angles $\theta \gtrsim 65^\circ$) with kilometer-spaced radio-antenna arrays allows measuring cosmic rays at ultra-high energies ($E \lesssim 10^{20}\,\mathrm{eV}$). Radio and particle detector…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-11 Felix Schlüter , Tim Huege

The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) aims to detect extensive air showers caused by the interactions of ultra-high energy cosmic rays with the Earth's atmosphere, providing complementary information to the Auger surface, fluorescence…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-18 Qader Dorosti Hasankiadeh

The surface detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory has recently been upgraded with the addition of radio antennas, forming the radio detector (RD). This contribution outlines the standard methods for reconstructing extensive air showers…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-22 Simon Strähnz

Short radio pulses can be measured from showers of both high-energy cosmic rays and neutrinos. While commonly several antenna stations are needed to reconstruct the energy of an air shower, we describe a novel method that relies on the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-26 Christoph Welling , Christian Glaser , Anna Nelles

Ultra-high-energy (UHE) neutrinos are unique cosmic messengers that can traverse cosmological distances unattenuated, providing direct insight into the most energetic processes in the universe. Radio detection offers significant advantages…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-27 Baobiao Yue , Karl-Heinz Kampert , Julian Rautenberg

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

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

The radio detection of very inclined air showers offers a promising avenue for studying ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) and neutrinos. Accurate reconstruction methods are essential for investigating the properties of primary…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-24 Kewen Zhang , Duan Kaikai , Ramesh Koirala , Matías Tueros , Chao Zhang , Yi Zhang
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