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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…

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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…

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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

We developed a radio interferometric technique for the observation of extensive air showers initiated by cosmic particles. In this proof-of-principle study we show that properties of extensive air showers can be derived with high accuracy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-11 Harm Schoorlemmer , Washington R. Carvalho

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…

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

The radio detection of cosmic rays consists in the estimation of the properties of a primary cosmic ray by observing the electric field emitted by the extensive air shower (EAS) created when the primary cosmic ray enters the atmosphere.…

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The radio technique for the detection of high energy cosmic rays consists in measuring the electric field created by the particle showers created inside a medium by the primary cosmic ray. The electric field is then used to infer the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-23 Daniel García-Fernández , Benoît Revenu , Didier Charrier , Richard Dallier , Antony Escudie , Lilian Martin

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

The composition of ultra-high energy cosmic rays is still poorly known and constitutes a very important topic in the field of high-energy astrophysics. Detection of ultra-high energy cosmic rays is carried out via the extensive air showers…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-23 F. Gaté , B. Revenu , D. García-Fernández , V. Marin , R. Dallier , A. Escudié , L. Martin

We discuss the possibilities of detecting radio pulses from high energy showers in ice, such as those produced by PeV and EeV neutrino interactions. It is shown that the rich radiation pattern structure in the 100 MHz to few GHz allows the…

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

The optimal reconstruction of cosmic metric perturbations and other signals requires knowledge of their power spectra and other parameters. If these are not known a priori, they have to be measured simultaneously from the same data used for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-02 Torsten Ensslin , Mona Frommert

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

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

Over the last decades, radio detection of air showers has been established as a promising detection technique for ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays and neutrinos. Very large or dense antenna arrays are necessary to be proficient at collecting…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 Anne Zilles , Olivier Martineau-Huynh , Kumiko Kotera , Matias Tueros , Krijn de Vries , Washington Carvalho , Valentin Niess

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 detection method for cosmic rays relies on coherent emission from electrons and positrons which is beamed in a narrow cone along the shower axis. Currently the only mod- els to reproduce this emission with sufficient accuracy are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 David Butler , Tim Huege , Olaf Scholten

Accurate reconstruction of the electric field produced by Extensive Air Showers from the signals recorded by the antennas is essential for the radio detection technique, as the key parameters needed to retrieve information about the primary…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-03 Kewen Zhang , Tim Huege , Ramesh Koirala , Pengxiong Ma , Matías Tueros , Xin Xu , Chao Zhang , Pengfei Zhang , Yi Zhang