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Cosmic rays extensive air showers (EAS) are associated with transient radio emission, which could provide an efficient new detection method of high energy cosmic rays, combining a calorimetric measurement with a high duty cycle. The…

Cosmic ray air showers are known to emit pulsed radio emission at frequencies around a few tens of MHz. Accompanying the experimental efforts of the LOPES project, situated at the KASCADE-Grande site of the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tim Huege , Heino Falcke

We present predictions for the radio pulses emitted by extensive air showers using ZHAireS, an AIRES-based Monte Carlo code that takes into account the full complexity of ultra-high energy cosmic-ray induced shower development in the…

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

Radio emission has been implemented in the simulation software AIRES by M. A. DuVernois, B. Cai and D. Kleckner to perform a full Monte Carlo simulation of the radio emission of cosmic ray extensive air shower. Different sets of showers…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-06-19 Colas Riviere , Francois Montanet , Joel Chauvin

Cosmic rays are messengers from highly energetic events in the Universe. These rare ultra-high-energy particles can be detected efficiently and in an affordable way using large arrays of radio antennas. Linearly polarized geomagnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-16 Ek Narayan Paudel , Alan Coleman , Frank G. Schroeder

The radio emission of cosmic-ray air-showers changes significantly depending on parameters like signal frequency, magnetic field configuration and observing altitude. We use CoREAS simulations to adapt an existing signal model for the radio…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-10 Lukas Gülzow , Ralph Engel , Tim Huege , Markus Roth , Felix Schlüter

We review some of the properties of extensive cosmic ray air showers and describe a simple model of the radio-frequency radiation generated by shower electrons and positrons as they bend in the Earth's magnetic field. We perform simulations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Denis A. Suprun , Peter W. Gorham , Jonathan L. Rosner

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

Several attempts to detect extensive air showers (EAS) induced by ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays have been conducted in the last decade based on the molecular Bremsstrahlung radiation (MBR) at GHz frequencies from quasi-elastic collisions of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-08 Olivier Deligny

The standard method to estimate the mass of a cosmic ray is the measurement of the atmospheric depth of the shower maximum ($X_\text{max}$). This depth is strongly correlated with the mass of the primary because it depends on the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Florian Gaté

We have developed a macroscopic description of coherent electro-magnetic radiation from air showers initiated by ultra-high energy cosmic rays in the presence of the geo-magnetic field. This description offers a simple and direct insight in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Olaf Scholten , Klaus Werner

The radio-wavelength detection of extensive air showers (EAS) initiated by cosmic-ray interactions in the Earth's atmosphere is a promising technique for investigating the origin of these particles and the physics of their interactions. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-29 A. Williamson , C. W. James , S. J. Tingay , S. J. McSweeney , S. M. Ord

We present a technique to measure chemical composition and particle cross-section of ultra-high energy cosmic rays using radio data. We relate the geometry of the radio footprint on the ground to the depth of the extensive air shower…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-12-03 Konstantin Belov

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

We present time-domain Monte Carlo simulations of radio emission from cosmic ray air showers in the scheme of coherent geosynchrotron radiation. Our model takes into account the important air shower characteristics such as the lateral and…

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

In 2023, a series of intense Thunderstorm Ground Enhancements (TGEs) were recorded on Mount Aragats in Armenia, with five events exceeding the fair-weather cosmic ray flux by more than 100 percent. This study comprehensively analyzes these…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 A. Chilingarian , B. Sargsyan , T. Karapetyan , D. Aslanyan , S. Chilingaryan , L. Kozliner , Y. Khanikyanc

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

Recent measurements suggest free electrons created in ultra-high energy cosmic ray extensive air showers (EAS) can interact with neutral air molecules producing Bremsstrahlung radiation in the microwave regime. The microwave radiation…

Cosmic ray measurements have inspired numerous interesting applications over several decades worldwide. These applications encompass non-invasive cosmic ray muon tomography, which enables the imaging of concealed dense objects or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-06 Olesya Sarajlic , Xiaochun He

A new promising development in astroparticle physics is to measure the radio emission from extensive air showers. The particles in the cascade emit synchrotron radiation (30 - 90 MHz) which is detected with arrays of dipole antennas. Recent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Joerg R. Hoerandel