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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

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

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

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 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

The electric field of the Cherenkov radio pulse produced by a single charged particle track in a dielectric medium is derived from first principles. An algorithm is developed to obtain the pulse in the time domain for numerical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Jaime Alvarez-Muniz , Andres Romero-Wolf , Enrique 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

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

We propose a new method to identify flavors of ultra high energy cosmic neutrinos. Energy loss of leptons in matter provides important informations for the detection of neutrinos originated from high energy astrophysical sources. 50 years…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-15 Kwang-Chang Lai , Chih-Ching Chen , Pisin Chen

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

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

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

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

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

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

Subatomic particles can interact with target nuclei in matter or decay in flight, and an individual high-energy particle can induce a particle shower composed of numerous, lower-energy secondaries. These particle showers broadly exhibit…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-07 Ian Crawshaw , Tianlu Yuan , Emre Yildizci , Lu Lu , Anatoli Fedynitch

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

High energy particle showers produce coherent Cherenkov radio emission in dense, radio-transparent media such as cold ice. Using PYTHIA and GEANT simulation tools, we make a comparative study among electromagnetic (EM) and hadronic showers…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Shahid Hussain , Douglas W. McKay

We have estimated the reflected component of Cherenkov radiation, which arises in developing of an extensive air shower with primary energy of 10^20 eV over the ocean surface. It has been shown that, under conditions of the TUS experiment,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 O. P. Shustova , N. N. Kalmykov , B. A. Khrenov

We study the implications of the LPM effect for the Cherenkov radiation of EeV electromagnetic showers in the coherent radiowave regime for ice. We show that for showers above 100~PeV the electric field scales with shower energy but has a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. Alvarez-Muñiz , E. Zas
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