LOPES实验的绝对振幅校准修订
天体物理仪器与方法
2015-08-17 v1 高能天体物理现象
高能物理 - 实验
仪器与探测器
摘要
LOPES实验的主要目标之一是评估空气簇射射电信号的绝对振幅。这一点尤为令人关注，因为射电技术基于蒙特卡洛模拟的信号预测，为宇宙线能量尺度提供了一种独立且高精度的测定可能。对于LOPES测量的振幅校准，我们使用了一个外部源。先前LOPES测量与CoREAS预测的射电信号振幅模拟之间的比较揭示出约两倍量级的差异。制造商最近对参考校准源（现已针对自由场）进行了重新测量。更新后的校准值使得LOPES测量的重建电场降低了 倍，从而与CoREAS模拟显著更好地吻合。我们讨论了更新后的校准及其对LOPES分析结果的影响。
引用
@article{arxiv.1508.03471,
title = {Revised absolute amplitude calibration of the LOPES experiment},
author = {K. Link and T. Huege and W. D. Apel and J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez and L. Bähren and K. Bekk and M. Bertaina and P. L. Biermann and J. Blümer and H. Bozdog and I. M. Brancus and E. Cantoni and A. Chiavassa and K. Daumiller and V. de Souza and F. Di Pierro and P. Doll and R. Engel and H. Falcke and B. Fuchs and H. Gemmeke and C. Grupen and A. Haungs and D. Heck and R. Hiller and J. R. Hörandel and A. Horneffer and D. Huber and P. G. Isar and K-H. Kampert and D. Kang and O. Krömer and J. Kuijpers and P. Łuczak and M. Ludwig and H. J. Mathes and M. Melissas and C. Morello and J. Oehlschläger and N. Palmieri and T. Pierog and J. Rautenberg and H. Rebel and M. Roth and C. Rühle and A. Saftoiu and H. Schieler and A. Schmidt and S. Schoo and F. G. Schröder and O. Sima and G. Toma and G. C. Trinchero and A. Weindl and J. Wochele and J. Zabierowski and J. A. Zensus},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.03471},
year = {2015}
}
备注
Proceedings of the 34th ICRC, The Hague, The Netherlands, PoS(ICRC2015)311