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Particle content of very inclined air showers for radio signal modeling

arXiv:2310.19612 · doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2024/05/055

Abstract

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, we study the electromagnetic particle content of very inclined air showers, which has scarcely been studied so far. Using the simulation tools CORSIKA and CoREAS, and analytical modeling, we explore the energy range of the particles that contribute most to the radio emission, quantify their lateral extent, and estimate the atmospheric depth at which the radio emission is strongest. We find that the distribution of the electromagnetic component in very inclined air showers has characteristic features that could lead to clear signatures in the radio signal, and hence impact the reconstruction strategies of next-generation radio-detection experiments.

22 pages, 15 figures, accepted for publication to Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. Minor modifications: subsection 2.3 added, figure 2 added, modifications on figure 3, modifications on sections 3.2 and 3.3

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