Radio detection of cosmic ray air showers with LOPES
arXiv:astro-ph/0609427 · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2006.11.046
Abstract
In the last few years, radio detection of cosmic ray air showers has experienced a true renaissance, becoming manifest in a number of new experiments and simulation efforts. In particular, the LOPES project has successfully implemented modern interferometric methods to measure the radio emission from extensive air showers. LOPES has confirmed that the emission is coherent and of geomagnetic origin, as expected by the geosynchrotron mechanism, and has demonstrated that a large scale application of the radio technique has great potential to complement current measurements of ultra-high energy cosmic rays. We describe the current status, most recent results and open questions regarding radio detection of cosmic rays and give an overview of ongoing research and development for an application of the radio technique in the framework of the Pierre Auger Observatory.
8 pages; Proceedings of the CRIS2006 conference, Catania, Italy; to be published in Nuclear Physics B, Proceedings Supplements
References in corpus (8)
- Detection and imaging of atmospheric radio flashes from cosmic ray air showers
- Detecting Radio Emission from Cosmic Ray Air Showers and Neutrinos with a Digital Radio Telescope
- Radio Emission from Cosmic Ray Air Showers: Coherent Geosynchrotron Radiation
- Radioelectric Field Features of Extensive Air Showers Observed with CODALEMA
- Radio emission from cosmic ray air showers: simulation results and parametrization
- Radio emission from cosmic ray air showers: Monte Carlo simulations
- Progress in Air Shower Radio Measurements: Detection of Distant Events
- Radio Detection of Cosmic Ray Air Shower by the CODALEMA Experiment