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@MISC{_detectingradio,
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title = {Detecting Radio Pulses from Air Showers},
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Abstract
Abstract—Cosmic rays are energetic particles from outside the earth’s atmosphere. When a high energy cosmic ray hits the atmosphere it triggers a cascade of secondary particles produced in nuclear interactions, an air shower. Up to now the established methods of measuring air showers are detection of the particles that reach the ground level or optical observation of the Cherenkov or fluorescent light. The measurement of radio pulses from air showers has a number of advantages: It gives a much higher duty cycle than measuring optical light, it measures the whole shower evolution thus being complementary to measuring the particles that reach the ground level, and it has the potential of giving a better direction estimate of the primary cosmic ray. Historically these radio measurements have been plagued by man- and self-made radio interference. But the advent of fast
Keyphrases
air shower radio pulse ground level nuclear interaction fluorescent light whole shower evolution primary cosmic ray optical observation secondary particle high energy cosmic ray self-made radio interference energetic particle radio measurement optical light direction estimate duty cycle abstract cosmic ray
