Experimental evidence for the sensitivity of the air-shower radio signal to the longitudinal shower development
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We observe a correlation between the slope of radio lateral distributions, and the mean muon pseudorapidity of 59 individual cosmic-ray-air-shower events. The radio lateral distributions are measured with LOPES, a digital radio interferometer co-located with the multi-detector-air-shower array KASCADE-Grande, which includes a muon-tracking detector. The result proves experimentally that radio measurements are sensitive to the longitudinal development of cosmic-ray air-showers. This is one of the main prerequisites for using radio arrays for ultra-high-energy particle physics and astrophysics.Note:
- 6 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication by Physical Review D
- 95.55.Jz
- 96.50.sd
- showers: atmosphere
- cosmic radiation: UHE
- correlation
- radio wave
- muon: rapidity
- shape analysis: showers
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