Reconstruction of the energy and depth of maximum of cosmic-ray air-showers from LOPES radio measurements
Aug 11, 2014- Phys.Rev.D 90 (2014) 6, 062001
- 1408.2346 [astro-ph.IM]
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LOPES is a digital radio interferometer located at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, that measures radio emission from extensive air showers at MHz frequencies in coincidence with KASCADE-Grande. In this article, we explore a method (slope method) that leverages the slope of the measured radio lateral distribution to reconstruct crucial attributes of primary cosmic rays. First, we present an investigation of the method on the basis of pure simulations. Second, we directly apply the slope method to LOPES measurements. Applying the slope method to simulations, we obtain uncertainties on the reconstruction of energy and depth of shower maximum (
- 16 pages, accepted by Physical Review D
- showers: atmosphere
- cosmic radiation: primary
- slope
- interferometer
- radio wave: emission
- KASCADE
- Cherenkov: photon
- numerical calculations
- noise
- site
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