The cosmic-ray air-shower signal in Askaryan radio detectors

Mar 10, 2015
9 pages
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  • Astropart.Phys. 74 (2016) 96-104
  • Published: Feb 1, 2016
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Abstract: (Elsevier)
We discuss the radio emission from high-energy cosmic-ray induced air showers hitting Earth’s surface before the cascade has died out in the atmosphere. The induced emission gives rise to a radio signal which should be detectable in the currently operating Askaryan radio detectors built to search for the GZK neutrino flux in ice. The in-air emission, the in-ice emission, as well as a new component, the coherent transition radiation when the particle bunch crosses the air–ice boundary, are included in the calculations.
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  • Submitted to Astroparticle physics
  • Cosmic rays
  • Neutrinos
  • Radio detection
  • Coherent transition radiation
  • Askaryan radiation
  • transition radiation: coherence
  • showers: atmosphere
  • neutrino: flux
  • cosmic radiation
  • radio wave