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Experimental evidence for the sensitivity of the air-shower radio signal to the longitudinal shower development

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 نشر من قبل Frank Schr\\\"oder
 تاريخ النشر 2012
  مجال البحث فيزياء
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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.



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