@article{51c438c855bc4aef8ead19dae14b8a8b,
title = "Cosmic ray physics with the LOFAR radio telescope",
abstract = "The LOFAR radio telescope is able to measure the radio emission from cosmic ray induced air showers with hundreds of individual antennas. This allows for precision testing of the emission mechanisms for the radio signal as well as determination of the depth of shower maximum X max, the shower observable most sensitive to the mass of the primary cosmic ray, to better than 20 g cm-2. With a densely instrumented circular area of roughly 320 m2, LOFAR is targeting for cosmic ray astrophysics in the energy range 1016-1018 eV. In this contribution we give an overview of the status, recent results, and future plans of cosmic ray detection with the LOFAR radio telescope.",
author = "T. Winchen and A. Bonardi and S. Buitink and A. Corstanje and H. Falcke and Hare, {B. M.} and H{\"o}randel, {J. R.} and P. Mitra and K. Mulrey and A. Nelles and Rachen, {J. P.} and L. Rossetto and P. Schellart and O. Scholten and {Ter Veen}, S. and S. Thoudam and Trinh, {T. N.G.}",
note = "Funding Information: Acknowledgements The LOFAR cosmic ray key science project acknowledges funding from an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council (FP/2007-2013) / ERC Grant Agreement n. 227610. The project has also received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 640130). We furthermore acknowledge financial support from FOM, (FOM-project 12PR3041-3) and NWO (Top Grant 614-001-454, and Spinoza Prize SPI 78-409). TW is supported by DFG grant WI 4946/1-1. LOFAR, the Low Frequency Array designed and constructed by ASTRON, has facilities in several countries, that are owned by various parties (each with their own funding sources), and that are collectively operated by the International LOFAR Telescope foundation under a joint scientific policy. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.; 26th Extended European Cosmic Ray Symposium, E+CRS 2018 ; Conference date: 06-07-2018 Through 10-07-2018",
year = "2019",
month = mar,
day = "10",
doi = "10.1088/1742-6596/1181/1/012020",
language = "British English",
volume = "1181",
journal = "Journal of Physics: Conference Series",
issn = "1742-6588",
publisher = "IOP Publishing Ltd.",
number = "1",
}