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Exploiting the radio signal from air showers: The AERA progress

  • Pierre Auger Collaboration
  • Université de Nantes
  • Universität Siegen
  • Instituto Superior Tecnico
  • Sezione di Torino
  • INAF-IAPS
  • Fermilab
  • Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies
  • University of São Paulo
  • CNEA-UNCuyo-CONICET
  • Ohio State University
  • CONICET
  • Universidad Tecnológica
  • Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
  • Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
  • Sezione di Napoli
  • Gran Sasso Science Institute
  • Lehman College
  • Universidad Complutense de Madrid
  • University of Bucharest
  • Universidad Industrial de Santander
  • Observatorio Pierre Auger and Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica
  • Observatorio Pierre Auger and Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica
  • University Politehnica of Bucharest
  • 'Horia Hulubei' National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering
  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
  • Bergische Universität Wuppertal
  • University of Adelaide
  • UJF-Grenoble 1/CNRS-INSU
  • Università di Torino and Sezione INFN
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie
  • Université Paris 11
  • Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
  • Sezione di Lecce
  • Universita del Salento
  • Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso
  • Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)
  • Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
  • Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN
  • Colorado State University
  • RWTH Aachen University

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Abstract

We present the lastest results and status of the Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA), located within the Pierre Auger Observatory. AERA, with more than 150 radio stations spread over 17 km2, is the largest radio detector in the world for extensive air showers above 1017 eV. The electric field emitted by secondary electrons and positrons allows us to estimate all characteristics of the primary cosmic ray: arrival direction, energy and mass composition. The performance of AERA together with the analysis methods are described. The final aim of AERA is mainly to improve the composition estimation of ultra-high energy cosmic rays as a standalone detector or in association with other instruments such as a ground particle detector or a fluorescence telescope.

Original languageBritish English
Article number02013
JournalEPJ Web of Conferences
Volume136
DOIs
StatePublished - 23 Mar 2017
Event6th Roma International Conference on Astroparticle Physics, RICAP 2016 - Frascati, Roma, Italy
Duration: 21 Jun 201624 Jun 2016

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