@article{c786bdcd9f0c4eaa8d4ce5fb1c3beb17,
title = "Overview and status of the lunar detection of cosmic particles with LOFAR",
abstract = "When a cosmic particle hits matter it produces radio emission via the Askaryan effect. This allows to use Earth's moon as detector for cosmic particles by searching for these ns-pulses with radio telescopes. This technique potentially increases the available collective area by several orders of magnitude compared to current experiments. The LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) is the largest radio telescope operating in the optimum frequency regime for corresponding searches. In this contribution, we report on the design and status of the implementation of the lunar detection mode at LOFAR.",
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: 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{\textquoteright}s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 640130). We furthermore acknowledge financial support from FOM, (FOM-project 12PR304) and NWO (VENI grant 639-041-130). 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} Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).; 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2017 ; Conference date: 10-07-2017 Through 20-07-2017",
year = "2017",
language = "British English",
journal = "Proceedings of Science",
issn = "1824-8039",
publisher = "Sissa Medialab Srl",
}