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Radio-wave detection of ultra-high-energy neutrinos and cosmic rays
Huege, Tim Besson, David Zeke
Huege, Tim
Besson, David Zeke
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Radio waves, perhaps because our terrestrial atmosphere and the cosmos beyond are uniquely transparent to them, or perhaps because they are macroscopic, so the basic instruments of detection (antennas) are easily constructible, arguably occupy a privileged position within the electromagnetic spectrum, and, correspondingly, receive disproportionate attention experimentally. Detection of radio-frequency radiation, at macroscopic wavelengths, has blossomed within the last decade as a competitive method for the measurement of cosmic particles, particularly charged cosmic rays and neutrinos. Cosmic-ray detection via radio emission from extensive air showers has been demonstrated to be a reliable technique that has reached a reconstruction quality of the cosmic-ray parameters competitive with more traditional approaches. Radio detection of neutrinos in dense media seems to be the most promising technique to achieve the gigantic detection volumes required to measure neutrinos at energies beyond the PeV-scale flux established by IceCube. In this article, we review radio detection both of cosmic rays in the atmosphere, as well as neutrinos in dense media.
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2017-11-29
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Oxford University Press
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Instrumentation and technique, Ultra-high energy phenomena of cosmic rays
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Tim Huege, Dave Besson; Radio-wave detection of ultra-high-energy neutrinos and cosmic rays, Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Volume 2017, Issue 12, 1 December 2017, 12A106, https://doi.org/10.1093/ptep/ptx009