Status of the Lunar Detection Mode for Cosmic Particles of LOFAR

Cosmic particles hitting Earth's moon produce radio emission via the Askaryan effect. If the resulting radio ns-pulse can be detected by radio telescopes, this technique potentially increases the available collective area for ZeV scale particles by several orders of magnitude compared to curren...

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Published inJournal of physics. Conference series Vol. 1181; no. 1; pp. 12077 - 12082
Main Authors Winchen, T., Bonardi, A., Buitink, S., Corstanje, A., Falcke, H., Hare, B. M., Hörandel, J. R., Mitra, P., Mulrey, K., Nelles, A., Rachen, J. P., Rossetto, L., Schellart, P., Scholten, O., ter Veen, S., Thoudam, S., Trinh, T. N. G.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Bristol IOP Publishing 01.02.2019
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LOFAR
Radio emission
Radio telescopes
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Summary:Cosmic particles hitting Earth's moon produce radio emission via the Askaryan effect. If the resulting radio ns-pulse can be detected by radio telescopes, this technique potentially increases the available collective area for ZeV scale particles 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 this technique. In this contribution, we report on the status of the implementation of the lunar detection mode at LOFAR.
ISSN:1742-6588
1742-6596
DOI:10.1088/1742-6596/1181/1/012077