RT Journal Article
T1 Measurement of the radiation energy in the radio signal of extensive air showers as a universal estimator of cosmic-ray energy.
A1 Arqueros Martínez, Fernando
A1 García Pinto, Diego
A1 Minaya Flores, Ignacio Andrés
A1 Rosado Vélez, Jaime
A1 Vázquez Peñas, José Ramón
AB We measure the energy emitted by extensive air showers in the form of radio emission in the frequency range from 30 to 80 MHz. Exploiting the accurate energy scale of the Pierre Auger Observatory, we obtain a radiation energy of 15.8 +/- 0.7 (stat) +/- 6.7 (syst) MeV for cosmic rays with an energy of 1 EeV arriving perpendicularly to a geomagnetic field of 0.24 G, scaling quadratically with the cosmic-ray energy. A comparison with predictions from state-of-the-art first-principles calculations shows agreement with our measurement. The radiation energy provides direct access to the calorimetric energy in the electromagnetic cascade of extensive air showers. Comparison with our result thus allows the direct calibration of any cosmic-ray radio detector against the well-established energy scale of the Pierre Auger Observatory.
PB American Physical Society
SN 0031-9007
YR 2016
FD 2016-06-14
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/24606
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/24606
LA eng
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NO Ministerium fur Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
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NO Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita e della Ricerca (MIUR)
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