The depth of the shower maximum of air showers measured with AERA

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Abreu, A. - Aglietta, M. - Allekotte, I. - Pont, B. - Bakalová, Alena - Blažek, Jiří - Boháčová, Martina - Chudoba, Jiří - Ebr, Jan - Hamal, Petr - Janeček, Petr - Juryšek, Jakub - Mandát, Dušan - Müller, Ana Laura - Palatka, Miroslav - Pech, Miroslav - Prouza, Michael - Řídký, Jan - dos Santos, Eva M. Martins - Schovánek, Petr - Stadelmaier, Maximilian Klaus - Tobiška, Petr - Trávníček, Petr - Vícha, Jakub - Yushkov, Alexey … Total 374 authors
The depth of the shower maximum of air showers measured with AERA.
Proceedings of Science. Vol. 424. Trieste: Sissa Medilab srl, 2023, č. článku 044. ISSN 1824-8039.
[9th International Workshop on Acoustic and Radio EeV Neutrino Detection Activities (ARENA2022). Santiago de Compostela (ES), 07.06.2022-10.06.2022]
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT LTT18004; GA MŠMT(CZ) EF18_046/0016010; GA MŠMT EF16_013/0001402
Research Infrastructure: AUGER-CZ II - 90102
Institutional support: RVO:68378271
Keywords : high-energy cosmic rays * extensive air showers
OECD category: Particles and field physics
https://pos.sissa.it/424/044/pdf

The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) is an array of 153 radio antennas spanning an area of 17 km2, currently the largest of its kind, that probes the nature of ultra-high energy cosmic rays at energies around the transition from Galactic to extra-galactic origin. It measures the MHz radio emission of extensive air showers produced by cosmic rays hitting our atmosphere. The elemental composition of cosmic rays is a crucial piece of information in determining what the sources of cosmic rays are and how cosmic rays are accelerated. This composition can be obtained from the mass-sensitive parameter Xmax, the depth of the shower maximum. We reconstruct Xmax with a likelihood analysis by comparing the measured radio footprint on the ground to an ensemble of footprints from Monte-Carlo CORSIKA/CoREAS air shower simulations.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0348032