Antennas for the detection of radio emission pulses from cosmic-ray induced air showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory

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Dova, María Teresa; Gómez Albarracín, Flavia Alejandra; Hansen, Patricia María; Jarne, Cecilia Gisele; Mariazzi, Analisa Gabriela; Moreno, Juan Cruz; Sciutto, Sergio Juan; Wahlberg, Hernán Pablo; The Pierre Auger Collaboration
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2012
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The Pierre Auger Observatory is exploring the potential of the radio detection technique to study extensive air showers induced by ultra-high energy cosmic rays. The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) addresses both technological and scientific aspects of the radio technique. A first phase of AERA has been operating since September 2010 with detector stations observing radio signals at frequencies between 30 and 80 MHz. In this paper we present comparative studies to identify and optimize the antenna design for the final configuration of AERA consisting of 160 individual radio detector stations. The transient nature of the air shower signal requires a detailed description of the antenna sensor. As the ultra-wideband reception of pulses is not widely discussed in antenna literature, we review the relevant antenna characteristics and enhance theoretical considerations towards the impulse response of antennas including polarization effects and multiple signal reflections. On the basis of the vector effective length we study the transient response characteristics of three candidate antennas in the time domain. Observing the variation of the continuous galactic background intensity we rank the antennas with respect to the noise level added to the galactic signal.
La lista completa de autores que integran el documento puede consultarse en el archivo.
Instituto de Física La Plata
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Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physics
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Antennas for the detection of radio emission pulses from cosmic-ray induced air showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory
title Antennas for the detection of radio emission pulses from cosmic-ray induced air showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory
spellingShingle Antennas for the detection of radio emission pulses from cosmic-ray induced air showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory
Dova, María Teresa
Ciencias Astronómicas
Antennas
Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physics
title_short Antennas for the detection of radio emission pulses from cosmic-ray induced air showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory
title_full Antennas for the detection of radio emission pulses from cosmic-ray induced air showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory
title_fullStr Antennas for the detection of radio emission pulses from cosmic-ray induced air showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory
title_full_unstemmed Antennas for the detection of radio emission pulses from cosmic-ray induced air showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory
title_sort Antennas for the detection of radio emission pulses from cosmic-ray induced air showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Dova, María Teresa
Gómez Albarracín, Flavia Alejandra
Hansen, Patricia María
Jarne, Cecilia Gisele
Mariazzi, Analisa Gabriela
Moreno, Juan Cruz
Sciutto, Sergio Juan
Wahlberg, Hernán Pablo
The Pierre Auger Collaboration
author Dova, María Teresa
author_facet Dova, María Teresa
Gómez Albarracín, Flavia Alejandra
Hansen, Patricia María
Jarne, Cecilia Gisele
Mariazzi, Analisa Gabriela
Moreno, Juan Cruz
Sciutto, Sergio Juan
Wahlberg, Hernán Pablo
The Pierre Auger Collaboration
author_role author
author2 Gómez Albarracín, Flavia Alejandra
Hansen, Patricia María
Jarne, Cecilia Gisele
Mariazzi, Analisa Gabriela
Moreno, Juan Cruz
Sciutto, Sergio Juan
Wahlberg, Hernán Pablo
The Pierre Auger Collaboration
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ciencias Astronómicas
Antennas
Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physics
topic Ciencias Astronómicas
Antennas
Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physics
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv The Pierre Auger Observatory is exploring the potential of the radio detection technique to study extensive air showers induced by ultra-high energy cosmic rays. The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) addresses both technological and scientific aspects of the radio technique. A first phase of AERA has been operating since September 2010 with detector stations observing radio signals at frequencies between 30 and 80 MHz. In this paper we present comparative studies to identify and optimize the antenna design for the final configuration of AERA consisting of 160 individual radio detector stations. The transient nature of the air shower signal requires a detailed description of the antenna sensor. As the ultra-wideband reception of pulses is not widely discussed in antenna literature, we review the relevant antenna characteristics and enhance theoretical considerations towards the impulse response of antennas including polarization effects and multiple signal reflections. On the basis of the vector effective length we study the transient response characteristics of three candidate antennas in the time domain. Observing the variation of the continuous galactic background intensity we rank the antennas with respect to the noise level added to the galactic signal.
La lista completa de autores que integran el documento puede consultarse en el archivo.
Instituto de Física La Plata
description The Pierre Auger Observatory is exploring the potential of the radio detection technique to study extensive air showers induced by ultra-high energy cosmic rays. The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) addresses both technological and scientific aspects of the radio technique. A first phase of AERA has been operating since September 2010 with detector stations observing radio signals at frequencies between 30 and 80 MHz. In this paper we present comparative studies to identify and optimize the antenna design for the final configuration of AERA consisting of 160 individual radio detector stations. The transient nature of the air shower signal requires a detailed description of the antenna sensor. As the ultra-wideband reception of pulses is not widely discussed in antenna literature, we review the relevant antenna characteristics and enhance theoretical considerations towards the impulse response of antennas including polarization effects and multiple signal reflections. On the basis of the vector effective length we study the transient response characteristics of three candidate antennas in the time domain. Observing the variation of the continuous galactic background intensity we rank the antennas with respect to the noise level added to the galactic signal.
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