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Results of a self-triggered prototype system for radio-detection of extensive air showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory
P. Abreu
M. Avenier
1
C. Berat
1
J. Chauvin
1
D.H. Koang
1
S. Le Coz
1
D. Lebrun
1
K. Louedec
1
F. Montanet
1
A. Stutz
1
M. Tartare
1
C. Rivière
1
P. Stassi
1
A. Bell Etoile
2
Richard Dallier
2
Pascal Lautridou
2
J. Maller
2
V. Marin
2
Lilian Martin
2
O. Ravel
2
Benoît Revenu
2
D. Torres Machado
2
S. Acounis
2
Didier Charrier
2
T. Gar Con
R. Bardenet
3
A. Cordier
3
S. Dagoret-Campagne
3
D. Garcia Gamez
3
Balázs Kégl
3
D. Monnier Ragaigne
3
Martin Urban
3
P. Abreu
Author
M. Avenier 1
Author
C. Berat 1
Author IdHAL : corinne-berat ORCID : https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8294-6294
J. Chauvin 1
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P. Stassi 1
Author
A. Bell Etoile 2
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Richard Dallier 2
Author IdHAL : richard-dallier ORCID : https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9452-4849
Pascal Lautridou 2
Author IdHAL : pascal-lautridou
J. Maller 2
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V. Marin 2
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Lilian Martin 2
Author IdHAL : lilian-martin ORCID : https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9781-2632
O. Ravel 2
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Benoît Revenu 2
Author IdHAL : benoit-revenu ORCID : https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7629-4805
D. Torres Machado 2
Author
S. Acounis 2
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Didier Charrier 2
Author IdHAL : didier-charrier ORCID : https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2072-1732
T. Gar Con
Author
R. Bardenet 3
Author IdHAL : rbardenet
A. Cordier 3
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S. Dagoret-Campagne 3
Author IdHAL : sylvie-dagoret-campagne ORCID : https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1131-7030 arXiv : https://arxiv.org/a/S. Dagoret
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LPSC - Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (53 avenue des Martyrs - 38026 Grenoble Cedex - France)
- UJF - Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (BP 53 - 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9 - France)
- Grenoble INP - Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (46 avenue Félix Viallet 38031 Grenoble Cedex 1 - France)
- IN2P3 - Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (France)
- Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (France)
- CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR5821 (France)
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SUBATECH - Laboratoire SUBATECH Nantes (4, rue Alfred Kastler - 44070 Nantes Cedex 03 - France)
- Mines Nantes - Mines Nantes (La Chantrerie - 4, rue Alfred Kastler - BP 20722 - 44307 Nantes cedex 3 - France)
- UN - Université de Nantes (1, quai de Tourville - BP 13522 - 44035 Nantes cedex 1 - France)
- IN2P3 - Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (France)
- CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR6457 (France)
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LAL - Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (Centre Scientifique d'Orsay B.P. 34 91898 ORSAY Cedex - France)
- CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR8607 (France)
- IN2P3 - Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (France)
- UP11 - Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (Bâtiment 300 - 91405 Orsay cedex - France)
Abstract : We describe the experimental setup and the results of RAuger, a small radio-antenna array, consisting of three fully autonomous and self-triggered radio-detection stations, installed close to the center of the Surface Detector (SD) of the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina. The setup has been designed for the detection of the electric field strength of air showers initiated by ultra-high energy cosmic rays, without using an auxiliary trigger from another detection system. Installed in December 2006, RAuger was terminated in May 2010 after 65 registered coincidences with the SD. The sky map in local angular coordinates (i.e., zenith and azimuth angles) of these events reveals a strong azimuthal asymmetry which is in agreement with a mechanism dominated by a geomagnetic emission process. The correlation between the electric field and the energy of the primary cosmic ray is presented for the first time, in an energy range covering two orders of magnitude between 0.1 EeV and 10 EeV. It is demonstrated that this setup is relatively more sensitive to inclined showers, with respect to the SD. In addition to these results, which underline the potential of the radio-detection technique, important information about the general behavior of self-triggering radio-detection systems has been obtained. In particular, we will discuss radio self-triggering under varying local electric-field conditions.
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- HAL Id : in2p3-00748795, version 1
- ARXIV : 1211.0572
- DOI : 10.1088/1748-0221/7/11/P11023
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P. Abreu, M. Avenier, C. Berat, J. Chauvin, D.H. Koang, et al.. Results of a self-triggered prototype system for radio-detection of extensive air showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory. Journal of Instrumentation, IOP Publishing, 2012, 7, pp.P11023. ⟨10.1088/1748-0221/7/11/P11023⟩. ⟨in2p3-00748795⟩
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