1. Comparison of LOPES measurements with CoREAS and REAS 3.11 simulations
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D. Kang, M. Haug, G. C. Trinchero, K. Bekk, T. Pierog, J. Wochele, H. J. Mathes, H. Gemmeke, D. Heck, A. Schmidt, Claus Grupen, H. Rebel, A. Horneffer, P. Doll, M. Melissas, L. Bähren, P. Łuczak, N. Palmieri, J. Oehlschläger, D. Fuhrmann, H. Bozdog, V. de Souza, F. Di Pierro, C. Morello, A. Weindl, Heino Falcke, Jan Kuijpers, Tim Huege, C. Rühle, M. Ludwig, Peter L. Biermann, O. Krömer, Béatrice Fuchs, R. Engel, K. H. Kampert, A. Saftoiu, Markus Roth, Paula Gina Isar, Kai Daumiller, J. A. Zensus, W. D. Apel, J. Rautenberg, Octavian Sima, H. Schieler, G. Toma, J.R. Hörandel, D. Huber, Frank G. Schröder, I.M. Brancus, J. Blümer, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez, M. E. Bertaina, K. Link, A. Haungs, J. Zabierowski, and Andrea Chiavassa
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Physics ,Formalism (philosophy of mathematics) ,Optics ,Amplitude ,LOPES ,business.industry ,Monte carlo code ,Astronomy ,ComputingMethodologies_DOCUMENTANDTEXTPROCESSING ,business ,Computational physics - Abstract
In the previous years, LOPES emerged as a very successful experiment measuring the radio emission from air showers in the MHz frequency range. In parallel, the theoretical description of radio emission was developed further and REAS became a widely used simulation Monte Carlo code. REAS 3 as well as CoREAS are based on the endpoint formalism, i.e. they calculate the emission of the air-shower without assuming specific emission mechanisms. While REAS 3 is based on histograms derived from CORSIKA simulations, CoREAS is directly implemented into CORSIKA without loss of information due to histogramming of the particle distributions. In contrast to the earlier versions of REAS, the newest version REAS 3.11 and CoREAS take into account a realistic atmospheric refractive index. To improve the understanding of the emission processes and judge the quality of the simulations, we compare their predictions with high-quality events measured by LOPES. We present results concerning the lateral distribution measured with 30 east-west aligned LOPES antennas. Only the simulation codes including the refractive index (REAS 3.11 and CoREAS) are able to reproduce the slope of measured lateral distributions, but REAS 3.0 predicts too steep lateral distributions, and does not predict rising lateral distributions as seen in a few LOPES events. Moreover, REAS 3.11 predicts an absolute amplitude compatible with the LOPES measurements.
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- 2013