1. Radio-detection signature of high-energy cosmic rays by the CODALEMA experiment
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Alain Lecacheux, Didier Charrier, Ferid Haddad, Thierry Gousset, Pascal Lautridou, P. Eschstruth, Olivier Ravel, D. Ardouin, Richard Dallier, D. Monnier-Ragaigne, A. Rahmani, A. Belletoile, J. Lamblin, L. Denis, Laboratoire SUBATECH Nantes (SUBATECH), Mines Nantes (Mines Nantes)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and CODALEMA
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Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Cosmic ray ,Astrophysics ,01 natural sciences ,[PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO] ,Data acquisition ,0103 physical sciences ,Coherence (signal processing) ,Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray ,Radio detection ,010306 general physics ,Instrumentation ,Physics ,[SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph] ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Astrophysics (astro-ph) ,Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Astronomy ,Signature (logic) ,95.55.Jz ,29.90.+r ,96.40-z ,Microwave ,Counting rate - Abstract
Taking advantage of recent technical progress which has overcome some of the difficulties encountered in the 1960's in the radio detection of extensive air showers induced by ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECR), a new experimental apparatus (CODALEMA) has been built and operated. We will present the characteristics of this device and the analysis techniques that have been developed for observing electrical transients associated with cosmic rays. We find a collection of events for which both time and arrival direction coincidences between particle and radio signals are observed. The counting rate corresponds to shower energies $\geq 5\times 10^{16}$ eV. The performance level which has been reached considerably enlarges the perspectives for studying UHECR events using radio detection., merge of astro-ph/0504240 and astro-ph/0504297 into one paper
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- 2005