Energy Estimation of Cosmic Rays with the Engineering Radio Array of the Pierre Auger Observatory

Aab, Alexander

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.93.122005

Energy Estimation of Cosmic Rays with the Engineering Radio Array of the Pierre Auger Observatory

Journal Article · Tue Jun 14 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Physical Review D

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.93.122005· OSTI ID:1221348

Aab, Alexander ^[1]

Universitat Siegen (Germany). et al.

The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) is part of the Pierre Auger Observatory and is used to detect the radio emission of cosmic-ray air showers. These observations are compared to the data of the surface detector stations of the Observatory, which provide well-calibrated information on the cosmic-ray energies and arrival directions. The response of the radio stations in the 30 to 80MHz regime has been thoroughly calibrated to enable the reconstruction of the incoming electric field. For the latter, the energy density is determined from the radio pulses at each observer position and is interpolated using a two dimensional function that takes into account signal asymmetries due to interference between the geomagnetic and charge excess emission components. We found that the spatial integral over the signal distribution gives a direct measurement of the energy transferred from the primary cosmic ray into radio emission in the AERA frequency range. We measure 15.8MeV of radiation energy for a 1 EeV air shower arriving perpendicularly to the geomagnetic field. This radiation energy – corrected for geometrical effects – is used as a cosmic-ray energy estimator. Performing an absolute energy calibration against the surface-detector information, we observe that this radio-energy estimator scales quadratically with the cosmic-ray energy as expected for coherent emission. Finally we find an energy resolution of the radio reconstruction of 22% for the data set and 17% for a high-quality subset containing only events with at least five radio stations with signal.

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Research Organization:: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP) (SC-25)

Contributing Organization:: Pierre Auger Collaboration

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-07CH11359; FG02-99ER41107; SC0011689

OSTI ID:: 1221348

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1257010

Report Number(s):: FERMILAB-PUB--15-354-AD-AE-CD-TD; arXiv eprint number arXiv:1508.04267

Journal Information:: Physical Review D, Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Issue: 12 Vol. 93; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 2470-0010

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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