Observation of Radar Echoes from High-Energy Particle Cascades
Abstract
We report here the observation of radar echoes from the ionization trails of high-energy particle cascades. Data were taken at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, where the full electron beam ( at ) was directed into a plastic target to simulate an ultrahigh-energy neutrino interaction. The target was interrogated with radio waves, and coherent radio reflections from the cascades were detected with properties consistent with theoretical expectations. This is the first definitive observation of radar echoes from high-energy particle cascades, which could lead to a viable neutrino detection technology for energies .
- Authors:
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- The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States)
- Vrije Univ., Amsterdam (Netherlands)
- Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (United States); Moscow Engineering Physics Univ., Moscow (Russian Federation)
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- National Taiwan Univ., Taipei (Taiwan)
- Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (United States)
- Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
- California Polytechnic State Univ. (CalPoly), San Luis Obispo, CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Oak Ridge Associated Univ., Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC); European Research Council (ERC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1608339
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1603734
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-76SF00515; SC0014664; 805486; 172922; 14.А12.31.0006; FWO-12L3715N
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 124; Journal Issue: 9; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; 43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
Citation Formats
Prohira, S., de Vries, K. D., Allison, P., Beatty, J., Besson, D., Connolly, A., van Eijndhoven, N., Hast, C., Kuo, C. -Y., Latif, U. A., Meures, T., Nam, J., Nozdrina, A., Ralston, J. P., Riesen, Z., Sbrocco, C., Torres, J., and Wissel, S. Observation of Radar Echoes from High-Energy Particle Cascades. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.124.091101.
Prohira, S., de Vries, K. D., Allison, P., Beatty, J., Besson, D., Connolly, A., van Eijndhoven, N., Hast, C., Kuo, C. -Y., Latif, U. A., Meures, T., Nam, J., Nozdrina, A., Ralston, J. P., Riesen, Z., Sbrocco, C., Torres, J., & Wissel, S. Observation of Radar Echoes from High-Energy Particle Cascades. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.124.091101
Prohira, S., de Vries, K. D., Allison, P., Beatty, J., Besson, D., Connolly, A., van Eijndhoven, N., Hast, C., Kuo, C. -Y., Latif, U. A., Meures, T., Nam, J., Nozdrina, A., Ralston, J. P., Riesen, Z., Sbrocco, C., Torres, J., and Wissel, S. Fri .
"Observation of Radar Echoes from High-Energy Particle Cascades". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.124.091101. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1608339.
@article{osti_1608339,
title = {Observation of Radar Echoes from High-Energy Particle Cascades},
author = {Prohira, S. and de Vries, K. D. and Allison, P. and Beatty, J. and Besson, D. and Connolly, A. and van Eijndhoven, N. and Hast, C. and Kuo, C. -Y. and Latif, U. A. and Meures, T. and Nam, J. and Nozdrina, A. and Ralston, J. P. and Riesen, Z. and Sbrocco, C. and Torres, J. and Wissel, S.},
abstractNote = {We report here the observation of radar echoes from the ionization trails of high-energy particle cascades. Data were taken at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, where the full electron beam (~109e- at ~10GeV/e-) was directed into a plastic target to simulate an ultrahigh-energy neutrino interaction. The target was interrogated with radio waves, and coherent radio reflections from the cascades were detected with properties consistent with theoretical expectations. This is the first definitive observation of radar echoes from high-energy particle cascades, which could lead to a viable neutrino detection technology for energies ≳1016eV.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevlett.124.091101},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 9,
volume = 124,
place = {United States},
year = {2020},
month = {3}
}
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