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Tunka-Rex: energy reconstruction with a single antenna station
- Source :
- EPJ Web of Conferences, Vol 135, p 01004 (2017)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- EDP Sciences, 2017.
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Abstract
- The Tunka-Radio extension (Tunka-Rex) is a radio detector for air showers in Siberia. From 2012 to 2014, Tunka-Rex operated exclusively together with its host experiment, the air-Cherenkov array Tunka-133, which provided trigger, data acquisition, and an independent air-shower reconstruction. It was shown that the air-shower energy can be reconstructed by Tunka-Rex with a precision of 15% for events with signal in at least 3 antennas, using the radio amplitude at a distance of 120 m from the shower axis as an energy estimator. Using the reconstruction from the host experiment Tunka-133 for the air-shower geometry (shower core and direction), the energy estimator can in principle already be obtained with measurements from a single antenna, close to the reference distance. We present a method for event selection and energy reconstruction, requiring only one antenna, and achieving a precision of about 20%. This method increases the effective detector area and lowers thresholds for zenith angle and energy, resulting in three times more events than in the standard reconstruction.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 2100014X
- Volume :
- 135
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- EPJ Web of Conferences
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.9ae64f7070fd4556b3908eb85f4ed1ff
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201713501004