PeVatron Search Using Radio Measurements of Extensive Air Showers at the South Pole
Abstract The Galactic Center is visible from the South Pole throughout the year, at an inclination of 61°. High energy gamma-rays arriving at the South Pole from this direction, will produce inclined air showers in the atmosphere. Since radio emission of inclined showers leaves a large footprint on...
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crioppubl:10.1088/1742-6596/1342/1/012006 2024-06-02T08:14:32+00:00 PeVatron Search Using Radio Measurements of Extensive Air Showers at the South Pole Aswathi, Balagopal V Haungs, Andreas Huege, Tim Schröder, Frank G 2020 http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1342/1/012006 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/1342/1/012006/pdf https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/1342/1/012006 unknown IOP Publishing http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ https://iopscience.iop.org/info/page/text-and-data-mining Journal of Physics: Conference Series volume 1342, issue 1, page 012006 ISSN 1742-6588 1742-6596 journal-article 2020 crioppubl https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1342/1/012006 2024-05-07T14:04:45Z Abstract The Galactic Center is visible from the South Pole throughout the year, at an inclination of 61°. High energy gamma-rays arriving at the South Pole from this direction, will produce inclined air showers in the atmosphere. Since radio emission of inclined showers leaves a large footprint on the ground, a measurement of the electromagnetic shower component using the radio technique is possible. It is already known that radio detection of air showers helps in the reconstruction of the shower maximum and the energy of the air shower with a very good accuracy. Using radio detectors along with particle detectors enhances the detection accuracy of the air shower events and helps in separating the gamma-ray induced events. IceCube-Gen2, the proposed extension of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, will enhance both the surface and in-ice capabilities of the facility. Ideas for adding surface radio antennas are under discussion in addition to the upgrade and extension of the IceTop surface array using scintillator detectors. While the scintillators will primarily be used for improving the calibration and lowering the veto energy threshold for distinguishing cosmic ray from astrophysical neutrino events, they can also be used with radio antennas to search for photons of PeV energies from the Galactic Center. Using such a setup at the South Pole can help in the identification of the Galactic Center as a PeVatron. In particular, the key for such a search is to use frequencies higher than the standard frequencies used by air-shower radio experiments, which thereby lowers the energy threshold. Article in Journal/Newspaper South pole IOP Publishing South Pole Journal of Physics: Conference Series 1342 012006 |
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Abstract The Galactic Center is visible from the South Pole throughout the year, at an inclination of 61°. High energy gamma-rays arriving at the South Pole from this direction, will produce inclined air showers in the atmosphere. Since radio emission of inclined showers leaves a large footprint on the ground, a measurement of the electromagnetic shower component using the radio technique is possible. It is already known that radio detection of air showers helps in the reconstruction of the shower maximum and the energy of the air shower with a very good accuracy. Using radio detectors along with particle detectors enhances the detection accuracy of the air shower events and helps in separating the gamma-ray induced events. IceCube-Gen2, the proposed extension of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, will enhance both the surface and in-ice capabilities of the facility. Ideas for adding surface radio antennas are under discussion in addition to the upgrade and extension of the IceTop surface array using scintillator detectors. While the scintillators will primarily be used for improving the calibration and lowering the veto energy threshold for distinguishing cosmic ray from astrophysical neutrino events, they can also be used with radio antennas to search for photons of PeV energies from the Galactic Center. Using such a setup at the South Pole can help in the identification of the Galactic Center as a PeVatron. In particular, the key for such a search is to use frequencies higher than the standard frequencies used by air-shower radio experiments, which thereby lowers the energy threshold. |
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PeVatron Search Using Radio Measurements of Extensive Air Showers at the South Pole |
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PeVatron Search Using Radio Measurements of Extensive Air Showers at the South Pole |
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