20.500.12556/RUNG-5142-ad994dbf-38dc-321e-6c48-da5ea4044922
Radar Sensing of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray Showers
The intent of this paper is to review the history and potential importance of the use of radar techniques in detecting the ionization columns of ultra-high energy cosmic ray showers and give a short overview of a currently planned radar experiment at the Telescope Array. There is much activity in cosmic ray research to study the composition and source locations of this phenomena. Radar would be an important addition to fluorescence and scintillation detection as it theoretically could attain greater volume coverage and nearly the accuracy of fluorescence systems with less infrastructure and much longer running times. The currently estimated mean echo lifetime is on the order of 50 µs for a cosmic ray of energy 10^19 eV. It is shown that a continuous wave bi-directional radar system transmitting in the low-VHF with a large obstruction between receiver and transmitter (such as a mountain or earth curvature), which assures direct transmission is reduced, is the nominal configuration and the planned radar experiment at the Telescope Array satisfies these requirements.
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Univerza v Novi Gorici
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