| Title: |
The depth of the shower maximum of air showers measured with AERA |
| Authors: |
Pierre Auger Collaboration; Pont, Bjarni; Abreu, Pedro; Aglietta, Marco; Albury, Justin M.; Allekotte, Ingomar; Almela, Alejandro; Alvarez-Muniz, Jaime; Alves Batista, Rafael; Anastasi, Gioacchino Alex; Anchordoqui, Luis A.; Andrada, Belén; Andringa, Sofia; Aramo, Carla; Araújo Ferreira, Paulo Ricardo; Arteaga Velazquez, Juan Carlos; Asorey, Hernán Gonzalo; Assis, Pedro; Avila, Gualberto; Badescu, Alina Mihaela; Bakalova, Alena; Balaceanu, Alexandru; Barbato, Felicia; Barreira Luz, Ricardo Jorge; Becker, Karl-Heinz; Bellido, Jose A.; Berat, Corinne; Bertaina, Mario Edoardo; Bertou, Xavier; Biermann, Peter L.; Binet, Virginia; Bismark, Kathrin; Bister, Teresa; Biteau, Jonathan; Blazek, Jiri; Bleve, Carla; Bohacova, Martina; boncioli, denise; Bonifazi, Carla; Bonneau Arbeletche, Luan; Borodai, Nataliia; Botti, Ana Martina; Brack, Jeffrey; Bretz, Thomas; Brichetto Orchera, P. Gabriel; Briechle, Florian Lukas; Buchholz, Peter; Bueno, Antonio; Buitink, Stijn; Buscemi, Mario; Büsken, Max; Caballero-Mora, Karen S.; Caccianiga, Lorenzo; Canfora, Fabrizia; Caracas, Ioana; Carceller, Juan Miguel; Caruso, Rossella; Castellina, Antonella; Catalani, Fernando; Cataldi, Gabriella; Cazon, Lorenzo; Cerda, Marcos; Chinellato, Jose Augusto; Chudoba, Jiri; Chytka, Ladislav; Clay, Roger W.; Cobos Cerutti, Agustín; Colalillo, Roberta; Coleman, Alan; Coluccia, Maria Rita; Conceição, Rúben; Condorelli, Antonio; Consolati, Giovanni; Contreras, Fernando; Convenga, Fabio; Correia dos Santos, Diego; Covault, Corbin; Dasso, Sergio; Daumiller, Kai; Dawson, Bruce R.; Day, Jarryd A.; Almeida, Rogerio M. De; Jesús, Joaquín de; Jong, Sijbrand J. De; De Mauro, Giuseppe; Mello Neto, João De; Mitri, Ivan De; Oliveira, Jaime De; Oliveira Franco, Danelise de; Palma, Francesco De; Souza, Vitor de; Vito, Emanuele De; Río, Mariano del; Deligny, Olivier; Deval, Luca; Matteo, Armando Di; Dobrigkeit, Carola; D'Olivo, Juan Carlos; Domingues Mendes, Luis Miguel; Anjos, Rita dos; Santos, Diego dos; Dova, Maria Teresa; Ebr, Jan; Engel, Ralph; Epicoco, Italo; Erdmann, Martin; Escobar, Carlos O.; Etchegoyen, Alberto; Falcke, Heino; Farmer, John; Farrar, Glennys R.; Fauth, Anderson; Fazzini, Norberto; Feldbusch, Fridtjof; Fenu, Francesco; Fick, Brian; Figueira, Juan Manuel; Filipcic, Andrej; Fitoussi, Thomas; Fodran, Tomáš; Freire, Martín Miguel; Fujii, Toshihiro; Fuster, Alan; Galea, Cristina; Galelli, Claudio; García, Beatriz; García Vegas, Adrianna Luz; Gemmeke, Hartmut; Gesualdi, Flavia; Gherghel-Lascu, Alexandru; Ghia, Piera Luisa; Giaccari, Ugo; Giammarchi, Marco; Glombitza, Jonas; Gobbi, Fabian; Gollan, Fernando; Golup, Geraldina; Gómez Berisso, Mariano; Gómez Vitale, Primo F.; Gongora, Juan Pablo; González, Juan Manuel; Gonzalez, Nicolas Martin; Goos, Isabel; Gora, Dariusz; Gorgi, Alessio; Gottowik, Marvin; Grubb, Trent D.; Guarino, Fausto; Guedes, Germano; Guido, Eleonora; Hahn, Steffen; Hamal, Petr; Hampel, Matías Rolf; Hansen, Patricia María; Harari, Diego; Harvey, Violet M.; Haungs, Andreas; Hebbeker, Thomas; Heck, Dieter; Hill, Gary C.; Hojvat, Carlos; Hörandel, Jörg; Horvath, Pavel; Hrabovsky, Miroslav; Huege, Tim; Insolia, Antonio; Isar, Paula Gina; Janecek, Petr; Johnsen, Jeffrey A.; Juryšek, Jakub; Kääpä, Alex; Kampert, Karl-Heinz; Karastathis, Nikolaos; Keilhauer, Bianca; Kemp, Julian; Khakurdikar, Abha; Kizakke Covilakam, Varada Varma; Klages, Hans; Kleifges, Matthias; Kleinfeller, Jonny; Köpke, Marcel; Kunka, Norbert; Lago, Bruno L.; Lang, Rodrigo Guedes; Langner, Niklas; Leigui de Oliveira, Marcelo Augusto; Lenok, Vladimir; Letessier-Selvon, Antoine; Lhenry-Yvon, Isabelle; Lo Presti, Domenico; Lopes, Luis; López, Rebeca; Lu, Lu; Luce, Quentin; Lundquist, Jon Paul; Machado Payeras, Allan; Mancarella, Giovanni; Mandat, Dusan; Manning, Bradley C.; Manshanden, Julien; Mantsch, Paul; Marafico, Sullivan; Mariazzi, Analisa; Maris, Ioana Codrina; Marsella, Giovanni; Martello, Daniele; Martinelli, Sara; Martínez Bravo, Oscar; Mastrodicasa, Massimo; Mathes, Hermann-Josef; Matthews, James; Matthiae, Giorgio; Mayotte, Eric; Mazur, Peter; Medina-Tanco, Gustavo; Melo, Diego; Menshikov, Alexander; Merenda, Kevin-Druis; Michal, Stanislav; Micheletti, Maria Isabel; Miramonti, Lino; Mollerach, Silvia; Montanet, François; Morello, Carlo; Mostafa, Miguel; Müller, Ana L.; Muller, Marcio Aparecido; Mulrey, Katharine; Mussa, Roberto; Muzio, Marco Stein; Namasaka, Wilson M.; Nasr-Esfahani, Alina; Nellen, Lukas; Niculescu-Oglinzanu, Mihai; Niechciol, Marcus; Nitz, Dave; Nosek, Dalibor; Novotný, Vladimír; Nozka, Libor; Nucita, Achille; Nunez, Luis A.; Palatka, Miroslav; Pallotta, Juan; Papenbreer, Philipp; Parente, Gonzalo; Parra, Alejandra; Pawlowsky, Jannis; Pech, Miroslav; Pedreira, Francisco; Pękala, Jan; Pelayo, Rodrigo; Peña-Rodríguez, Jesús; Pereira Martins, Edyvania Emily; Perez Armand, Johnnier; Pérez Bertolli, Carmina; Perlin, Matías; Perrone, Lorenzo; Petrera, Sergio; Pierog, Tanguy; Pimenta, Mário; Pirronello, Valerio; Platino, Manuel; Pothast, Mart; Privitera, Paolo; Prouza, Michael; Puyleart, Andrew; Querchfeld, Sven; Rautenberg, Julian; Ravignani, Diego; Reininghaus, Maximilian; Ridky, Jan; Riehn, Felix; Risse, Markus; Rizi, Vincenzo; Rodrigues Carvalho, Washington De; Rodriguez Rojo, Jorge Rubén; Roncoroni, Matías J.; Rossoni, Simone; Roth, Markus; Roulet, Esteban; Rovero, Adrian; Ruehl, Philip; Saftoiu, Alexandra; Salamida, Francesco; Salazar, Humberto Ibarguen; Salina, Gaetano; Sanabria Gomez, Jose; Sánchez, Federico Andrés; Santos, Edivaldo Moura; Santos, Eva; Sarazin, Fred; Sarmento, Raul; Sarmiento-Cano, Christian; Sato, Ricardo; Savina, Pierpaolo; Schäfer, Christoph M.; Scherini, Viviana; Schieler, Harald; Schimassek, Martin; Schimp, Michael; Schlüter, Felix; Schmidt, David; Scholten, Olaf; Schovanek, Petr; Schröder, Frank G.; Schröder, Sonja; Schulte, Josina; Sciutto, Sergio; Scornavacche, Marina; Segreto, Alberto; Sehgal, Srijan; Shellard, Ronald C.; Sigl, Guenter; Silli, Gaia; Sima, Octavian; Smida, Radomir; Sommers, Paul; Soriano, Jorge F.; Souchard, Julien; Squartini, Ruben; Stadelmaier, Maximilian; Stanca, Denis; Stanič, Samo; Stasielak, Jaroslaw; Stassi, Patrick; Streich, Alexander; Suárez-Durán, Mauricio; Sudholz, Tristan; Suomijarvi, Tiina; Supanitsky, A. Daniel; Szadkowski, Zbigniew; Tapia, Alex; Taricco, Carla; Timmermans, Charles; Tkachenko, Olena; Tobiska, Petr; Todero Peixoto, Carlos J.; Tomé, Bernardo; Torrès, Zoé; Travaini, Andres; Travnicek, Petr; Trimarelli, Caterina; Tueros, Matias; Ulrich, Ralf; Unger, Michael; Vaclavek, Lukáš; Vacula, Martin; Valdés Galicia, Jose F.; Valore, Laura; Varela, Enrique; Vásquez-Ramírez, Adriana; Veberic, Darko; Ventura, Cynthia; Vergara Quispe, Indira D.; Verzi, Valerio; Vicha, Jakub; Vink, Jacco; Vorobiov, Serguei; Wahlberg, Hernan; Watanabe, Clara Keiko Oliveira; Watson, Alan; Weber, Marc; Weindl, Andreas; Wiencke, Lawrence; Wilczyński, Henryk; Wirtz, Marcus; Wittkowski, David; Wundheiler, Brian; Yushkov, Alexey; Zapparrata, Orazio; Zas, Enrique; Zavrtanik, Danilo; Zavrtanik, Marko; Zehrer, Lukas |
| Source: |
ISSN: 1824-8039. |
| Publisher Information: |
Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati |
| Publication Year: |
2021 |
| Collection: |
KITopen (Karlsruhe Institute of Technologie) |
| Subject Terms: |
ddc:530; Physics; info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/530 |
| Description: |
The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) is currently the largest array of radio antennas for the detection of cosmic rays, spanning an area of 17 km$^2$ with 153 radio antennas, measuring in the energy range from 10$^{17.0}$ to 10$^{19.0}$ eV. It detects the radio emission of extensive air showers produced by cosmic rays in the 30−80 MHz band. The cosmic-ray mass composition is a crucial piece of information in determining the sources of cosmic rays and their acceleration mechanisms. The depth of the shower maximum, $X_{max}$, a probe for mass composition can be determined with a likelihood analysis that compares the measured radio-emission footprint on the ground to an ensemble of footprints from CORSIKA/CoREAS Monte-Carlo air shower simulations. These simulations are also used to determine the resolution of the method and to validate the reconstruction by identifying and correcting for systematic uncertainties. We will present the method for the reconstruction of the depth of the shower maximum, achieving a resolution of up to 15 g/cm$^2$, show compatibility with the independent fluorescence detector reconstruction measured on an event-by-event basis, and show that the data taken over the past seven years with AERA shows a light cosmic-ray mass composition reconstruction in the energy range from 10$^{17.5}$ to 10$^{18.8}$ eV. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper; conference object |
| File Description: |
application/pdf |
| Language: |
English |
| ISSN: |
1824-8039 |
| Relation: |
Proceedings of Science / International School for Advanced Studies; info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/1824-8039; https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000138533; https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000138533/128577735; https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000138533 |
| DOI: |
10.5445/IR/1000138533 |
| Availability: |
https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000138533; https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000138533/128577735; https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000138533 |
| Rights: |
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.de ; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.7BD63929 |
| Database: |
BASE |