July 10, 2007 Detection of Askaryan radio pulses produced by cores of air showers. Suruj Seunarine, Amir Javaid, David Seckel, Philip Wahrlich, John Clem D. Seckel, Univ. of Delaware
Askaryan pulses from air shower cores, Merida, 30 th ICRC, July (Seckel) Topics Concept: –A source to test radio techniques –CR composition ? Askaryan pulses & air shower dimensions Air shower properties (AIRES & CORSIKA) –Particle content –Radial and energy distributions Calculation of RF signal –Coherent addition of subshowers –Issues: near zone/far zone, ray tracing Composition studies Detection –IceCube: shallow array, AURA –ANITA
Askaryan pulses from air shower cores, Merida, 30 th ICRC, July (Seckel) Theorist’s view of the UHE neutrino sky
Askaryan pulses from air shower cores, Merida, 30 th ICRC, July (Seckel) Recall how radio works 5 m 10 cm JC, SY: “How do you know when you haven’t seen anything?”
Askaryan pulses from air shower cores, Merida, 30 th ICRC, July (Seckel) Radio Goals & Staging 100 events/yr above eV >1000 km 3 sr Validation of design for field work Prototype projects – more than upper limits Detect Air Showers: Signal/Background/Calib
Askaryan pulses from air shower cores, Merida, 30 th ICRC, July (Seckel) Askaryan pulses from air shower core
Askaryan pulses from air shower cores, Merida, 30 th ICRC, July (Seckel) Critical dimensions
Askaryan pulses from air shower cores, Merida, 30 th ICRC, July (Seckel) High energy ground level particles at SP CORSIKA/AIRES –Primary energy: 1,10,100,1000 PeV –Cutoff: 1,10,100,1000 GeV –Compositionp & Fe Explore –Particle content rad - meson - baryon - mu –Radial profilesE sh vs r –Shower development dN/dE, ancestry
Askaryan pulses from air shower cores, Merida, 30 th ICRC, July (Seckel) Ground level particles e-e- n,p
Askaryan pulses from air shower cores, Merida, 30 th ICRC, July (Seckel) Radial distributions by particle ID radiating mesons baryons muons
Askaryan pulses from air shower cores, Merida, 30 th ICRC, July (Seckel) E vs r (AIRES)
Askaryan pulses from air shower cores, Merida, 30 th ICRC, July (Seckel) E vs r (CORSIKA) Fraction of available energy approaches 10% by 100 PeV Scaling allows use of high cutoff
Askaryan pulses from air shower cores, Merida, 30 th ICRC, July (Seckel) Synthesis of Askaryan pulses Many ground level particles –Superposition Individual RF pulses –Event: (id, t e, x e, n, E) –SubShower:(t s, x s, n, (r,l,s)) –Resolve geometry to antenna –Launch EM pulse(scaled AVZ) –Propagation effects (1/r, attenuation) –Adjust phase to common time basis Response –CoAdd spectra(t, n, pol, (complex spectrum)) –Antenna/DAQ
Askaryan pulses from air shower cores, Merida, 30 th ICRC, July (Seckel) Subshowers & Coherence of RF pulses
Askaryan pulses from air shower cores, Merida, 30 th ICRC, July (Seckel) Time Domain Waveforms
Askaryan pulses from air shower cores, Merida, 30 th ICRC, July (Seckel) RF: (E p = 1 EeV, E cut = 1 TeV )
Askaryan pulses from air shower cores, Merida, 30 th ICRC, July (Seckel) EeV/TeV again
Askaryan pulses from air shower cores, Merida, 30 th ICRC, July (Seckel) RF Cerenkov Rings
Askaryan pulses from air shower cores, Merida, 30 th ICRC, July (Seckel) RF vs Core Size
Askaryan pulses from air shower cores, Merida, 30 th ICRC, July (Seckel) Determining Cosmic Ray Composition AIRES showers (from S. Seunarine) E sh (r<20 cm) as proxy for radio High-lite: 10 PeV, True iron
Askaryan pulses from air shower cores, Merida, 30 th ICRC, July (Seckel) Comparison of Fe/p
Askaryan pulses from air shower cores, Merida, 30 th ICRC, July (Seckel) Scaling & Rates Rate independent of D Threshold increases with D True for E -3 –But not for E -2 Rate for 3PeV = 1/hour
Askaryan pulses from air shower cores, Merida, 30 th ICRC, July (Seckel) Shallow Array Concepts Drill 16 x 30m holes –1 dom per hole –4 antennas per dom 2 x 50m cables to each of four nearby strings & SJB 2 doms per cable
Askaryan pulses from air shower cores, Merida, 30 th ICRC, July (Seckel) AURA geometry
Askaryan pulses from air shower cores, Merida, 30 th ICRC, July (Seckel) ANITA (A. Javaid) Rate –A km 2 sr – 1400/day E>10 19 – ? /dayE>10 20 High, Thin, Ice
Askaryan pulses from air shower cores, Merida, 30 th ICRC, July (Seckel) Summary Test beam for radio sure would be nice Air Shower Cores: E eff ~ 10% E p (at EeV) Synthetic RF looks usable CR Composition Measurement –Core energy anti-correlated with deep- –p-Fe separation Three scenarios –Small subsurface array w/IceTop –AURA –ANITA
Askaryan pulses from air shower cores, Merida, 30 th ICRC, July (Seckel) END
Askaryan pulses from air shower cores, Merida, 30 th ICRC, July (Seckel) Radial distributions by energy
Askaryan pulses from air shower cores, Merida, 30 th ICRC, July (Seckel) Sample the Cerenkov Ring