https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20135308011
The Air Microwave Yield (AMY) experiment to measure the GHz emission from air shower plasmas
1 Depto. de Fisica de Particulas, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2 Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
3 Sezione INFN, Lecce, Italy
4 Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica Ennio De Giorgi, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy
5 Sezione INFN, Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
6 Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany
7 University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi Institute Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, Chicago, USA
8 Dipartimento di Fisica, Università dell'Aquila and sezione INFN, l'Aquila, Italy
9 Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris 11, CNRS-IN2P3, France
10 Universität Siegen, Germany
a e-mail: valerio.verzi@roma2.infn.it
The AMY experiment aims to measure the Microwave Bremsstrahlung Radiation (MBR) emitted by air-showers secondary electrons accelerating in collisions with neutral molecules of the atmosphere. The measurements are performed at the Beam Test Facility (BTF) of Frascati INFN National Laboratories and the final purpose is to characterize the process to be used in a next generation detectors of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (up to 1020eV). We describe the experimental set-up and the first test measurement performed in November 2011.
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