EPJ Web of Conferences 121, 03010 (2016)
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201612103010

The AMY experiment: Microwave emission from air shower plasmas

¹ Depto. de Fisica de Particulas, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
² Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies (LPNHE), Universités Paris 6 et Paris 7, CNRS-IN2P3, Paris, France
³ Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
⁴ Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, via E. Fermi, 40, 00044 Frascati, Italy
⁵ Sezione INFN, Lecce, Italy
⁶ Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica Ennio De Giorgi, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy
⁷ Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy
⁸ Sezione INFN, Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
⁹ University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi Institute Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, Chicago, USA
¹⁰ Dipartimento di Fisica, Università dell'Aquila and sezione INFN, l'Aquila, Italy
¹¹ Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université J. Fourier Grenoble, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
¹² Universidad de Granada and C.A.F.P.E., Granada, Spain
¹³ University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi Institute Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, Chicago, USA
¹⁴ Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris 11, CNRS-IN2P3, France
¹⁵ Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

^a Corresponding author: claudio.digiulio@roma2.infn.it

Published online: 6 July 2016

Abstract

You The Air Microwave Yield (AMY) experiment investigate the molecular bremsstrahlung radiation emitted in the GHz frequency range from an electron beam induced air-shower. The measurements have been performed at the Beam Test Facility (BTF) of Frascati INFN National Laboratories with a 510 MeV electron beam in a wide frequency range between 1 and 20 GHz. We present the apparatus and the results of the tests performed.