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
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.
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