https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201921602012
First analysis of inclined air showers detected by Tunka-Rex
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Institute of Applied Physics ISU, Irkutsk, Russia
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Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
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Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
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Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics MSU, Moscow
Russia
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Institut für Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe
Germany
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
USA
★ now at the University of Zürich
★★ also at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
Published online: 24 September 2019
The Tunka Radio Extension (Tunka-Rex) is a digital antenna array for the detection of radio emission from cosmic-ray air showers in the frequency band of 30 to 80 MHz and for primary energies above 100 PeV. The standard analysis of Tunka-Rex includes events with zenith angle of up to 50?. This cut is determined by the efficiency of the external trigger. However, due to the air-shower footprint increasing with zenith angle and due to the more efficient generation of radio emission (the magnetic field in the Tunka valley is almost vertical), there are a number of ultra-high-energy inclined events detected by Tunka-Rex. In this work we present a first analysis of a subset of inclined events detected by Tunka-Rex. We estimate the energies of the selected events and test the efficiency of Tunka-Rex antennas for detection of inclined air showers.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2019
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