Radio hybrid reconstruction and analysis of inclined air showers with AERA of the Pierre Auger Observatory : measuring the Hadronic shower development and cosmic ray mass composition / vorgelegt von Marvin Gottowik. Wuppertal, 12.04.2021
Content
- Kurzbeschreibung
- Abstract
- Contents
- Introduction
- Cosmic Rays and Extensive Air Showers
- Extensive air showers
- Energy spectrum
- Mass composition
- Radio emission from extensive air showers
- Simulation of air showers
- Pierre Auger Observatory
- Data Processing and Reconstruction
- The Offline Framework
- SD reconstruction
- FD reconstruction
- RD reconstruction
- Radio trigger
- Signal reconstruction
- Noise rejection
- Directional reconstruction
- Energy reconstruction
- Simulation dataset
- ADST event selection
- Relevance and Special Challenges of Inclined Air Showers
- Size of the radio footprint
- Early-late asymmetry
- Scientific potential
- Refractive displacement of the radio-emission footprint
- Fitting the Cherenkov ring
- Displacement of the radio symmetry center
- Additional checks for air showers with a small geomagnetic angle
- Displacement of particle and radio core in data
- Shape of the radio wavefront
- AERA Event Analysis
- Event selection
- Characterization of the total data set
- Size of the radio footprint on ground
- Comparison with CoREAS simulations
- Quality of the LDF model for inclined air showers
- Prospects of a sparse radio grid
- Hadronic Shower Development and Composition Analysis
- Conclusion
- Shower Simulation Input Files
- Saturation of Radio Stations
- Event Selection
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- References
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