HEP@VUB meeting: 12:00 - 13:00

Thursday 29 Apr 2021, 12:00 → 13:00 Europe/Brussels

Speaker: Katie Mulrey

The seminar will be done remotely through the platform ZOOM.

Alberto Mariotti is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: HEP@VUB meeting
Time: Apr 29, 2021 12:00 PM Brussels

Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/99140765192?pwd=KytHUHMwNUJ3c1E1VGs0cWV0dGIyZz09

Meeting ID: 991 4076 5192
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Event recorded and available at:

https://vub.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=4b5603f4-6a0a-4215-b8f0-ad1900b58d5e

12:00 → 13:00 Radio detection of cosmic rays with LOFAR and beyond

Detecting cosmic rays using the radio emission generated in extensive air showers has proven to be a highly effective technique. The LOFAR telescope, which consists of hundreds of densely spaced antennas measuring in the 30-80 MHz range is particularly well suited to probe the features of radio footprints in great detail. LOFAR has been measuring cosmic rays in the 1017-1018 eV energy range for nearly a decade. In this talk I will give an overview of the results obtained at LOFAR, including precise Xmax measurements and the determination of the radiation energy contained in air showers. I will also discuss the prospects of detecting cosmic rays with the SKA telescope and the Cosmic-Ray Energy Cross-Calibration Array, which will use radiation energy to cross-calibrate the energy scales of different experiments.

VUB_HEP_2021.pdf