Speaker
Krijn de Vries
(VUB)
Description
We report on the detection of coherent transition radiation from the electron beam sudden appearance. The Telescope Array Linear Accelerator (TA-LINAC) is constructed to calibrate the TA fluorescence detectors by directing a high-energy electron beam in to the air. This makes the TA-LINAC the perfect device to test future detection techniques, such as the radio detection method, to probe high-energy particle cascades. We report on the measurements of four independent radio set-ups searching for either the direct radio emission from the particle cascade or a radar echo. Due to the different signals sought for, these experiments operated over a wide range of frequencies from 50 MHz up to 12.5 GHz. Besides the signals sought for, all experiments detected a strong transient signal when the beam exits the accelerator. This signal can be described as an extreme form of coherent transition radiation. It is shown that the measurements agree well with the predicted signal over the entire frequency range. The in-nature application of this signal is found for high-energy particle cascades traversing different media such as air and ice or rock.
Primary author
Krijn de Vries
(VUB)
Co-authors
Aongus O'Murchadha
(University of Wisconsin / WIPAC)
Aya Ishihara
(Chiba University)
Bokkyun Shin
(Osaka City University)
Daisuke Ikeda
(University of Tokyo)
Florian Partous
(Vrije Universiteit Brussel / IIHE)
Gordon Thomson
(University of Utah)
Hiroyuki Sagawa
(University of Tokyo)
John Matthews
(University of Utah)
Kael Hanson
(University of Wisconsin / WIPAC)
Keiichi Mase
(Chiba University)
Masaki Fukushima
(University of Tokyo)
Matthew Relich
(Chiba University)
Pavel Motloch
(University of Chicago)
Romain Gaior
(Chiba University / LPNHE)
Shigeru Yoshida
(Chiba University)
Shunsuke Ueyama
(Chiba University)
Takao Kuwabara
(Chiba University)
Tatsunobu Shibata
(KEK)
Thomas Meures
(University of Wisconsin / WIPAC)
