TY - GEN
T1 - Comparison of ZHAireS and CoREAS radio emission simulations in the Ultra-High Frequency Band
AU - THE ANITA COLLABORATION
AU - Bugaev, Viatcheslav
AU - Rauch, Brian
AU - Binns, Robert
AU - Israel, Martin
AU - Belov, Konstantin
AU - Huege, Tim
AU - Lam, Joe
AU - Romero-Wolf, Andrew
AU - Wissel, Stephanie
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2013 Sociedade Brasileira de Fisica. All Rights Reserved.
Copyright:
Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - The third flight of the high-altitude balloon-borne ANtarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA III) planned for December 2014 will be optimized for the measurement of impulsive radio signals from Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHE CR), i.e. charged particles with energies above 1019 eV, in addition to the high-energy neutrinos ANITA was originally designed for. The event reconstruction algorithm for UHE CR relies on the detection of radio emissions in the frequency range 200-1200 MHz (RF) produced by the charged component of extensive air showers initiated by these particles. UHE CR energy reconstruction methods are based on Monte Carlo simulations of the RF emission from these showers and on modeling of the detector response to such emission. A full UHE CR energy reconstruction algorithm for ANITA III involving detector modeling is a work in progress. In this paper, we evaluate expected systematic uncertainties in ANITA reconstructed energies only due to differences in the RF emission models by comparing outputs of two RF simulation packages, CoREAS and ZHAireS, and propagating the differences in the outputs through an energy reconstruction method using an idealized detector model.
AB - The third flight of the high-altitude balloon-borne ANtarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA III) planned for December 2014 will be optimized for the measurement of impulsive radio signals from Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHE CR), i.e. charged particles with energies above 1019 eV, in addition to the high-energy neutrinos ANITA was originally designed for. The event reconstruction algorithm for UHE CR relies on the detection of radio emissions in the frequency range 200-1200 MHz (RF) produced by the charged component of extensive air showers initiated by these particles. UHE CR energy reconstruction methods are based on Monte Carlo simulations of the RF emission from these showers and on modeling of the detector response to such emission. A full UHE CR energy reconstruction algorithm for ANITA III involving detector modeling is a work in progress. In this paper, we evaluate expected systematic uncertainties in ANITA reconstructed energies only due to differences in the RF emission models by comparing outputs of two RF simulation packages, CoREAS and ZHAireS, and propagating the differences in the outputs through an energy reconstruction method using an idealized detector model.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85052373520
T3 - Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Rays Conference, ICRC 2013
BT - Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Rays Conference, ICRC 2013
PB - Sociedade Brasileira de Fisica
T2 - 33rd International Cosmic Rays Conference, ICRC 2013
Y2 - 2 July 2013 through 9 July 2013
ER -