Periodic Reporting for period 1 - RADIO4MU (New measurement of ultra-high energy interactions using radio detection of cosmic ray air showers)
Periodo di rendicontazione: 2022-10-03 al 2024-10-02
The aim of this project is to shed new light on the muon puzzle by providing a new precision measurement of the muon content in air showers by using the novel technique of measuring the radiation emitted in the atmosphere with radio antennas instead of UV telescopes. These radio observations have been carried out between 2016 and 2019 but the data were not used sofar because the analysis of the particle detectors for the corresponding data has been missing. The main objectives of this project are to: 1) implement an analysis of the particle detector measurements (so-called reconstruction). 2) combine these with the radio data including data cleaning (for example removing periods with thunderstorms where there is a lot of radio background in the atmosphere), 3) analyze the combined data for the muon content.