LORA: A scintillator array for LOFAR to measure extensive air showersShow others and affiliations
2014 (English)In: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, ISSN 0168-9002, E-ISSN 1872-9576, Vol. 767, p. 339-346Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Abstract [en]
The measurement of the radio emission from extensive air showers, induced by high-energy cosmic rays, is one of the key science projects of the LOFAR radio telescope. The LOfar Radboud air shower Array (LORA) has been installed in the core of LOFAR in the Netherlands. The main purpose of LORA is to measure the properties of air showers and to trigger the read-out of the LOFAR radio antennas to register extensive air showers. The experimental set-up of the array of scintillation detectors and its performance are described.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2014. Vol. 767, p. 339-346
Keywords [en]
Cosmic rays, Extensive air showers, Radio detection, Scintillation detectors, LOFAR, LORA
National Category
Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
Research subject
Physics, Astroparticle Physics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-51540DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2014.08.021OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-51540DiVA, id: diva2:915314
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