The Air Microwave Yield (AMY) experiment to measure the GHz emission from air shower plasmas

J. Alvarez-Muñiz; M. Bohacova; G. Cataldi; M.R. Coluccia; P. Creti; I. De Mitri; C. Di Giulio; R. Engel; P. Facal San Luis; M. Iarlori; D. Martello; M. Monasor; L. Perrone; S. Petrera; P. Privitera; M. Riegel; V. Rizi; G. Rodriguez Fernandez; F. Salamida; G. Salina; M. Settimo; R. Smida; V. Verzi; F. Werner; C. Williams

doi:10.1051/epjconf/20135308011

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EPJ Web of Conferences, 53 (2013) 08011

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Issue		EPJ Web of Conferences Volume 53, 2013 UHECR 2012 - International Symposium on Future Directions in UHECR Physics


Article Number		08011
Number of page(s)		7
Section		New Experimental Techniques
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20135308011
Published online		25 June 2013

EPJ Web of Conferences 53, 08011 (2013)
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20135308011

The Air Microwave Yield (AMY) experiment to measure the GHz emission from air shower plasmas

J. Alvarez-Muñiz¹, M. Bohacova², G. Cataldi³, M.R. Coluccia³^,4, P. Creti³, I. De Mitri³^,4, C. Di Giulio⁵, R. Engel⁶, P. Facal San Luis⁷, M. Iarlori⁸, D. Martello³^,4, M. Monasor⁷, L. Perrone³^,4, S. Petrera⁸, P. Privitera⁷, M. Riegel⁶, V. Rizi⁸, G. Rodriguez Fernandez⁵, F. Salamida⁹, G. Salina⁵, M. Settimo¹⁰, R. Smida⁶, V. Verzi⁵^a, F. Werner⁶ and C. Williams⁷

¹ Depto. de Fisica de Particulas, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
² Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
³ Sezione INFN, Lecce, Italy
⁴ Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica Ennio De Giorgi, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy
⁵ Sezione INFN, Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
⁶ Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany
⁷ University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi Institute Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, Chicago, USA
⁸ Dipartimento di Fisica, Università dell'Aquila and sezione INFN, l'Aquila, Italy
⁹ Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris 11, CNRS-IN2P3, France
¹⁰ Universität Siegen, Germany

^a e-mail: valerio.verzi@roma2.infn.it

Abstract

The AMY experiment aims to measure the Microwave Bremsstrahlung Radiation (MBR) emitted by air-showers secondary electrons accelerating in collisions with neutral molecules of the atmosphere. The measurements are performed at the Beam Test Facility (BTF) of Frascati INFN National Laboratories and the final purpose is to characterize the process to be used in a next generation detectors of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (up to 10²⁰eV). We describe the experimental set-up and the first test measurement performed in November 2011.

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