Physics:Askaryan radiation

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The Askaryan radiation[1][2][3][4] also known as Askaryan effect is the phenomenon whereby a particle traveling faster than the phase velocity of light in a dense dielectric (such as salt, ice or the lunar regolith) produces a shower of secondary charged particles which contains a charge anisotropy and emits a cone of coherent radiation in the radio or microwave part of the electromagnetic spectrum. The signal is a result of the Cherenkov radiation from individual particles in the shower. Wavelengths greater than the extent of the shower interfere constructively and thus create a radio or microwave signal which is strongest at the Cherenkov angle. The effect is named after Gurgen Askaryan, a Soviet-Armenian physicist who postulated it in 1962.

The radiation was first observed experimentally in 2000, 38 years after its theoretical prediction. So far the effect has been observed in silica sand,[5] rock salt,[6] ice,[7] and Earth's atmosphere.[8]

The effect is of primary interest in using bulk matter to detect ultra-high energy neutrinos. The Antarctic Impulse Transient Antenna (ANITA) experiment uses antennas attached to a balloon flying over Antarctica to detect the Askaryan radiation produced as cosmic neutrinos travel through the ice.[9][10] Several experiments have also used the Moon as a neutrino detector based on detection of the Askaryan radiation.[11][12][13][14]

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References

  1. ↑ Askar'yan, G. A. (1961). "Excess negative charge of an electron-photon shower and its coherent radio emission". Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz. 41 (1961): 616--618. https://inspirehep.net/literature/1351286. 
  2. ↑ Askar'yan, G. A. (September 1965). "Coherent Radio Emission from Cosmic Showers in Air and in Dense Media". Soviet Physics JETP 21: 658. http://www.jetp.ras.ru/cgi-bin/dn/e_021_03_0658.pdf. 
  3. ↑ Hanson, Jordan C; Connolly, Amy L (2016). "Complex Analysis of Askaryan Radiation: A Fully Analytic Treatment including the LPM effect and Cascade Form Factor". Astroparticle Physics 91: 75–89. doi:10.1016/j.astropartphys.2017.03.008. Bibcode: 2017APh....91...75H. 
  4. ↑ Alvarez-Muñiz, Jaime; Romero-Wolf, Andrés; Zas, Enrique (2011-11-11). "Practical and accurate calculations of Askaryan radiation" (in en). Physical Review D 84 (10): 103003. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.84.103003. ISSN 1550-7998. Bibcode: 2011PhRvD..84j3003A. https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.84.103003. 
  5. ↑ Saltzberg, David; Gorham, P; Walz, D; Field, C; Iverson, R; Odian, A; Resch, G; Schoessow, P et al. (2001). "Observation of the Askaryan Effect: Coherent Microwave Cherenkov Emission from Charge Asymmetry in High Energy Particle Cascades". Physical Review Letters 86 (13): 2802–5. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.2802. PMID 11290043. Bibcode: 2001PhRvL..86.2802S. 
  6. ↑ Gorham, P. W.; Saltzberg, D.; Field, R. C.; Guillian, E.; Milinčić, R.; Miočinović, P.; Walz, D.; Williams, D. (2005-07-21). "Accelerator measurements of the Askaryan effect in rock salt: A roadmap toward teraton underground neutrino detectors" (in en). Physical Review D 72 (2): 023002. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.72.023002. ISSN 1550-7998. Bibcode: 2005PhRvD..72b3002G. https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.72.023002. 
  7. ↑ Gorham, P. W.; Barwick, S. W.; Beatty, J. J.; Besson, D. Z.; Binns, W. R.; Chen, C.; Chen, P.; Clem, J. M. et al. (2007-10-25). "Observations of the Askaryan Effect in Ice" (in en). Physical Review Letters 99 (17): 171101. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.171101. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 17995315. Bibcode: 2007PhRvL..99q1101G. https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.171101. 
  8. ↑ Buitink, Stijn; Corstanje, A.; Falcke, H; Hörandel, J. R; Huege, T; Nelles, A; Rachen, J. P; Rossetto, L et al. (2016). "A large light-mass component of cosmic rays at 1017–1017.5 electronvolts from radio observations". Nature 531 (7592): 70–3. doi:10.1038/nature16976. PMID 26935696. Bibcode: 2016Natur.531...70B. 
  9. ↑ "ANITA Project Overview". http://www.ps.uci.edu/~anita/. 
  10. ↑ "ARIANNA collaboration". http://arianna.ps.uci.edu/. 
  11. ↑ GLUE project
  12. ↑ "NuMoon project". http://www.kvi.nl/~scholten/numoon/numoon.html. 
  13. ↑ LUNASKA project
  14. ↑ RESUN project

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