Limit on the ultrahigh-energy cosmic-ray flux with the Westerbork synthesis radio telescope
Limit on the ultrahigh-energy cosmic-ray flux with the Westerbork synthesis radio telescope
A particle cascade (shower) in a dielectric, for example, as initiated by an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray, will have an excess of electrons which will emit coherent \ifmmode \check{C}\else \v{C}\fi{}erenkov radiation, known as the Askaryan effect. In this work we study the case in which such a particle shower occurs in …