ARENA 2010

Session

Lunar Cerenkov detection

5

30 juin 2010, 18:30

Amphithéatre Pasteur (Nantes)

0. LUNASKA lunar Cherenkov observations: signal processing strategies

M. Justin Bray (University of Adelaide / Australia Telescope National Facility)

30/06/2010 18:30

oral presentation

The LUNASKA project employs the lunar Cherenkov technique, using the Moon as a detector volume to search for ultra-high energy particles. The radio-frequency pulse from a shower induced by one of these particles in the lunar regolith may be detected by a terrestrial radio telescope; however, it is distorted en route by dispersion in the ionosphere, as well as by effects within the telescope...

2. Design of the LORD Space Experiment and Perspectives of Ultra High Energy Particles Observation

Dr German Gusev (Lebedev Physical Institute Russian Academy of Sciences)

30/06/2010 18:50

oral presentation

The feasibility of using the lunar orbital radio detector (LORD) to detect radio signals from showers initiated by ultra high energy particles interacting with the lunar regolith is studied. The design of the LORD space apparatus is presented. The sophisticated simulation by the Monte Carlo method has shown the necessity to take into account the radio signal reflection from the lower Lunar...