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Search for microwave emission from ultrahigh energy cosmic rays

J. Alvarez-Muñiz, A. Berlin, M. Bogdan, M. Boháčová, C. Bonifazi, W. R. Carvalho, Jr., J. R. T. de Mello Neto, P. Facal San Luis, J. F. Genat, N. Hollon, E. Mills, M. Monasor, P. Privitera, L. C. Reyes, B. Rouille d’Orfeuil, E. M. Santos, S. Wayne, C. Williams, E. Zas, and J. Zhou
Phys. Rev. D 86, 051104(R) – Published 26 September 2012
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  • INTRODUCTION
  • MIDAS DETECTOR
  • MICROWAVE SIGNAL SIMULATION
  • DATA SAMPLE AND EVENT SELECTION
  • RESULTS
  • CONCLUSIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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    Abstract

    We present a search for microwave emission from air showers induced by ultrahigh energy cosmic rays with the microwave detection of air showers experiment. No events were found, ruling out a wide range of power flux and coherence of the putative emission, including those suggested by recent laboratory measurements.

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    • Received 25 May 2012

    DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.86.051104

    © 2012 American Physical Society

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    J. Alvarez-Muñiz1, A. Berlin2, M. Bogdan2, M. Boháčová2,3, C. Bonifazi4, W. R. Carvalho, Jr.1, J. R. T. de Mello Neto4, P. Facal San Luis2, J. F. Genat2, N. Hollon2, E. Mills2, M. Monasor2, P. Privitera2, L. C. Reyes2,5, B. Rouille d’Orfeuil2, E. M. Santos4, S. Wayne2, C. Williams2,*, E. Zas1, and J. Zhou2

    • 1Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Departamento de Física de Partículas, Campus Sur, Universidad de Santiago, E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
    • 2Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
    • 3Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 182 21 Prague 8, Czech Republic
    • 4Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Física Cidade Universitria, Caixa Postal 68528, 21941-970, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    • 5Department of Physics, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California 93401, USA

    • *Corresponding author. christopherw@uchicago.edu

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    Vol. 86, Iss. 5 — 1 September 2012

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