Energy estimation of direct and reflected cosmic-ray events aboard balloon-borne radio detectors

arXiv:2609.27666 · astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.IM · Submitted 2026-09-23 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.IM

Submitted: 2026-09-23

Updated: 2026-09-23

Terminology

• Calibration — 13× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Accuracy — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Trace — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adam — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations — 2× in this paper
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection — 1× in this paper
• Signal-to-Noise Ratios — 1× in this paper
• Systematic Bias — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• Design and Initial Performance of the Askaryan Radio Array Prototype EeV Neutrino Detector at the South Pole
• The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND): Science and Design
• Design and Sensitivity of the Radio Neutrino Observatory in Greenland (RNO-G)
• Sensitivity of BEACON to Ultra-High Energy Diffuse and Transient Neutrinos
• The Hybrid Elevated Radio Observatory for Neutrinos (HERON) Project
• The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna Ultra-high Energy Neutrino Detector Design, Performance, and Sensitivity for 2006-2007 Balloon Flight
• The Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations (PUEO): A White Paper
• The POEMMA (Probe of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics) Observatory
• POEMMA-Balloon with Radio: A multi-messenger, multi-detector balloon payload
• Measurement of the Radiation Energy in the Radio Signal of Extensive Air Showers as a Universal Estimator of Cosmic-Ray Energy
• Reconstructing air shower parameters with LOFAR using event specific GDAS atmospheres
• Signal model and event reconstruction for the radio detection of inclined air showers
• Reconstruction of inclined extensive air showers using radio signals: from arrival times and amplitudes to direction and energy
• End-to-end reconstruction of ultra-high energy particle observables from radio detection of extensive air showers
• Radio interferometry applied to the observation of cosmic-ray induced extensive air showers
• Results and plans to apply interferometry to air shower observations at the Pierre Auger Observatory
• New Limits on the Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Neutrino Flux from the ANITA Experiment
• Observational Constraints on the Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Neutrino Flux from the Second Flight of the ANITA Experiment
• Constraints on the diffuse high-energy neutrino flux from the third flight of ANITA
• Constraints on the ultra-high energy cosmic neutrino flux from the fourth flight of ANITA

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