Jun 8 – 11, 2026
Schlosshotel Karlsruhe
Europe/Berlin timezone

Energy estimation of cosmic ray events recorded aboard balloon-borne experiments.

Jun 11, 2026, 4:00 PM
15m
Schlosshotel Karlsruhe

Schlosshotel Karlsruhe

Bahnhofplatz 2, 76137 Karlsruhe, Germany

Speaker

Sergio Cabana Freire (IGFAE - USC)

Description

Several balloon-borne radio experiments have targeted the detection of ultra-high energy neutrinos interacting near the Earth's surface. Radio pulses produced by cosmic ray air showers constitute a relevant class of events among the recorded signals. Cosmic ray signals can be produced either by downward-going air showers, where the signal reflects off the Earth's surface before reaching the payload; or by atmosphere-skimming air showers, that reach the detector directly. In this work, we discuss an update of simulation-based energy estimation methods for reflected events, as well as an adaptation of this method to atmosphere-skimming events. The performance of the method is evaluated in different scenarios of angular resolution, primary mass and environmental noise.

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