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Hybrid method for detecting cascades produced by ultrahigh-energy cosmic particles using a circumlunar satellite

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A hybrid method for detecting cosmic rays and neutrino cascades using the radio method and the conventional method for detecting cascade particles was proposed. Cascades produced in the lunar soil near the surface by ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays and neutrinos in the energy range of 1 GeV–100 TeV, coming from above at different angles, were calculated. The calculated energy and angular distributions were extrapolated to the energy region of 1020 eV. Using these results, the detection threshold was estimated as 1020 eV which is approximately identical to the threshold for the radio detector previously considered by the authors.

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  1. Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119992, Russia

    V. I. Galkin & T. M. Roganova

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  1. V. I. Galkin
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Original Russian Text © V.I. Galkin, G.A. Gusev, I.A. Krol, B.N. Lomonosov, N.G. Polukhina, T.M. Roganova, V.A. Ryabov, V.A. Tsarev, V.A. Chechin, 2009, published in Kratkie Soobshcheniya po Fizike, 2009, Vol. 36, No. 6, pp. 22–29.

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Galkin, V.I., Gusev, G.A., Krol, I.A. et al. Hybrid method for detecting cascades produced by ultrahigh-energy cosmic particles using a circumlunar satellite. Bull. Lebedev Phys. Inst. 36, 170–174 (2009). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068335609060037

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