Author:
Winchen T.,Bonardi A.,Buitink S.,Corstanje A.,Falcke H.,Hare B. M.,Hörandel A.,Mitra P.,Mulrey K.,Nelles A.,Rachen J.P.,Rossetto L.,Schellart P.,Scholten O.,ter Veen S.,Thoudam S.,Trinh T.N.G.
Abstract
The steep decrease of the flux of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) provides a challenge to answer the long standing question about their origin and nature. A significant increase in detector volume may be achieved byemploying Earth’s moon as a detector that is read out using existing Earth-bound radio telescopes by searching for the radio pulses emitted by the particle shower in the lunar rock. In this contribution we will report on the properties of a corresponding detection mode currently under development for the LOFAR Radio telescope.