Physics
Scientific paper
Feb 1968
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1968jatp...30..195c&link_type=abstract
Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 195-204
Physics
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Scientific paper
The numbers, energies and lifetimes of slow ionisation electrons produced in the extensive air showers caused by high-energy cosmic-ray primaries are discussed, and it is shown that the electric field in the atmosphere causes these electrons to accelerate to a drift velocity in the direction of the field. A suitably-placed observer experiences this acceleration as a change of electric field, the lifetimes of the electrons and the shower dimensions being such as to make this change of field observable at radio frequencies ([small tilde]10 MHz). Calculations indicate that this mechanism should be at least as effective as other previously suggested radio emission mechanisms for showers at high zenith angles, although, since the normal fine-weather electric field is essentially vertical, the mechanism is relatively ineffective for showers from near the Zenith.
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