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D. Ikeda , Romain Gaïor , Keiichi Mase , Bokkyun Shin , K. D. de Vries , Tokonatsu Yamamoto , A. Ishihara , T. Kuwabara , S. Yoshida , T. Shibata , I. Ohta , S. Ogio , M. Fukushima , H. Sagawa , J. N. Matthews , Gordon Thomson , K. Hanson , Thomas Meures , Aongus Ó Murchadha ·

YOU? · · 2018 · Open Access · · DOI: https://doi.org/10.7566/jpscp.19.011046 · OA: W2793704880

The Telescope Array (TA) experiment installed the electron accelerator in order to calibrate the fluorescence detector by shooting 40 MeV electrons into the atmosphere. This accelerator also works to investigate the radio detection techniques used for the cosmic ray observations. Using this accelerator, four experimental groups have studied individual radio detection methods at different frequency bands ranging from 50 MHz to 12 GHz. All of these experiments have observed the microwave radiation from the electron beam itself. We have studied the radiation by combining all the measured results and constructed a model of this phenomena. Results of four experiments and model expectation are in good agreement within the systematic uncertainty.