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MARES: A macroscopic approach to the radar echo scatter from high-energy particle cascades
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Santiago, E. Huesca; de Vries, K. D.; Allison, P.; Beatty, J.; Besson, D.; Connolly, A.; Cummings, A.; Deaconu, C.; De Kockere, S.; Frikken, D.; Hast, C.; Kuo, C. -Y.; Kyriacou, A.; Latif, U. A.; Loudon, I.; Lukic, V.; McLennan, C.; Mulrey, K.; Nam, J.; Nivedita, K.; Nozdrina, A.; Oberla, E.; Prohira, S.; Ralston, J. P.; Seikh, M. F. H.; Stanley, R. S.; Stoffels, J.; Toscano, S.; Broeck, D. Van den; van Eijndhoven, N.; Wissel, S.
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In this work, we provide a macroscopic model to predict the radar echo signatures found when a radio signal is reflected from a cosmic-ray or neutrino-induced particle cascade propagating in a dense medium like ice. Its macroscopic nature allows for an energy independent runtime, taking less than 10 s for simulating a single scatter event. As a first application, we discuss basic signal properties and simulate the expected signal for the T-576 beam-test experiment at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). We find good signal strength agreement with the only observed radar echo from a high-energy particle cascade to date.
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