TY  - JOUR
AU  - Corstanje, A.
AU  - Buitink, S.
AU  - Bouma, Sjoerd
AU  - Desmet, M.
AU  - Huege, T.
AU  - Laub, P.
AU  - Mulrey, K.
AU  - Nelles, Anna
AU  - Scholten, O.
AU  - Terveer, K.
AU  - Watanabe, K.
TI  - A LOFAR-style reconstruction of cosmic-ray air showers with SKA-Low
JO  - Physical review / D
VL  - 112
IS  - 2
SN  - 2470-0010
CY  - Ridge, NY
PB  - American Physical Society
M1  - PUBDB-2025-01233
M1  - arXiv:2504.16873
SP  - 023017
PY  - 2025
N1  - 14 pages, 10 figures. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D
AB  - Cosmic-ray air shower detection with the low-frequency part of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope is envisioned to yield very high precision measurements of the particle composition of cosmic rays between 1016 and 1018 eV. This is made possible by the extreme antenna density of the core of SKA-Low, surpassing the current most dense radio air shower observatory LOFAR by over an order of magnitude. In order to make these measurements, the technical implementation of this observation mode and the development of reconstruction methods have to happen hand in hand. As a first lower limit of what is obtainable, we apply the current most precise reconstruction methods as used at LOFAR to a first complete simulation of air shower signals for the SKA-Low array. We describe this simulation setup and discuss the obtainable accuracy and resolution. A special focus is put on effects of the dynamic range of the system, beam-forming methods to lower the energy threshold, as well as the limits to the mass composition accuracy given by statistical and systematic uncertainties.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
DO  - DOI:10.1103/l8mt-994v
UR  - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/625908
ER  -