Felix Werner

Information

Institute: Institut für Kernphysik (IKP)
Room: 346 (building 425, Campus North)
Phone: 26797
E-mail: Felix.Werner#kit.edu

Dissertation

Title: Detection of Microwave Emission of Extensive Air Showers with the CROME Experiment
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Johannes Blümer
Second Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Günter Quast
Advisor: Dr. Ralph Engel
Date of defense: 13.12.2013

Publications

Conference proceedings

2013	Interpretation of the microwave signal of high-energy air showers observed with CROME. F. Werner, R. Engel, R. Smida, et al. (CROME Collaboration). 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Observation of polarised microwave emission from air showers with CROME. R. Smida, R. Engel, F. Werner, et al. (CROME Collaboration), 33rd ICRC, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Observation of coherent microwave emission from air showers by CROME. R. Smida et al. (CROME Collaboration), 33rd ICRC, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Search for microwave signals from air showers with the Electron Light Source at Telescope Array. R. Engel et al., 33rd ICRC, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Microwave emission due to molecular bremsstrahlung in non-thermal air shower plasmas. P. Neunteufel et al., 33rd ICRC, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Progress towards a cross-calibration of the Auger and Telescope Array fluorescence telescopes via an air-borne light source. J. N. Matthews for the Auger and Telescope Array Collaborations, 33rd ICRC, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Octocopter light source test at the Telescope Array site. K. Machida et al., 33rd ICRC, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Enhancement of the radar signal of air showers due to time compression. J. Stasielak et al., 33rd ICRC, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. The AMY experiment to measure GHz radiation for ultra-high energy cosmic ray detection. J. Alvarez-Muñiz et al., Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 409(2013) 012082, 23rd European Cosmic Ray Symposium (ECRS), Moscow, Russia.
2012	Cosmic-Ray Observation via Microwave Emission (CROME). R. Smida et al. (CROME Collaboration). AIP Conference Proceedings, 1535(2013) 214, 5th international workshop on Acoustic and Radio EeV Neutrino Detection Activities (ARENA), Erlangen, Germany. Extensive air shower detection with CROME in the L band. S. Mathys et al. (CROME Collaboration). AIP Conference Proceedings, 1535(2013) 219, 5th ARENA workshop, Erlangen, Germany. Observation of microwave emission from extensive air showers with CROME. R. Smida et al. (CROME Collaboration). EPJ Web of Conferences, 53(2013) 08010, UHECR 2012—International Symposium on Future Directions in UHECR Physics, CERN. The Air Microwave Yield (AMY) experiment to measure the GHz emission from air shower plasmas. J. Alvarez-Muñiz et al., EPJ Web of Conferences, 53(2013) 08011, UHECR 2012, CERN. Radar reflection off extensive air showers. J. Stasielak et al., EPJ Web of Conferences, 53(2013) 08013, UHECR 2012, CERN.
2011	First results of the CROME experiment. R. Smida et al. (CROME Collaboration). 32nd ICRC, Beijing, China.

Internal publications for the Pierre Auger Collaboration

2013	Noise temperature measurement of C band receivers used in the CROME, EASIER and MIDAS experiments. R. Engel, M. Riegel, R. Smida, and F. Werner, Auger technical note GAP-2013-028.
2012	On the microwave signal of air showers observed with CROME, CROME Collaboration, Auger technical note GAP-2012-061. Microwave yield estimation for EAS simulation. R. Engel, F. Salamida, R. Smida, M. Unger, and F. Werner, Auger technical note GAP-2012-019.

Publications with the Pierre Auger Collaboration

See http://www.auger.org/technical_info/.

Talks

2013	The CROME experiment: Event properties and interpretation. DPG Frühjahrstagung, Dresden, Germany.
2012	Microwave Radiation from air showers measured with the C band setup of CROME. 5th ARENA workshop, Erlangen, Germany.
2011	Towards understanding the EASIER event. Auger Collaboration meeting, Malargüe, Argentina. An overview of microwave detection experiments. Auger youngsters meeting, Siegen, Germany. Das CROME-Experiment. DPG Frühjahrstagung, Karlsruhe, Germany. The CROME experiment. AERA Collaboration meeting, Karlsruhe, Germany.

Poster presentations

2013	Interpretation of the microwave signal found for high-energy air showers. F. Werner for the CROME Collaboration, 33rd ICRC, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
2011	Directional calibration of the CROME experiment. F. Werner for the CROME Collaboration. 490th WE-Heraeus Seminar on Radio Detection in Astroparticle Physics, Bad Honnef, Germany.