The LOPES experiment - recent results, status and perspectives

TL;DR

The LOPES experiment has been studying radio emissions from cosmic rays since 2003, providing valuable data on their properties and comparing observations with simulations, while evolving in its experimental approach.

Contribution

This paper summarizes recent results, current status, and future perspectives of the LOPES experiment, highlighting its advancements in radio detection of cosmic rays.

Findings

Radio emission correlates with cosmic ray energy

Geomagnetic dependence observed in radio signals

Detailed per-event comparisons with simulations

Abstract

The LOPES experiment at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology has been taking radio data in the frequency range from 40 to 80 MHz in coincidence with the KASCADE-Grande air shower detector since 2003. Various experimental configurations have been employed to study aspects such as the energy scaling, geomagnetic dependence, lateral distribution, and polarization of the radio emission from cosmic rays. The high quality per-event air shower information provided by KASCADE-Grande has been the key to many of these studies and has even allowed us to perform detailed per-event comparisons with simulations of the radio emission. In this article, we give an overview of results obtained by LOPES, and present the status and perspectives of the ever-evolving experiment.