This article provides a short description of the LOPES experiment at Campus North of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology including links to the LOPES Project webpage.
Cosmic rays are particles (mostly atomic nuclei) with energies above 1010 eV (sometimes even beyond 1020 eV) that are accelerated in highly energetic cosmic phenomena like supernovae, black hole jets … The exact processes in which they are produced are unknown, but they can be detected through their interaction with particles in the atmosphere.
The LOPES project, located in Karlsruhe and operated in coincidence with an existing, well calibrated air shower experiment KASCADE-Grande (see picture below), aims to demonstrate the feasibility of this technology and pave the way for cosmic ray experiments with digital radio telescopes.
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The Science of LOPES | LOPES Data | LOPES Events | About the LOPES Collaboration | LOPES Publication List | LOPES internal pages |