Radio detection as well as modeling of cosmic rays has made enormous progress in the past years. We show this by using the subtle circular polarization of the radio pulse from air showers measured in fair weather conditions and the intensity of radio emission from an air shower under thunderstorm conditions.

doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201713602012
Cosmic Lightning
Roma International Conference on Astroparticle Physics
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam (CWI), The Netherlands

Scholten, O., Bonardi, A., Buitink, S., Corstanje, A., Ebert, U., Falcke, H., … Winchen, T. (2017). Precision study of radio emission from air showers at LOFAR. In EPJ Web of Conferences. doi:10.1051/epjconf/201713602012