Published 2014
“…Supplemented with suitable buffering techniques, the low-frequency part of the SKA can be used as an ultra-precise detector for cosmic-
ray air showers at very high energies. This would enable a wealth of scientific applications: The physics of the transition from Galactic to extragalactic cosmic
rays could be probed with very high precision mass measurements, hadronic interactions could be studied up to energies well beyond the reach of
man-made particle accelerators, air shower tomography could be performed with very high spatial resolution exploiting the large instantaneous bandwith and very uniform instantaneous u-v coverage of SKA1-LOW, and the physics of thunderstorms and possible connections between cosmic
rays and lightning initiation could be studied in unprecedented levels of detail. …”
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