Probing atmospheric electric fields in thunderstorms through radio emission from extensive air showers
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1 KVI-CART, University Groningen, P.O. Box 72, 9700 AB Groningen, The Netherlands 2 Department of Astrophysics/IMAPP, Radboud University Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands 3 Astrophysical Institute, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium 4 NIKHEF, Science Park Amsterdam, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands 5 Netherlands Institute of Radio Astronomy (ASTRON), Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, The Netherlands 6 Now at: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-4575, USA 7 Interuniversity Institute for High-Energy, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium 8 Center for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), PO Box 94079, 1090 GB Amsterdam, The Netherlands 9 Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), PO Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands E-mail: [email protected]
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