Vincent Marin defended his thesis on the 20th of December 2011 on this subject: Radio-detection of ultra-high energy cosmic rays. Analysis, simulation and interpretation. His work has been mainly dedicated to the development of the SELFAS simulation code. The summary of his document is the following :

Despite the use of giant detectors suitable for low flux beyond 1018 eV, the origin of ultra energy cosmic rays, remains unclear. In the 60’, the radio-detection of air shower is proposed as a complementary technique to the ground particle detection and to the fluorescence method. A revival of this technique took place in the 2000s in particular with CODALEMA experiment. The first results show both a strong dependence of the signal to the geomagnetic field and a strong correlation between energy estimated by the radio-detectors and by particle detectors. The new generation of autonomous detectors created by the CODALEMA collaboration indicates that it is now possible to detect air showers autonomously. Due to the expected performances (a nearly 100Online access to his document (Thèses en ligne)