An Outreach Project for LOFAR and Cosmic Ray Detection

In the context of the LOFAR project, we started an outreach initiative at the Radboud University Nijmegen. We combined LOFAR prototype electric dipole antennas with a particle detector cluster of the NAHSA (Nijmegen Area High School Array). The purpose of our project is to detect cosmic ray events in radio emission and particles at energies above 1015 eV in coincidence. We use two (crossed) dipoles in each of our four antenna stations of LORUN (LOfar @ Radboud University Nijmegen) to study polarization characteristics of coherent radiation pulses from cosmic ray air showers. The LORUN/NAHSA project is also accessible to students, moreover the hard- and software development for the combination of the two experiments was mainly carried out by undergraduate students. We present a description of the instrument and first data.