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The Sydney University Giant Air-shower Recorder (SUGAR) measured the energy spectrum of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays reconstructed from muon-detector readings, while the Pierre Auger Observatory, looking at the same Southern sky, uses the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-25 J. A. Bellido , R. W. Clay , N. N. Kalmykov , I. S. Karpikov , G. I. Rubtsov , S. V. Troitsky , J. Ulrichs

Cherenkov detectors have been extensively developed and utilized in various scientific fields, including particle physics, astrophysics, and nuclear engineering. These detectors operate based on Cherenkov radiation, which is emitted when a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-06-30 Anzori Sh. Georgadze

The ANTARES telescope is being built in the Mediterranean Sea. The detector consists of a 3D array of photomultipliers (PMTs) that detects the Cherenkov light induced by the muons produced in neutrino interactions. Other signatures can also…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 J. A. Aguilar

This study presents the design and simulation-based validation of a muon imaging system tailored for potential applications in industrial hydrotreatment units. The system is built around a two-panel plastic scintillator hodoscope, equipped…

A water \v{C}erenkov detector project, of megaton scale, to be installed in the Fr\'ejus underground site and dedicated to nucleon decay, neutrinos from supernovae, solar and atmospheric neutrinos, as well as neutrinos from a super-beam…

A method to search for neutrino induced showers from gamma-ray bursts in the ANTARES detector is presented. ANTARES consists of a three-dimensional array of photosensitive devices that measure Cherenkov light induced by charged particles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Eleonora Presani

The KM3NeT Collaboration has successfully deployed the first detection units of the next generation undersea neutrino telescopes in the Mediterranean Sea at the two sites in Italy and in France. The data sample collected between December…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-08-11 Piotr Kalaczyński

Large underwater telescopes have been proposed as a challenging method to measure high energy neutrinos from astrophysical objects. In recent years, The Antares collaboration has designed and realized the first detector of this type in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-21 K. Gracheva , M. Anghinolfi , V. Kulikovskiy , E. Shirokov , Y. Yakovenko

The atmospheric neutrino background for proton decay to positron and neutral pion in ring imaging water Cherenkov detectors is studied with an artificial accelerator neutrino beam for the first time. In total, about 314,000 neutrino events…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 K2K Collaboration , S. Mine

The presence of muons in air-showers initiated by cosmic ray protons and nuclei is well established as a powerful tool to separate such showers from those initiated by gamma rays. However, so far this approach has been fully exploited only…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-05 Laura Olivera-Nieto , Alison M. W. Mitchell , Konrad Bernlöhr , James A. Hinton

Understanding the optical properties of various components in water Cherenkov (WC) neutrino experiments is essential for accurate detector characterization, which is critical for precise measurements. Of particular importance is the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-05-12 Deepak Tiwari

The sources of the observed ultra-high energy cosmic rays must also generate ultra-high energy neutrinos. Deep inelastic scattering of these neutrinos with nucleons on Earth probe center-of-mass energies $\sqrt{s} \sim 100$ TeV, well beyond…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Luis A. Anchordoqui , Amanda M. Cooper-Sarkar , Dan Hooper , Subir Sarkar

If a galactic supernova explosion occurs in the future, it will be critical to rapidly alert the community to the direction of the supernova by utilizing neutrino signals in order to enable the initiation of follow-up optical observations.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-02 Fumi Nakanishi , Shota Izumiyama , Masayuki Harada , Yusuke Koshio

Modern cosmic ray experiments consisting of large array of particle detectors measure the signals of electromagnetic or muon components or their combination. The correction for an amount of atmosphere passed is applied to the surface…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-23 J. Vicha , P. Travnicek , D. Nosek , J. Ebr

While the Pierre Auger Observatory is a very successful instrument for ultra-high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) detection, it is increasingly used as part of various types of multi-messenger searches, in which it contributes with searches for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-27 Michael Schimp

Large surface detectors might be sensitive not only with respect to extensive air showers induced by ultra high energy neutrinos but also to showers induced by hypothetical objects like microscopic black-holes. Microscopic black-holes might…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-06-17 D. Gora , M. Haag , M. Roth

In this paper we report on the development and performance of a cylindrical mirror analyser electron spectrometer for ion atom collision experiments. A low cost data acquisition system using Arduino microcontroller has also been developed…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Rohit Tyagi , A. H. Kelkar

We propose two medium-baseline, kiloton-scale neutrino experiments to study neutrinos from LHC proton-proton collisions: SINE, a surface-based scintillator panel detector observing muon neutrinos from the CMS interaction point, and UNDINE,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-02-11 Nicholas W. Kamp , Carlos A. Argüelles , Albrecht Karle , Jennifer Thomas , Tianlu Yuan

The IceCube neutrino detector is built into the Antarctic ice sheet at the South Pole to measure high energy neutrinos. For this, 4800 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) are being deployed at depths between 1450 and 2450 meters into the ice to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-30 J. Auffenberg , T. Gaisser , K. Helbing , T. Huege , T. Karg , A. Karle

The Pierre Auger Observatory is currently the largest observatory of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays. Having more data collected than any previous experiment and using a hybrid technique, it can provide important information to unveil the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 R. Conceição