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Using detailed simulations of calorimeter showers as training data, we investigate the use of deep learning algorithms for the simulation and reconstruction of particles produced in high-energy physics collisions. We train neural networks…

We give an overview of the SPHERE experiment based on detection of reflected Vavilov-Cherenkov radiation (Cherenkov light) from extensive air showers in the energy region E>10^{15} eV. A brief history of the reflected Cherenkov light…

The fluctuations in energy loss to processes that do not generate measurable signals, such as binding energy losses, set the limit on achievable hadronic energy resolution in traditional energy reconstruction techniques. The correlation…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-02-26 N. Akchurin , J. Cash , J. Damgov , X. Delashaw , K. Lamichhane , M. Harris , M. Kelley , S. Kunori , H. Mergate-Cacace , T. Peltola , O. Schneider , J. Sewell

The details of Cerenkov light produced by a gamma ray or a cosmic ray incident at the top of the atmosphere is best studied through systematic simulations of the extensive air showers. Recently such studies have become all the more…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 V. R. Chitnis , P. N. Bhat

The detailed simulation of extended air showers (EAS) and their emission of Cherenkov and fluorescence light requires increasing computation time and storage volume with increasing energy of the primary particle. Given these limitations, it…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-28 Ali Baktash , Dieter Horns

Atmospheric fluorescence is usually neglected in the reconstruction of the signals registered by Cherenkov telescopes, both IACTs and wide-angle detector arrays. In this paper we quantify the fluorescence contribution to the total light…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-10 Daniel Morcuende , Jaime Rosado , José Luis Contreras , Fernando Arqueros

The simulation of Cherenkov photon's lateral density and arrival time distributions in Extensive Air Showers (EASs) was performed with the CORSIKA code in the energy range: 100 GeV to 100 TeV. On the basis of this simulation we obtained a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-26 P. Hazarika , G. S. Das , U. D. Goswami

The dependence of atmospheric conditions on altitude and time have to be known at the site of an air shower experiment for accurate reconstruction of extensive air showers and their simulations. The height-profile of atmospheric depth is of…

The radio detection of extensive air showers provides a powerful method for studying the origin of high-energy cosmic rays. The Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) offers unprecedentedly detailed measurements of the radio emission footprint.…

At the Pierre Auger Observatory and the Telescope Array, the measurements of depths of maximum of air-shower profiles, $X_\mathrm{max}$, are performed using direct observations of the longitudinal development of showers with the help of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-20 Alexey Yushkov , Jose Bellido , John Belz , Vitor de Souza , William Hanlon , Daisuke Ikeda , Pierre Sokolsky , Yoshiki Tsunesada , Michael Unger

The Shower Deconstruction methodology is pivotal in distinguishing signal and background jets, leveraging the detailed information from perturbative parton showers. Rooted in the Neyman-Pearson lemma, this method is theoretically designed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-06 Vishal S. Ngairangbam , Michael Spannowsky

Along the years HiRes and AGASA experiments have explored the fluorescence and the ground array experimental techniques to measure extensive air showers, being both essential to investigate the ultra-high energy cosmic rays. However, such…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Vitor de Souza , Gustavo Medina-Tanco , Jeferson A. Ortiz

We present a parameterized model of atmospheric particle showers initiated by cosmic rays. Few physics shower parameters are tuned in a comparison to the Conex generator. Resulting shower properties are studied, with a comment on the cases…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-22 Jiri Kvita

Gamma-hadron discrimination based on shower observables is essential for identifying gamma-ray astrophysical sources at the highest energies. In this work, we introduce $P^{\alpha, T}_{\rm tail}$, a new discrimination variable for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-13 Ruben Conceição , Pedro J. Costa , Mário Pimenta

The paper proposes a new approach for approximating the lateral distribution functions (LDF) of Cherenkov light emitted by the electromagnetic component of extensive air showers (EAS) in the Earth's atmosphere. The information basis of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-09 N. V. Volkov , A. A. Lagutin , A. I. Reviakin , R. T. Bizhanov

In this paper the longitudinal profile of muon production along the shower axis is studied. The characteristics of this distribution is investigated for different primary masses, zenith angles, primary energies, and different high energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 S. Andringa , L. Cazon , R. Conceição , M. Pimenta

The stereoscopic reconstruction of air showers viewed by multiple imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) allows a more precise reconstruction of shower energies and hence an improved determination of energy spectra. Reconstruction…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Hofmann

The Fluorescence detector Array of Single-pixel Telescopes (FAST) is one of several proposed designs for a next-generation cosmic-ray detector. Such detectors will require enormous collecting areas whilst also needing to remain…

In the atmospheric Cerenkov technique gamma rays are detected against the abundant background produced by hadronic showers. In order to improve the signal to noise ratio of the experiment, it is necessary to reject a significant fraction of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-17 V. R. Chitnis , P. N. Bhat

Radio emissions from extensive air showers (EAS) provide a valuable tool for detecting ultra-high-energy (UHE) astroparticles. In this context, several radio arrays focus on detecting highly inclined EAS, as this enables the observation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-09 Valentin Decoene , Marion Guelfand , Matìas Tueros