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The effect of the geomagnetic Lorentz force on the muon component of extensive air shower (EAS) has been studied in a Monte Carlo generated simulated data sample. This geomagnetic field affects the paths of muons in an EAS, causing a local…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-09 Rajat K Dey , Sandip Dam

Developed as NASA Astrophysics Probe-class mission, the Probe Of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (POEMMA) is designed to identify the sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) and to observe cosmic neutrinos. POEMMA consists of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 John F. Krizmanic

The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) aims to detect highly inclined extensive air showers (EAS) with down-going and up-going trajectories. Several working groups in the GRAND collaboration are developing methods to…

A large distance between true and reconstructed core locations of an extensive air shower (EAS) may results in great systematic mis-estimation of EAS parameters. The reconstruction of those EASs whose core locations are outside the boundary…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-28 H. Hedayati Kh

Radio-detection is becoming an established technique for the detection of air showers induced by cosmic particles. This is in particular true at the highest energies, where very large detection areas are required. A proper description of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-04 Valentin Decoene , Olivier Martineau-Huynh , Matias Tueros

We present the characteristics and performance of a demonstration experiment devoted to the observation of ultra high- energy cosmic ray extensive air showers using a radiodetection technique. In a first step, one antenna narrowed band…

Accurately measuring the energy of shower particles reaching the ground remains a challenge due to the inherent limitations of typical cosmic ray experiments. In this work, we present two experimental strategies to determine the energy…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-07-24 P. Assis , R. Conceição , P. J. Costa , M. Freitas , B. S. González , B. Tomé

The fluorescence technique has been successfully used to detect ultrahigh energy cosmic rays by indirect measurements. The underlying idea is that the number of charged particles in the atmospheric shower, i.e, its longitudinal profile, can…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vitor de Souza , Jeferson A. Ortiz , Gustavo Medina-Tanco , Federico Sanchez

The surface detector array of the Pierre Auger Observatory provides information about the longitudinal development of the muonic component of extensive air showers. Using the timing information from the flash analog-to-digital converter…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-08-12 Pierre Auger Collaboration

The composition of ultra-high energy cosmic rays is still poorly known and constitutes a very important topic in the field of high-energy astrophysics. Detection of ultra-high energy cosmic rays is carried out via the extensive air showers…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-23 F. Gaté , B. Revenu , D. García-Fernández , V. Marin , R. Dallier , A. Escudié , L. Martin

A novel type of Extensive Air Shower (EAS) array is proposed and described. It is shown that only new approaches to the so called "knee problem" could solve this complicated and old problem.

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-08 Yuri V. Stenkin

In this work the estimation of the lateral distribution function in Extensive Air showers was performed by using a system for air shower simulations which is called AIRES version 2.6 for different hadronic models like (QGSJET99, SIBYLL and…

General Physics · Physics 2013-09-16 A. Ahmed Al-Rubaiee , Ahmed Jumaah

This paper briefly summarizes the status of the cosmic ray observations by EAS (Extended Air Shower) experiments with energy below 10**16eV and the related studies of the hadronic interaction models. Based on the observed sharp knee…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-17 Hongbo Hu

The two most powerful extensive air showers (EAS) with energies of about $10^{20}$ eV, registered at the Yakutsk EAS array during the entire observation period of 1974-2024, are considered. Both showers hit the array near the center and…

AERA, the Auger Engineering Radio Array, located at the Pierre Auger Observatory in Malarg\"ue, Argentina measures the radio emission of extensive air showers in the 30-80 MHz frequency range and is optimized for the detection of air…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Olga Kambeitz

The AIRES (AIR-shower Extended Simulations) system is a set of programs and subroutines to realistically simulate particle showers produced after the incidence of high energy cosmic rays on the Earth's atmosphere, and to manage all the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-12 S. J. Sciutto

We study the possibility of primary mass estimation for Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR's) using the $X_{max}^{\mu}$ (the height where the number of muons produced on the core of Extensive Air Showers (EAS) is maximum) and the number…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Nicusor Arsene , Octavian Sima

The detection of gravitational waves and neutrinos from astrophysical sources with gamma-ray counterparts officially started the era of Multi-Messenger Astronomy. Their transient and extreme nature implies that monitoring the VHE sky is…

Several experiments measure the fluorescence light produced by extensive air showers in the atmosphere. This light is converted into a longitudinal shower profile from which information on the primary energy and composition is derived. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Keilhauer , J. Bluemer , R. Engel , H. O. Klages

We discuss the acceptance and sensitivity of a small air-shower imaging system to detect earth-skimming ultrahigh-energy tau neutrinos. The instrument we study is located on top of a mountain and has an azimuthal field of view of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-22 Adam Nepomuk Otte
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