English
Related papers

Related papers: Improved Method of the Extensive Air Shower Arriva…

200 papers

Azimuthal asymmetries in signals of non vertical showers have been observed in ground arrays of water Cherenkov detectors, like Haverah Park and the Pierre Auger Observatory. The asymmetry in time distributions of arriving particles offers…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-26 M. T. Dova , M. E. Manceñido , A. G. Mariazzi , H. Wahlberg , F. Arqueros , D. García-Pinto

New developments in detector technology allow for a realistic cost of large area surface detectors for cosmic ray air showers, with some limitations on particle identification, energy resolutions, directional information and dynamic range.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-01 Moon Moon Devi , Ranny Budnik

One of the possible consequences of the existence of extra degrees of freedom beyond the electroweak scale is the increase of neutrino-nucleon cross sections ($\sigma_{\nu N}$) beyond Standard Model predictions. At ultra-high energies this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-15 Luis Anchordoqui , Haim Goldberg , Thomas McCauley , Thomas Paul , Stephen Reucroft , John Swain

We analyse the sensitivity of geosynchrotron radio emission from inclined extensive air showers to the energy and mass of primary cosmic rays. We demonstrate that radio emission measurements at suitable lateral distances can infer both the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-07-26 T. Huege , R. Ulrich , R. Engel

Atmospheric parameters, such as pressure (P), temperature (T) and density, affect the development of extensive air showers initiated by energetic cosmic rays. We have studied the impact of atmospheric variations on extensive air showers by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 The Pierre Auger Collaboration

Project GRAND is an extensive air shower array utilizing position sensitive detectors of proportional wire chambers. The 64 detectors deployed in a field 100 m x 100 m are located at 86.2 deg W and 41.7 deg N, at 220 m above sea level. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Poirier , J. Carpenter , S. Desch , J. Gress , T. F. Lin , Y. Lu , A. Roesch

Interpretation of EAS measurements strongly depends on detailed air shower simulations. The uncertainty in the prediction of shower observables for different primary particles and energies is currently dominated by differences between…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-12 T. Pierog , R. Engel , D. Heck , S. Ostapchenko , K. Werner

So far, cosmic ray air showers have been detected using scintillation counter arrays on the ground widely. And also air Cherenkov detection method, which is limited its observation period in moonless nights, has been adopted. The detection…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-23 Yoshitaka Kawashima

A new concept for the direct measurement of muons in air showers is presented. The concept is based on resistive plate chambers (RPCs), which can directly measure muons with very good space and time resolution. The muon detector is shielded…

The detection of extensive air showers (EAS) induced by cosmic rays via radio signals has undergone significant advancements in the last two decades. Numerous ultra-high energy cosmic ray experiments routinely capture radio pulses in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-14 Carlo S. Cruz Sanchez , Patricia M. Hansen , Matias Tueros , Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz , Diego G. Melo

In March of 2018, after the completion of the Physics Run 2, an upgrade has been installed at an innovative detector system Horizon-T, with the upgraded version now called Horizon-10T. It was constructed to study Extensive Air Showers (EAS)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-06-14 D. Beznosko , A. Iakovlev , S. Jakupov , D. Turganov , A. Tussipzhan , T. Uakhitov , M. I. Vildanova , A. Yeltokov , V. V. Zhukov

The fields of cosmic ray astrophysics, gamma-ray astrophysics, and neutrino astrophysics have diverged somewhat. But for the air showers in the GeV and TeV energy ranges, the ground-based detector techniques have considerable overlaps. VHE…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 Michael A. DuVernois , Giuseppe Di Sciascio

The relation of model predictions for muon content of extensive air showers (EAS) to particular properties of hadron-air interactions is discussed. Further, using a new Monte Carlo generator of cosmic ray interactions, QGSb, the relevance…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-02 Sergey Ostapchenko

The simulation analysis of the Extensive Air Showers (EAS) was executed by exploring the longitudinal development employing the AIRES system (version 19.04.00) for several hadronic interaction models (SIBYLL, QGSJET, and EPOS) for high…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-02-21 Kadhom F. Fadhel , A. A. Al-Rubaiee

Direction of Arrival (DOA) estimation serves as a critical sensing technology poised to play a vital role in future intelligent and ubiquitous communication systems. Despite the development of numerous mature super-resolution algorithms,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Jiaji Ren , Ye Tian , Baiyang Liu , Tuo Wu , Wei Liu , Kai-Kit Wong , Kin-Fai Tong , Kwai-Man Luk

Frequency distributions of local muon densities in high-energy extensive air-showers (EAS) are presented as signature of the primary cosmic ray energy spectrum in the knee region. Together with the gross shower variables like shower core…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Antoni

Measurements of the cosmic-ray air-shower fluorescence at extreme energies require precise knowledge of atmospheric conditions. The absolute calibration of the cosmic-ray energy depends on the absorption of fluorescence light between its…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-05-23 A. Filipcic , M. Horvat , D. Veberic , D. Zavrtanik , M. Zavrtanik

An Atmospheric Monitoring System (AMS) is a mandatory and key device of a space-based mission which aims to detect Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) and Extremely-High Energy Cosmic Rays (EHECR) from Space. JEM-EUSO has a dedicated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 M. D. Rodriguez Frias , S. Toscano , E. Bozzo , L. del Peral , A. Neronov , S. Wada

Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECR), of energy >10 EeV, arrive at the Earth regularly, but their sources, acceleration mechanisms, details of propagation through the universe, and particle composition remain mysteries. In addition, their…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-10 Sijbrand de Jong

We consider a ground array of scintillation and water Cherenkov detectors with the purpose of determining the muon content of air showers. The different response characteristics of these two types of detectors to the components of the air…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Javier G. Gonzalez , Markus Roth , Ralph Engel