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This paper presents the set of measurements of ultra-high energy air shower radio emission at frequency 32 MHz in period of 2008-2012. The showers are selected by geomagnetic and azimuth angles and then by the energy in three intervals:…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-25 I. Petrov , S. Knurenko , Z. Petrov , V. Kozlov , M. Pravdin

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 Pierre Auger Observatory has the capability to identify neutrino-induced extensive air showers above $10^{17}$ eV by using its large Surface Detector (SD) array. Data from the Observatory have been used to set some of the most stringent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-25 Srijan Sehgal

The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) aims to detect extensive air showers caused by the interactions of ultra-high energy cosmic rays with the Earth's atmosphere, providing complementary information to the Auger surface, fluorescence…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-18 Qader Dorosti Hasankiadeh

The burst of radio emission by the extensive air shower provides a promising alternative for detecting ultra-high energy cosmic rays.We have developed an independent numerical program to simulate these radio signals. Our code is based on a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Wei Liu , Xuelei Chen

Measurements at 100 TeV and above are an important goal for the next generation of high energy gamma-ray astronomy experiments to solve the still open problem of the origin of galactic cosmic rays. The most natural experimental solution to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-11 G. Di Sciascio , T. Di Girolamo , E. Rossi , L. Saggese

Strong electric fields in thunderclouds have long been known to accelerate secondary charged particles. We investigate this effect using three years (2015-2017) of data from the scalar system of the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-21 Angel Ricardo Jara Jimenez , Alejandro Lara , K. P. Arunbabu , James Ryan

The Pierre Auger Observatory was designed for a high statistics, full sky study of cosmic rays at the highest energies. Energy, direction and composition measurements are intended to illuminate the mysteries of the most energetic particles…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Paul Mantsch

We report a study of the distributions of the depth of maximum, Xmax, of extensive air-shower profiles with energies above 10^17.8 eV as observed with the fluorescence telescopes of the Pierre Auger Observatory. The analysis method for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-09 Pierre Auger Collaboration

It is anticipated that the Pierre Auger Observatory can be used to detect cosmic neutrinos of >10^19 eV that arrive at very large zenith angles. However showers created by neutrino interactions close to the detector must be picked out…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Ave , J. A. Hinton , R. A. Vazquez , A. A. Watson , E. Zas

The Tibet experiment, operating at Yangbajing (4,300 m above sea level), is the lowest energy air shower array and the new high density array constructed in 1996 has sensitivity to $\gamma$-ray air showers at energies as low as 3 TeV. With…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Amenomori

One possible approach for detecting ultra-high-energy cosmic rays and neutrinos is to search for radio emission from extensive air showers created when they interact in the atmosphere of Jupiter, effectively utilizing Jupiter as a particle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-20 J. D. Bray , A. Nelles

Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) are charged particles of energies above $10^{18}$ eV that originate outside of the Galaxy. Because the flux of the UHECRs at Earth is very small, the only practical way of observing UHECRs is by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-26 Valerio Verzi , Dmitri Ivanov , Yoshiki Tsunesada

The very low statistics of cosmic rays above the knee region make their study possible only through the detection of the extensive air showers (EAS) produced by their interaction with the constituents of the atmosphere. The Pierre Auger…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Florian Gaté

The measurement of large scale anisotropies in cosmic ray arrival directions at energies above 10^13 eV is performed through the detection of Extensive Air Showers produced by cosmic ray interactions in the atmosphere. The observed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-31 R. Bonino , V. V. Alekseenko , O. Deligny , P. L. Ghia , M. Grigat , A. Letessier-Selvon , H. Lyberis , S. Mollerach , S. Over , E. Roulet

A new air shower experiment of the Alborz Observatory, Alborz-I, located at the Sharif University of Technology, Iran, will be constructed in near future. An area of about 30$\times$40 m$^{2}$ will be covered by 20 plastic scintillation…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-12-31 Yousef Pezeshkian , Mahmud Bahmanabadi , Mehdi Abbasian Motlagh , Masoume Rezaie

The measurement of cosmic ray energy spectra, in particular for individual species, is an essential approach in finding their origin. Locating the "knees" of the spectra is an important part of the approach and has yet to be achieved. Here…

TREND50 is a radio detection setup of 50 self-triggered antennas working in the 50-100MHz frequency range and deployed in a radio-quiet valley of the Tianshan mountains (China). TREND50 achieved its goal: the autonomous radiodetection and…

Cosmic ray antiprotons provide an important probe for the study of cosmic-ray propagation in the interstellar space and to investigate the existence of Galactic dark matter. Cosmic rays are hampered by the Moon, therefore a deficit of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-08 G. Di Sciascio , R. Iuppa , S. Vernetto

The sun blocks cosmic ray particles from outside the solar system, forming a detectable shadow in the sky map of cosmic rays detected by the ARGO-YBJ experiment in Tibet. Because the cosmic ray particles are positive charged, the magnetic…