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In view of the current efforts to extend the KASCADE experiment (KASCADE-Grande) for observations of Extensive Air Showers (EAS) of primary energies up to 1 EeV, the features of muon arrival time distributions and their correlations with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 I. M. Brancus , H. Rebel , A. F. Badea , A. Haungs , C. D. Aiftimiei , J. Oehlschlaeger , M. Duma

Cosmic rays with energy exceeding ~ 10^{18} eV are referred to as ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). Monte Carlo codes for extensive air shower (EAS) simulate the development of EASs initiated by UHECRs in the Earth's atmosphere.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Soonyoung Roh , Jihee Kim , Dongsu Ryu , Hyesung Kang , Katsuaki Kasahara , Eiji Kido , Akimichi Taketa

We propose a new way to observe cosmic-ray-induced air showers by imaging the radio emission. With simulations we demonstrate key features for imaging the radio-wave emission from air showers, which show similarities to the well-established…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-18 Juan Ammerman-Yebra , Harm Schoorlemmer , Anne Timmermans , Sebastian Achim Mueller

The primary cosmic rays particles with energies above 10**20 eV have been observed at many extensive air shower arrays since the beginning of observations over 40 years ago. The validity of measurements of signal s(600) used as energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-06 L. G. Dedenko , D. A. Podgrudkov , T. M. Roganova , G. F. Fedorova

A new technique has been devised for the analysis of extensive air shower data in observing the effect of the moon on this data. In this technique the number of EAS events with arrival directions falling in error circles centered about the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-24 F. Sheidaei , M. Bahmanabadi , M. Khakian Ghomi , S. M. Mahdavi , J. Samimi , A. Anvari

The method of isolines (contours) is proposed to be used for deter- mination of core location of extensive air shower on the array plane. As variable z=f(x,y) are used flux densities of particles, registrated from ground detectors. Obtained…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. N. Kirov , J. N. Stamenov

Sparse digital antenna arrays constitute a promising detection technique for future large-scale cosmic-ray observatories. It has recently been shown that this kind of instrumentation can provide a resolution of the energy and of the shower…

Based on a new approach to the detection of radio transients associated with extensive air showers induced by ultra high energy cosmic rays, the experimental apparatus CODALEMA is in operation, measuring about 1 event per day corresponding…

Supplemented with suitable buffering techniques, the low-frequency part of the SKA can be used as an ultra-precise detector for cosmic-ray air showers at very high energies. This would enable a wealth of scientific applications: the physics…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-09 T. Huege , J. D. Bray , S. Buitink , R. Dallier , R. D. Ekers , H. Falcke , C. W. James , L. Martin , B. Revenu , O. Scholten , F. G. Schröder

We have investigated some features of the density and arrival time distributions of Cherenkov photons in extensive air showers using the CORSIKA simulation package. The main thrust of this study is to see the effect of hadronic interaction…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-23 P. Hazarika , U. D. Goswami , V. R. Chitnis , B. S. Acharya , G. S. Das , B. B. Singh , R. J. Britto

We present a study of the multiplicities, of the lateral distributions and of the ratio of the electromagnetic to the hadronic components in the air showers, generated by the collision in the atmosphere of an incoming high energy cosmic ray…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Alessandro Cafarella , Claudio Coriano' , T. N. Tomaras

Extensive Air Showers (EAS) arrival direction distribution is studied by means of a 4-detector installation in Telavi (TEL array), which is a node of GELATICA net in Georgia. The description of EAS arrival zenith angle distribution within…

Arrival directions of ultrahigh energy extensive air showers (EAS) by world arrays data are analyzed. It is shown that arrival directions of ultrahigh energy EAS by Yakutsk and P. Auger data are some correlated with pulsars of Local Arm…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-07-22 V. A. Kolosov , A. A. Mikhailov

Arrival directions of extensive air showers by using world data are considered. It is shown that distributions of showers in zenith angle at E>10^{19}eV and E>4.10^{19}eV differ from each other. On this basis the conclusions are made: the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Mikhailov , N. N. Efremov , I. T. Makarov , G. V. Nikolayeva , G. G. Struchkov

Future experiments based on the observation of Earth's atmosphere from sub-orbital and orbital altitudes plan to include optical Cherenkov cameras to observe extensive air showers produced by high-energy cosmic radiation via its interaction…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-22 Austin Cummings , Roberto Aloisio , Johannes Eser , John Krizmanic

The energy spectrum of cosmic rays in the range 10^15 eV to 6*10^19 eV has been studied using the air Cherenkov light detectors of the Yakutsk array. The total flux of photons produced by relativistic electrons (including positrons as well,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-08-05 A. A. Ivanov , S. P. Knurenko , I. Ye. Sleptsov

Future detection of Extensive Air Showers (EAS) produced by Ultra High Energy Cosmic Particles (UHECP) by means of space based fluorescence telescopes will open a new window on the universe and allow cosmic ray and neutrino astronomy at a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-15 C. Berat , S. Bottai , D. De Marco , S. Moreggia , D. Naumov , M. Pallavicini , R. Pesce , A. Petrolini , A. Stutz , E. Taddei , A. Thea

The reliable simulation of extensive air showers induced by different primary particles (e. g. proton, iron, gamma etc.) is of great importance in high energy cosmic ray research. The CORSIKA is a standard Monte-Carlo simulation package to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-12-05 C. Thakuria , K. Boruah

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