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The KM3NeT Collaboration is installing the ARCA and ORCA neutrino detectors at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. The focus of ARCA is neutrino astronomy, while ORCA is optimised for neutrino oscillation studies. Both detectors are…

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Recently radio signals originating from extensive air showers have been observed at the Pierre Auger Observatory. In this note we present software to simulate the response of an array of antenna detectors and to reconstruct the radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Stefan Fliescher

Radio detection of cosmic-ray (CR) induced extensive air showers with digital antenna arrays is a matured technique by now. At the Pierre Auger Observatory, the Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) has been measuring air-shower signals in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-21 Max Büsken

Muography is an imaging technique that can be used to examine the interior structure of large-size objects. The technique is based on measurements of the absorption of cosmic-ray muons passing through the object under study. Muographic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-02-17 S. Aly , Y. Assran , A. Bonneville , B. ElMahdy , R. T. Kouzes , A. Lintereur , A. Mahrous , I. Mostafanezhad , R. Pang , B. Rotter , F. Snigdha , M. Tytgat , M. N. Yaseen

The Pierre Auger Observatory is a hybrid detector for ultra-high energy cosmic rays. It combines a surface array to measure secondary particles at ground level together with a fluorescence detector to measure the development of air showers…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-09 The Pierre Auger Collaboration , J. Abraham , P. Abreu , M. Aglietta , C. Aguirre , E. J. Ahn , D. Allard , I. Allekotte , J. Allen , P. Allison , J. Alvarez-Muñiz , M. Ambrosio , L. Anchordoqui , S. Andringa , A. Anzalone , C. Aramo , E. Arganda , S. Argirò , K. Arisaka , F. Arneodo , F. Arqueros , T. Asch , H. Asorey , P. Assis , J. Aublin , M. Ave , G. Avila , A. Bacher , T. Bäcker , D. Badagnani , K. B. Barber , A. F. Barbosa , H. J. M. Barbosa , N. Barenthien , S. L. C. Barroso , B. Baughman , P. Bauleo , J. J. Beatty , T. Beau , B. R. Becker , K. H. Becker , A. Bellétoile , J. A. Bellido , S. BenZvi , C. Berat , P. Bernardini , X. Bertou , P. L. Biermann , P. Billoir , O. Blanch-Bigas , F. Blanco , C. Bleve , H. Blümer , M. Boháčová , E. Bollmann , H. Bolz , C. Bonifazi , R. Bonino , N. Borodai , F. Bracci , J. Brack , P. Brogueira , W. C. Brown , R. Bruijn , P. Buchholz , A. Bueno , R. E. Burton , N. G. 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The NEMO Collaboration installed and operated an underwater detector including prototypes of the critical elements of a possible underwater km3 neutrino telescope: a four-floor tower (called Mini-Tower) and a Junction Box. The detector was…

The magnetized MINOS Near Detector, at a depth of 225 meters of water equivalent (mwe), is used to measure the atmospheric muon charge ratio. The ratio of observed positive to negative atmospheric muon rates, using 301 days of data, is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 MINOS Collaboration

The investigation of cosmic rays holds significant importance in the realm of particle physics, enabling us to expand our understanding beyond atomic confines. However, the origin and characteristics of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays remain…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-23 V. V. Kizakke Covilakam , A. D. Supanitsky , D. Ravignani

Muon radiography often referred to as muography, is an imaging technique that uses freely available cosmic-ray muons to study the interior structure of natural or man-made large-scale objects. The amount of multidisciplinary applications of…

Muon colliders offer a compelling opportunity to explore the TeV scale and conduct precision tests of the Standard Model, all within a relatively compact geographical footprint. This paper introduces a new detector concept, MAIA (Muon…

The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) is an enhancement of the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina. Covering about View the $17\,$km$^2$, AERA is the world-largest antenna array for cosmic-ray observation. It consists of more than 150…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Frank G. Schröder

ANTARES is a submarine neutrino telescope deployed in the Mediterranean Sea, at a depth of about 2500 m. It consists of a three-dimensional array of photomultiplier tubes that can detect the Cherenkov light induced by charged particles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Marco Bazzotti

Experiments with muons ($\mu^{+}$) and muonium atoms ($\mu^{+}e^{-}$) offer several promising possibilities for testing fundamental symmetries. Examples of such experiments include search for muon electric dipole moment, measurement of muon…

The Pierre Auger Observatory has been designed to study the highest-energy cosmic rays in nature (E > 10^{18.5} eV). The determination of their arrival direction, energy and composition is performed by the analysis of the atmospheric…

The detectors of the surface array of the Pierre Auger Observatory are water Cherenkov tanks. The signals from each tank are read out using three photomultipliers. The energy of the primary particle is inferred from signal densities and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 T. Suomijarvi

At the AMANDA South Pole site, four new holes were drilled to depths 2050 m to 2180 m and instrumented with 86 photomultipliers (PMTs) at depths 1520-2000 m. Of these PMTs 79 are working, with 4-ns timing resolution and noise rates 300 to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 P. O. Hulth , : , The AMANDA Collaboration

Neutrino telescopes will open, in the next years, new opportunities in observational high energy astrophysics. For these experiments, atmospheric muons from primary cosmic ray interactions in the atmosphere play an important role, because…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-01-01 G. Carminati , A. Margiotta , M. Spurio

The Muon $(g-2)$ experiment, E821, at the Brookhaven AGS has the goal to measure the muon anomalous magnetic moment to a relative accuracy of $\pm 3.5 \times 10^{-7}$. A superferric 14 m diameter storage ring has been constructed and an…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Lee Roberts

Muon imaging technology is an innovative imaging technique that can be applied in volcano imaging, heavy nuclear material detection, and archaeological research. The Micromegas detector is a promising choice for muon imaging due to its high…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-10-28 Ting Wang , Yu Wang , Zhihang Yao , Yulin Liu , Changqing Feng , Zhiyong Zhang , Shubin Liu

ICEBERG is a liquid argon time projection chamber at Fermilab for the purpose of testing detector components and software for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). The detector features a 1.15m x 1m anode plane following the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-07-22 Alejandro Yankelevich