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The precise reconstruction of properties of photons and electrons in modern high energy physics detectors, such as the CMS or Atlas experiments, plays a crucial role in numerous physics results. Conventional geometrical algorithms are used…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-11-30 Polina Simkina , Fabrice Couderc , Julie Malclès , Mehmet Özgür Sahin

Neutrino telescopes detect the emission of Cherenkov light resulting from the tracks and showers of charged and neutral current neutrino interactions. These tracks or showers are reconstructed using a corresponding probability density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Mathieu Ribordy

Air-shower measurements in the primary energy range beyond 10 TeV can be used to address important questions of astroparticle and particle physics. The most prominent among these questions are the search for the origin of charged Galactic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-25 Martin Tluczykont , Daniel Hampf , Dieter Horns , Dominik Spitschan , Leonid Kuzmichev , Vasily Prosin , Christian Spiering , Ralf Wischnewski

Based on data and Monte-Carlo simulations of the HEGRA IACT system, improved analysis techniques were developed for the determination of the shower geometry and shower energy from the multiple Cherenkov images. These techniques allow, e.g.,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 W. Hofmann

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), conceived as an array of tens of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs), is an international project for a next-generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory, aiming to improve on the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-14 Tjark Miener , Daniel Nieto , Aryeh Brill , Samuel Spencer , Jose Luis Contreras

A new cluster type shower array NEVOD-EAS is designed for estimating the size, axis position and arrival direction of extensive air showers registered by the Cherenkov water detector NEVOD and coordinate detector DECOR (Moscow, Russia). In…

The Cosmic Multiperspective Event Tracker (CoMET) R&D project aims to optimize the techniques for the detection of soft-spectrum sources through very-high-energy gamma-ray observations using particle detectors (called ALTO detectors), and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-30 Tomas Bylund , Gašper Kukec Mezek , Mohanraj Senniappan , Yvonne Becherini , Michael Punch , Satyendra Thoudam , Jean-Pierre Ernenwein

The question of the origin of cosmic rays and other questions of astroparticle and particle physics can be addressed with indirect air-shower observations above 10 TeV primary energy. We propose to explore the cosmic ray and gamma-ray sky…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-31 Martin Tluczykont , Daniel Hampf , Dieter Horns , Tanja Kneiske , Robert Eichler , Rayk Nachtigall , Gavin Rowell

The Tunka-Radio extension (Tunka-Rex) is a radio detector for air showers in Siberia. From 2012 to 2014, Tunka-Rex operated exclusively together with its host experiment, the air-Cherenkov array Tunka-133, which provided trigger, data…

The water-Cherenkov tanks of the Pierre Auger Observatory can detect particles at all zenith angles and are therefore well-suited for the study of inclined and horizontal air showers (60 - 90 degrees). Such showers are characterised by a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 D. Newton

The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO), a next-generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory, will be composed of two arrays of multiple imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) located in both the Northern and Southern…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-19 T. Miener , I. Viale , B. Lacave , A. Cerviño

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the future observatory for ground-based imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. Each telescope will provide a snapshot of gamma-ray induced particle showers by capturing the induced Cherenkov…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-24 J. Aschersleben , M. Vecchi , M. H. F. Wilkinson , R. F. Peletier

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation facility of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes. It will reach unprecedented sensitivity and energy resolution in very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. CTA will detect…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. Doro , M. Daniel , R. de los Reyes , M. Gaug , M. C. Maccarone

Measurements of the lateral distribution of Cherenkov photons with the wide-angle atmospheric Cherenkov light detector array AIROBICC and of the charged particle lateral distribution with the scintillator matrix of the HEGRA air-shower…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 F. Arqueros , The HEGRA Collaboration

The Hellenic Open University extensive air shower array (also known as Astroneu array) is a small scale hybrid detection system operating in an area with high levels of electromagnetic noise from anthropogenic activity. In the present study…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-01-18 S. Nonis , A. Leisos , A. Tsirigotis , G. Bourlis , K. Papageorgiou , I. Gkialas , I. Manthos , S. Tzamarias

We present an improved method for the precise reconstruction of cosmic ray air showers above $10^{17}$ eV with sparse radio arrays. The method is based on the comparison of predictions for radio pulse shapes by CoREAS simulations to…

Radio Cherenkov radiation is arguably the most efficient mechanism for detecting showers from ultra-high energy particles of 1 PeV and above. Showers occuring in Antarctic ice should be detectable at distances up to 1 km. We report on…

The IceTop array at the surface of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory measures extensive air showers produced by cosmic-ray particles with energies from PeV up to EeV, covering the transition region from galactic to extragalactic sources.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-14 Lilly Pyras , Larissa Paul , Katherine Rawlins , Ian Reistroffer , Amar Thakuri

This talk is based on the Very High Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy observations planned to be carried out at Pachmarhi in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh using the well known atmospheric \v Cerenkov technique. The development of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. N. Bhat

The TAIGA experimental complex is a hybrid observatory for high-energy gamma-ray astronomy in the range from 10 TeV to several EeV. The complex consists of such installations as TAIGA- IACT, TAIGA-HiSCORE and a number of others. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-23 Anna Vlaskina , Alexander Kryukov
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