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Scaling properties of nuclei- and photon-initiated air showers are examined in wide primary energy range ($10^{14}\div 10^{22}$~eV) taking into account Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal and geomagnetic field effects. It is shown that the invariance…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-06 A A Lagutin , R I Raikin , T L Serebryakova

In this work, the effects of the extensive air showers (EAS) were described by estimating the lateral distribution function (LDF) at very high energies of various cosmic ray particles. LDF was simulated for charged particles such as the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-06 Hassanen Abdulhussaen Jassim , A. A. Al-Rubaiee , Iman Tarik Al-Alawy

In this paper, we present results obtained from the measurements of radio emission at frequency of 32 MHz with energy more than 10$^{19}$ eV. Generalized formula that describe lateral distribution and depends on main characteristic of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-26 S. Knurenko , I. Petrov , Z. Petrov

Very inclined extensive air showers (EAS), with both down-going and up-going trajectories, are particularly targeted by the next generation of extended radio arrays, such as GRAND. Methods to reconstruct the incoming direction, core…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Valentin Decoene , Olivier Martineau-Huynh , Matìas Tueros , Simon Chiche

Theoretical predictions for lateral distribution function of electrons in extensive air showers based on scaling formalism are presented. Our results are tested by comparison with AGASA experimental data taking into account the contribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. I. Raikin , A. A. Lagutin , N. Inoue , A. Misaki

The distribution of depth in which a cosmic ray air shower reaches its maximum number of particles ($X_{max}$) is studied and parametrized. Three functions are studied for proton, carbon, silicon, and iron primary particles with energies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-01 Luan Arbeletche , Vitor de Souza

We developed a radio interferometric technique for the observation of extensive air showers initiated by cosmic particles. In this proof-of-principle study we show that properties of extensive air showers can be derived with high accuracy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-11 Harm Schoorlemmer , Washington R. Carvalho

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

The generic properties of the emission of coherent radiation from a moving charge distribution are discussed. The general structure of the charge and current distributions in an extensive air shower are derived. These are subsequently used…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-03-01 Olaf Scholten , Krijn D. de Vries , Klaus Werner

The reconstruction of cosmic-ray-induced extensive air showers with a non-imaging Cherenkov detector array requires knowledge of the Cherenkov yield of any given air shower for a given set of shower parameters. Although air showers develop…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-29 Isaac Buckland , Douglas Bergman

Based on extensive air shower simulations it is shown that the electron distributions with respect to the two angles, determining electron direction at a given shower age, for a fixed electron energy and lateral distance, are universal. It…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-22 Andrzej Smialkowski , Maria Giller

In air shower experiments information about the initial cosmic ray particle or about the shower development is obtained by exploiting the correlations between the quantities of interest and the directly measurable quantities. It is shown…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wolfgang Wittek , Harald Kornmayer , The HEGRA Collaboration

The increasing efforts are still in progress to establish existence and to investigate the properties of pairs of Extensive Air Showers (EAS) that can be considered as originated from a single event which produced the Cosmic Radiation (CR)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-16 Yuri Verbetsky , Manana Svanidze

We report here on a novel analysis of the complete set of four Stokes parameters that uniquely determine the linear and/or circular polarization of the radio signal for an extensive air shower. The observed dependency of the circular…

In search for new methods of determining the primary energy spectrum of Cosmic Rays, the attention was paid to the density spectrum measurement. New methods available at present warrant an accurateness of conclusions derived from the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Aleksander Zawadzki , Tadeusz Wibig , Jerzy Gawin

The increasing cosmic ray statistics collected by present experiments and the future prospects with new large arrays demand accurate calculations of the extensive air shower parameters. The energy of the primary particle is estimated by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 M. T. Dova , L. N. Epele , A. G. Mariazzi

The lateral distribution function (LDF) for coherent electromagnetic radiation from air showers initiated by ultra-high-energy cosmic rays is calculated using a macroscopic description. A new expression is derived to calculate the coherent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-01-28 Krijn D. de Vries , Ad M. van den Berg , Olaf Scholten , Klaus Werner

At ultra-high energies, the flux of cosmic rays is too low for direct measurements to be meaningful. When a cosmic ray enters the atmosphere, it initiates an extensive air shower, producing a cascade of secondary particles that propagate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-25 Fiona Ellwanger , Darko Veberič

Using Monte Carlo simulation of extensive air showers, we showed that the maximum depth of showers, $X_{max}$ can be estimated using $P=Q(100)/Q(200)$, the ratio of Cherenkov photon densities at 100 and 200 meters from the shower core,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-07 Rasekh Ibrahim , Purmohammad Davoud