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The Telescope Array (TA) observatory, located in midwest Utah, USA, is designed to detect ultra high energy cosmic rays whose energy is greater than 1 EeV. TA mainly consists of two types of detector. The first type is the atmospheric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-03 Takeshi Okuda

We discuss the lateral distribution of charged particles in extensive air showers with energy above $10^{17}$ eV measured by surface scintillation detectors of Yakutsk EAS array. The analysis covers the data obtained during the period from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 A. V. Glushkov , A. Sabourov

An innovative detector system called Horizon-T is constructed to study Extensive Air Showers (EAS) in the energy range above 10^16 eV coming from a wide range of zenith angles (0o - 85o). The system is located at Tien Shan high-altitude…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-06-14 D. Beznosko , A. Iakovlev , Z. Makhataeva , M. I. Vildanova , V. V. Zhukov

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a ground-based $\gamma$-ray observatory that will observe the full sky in the energy range from 20 GeV to 100 TeV from facilities in both hemispheres. It is proposed to consist of more than 100…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-07 Ramin Marx , Raquel de los Reyes

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a future very high energy gamma-ray observatory. CTA will be comprised of small-,medium- and large-size telescopes covering an energy range from tens of GeV to hundreds of TeV and will surpass existing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 T. Jogler , M. D. Wood , J. Dumm , A. Bouvier

The recent demonstration by the CODALEMA Collaboration of the ability of the radio-detection technique for the characterization of UHE cosmic-rays calls for the use of this powerful method for the observation of UHE neutrinos. For this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-30 Daniel Ardouin , Didier Charrier , Pascal Lautridou , Olivier Martineau-Huynh , Olivier Ravel , Xiang-Ping Wu , Meng Zhao

High-energy gamma rays are promising tools to constrain or reveal the nature of dark matter, in particular Weakly Interacting Massive Particles. Being well into its pre-construction phase, the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will soon probe…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-23 Christopher Eckner

The construction of the H.E.S.S. (High Energy Stereoscopic System), a superior system of four 12 m imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes, has been completed recently in the Namib desert close to Windhoek, at 1800 m above sea level. This…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Konopelko

The Baikal Gigaton Volume Detector (Baikal-GVD) is a km$^3$-scale neutrino detector currently under construction in Lake Baikal, Russia. The detector currently consists of 2304 optical modules arranged on 64 vertical strings. Further…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-23 Dmitry Zaborov

The Tunka Radio Extension (Tunka-Rex) is a digital antenna array operating in the frequency band of 30-80 MHz, measuring the radio emission of air-showers induced by ultra-high energy cosmic rays. Tunka-Rex is co-located with the TAIGA…

The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) is planned to be built at Daocheng, Sichuan Province, China. The water Cherenkov detector array (WCDA), with an area of 78,000 m2 and capacity of 350,000 tons of purified water, is one…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-04-05 Huicai Li , Zhiguo Yao , Mingjun Chen , Chunxu Yu , Min Zha , Hanrong Wu , Bo Gao , Xiaojie Wang , Jinyan Liu , Wenying Liao , Dezhi Huang

The simulation of the Cherenkov light lateral distribution function (LDF) in Extensive Air Showers (EAS) was perfomed with the CORSIKA code in the energy range 10^13-10^16 eV for configuration of the Tunka-25 EAS array. On the basis of this…

The Telescope Array (TA) experiment is designed to observe cosmic-ray-induced air showers at extremely high energies. It is being deployed in a desert of Utah, USA; an array of 3 m^2 scintillation counters will be distributed over 760 km^…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. kasahara

The main interest of the present work is in analyzing the lateral distribution function (LDF) of Cherenkov radiation from particles that produced in Extensive Air Showers (EAS). The simulation of Cherenkov radiation LDF is fulfilled by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-13 Zena Fadhel Khadhum , Hassan Abdullah Mahdi , A. A. Al-Rubaiee

The excellent radio frequency transparency of cold polar ice, combined with the coherent Cherenkov emission produced by neutrino-induced showers when viewed at wavelengths longer than a few centimeters, has spurred considerable interest in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-30 H. Landsman , L. Ruckman , G. S. Varner

The results of a study of the cosmic ray composition in individual events in the energy range (2-12.5) EeV using the muon correlation method is presented. The considered sample included showers with zenith angles less than 60 degrees…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-05 A. V. Glushkov , L. T. Ksenofontov , K. G. Lebedev , A. V. Sabourov

As one of the options, the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Consortium is considering the possibility to install its Southern array in Chile, in the Atacama Desert. The envisaged site is situated about 5 km from the future European Extremely…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Markus Gaug , Michele Doro