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By analysing the radio emissions from air showers using interferometry, we can estimate their properties. In this contribution, we apply interferometry to reconstruct air-shower parameters based on measurements taken with the Auger…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-08 Pim van Dillen

The existing and in development devices at Basic Environmental Observatory (BEO) Moussala are presented, precisely the experiments connected with space weather and astroparticle studies. The recent results of the secondary cosmic ray…

Space Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Mishev

The science goals of IceCube-Gen2 include multi-messenger astronomy, astroparticle and particle physics. To this end, the observatory will include several detection methods, including a surface array and in-ice optical sensors. The array…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-08 Alan Coleman

The Pierre Auger Observatory is the largest observatory of high-energy cosmic rays. It is located in Argentina and has been taking data since January 2004. Extensive air showers initiated by cosmic rays are measured by the hybrid detector,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 R. Smida

We present the GIGAS (Gigahertz Identification of Giant Air Shower) microwave radio sensor arrays of the EASIER project (Extensive Air Shower Identification with Electron Radiometers), deployed at the site of the Pierre Auger cosmic ray…

The ANTARES Collaboration is building a high-energy neutrino telescope at 2500 m depth in the Mediterranean Sea. The experiment aims to search for high-energy cosmic neutrinos through the detection of Cerenkov light induced by muons and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-30 Y. Becherini

Astroparticles offer a new path for research in the field of particle physics, allowing investigations at energies above those accesible with accelerators. Ultra-high energy cosmic rays can be studied via the observation of the showers they…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-21 Analisa Mariazzi

The Pierre Auger Observatory is a hybrid detector for ultrahigh energy cosmic rays (UHECR) with energies above 10$^{18.5}$ eV. Currently the first part of the Observatory nears completion in the southern hemisphere in Argentina. One…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-15 B. Keilhauer

The Southern Pierre Auger Observatory is now nearing completion and the accumulating data sample has already allowed to extract scientific results of relevance for ultra-high energy cosmic-ray (UHECR) physics. This lecture focuses on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 V. Van Elewyck

The high energy spectrum of cosmic rays presents three distinct traits, the second knee, the ankle, and the GZK cutoff and as such, a thorough understanding of cosmic rays encompasses the study of these three features. It is in the second…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 A. Etchegoyen

The world's largest cosmic-ray detector is nearing completion in the remote Pampas of Argentina. This instrument measures extensive air-showers with energies from ${10^{18}-10^{20}}$ eV and beyond. A surface detector array of area 3000…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-15 Lawrence Wiencke , Pierre Auger Collaboration

The Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina provides the largest data sample of the cosmic ray events with energy above 10$^{18}$ eV. These high energy events can be used to test our understanding of the hadronic interactions at energies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Petr Travnicek

The Southern part of the Pierre Auger Observatory is nearing completion, and has been in stable operation since January 2004 while it has grown in size. The large sample of data collected so far has led to a significant improvement in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 T. Yamamoto

The Pierre Auger Observatory has the capability of detecting neutrino-induced extensive air showers by searching for very inclined showers with a significant electromagnetic component. In order to study the detector response of the surface…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-30 H. J. Blümer , D. Gora , M. Roth , A. Tamburro

Major uncertainties in the fluorescence energy measurement come from the precision of various atmospheric transmission, air Cerenkov subtraction, light multiple-scattering and cloud corrections. The Auger program for atmospheric monitoring,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Miguel Mostafa

The Pierre Auger Observatory detects ultra-high energy cosmic rays by implementing two complementary air-shower techniques. The combination of a large ground array and fluorescence detectors, known as the hybrid concept, means that a rich…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Miguel Mostafa

The motivation, physics objectives, and technical strategy of a upgrade to the Pierre Auger Observatory are discussed.

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-23 The Pierre Auger Collaboration

Detection of Ultra High Energy Neutrinos (UHEN), with energy above 0.l EeV (10**18 eV) is one of the most exciting challenges of high energy astrophysics and particle physics. In this article we show that the Auger Observatories, built to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-28 Antoine Letessier-Selvon

We describe the experimental setup and the results of RAuger, a small radio-antenna array, consisting of three fully autonomous and self-triggered radio-detection stations, installed close to the center of the Surface Detector (SD) of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-14 The Pierre Auger Collaboration , S. Acounis , D. Charrier , T. Garçon , C. Rivière , P. Stassi