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Digital radio arrays have become an effective tool to measure air showers at energies around and above 100 PeV. Compared to optical techniques, the radio technique is not restricted to clear nights. Thanks to recent progress on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-28 Frank G. Schröder

The Pierre Auger Observatory aims to determine the nature and origin of the ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR). The Auger hybrid detector combines fluorescence observations of extended air showers, initiated in the atmosphere by these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Serguei Vorobiov

The Pierre Auger Observatory (PAO) and Telescope Array (TA) collaborations report significant differences in the observed energy spectra of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) above 30~EeV. In this work we present a joint fit of TA and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-16 Pavlo Plotko , Arjen van Vliet , Xavier Rodrigues , Walter Winter

The Fluorescence detector Array of Single-pixel Telescopes (FAST) is one of several proposed designs for a next-generation cosmic-ray detector. Such detectors will require enormous collecting areas whilst also needing to remain…

The Telescope Array (TA) of central Utah was designed to detect ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) and is the largest of its kind in the Northern hemisphere. Its capabilities, however, are not limited to extra-terrestrial sources.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-11 Jackson Remington

A key feature of the Pierre Auger Observatory is its hybrid design, in which ultra high energy cosmic rays are detected simultaneously by fluorescence telescopes and a ground array. The two techniques see air showers in complementary ways,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 B. R. Dawson

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) gamma-ray observatory consists of 300 water Cherenkov detectors and has been fully operational since March 2015 in central Mexico. It detects cosmic- and gamma-ray showers in the TeV energy range.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-15 Vikas Joshi , Armelle Jardin-Blicq

Extensive airshower detection is an important issue in current astrophysics endeavours. Surface arrays detectors are a common practice since they are easy to handle and have a 100% duty cycle. In this work we present an experimental study…

We show that with GLAST there will be the possibility to detect, within the UHECR skimming at atmosphere edges, the showers generated by very high energy upward and horizontal Tau. The effective area, thanks to the large area covered by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-06-13 Daniele Fargion

The Surface Array Enhancement of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory is set to equip the existing surface cosmic-ray array of ice-Cherenkov detectors, IceTop, with radio antennas and scintillation detectors. This can lower the energy threshold…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-03 Megha Venugopal

The Pierre Auger Observatory is designed to study cosmic rays with energies greater than 10^{19} eV. Two sites are envisaged for the observatory, one in each hemisphere, for complete sky coverage. The southern site of the Auger Observatory,…

We explore the sensitivity offered by a global network of cosmic ray detectors to a novel, unobserved phenomena: widely separated simultaneous extended air showers. Existing localized observatories work independently to observe individual…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-30 Eric Albin , Daniel Whiteson

Results will be shown from the ASTRONEU array developed and operated in the outskirts of Patras, Greece. An array of 9 scintillator detectors and 3 antennas were deployed to study Extensive Air Showers (EAS) as a tool for calibrating an…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the world's first open observatory for very high energy gamma-rays. Around a hundred telescopes of different sizes will be used to detect the Cherenkov light that results from gamma-ray induced…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-17 A. Zech , J. -P. Amans , S. Blake , C. Boisson , C. Costille , F. De-Frondat , J. -L. Dournaux , D. Dumas , G. Fasola , T. Greenshaw , O. Hervet , J. -M. Huet , P. Laporte , C. Rulten , D. Savoie , F. Sayede , J. Schmoll , H. Sol

The first phase of the Alborz Observatory Array (Alborz-I) consists of 20 plastic scintillation detectors each one with surface area of 0.25 $m^{2}$ spread over an area of 40$\times$40 $m^{2}$ realized to the study of Extensive Air Showers…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-05 Soheila Abdollahi , Mahmud Bahmanabadi , Yousef Pezeshkian , Saba Mortazavi Moghaddam

A wide field-of-view Cherenkov telescope has been working in the surroundings of the Yakutsk array experiment since 2012. Its main function is to measure the waveform of the Cherenkov radiation signal induced by extensive air showers of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-01 A. A. Ivanov , S. V. Matarkin , L. V. Timofeev

The detection of Cerenkov light from EAS in a delayed coincidence with fluorescence light gives a strong signature to discriminate protons and neutrinos in cosmic rays. For this purpose, the ULTRA experiment has been designed with 2…

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) gamma-ray observatory detects cosmic- and gamma-ray initiated air showers in the TeV energy range using 300 water Cherenkov detectors (WCDs). To improve its sensitivity at the highest energies, HAWC…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-20 Vikas Joshi , Harm Schoorlemmer

K-EUSO is a planned mission of the JEM-EUSO program for the study of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) from space, to be deployed on the International Space Station. The K-EUSO observatory consists of a UV telescope with a wide field of…