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Multi-messenger astronomy is key today to broaden our understanding of the high energy Universe. When an ultra-high energy (UHE) particle interacts in the atmosphere or underground, it initiates an extensive air shower that produces a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-06 Marion Guelfand

Reasons for the current interest in cosmic rays above 10^19 eV are described. The latest results on the energy spectrum, arrival direction distribution and mass composition of cosmic rays are reviewed, including data that were reported…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Watson

The measurement of ultra-high energy (UHE) neutrinos (E $>$ \SI{e16}{eV}) opens a new field of astronomy with the potential to reveal the sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays especially if combined with observations in the…

KASCADE-Grande is a multi-detector experiment at Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany for measuring extensive air showers in the primary energy range of 100 TeV to 1 EeV. This contribution attempts to provide a synopsis of the current…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-10-27 A. Haungs , KASCADE-Grande Collaboration

Radio pulses are emitted during the development of air showers, where air showers are generated by ultra-high energy cosmic rays entering the Earth's atmosphere. These nanosecond short pulses are presently investigated by various…

The past decade has seen the rise of various radio astronomy arrays, particularly for low-frequency observations below 100MHz. These developments have been primarily driven by interesting and fundamental scientific questions, such as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-28 Raj Thilak Rajan , Albert-Jan Boonstra , Mark Bentum , Marc Klein-Wolt , Frederik Belien , Michel Arts , Noah Saks , Alle-Jan van der Veen

The detection of high-energy cosmic rays above a few hundred TeV is realized by the observation of extensive air-showers. By using the multi-detector setup of KASCADE-Grande, energy spectrum, elemental composition, and anisotropies of…

The Pierre Auger Observatory has conducted measurements of the energy spectrum and mass composition of cosmic rays using different methods. Utilizing both surface and fluorescence detectors (SD and FD), the Observatory provides…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-07 Vladimír Novotný

The ARGO--YBJ experiment has been in stable data taking for more than five years at the Yangbajing cosmic ray observatory (Tibet, P.R. China, 4300 m a.s.l.). The detector collected about $5\times10^{11}$ events in a wide energy range from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-04 Paolo Montini

The field of ultra-high energy cosmic rays made a lot of progresses last years with large area experiments such as the Pierre Auger Observatory, HiRes and the Telescope Array. A suppression of the cosmic ray flux at energies above…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Benoît Revenu

Various experiments have been conducted to search for the radio emission from ultra-high-energy particles interacting in the lunar regolith. Although they have not yielded any detections, they have been successful in establishing upper…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-13 Justin Bray

One possible approach for detecting ultra-high-energy cosmic rays and neutrinos is to search for radio emission from extensive air showers created when they interact in the atmosphere of Jupiter, effectively utilizing Jupiter as a particle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-20 J. D. Bray , A. Nelles

Very high energy gamma-ray observations offer indirect methods for studying the highest energy cosmic rays in our Universe. The origin of cosmic rays at energies greater than $10^{18}$ eV remains a mystery, and many questions in particle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-28 R. Mukherjee

We discuss the possibilities of measuring ultra-high energy cosmic rays and neutrinos with radio techniques. We review a few of the properties of radio emission from cosmic ray air showers and show how these properties can be explained by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-20 Heino Falcke , Peter Gorham

Recent measurements of ultra-high energy cosmic rays and neutrinos are briefly reviewed. With several new large scale observatories nearing completion or becoming fully operational only very recently, a large body of high quality and high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Karl-Heinz Kampert

In the last few years, interest in radio detection of cosmic ray air showers has risen continuously. By now, large-scale application of the radio technique is under investigation in the framework of LOFAR and the Pierre Auger Observatory.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-18 T. Huege

A new type of cosmic-ray experiment is under construction in the Pyh\"asalmi mine in the underground laboratory of the University of Oulu, Finland. It aims to study the composition of cosmic rays at and above the knee region. The…

In recent years, arrays of radio antennas operating in the MHz regime have shown great potential as detectors in astroparticle physics. In particular, they fulfill an important role in the indirect detection of ultra-high energy cosmic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-17 Max Büsken , Tomáš Fodran , Tim Huege

The ARGO-YBJ experiment is a multipurpose detector exploiting the full coverage approach at very high altitude. The apparatus, in stable data taking since November 2007 with an energy threshold of a few hundreds of GeV and a duty-cycle of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-02 G. Di Sciascio

In this contribution, we present the status and first data from the Radio Detector (RD) at the Pierre Auger Observatory, consisting of $1660$ radio antennas deployed across the $3000$ km$^2$ surface detector array. These antennas measure…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-25 Bjarni Pont