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Ultra-high energy cosmic rays generate extensive air showers in Earth's atmosphere. A standard approach to reconstruct the energy of an ultra-high energy cosmic rays is to sample the lateral profile of the particle density on the ground of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Hans Dembinski , Pierre Billoir , Olivier Deligny , Thomas Hebbeker

The investigation of cosmic rays holds significant importance in the realm of particle physics, enabling us to expand our understanding beyond atomic confines. However, the origin and characteristics of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays remain…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-23 V. V. Kizakke Covilakam , A. D. Supanitsky , D. Ravignani

Cosmic ray shower detection using large radio arrays has gained significant traction in recent years. With massive improvements in signal modelling and microscopic simulations, the analysis of incoming events is still severely limited by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-29 Pranav Sampathkumar , Tim Huege , Andreas Haungs , Ralph Engel

We present a parameterized model of atmospheric particle showers initiated by cosmic rays. Few physics shower parameters are tuned in a comparison to the Conex generator. Resulting shower properties are studied, with a comment on the cases…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-22 Jiri Kvita

{Measurements of cosmic-ray composition based on air-shower measurements rely mostly on the determination of the position of the shower maximum ($X_\mathrm{max}$). One efficient technique is to image the development of the air shower using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-03 V. B. Jhansi , S. Thoudam , S. Buitink , A. Corstranje , M. Desmet , J. R. Horandel , T. Heuge , K. Mulrey , O. Scholten

We summarise some basic issues relevant to the optimisation and design of space-based experiments for the observation of the Extensive Air Showers produced by Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Particles interacting with the atmosphere. A number of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-15 M. Pallavicini , R. Pesce , A. Petrolini , A. Thea

We revisit and extend the analysis supporting a 60 year-old suggestion that cosmic rays air showers resulting from primary particles with energies above 10^{18} eV should be straightforward to detect with radar ranging techniques, where the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-05-23 Peter. W. Gorham

A simulation study of the energy released by extensive air showers in the form of MHz radiation is performed using the CoREAS simulation code. We develop an efficient method to extract this radiation energy from air-shower simulations. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-20 Christian Glaser , Martin Erdmann , Jörg R. Hörandel , Tim Huege , Johannes Schulz

Radio emission from air showers enables measurements of cosmic particle kinematics and identity. The radio signals are detected in broadband Megahertz antennas among continuous background noise. We present two deep learning concepts and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-22 M. Erdmann , F. Schlueter , R. Smida

The precise reconstruction of properties of photons and electrons in modern high energy physics detectors, such as the CMS or Atlas experiments, plays a crucial role in numerous physics results. Conventional geometrical algorithms are used…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-11-30 Polina Simkina , Fabrice Couderc , Julie Malclès , Mehmet Özgür Sahin

Stereoscopic arrays of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes allow to reconstruct gamma-ray-induced showers in 3 dimensions, which offers several advantages: direct access to the shower parameters in space and straightforward…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-08 M. Naumann-Godó , M. Lemoine-Goumard , B. Degrange

Any considerations on propagation of particles through the Universe must involve particle interactions: processes leading to production of particle cascades. While one expects existence of such cascades, the state of the art cosmic-ray…

The Telescope Array (TA) collaboration has measured the energy spectrum of ultra-high energy cosmic rays with primary energies above 1.6 x 10^(18) eV. This measurement is based upon four years of observation by the surface detector…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-12 T. Abu-Zayyad , R. Aida , M. Allen , R. Anderson , R. Azuma , E. Barcikowski , J. W. Belz , D. R. Bergman , S. A. Blake , R. Cady , B. G. Cheon , J. Chiba , M. Chikawa , E. J. Cho , W. R. Cho , H. Fujii , T. Fujii , T. Fukuda , M. Fukushima , W. Hanlon , K. Hayashi , Y. Hayashi , N. Hayashida , K. Hibino , K. Hiyama , K. Honda , T. Iguchi , D. Ikeda , K. Ikuta , N. Inoue , T. Ishii , R. Ishimori , D. Ivanov , S. Iwamoto , C. C. H. Jui , K. Kadota , F. Kakimoto , O. Kalashev , T. Kanbe , K. Kasahara , H. Kawai , S. Kawakami , S. Kawana , E. Kido , H. B. Kim , H. K. Kim , J. H. Kim , J. H. Kim , K. Kitamoto , S. Kitamura , Y. Kitamura , K. Kobayashi , Y. Kobayashi , Y. Kondo , K. Kuramoto , V. Kuzmin , Y. J. Kwon , J. Lan , S. I. Lim , S. Machida , K. Martens , T. Matsuda , T. Matsuura , T. Matsuyama , J. N. Matthews , M. Minamino , K. Miyata , Y. Murano , I. Myers , K. Nagasawa , S. Nagataki , T. Nakamura , S. W. Nam , T. Nonaka , S. Ogio , M. Ohnishi , H. Ohoka , K. Oki , D. Oku , T. Okuda , A. Oshima , S. Ozawa , I. H. Park , M. S. Pshirkov , D. C. Rodriguez , S. Y. Roh , G. Rubtsov , D. Ryu , H. Sagawa , N. Sakurai , A. L. Sampson , L. M. Scott , P. D. Shah , F. Shibata , T. Shibata , H. Shimodaira , B. K. Shin , J. I. Shin , T. Shirahama , J. D. Smith , P. Sokolsky , B. T. Stokes , S. R. Stratton , T. A. Stroman , S. Suzuki , Y. Takahashi , M. Takeda , A. Taketa , M. Takita , Y. Tameda , H. Tanaka , K. Tanaka , M. Tanaka , S. B. Thomas , G. B. Thomson , P. Tinyakov , I. Tkachev , H. Tokuno , T. Tomida , S. Troitsky , Y. Tsunesada , K. Tsutsumi , Y. Tsuyuguchi , Y. Uchihori , S. Udo , H. Ukai , G. Vasiloff , Y. Wada , T. Wong , M. Wood , Y. Yamakawa , R. Yamane , H. Yamaoka , K. Yamazaki , J. Yang , Y. Yoneda , S. Yoshida , H. Yoshii , X. Zhou , R. Zollinger , Z. Zundel

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory comprises 300 water Cherenkov detectors, each equipped with four photomultipliers, located on the Volc\'{a}n Sierra Negra in Mexico at 4,100 masl. This observatory can detect gamma rays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-04 J. Jaimes , T. Capistrán , I. Torres

HAWC is a ground-based observatory consisting of 300 water Cherenkov detectors, which observes the extensive air showers induced by cosmic rays from some TeV to a few PeV and, in particular, gamma rays from 300 GeV to more than 100 TeV. One…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-12 A. Alvarado , T. Capistrán , I. Torres , J. R. SacahuÍ , R. Alfaro

Interpretation of extensive air showers (EAS) experiments results is strongly based on air shower simulations. The latter being based on hadronic interaction models, any new model can help for the understanding of the nature of cosmic rays.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-08 T. Pierog , K. Werner

Cosmic rays interacting with the atmosphere allow for the probing of fundamental interactions at ultra-high energies. We thus obtain limits on strongly coupled new physics models via their imprints on cosmic-ray air showers. Using the Monte…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-11 Peter Schichtel , Michael Spannowsky , Philip Waite

Particles produced in high energy collisions that are charged under one of the fundamental forces will radiate proportionally to their charge, such as photon radiation from electrons in quantum electrodynamics. At sufficiently high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-17 Christian W. Bauer , Wibe A. de Jong , Benjamin Nachman , Davide Provasoli

We briefly review the status of cosmic ray studies between $10^{14}$ eV and the highest observed energies, namely a few times $10^{20}$ eV. Because of the rather low incident fluxes in this energy range, the studies mostly rely on ground…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Murat Boratav , Alan A. Watson