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The High-Energy Ray Observatory (HERO) is a space experiment based on a heavy ionization calorimeter for direct study of cosmic rays. The effective geometrical factor of the apparatus varies from 12 to 60 m$^2$sr for protons depending on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-26 Alexander Kurganov , Dmitry Karmanov , Alexander Panov , Dmitry Podorozhny , Leonid Tkachev , Andrey Turundaevsky

We have searched for intermediate-scale anisotropy in the arrival directions of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays with energies above 57~EeV in the northern sky using data collected over a 5 year period by the surface detector of the Telescope…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-07-17 The Telescope Array Collaboration , R. U. Abbasi , M. Abe , T. Abu-Zayyad , M. Allen , R. Anderson , R. Azuma , E. Barcikowski , J. W. Belz , D. R. Bergman , S. A. Blake , R. Cady , M. J. Chae , B. G. Cheon , J. Chiba , M. Chikawa , W. R. Cho , T. Fujii , M. Fukushima , T. Goto , W. Hanlon , Y. Hayashi , N. Hayashida , K. Hibino , K. Honda , D. Ikeda , N. Inoue , T. Ishii , R. Ishimori , H. Ito , D. Ivanov , C. C. H. Jui , K. Kadota , F. Kakimoto , O. Kalashev , K. Kasahara , H. Kawai , S. Kawakami , S. Kawana , K. Kawata , E. Kido , H. B. Kim , J. H. Kim , J. H. Kim , S. Kitamura , Y. Kitamura , V. Kuzmin , Y. J. Kwon , J. Lan , S. I. Lim , J. P. Lundquist , K. Machida , K. Martens , T. Matsuda , T. Matsuyama , J. N. Matthews , M. Minamino , K. Mukai , I. Myers , K. Nagasawa , S. Nagataki , T. Nakamura , T. Nonaka , A. Nozato , S. Ogio , J. Ogura , M. Ohnishi , H. Ohoka , K. Oki , T. Okuda , M. Ono , A. Oshima , S. Ozawa , I. H. Park , M. S. Pshirkov , D. C. Rodriguez , 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. D. Smith , P. Sokolsky , R. W. Springer , B. T. Stokes , S. R. Stratton , T. A. Stroman , T. Suzawa , M. Takamura , M. Takeda , R. Takeishi , 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. Uchihori , S. Udo , F. Urban , G. Vasiloff , T. Wong , R. Yamane , H. Yamaoka , K. Yamazaki , J. Yang , K. Yashiro , Y. Yoneda , S. Yoshida , H. Yoshii , R. Zollinger , Z. Zundel

Solar flares and CMEs have a broad range of magnitudes. This review discusses the possibility of "extreme events," defined as those with magnitudes greater than have been seen in the existing historical record. For most quantitative…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-02 Hugh S. Hudson

We review the basic ideas on the origin of cosmic rays with energy in excess of $\sim 10^{19}$ eV, in the light of the most recent observational findings. The limited statistics of events detected by the two largest experiments currently…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pasquale Blasi

We investigated the spatial correlation between the arrival directions of the highest energy cosmic rays (HECRs) detected by the Akeno Giant Air Shower Array (AGASA) with energies above $4 \times 10^{19}$ eV and the positions of galaxies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-15 Hajime Takami , Takahiro Nishimichi , Katsuhiko Sato

The measurement of cosmic rays at energies exceeding 100 TeV per nucleon is crucial for enhancing the understanding of high-energy particle propagation and acceleration models in the Galaxy. HERD is a space-borne calorimetric experiment…

The principle and performances of the CODALEMA experimental device, set up to study the possibility of high energy cosmic rays radio detection, are presented. Radio transient signals associated to cosmic rays have been identified, for which…

Detecting neutrinos and photons is crucial to identifying the sources of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs), especially for transient sources. We focus on ultrahigh-energy gamma-ray emission from transient sources such as gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-01-18 Kohta Murase

The energy spectra of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (CRs) measured with giant extensive air shower (EAS) arrays exhibit discrepancies between the flux intensities and/or estimated CR energies exceeding experimental errors. The well-known…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-03-22 A. A. Ivanov

Currently the detection of Very High Energy gamma-rays for astrophysics rely on the measurement of the Extensive Air Showers (EAS) either using Cherenkov detectors or EAS arrays with larger field of views but also larger energy thresholds.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-01 P. Assis , U. Barres de Almeida , A. Blanco , R. Conceição , B. D'Ettoree Piazzoli , A. de Angelis , M. Doro , P. Fonte , L. Lopes , G. Matthiae , M. Pimenta , R. Shellard , B. Tomé

The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) is a southern hemisphere array of four Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes observing the sky in the very high energy gamma-ray range (E $>$ 100 GeV). VHE observations are an invaluable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-06-25 U. Barres de Almeida

The article considers events recorded in an experiment with X-ray emulsion chambers (XREC) to study the trunks of extensive air showers (EAS) with energies of nuclei of primary cosmic radiation (PCR) E0 > 100 TeV, which currently have no…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-19 S. E. Pyatovsky

The BL Lac type object Mrk 501 was observed at very high energies (E > 100 GeV) in 2014 with the upgraded H.E.S.S. (High Energy Stereoscopic System) phase 2 array. The data collected with the central 28m telescope allow for a broader energy…

The origin and nature of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) remain unsolved in contemporary astroparticle physics. To give an answer to these questions is rather challenging because of the extremely low flux of a few per km$^2$ per…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-10 Mario Bertaina , JEM-EUSO Collaboration

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

The LHeC is a proposed upgrade of the LHC to study $ep/eA$ collisions in the TeV regime, by adding a 60 GeV electron beam through an energy recovery linac. In $ep$, high precision top and electroweak physics can be performed, such as…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-11-18 Zhiqing Zhang

We outline two concepts to explain Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs), one based on radio galaxies and their relativistic jets and terminal hot spots, and one based on relativistic Super-Novae (SNe) or Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) in…

The identification of very high energy photons is of great importance for the understanding of the origin of extreme energy cosmic rays (EECR). Several can be the sources of high energy photons at Earth. A guaranteed component is the flux…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 A. D. Supanitsky , G. Medina-Tanco , K. Asano , D. Cline , T. Ebisuzaki , S. Inoue , P. Lipari , N. Sakaki , A. Santangelo , K. Shinozaki , G. Sigl , Y. Takahashi , M. Teshima

The number of extragalactic sources detected at very hight energy (VHE, E$>$100GeV) has dramatically increased during the past years to reach more than fifty. The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) had observed the sky for more than…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 D. A. Sanchez