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The Telescope Array (TA) is the largest ultrahigh energy (UHE) cosmic ray observatory in the northern hemisphere TA is a hybrid experiment with a unique combination of fluorescence detectors and a stand-alone surface array of scintillation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Charles C. H. Jui

The JEM-EUSO program is focused on observations of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) from space. For this purpose, a series of detectors based on multi-anode photomultiplier tubes with a time resolution of the order of $\mu$s have been…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-19 Zbigniew Plebaniak , Marika Przybylak

We developed a novel gamma-ray detection system (TIARA) for range monitoring in Particle Therapy. The system employs Cherenkov-based gamma-ray detection modules arranged around the target or patient, operated in time coincidence with a fast…

Radio detection is now an established technique for the study of ultra-high-energy (UHE) cosmic rays with energies above $\sim10^{17}$ eV. The next-generation of radio experiments aims to extend this technique to the observation of UHE…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-14 Marion Guelfand , Valentin Decoene , Olivier Martineau-Huynh , Simon Prunet , Matías Tueros , Oscar Macias , Aurélien Benoit-Lévy

Ephemeral Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) must be powered by some of the most energetic processes in the Universe. That makes them highly interesting in their own right and as precise probes for estimating cosmological parameters. This field thus…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-03 Kaustubh Rajwade , Joeri van Leeuwen

EUSO-TA is a ground-based florescence detector built to validate the design of an ultra-high energy cosmic ray fluorescence detector to be operated in space. EUSO-TA detected the first air shower events with the technology developed within…

Nearly 50 years ago, the first radio signals from cosmic ray air showers were detected. After many successful studies, however, research ceased not even 10 years later. Only a decade ago, the field was revived with the application of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Tim Huege

Since their first observation in 1962, the existence of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) remains a mystery in modern astrophysics. Those cosmic rays, with energies well above 50 EeV ($50\times 10^{18}$eV), can hardly be accelerated,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Letessier-Selvon

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) radar systems, owing to their large bandwidth, provide fine range resolution that enables the observation of multiple scatterers originating from a single automotive target, commonly referred to as an extended…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-21 Vinay Kulkarni , V. V. Reddy

Radio emission from Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) showers detected after specular reflection off the Antarctic ice surface has been recently demonstrated by the ANITA balloon-borne experiment. An antenna observing a large area of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 P. Motloch , N. Hollon , P. Privitera

Askaryan Radio Array (ARA), a large-scale radio Cherenkov observatory which scientists propose to develop in Antarctica, aims at discovering the origin and evolution of the cosmic accelerators that produce the highest energy cosmic rays by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-02-02 Shang-Yu Sun , Pisin Chen , Melin Huang

Traditional ultrasound simulation methods solve wave equations numerically, achieving high accuracy but at substantial computational cost. Faster alternatives based on convolution with precomputed impulse responses remain relatively slow,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Felix Duelmer , Mohammad Farid Azampour , Nassir Navab

We show that the maximum shower depth distributions of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs), as measured by fluorescence telescopes, can be augmented by building a mapping to observables collected by surface detectors. The resulting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-28 Blaž Bortolato , Jernej F. Kamenik , Michele Tammaro

We have investigated the possibility of $\nu_\tau$ detection using Cosmic Ray Tau Neutrino Telescope (CRTNT) based on air shower fluorescence/Cerenkov light detector techniques. This approach requires an interaction of a $\nu_\tau$ with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Z. Cao , M. A. Huang , P. Sokolsky , Y. Hu

Millimeter wave radars are popularly used in last-mile radar-based defense systems. Detection of low-altitude airborne target using these radars at low-grazing angles is an important problem in the field of electronic warfare, which becomes…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-15 Martins Ezuma , Ozgur Ozdemir , Chethan Kumar Anjinappa , Wahab Ali Gulzar , Ismail Guvenc

Radio detection of air showers produced by ultra-high energy cosmic rays is a cost-effective technique for the next generation of sparse arrays. The performance of this technique strongly depends on the environmental background, which has…

The lunar technique is a method for maximising the collection area for ultra-high-energy (UHE) cosmic ray and neutrino searches. The method uses either ground-based radio telescopes or lunar orbiters to search for Askaryan emission from…

This paper proposes a method for detecting multiple scatterers (targets) in the elevation direction for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) tomography. The proposed method can resolve closely spaced targets through a twostep procedure. In the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Ahmad Naghavi , Mohammad Sadegh Fazel , Mojtaba Beheshti , Ehsan Yazdian

We study the acceleration of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) at FR-II radio galaxies by performing Monte Carlo simulations for the transport, scattering, and energy change of the CR particles injected into the time-evolving jet flows…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-24 Jeongbhin Seo , Dongsu Ryu , Hyesung Kang