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The lateral density data obtained for different secondaries of an extensive air shower (EAS) from an array of detectors are usually described by some suitable lateral density functions (LDFs). Analyzing non-vertical simulated EASs generated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-14 Animesh Basak , Rajat K. Dey

The reconstruction of cosmic-ray-induced extensive air showers with a non-imaging Cherenkov detector array requires knowledge of the Cherenkov yield of any given air shower for a given set of shower parameters. Although air showers develop…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-29 Isaac Buckland , Douglas Bergman

Ground-based cosmic ray experiments detect cosmic ray mainly by measuring the longitudinal and lateral distribution of secondary particles produced in the extensive air shower (EAS). The EAS of cosmic ray in the knee energy region is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-30 Feng Zhang , Hu Liu , Fengrong Zhu , Jacob Oloketuyi

The detailed simulation of extended air showers (EAS) and their emission of Cherenkov and fluorescence light requires increasing computation time and storage volume with increasing energy of the primary particle. Given these limitations, it…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-28 Ali Baktash , Dieter Horns

We present results of an improved analysis of the experimental data of the EAS Cherenkov array Tunka-25. A new function to fit the Cherenkov light lateral distribution LDF at core distances from 0 to 350 m has been developed on the base of…

The general aim of this work is to obtain the lateral distribution of atmospheric Cherenkov light in extensive air showers produced by different primary particles precisely by. protons, Helium, Iron, Oxygen, Carbon, Nitrogen, Calcium,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Mishev , J. Stamenov

Particle lateral distributions were investigated in cosmic ray air showers with energy $E_0 \simeq 10^{18}$ eV registered at the Yakutsk array with surface and underground scintillation detectors with $\simeq 1 \times \sec\theta$~GeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-05 A. V. Glushkov , K. G. Lebedev , A. V. Sabourov

In terms of the quark-gluon string model the analysis of the classic procedure to estimate the energy of giant air showers with help of the parameter s(600) (a density of energy deposition in the scintillator at a distance of 600 m from the…

Extensive air showers (EAS) are a cascade of electromagnetic radiation and ionized particles that produced in the atmosphere through the interaction of a primary cosmic ray with the atom of nucleus in the air producing a huge amount of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-03 Hassanen Abdulhussaen Jassim , A. A. Al-Rubaiee , Iman Tarik Al-Alawy

In this study, the necessity of the simulation study for exploring the interactions of ultra-high energy particles cosmic rays was examined. Different hadronic interaction models such as (SIBYLL, QGSJET, and EPOS) were simulated by using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-06 Kadhom F. Fadhel , A. A. Al-Rubaiee

In this work the estimation of the lateral distribution function in Extensive Air showers was performed by using a system for air shower simulations which is called AIRES version 2.6 for different hadronic models like (QGSJET99, SIBYLL and…

General Physics · Physics 2013-09-16 A. Ahmed Al-Rubaiee , Ahmed Jumaah

Measurements of the lateral distribution of Cherenkov photons with the wide-angle atmospheric Cherenkov light detector array AIROBICC and of the charged particle lateral distribution with the scintillator matrix of the HEGRA air-shower…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 F. Arqueros , The HEGRA Collaboration

The particle lateral distribution function (LDF) of air showers at a given altitude is sensitive to the mass composition and primary energy of cosmic rays. Studies of the LDF are difficult to perform due to experimental effects such as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-22 J. A. Morales-Soto , J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez , J. D. Álvarez

An analysis of calibrations of extensive air showers with zenith angles $\theta \le 50^{\circ}$ and energies $E_{\text{SD}} \ge 10^{18.5}$ eV was carried out in experiments at the Yakutsk array and Telescope Array. The values of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-02 A. V. Glushkov , A. V. Saburov , L. T. Ksenofontov , K. G. Lebedev

Analyzing simulated extensive air shower (EAS) events generated with the Monte Carlo code CORSIKA, this paper critically studies the characteristics of lateral distribution of electrons in EAS around the knee energy region of the energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-15 Rajat K. Dey , Sandip Dam

A measurement of the lateral distribution of Cherenkov light in Extensive Air Showers (EAS) at E0 = 10-100 TeV and a study of the compatibility of the photon number spectra with the expectations from the direct measurements of p and He…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 The EAS-TOP , MACRO Collaborations

We present computing results of the Cherenkov light propagation in air and water from extensive air showers developing over the ocean. Limits on zenith angles of the showers, at which the registration of flashes of reflected Cherenkov…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 O. P. Shustova , N. N. Kalmykov , B. A. Khrenov

The lateral distribution function (LDF) for coherent electromagnetic radiation from air showers initiated by ultra-high-energy cosmic rays is calculated using a macroscopic description. A new expression is derived to calculate the coherent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-01-28 Krijn D. de Vries , Ad M. van den Berg , Olaf Scholten , Klaus Werner

A shape of lateral distribution for charged particles in events with energy above 10^19eV is considered. Two methods were used for individual LDF parametrization. In the first approach, the index of power was determined for generalized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-16 A. V. Sabourov , M. I. Pravdin , S. P. Knurenko

We have estimated the reflected component of Cherenkov radiation, which arises in developing of an extensive air shower with primary energy of 10^20 eV over the ocean surface. It has been shown that, under conditions of the TUS experiment,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 O. P. Shustova , N. N. Kalmykov , B. A. Khrenov