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We show that with GLAST there will be the possibility to detect, within the UHECR skimming at atmosphere edges, the showers generated by very high energy upward and horizontal Tau. The effective area, thanks to the large area covered by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-06-13 Daniele Fargion

The detection of inclined air showers (zenith angles $\theta \gtrsim 65^\circ$) with kilometer-spaced radio-antenna arrays allows measuring cosmic rays at ultra-high energies ($E \lesssim 10^{20}\,\mathrm{eV}$). Radio and particle detector…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-11 Felix Schlüter , Tim Huege

We develop a potential algorithm to relate the depth development of ultra high energy extensive air showers and the time delay for individual muons. The time distributions sampled at different positions at ground level by a large air shower…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Cazon , R. A. Vazquez , E. Zas

Extensive air shower (EAS) arrays directly sample the shower particles that reach the observation altitude. They are wide field of view (FoV) detectors able to view the whole sky simultaneously and continuously. In fact, EAS arrays have an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-14 Giuseppe Di Sciascio

We present an analysis technique that uses the timing information of Cherenkov images from extensive air showers (EAS). Our emphasis is on distant, or large core distance gamma-ray induced showers at multi-TeV energies. Specifically,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-03 V. Stamatescu , G. P. Rowell , J. Denman , R. W. Clay , B. R. Dawson , A. G. K. Smith , T. Sudholz , G. J. Thornton , N. Wild

The angular resolution of an extensive air shower (EAS) array plays a critical role in determining its sensitivity for the detection of point $\gamma$-ray sources in the multi-TeV energy range. The GRAPES-3 an EAS array located at Ooty in…

The increasing efforts are still in progress to establish existence and to investigate the properties of pairs of Extensive Air Showers (EAS) that can be considered as originated from a single event which produced the Cosmic Radiation (CR)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-16 Yuri Verbetsky , Manana Svanidze

Since 2014, the University Campus of the Hellenic Open University (HOU) hosts the Astroneu array which is dedicated to the detection of Extensive Air Showers (EAS) induced by high energy Cosmic Rays (CR). The Astroneu array incorporates 9…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Stavros Nonis , Antonios Leisos , Apostolos Tsirigotis , Ioannis Gkialas , Kostas Papageorgiou , Spyros Tzamarias

The cosmic ray spectrum extends to energies above 10^20 eV. In direct production or acceleration models, as well as by photo-pion interaction high energy cosmic ray flux must contain neutrinos and photons. The latter are absorbed by cosmic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Iori , A. Sergi , D. Fargion , M. Gallinaro , M. Kaya

Many proposed and upcoming experiments seek to observe signals from upward going air showers initiated by tau leptons resulting from neutrino interactions inside the Earth. To save calculation time, event estimations for these observation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-04 Austin Cummings , Roberto Aloisio , Mario Bertaina , Francesca Bisconti , Francesco Fenu , Francesco Salamida

Results will be shown from the ASTRONEU array developed and operated in the outskirts of Patras, Greece. An array of 9 scintillator detectors and 3 antennas were deployed to study Extensive Air Showers (EAS) as a tool for calibrating an…

Radio-detection is becoming an established technique for the detection of air showers induced by cosmic particles. This is in particular true at the highest energies, where very large detection areas are required. A proper description of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-04 Valentin Decoene , Olivier Martineau-Huynh , Matias Tueros

In this paper we review the main issues that are relevant for the detection of Extensive Air Showers (EAS) from space. EAS are produced by the interaction of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Particles (UHECP) with the atmosphere and can be observed…

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

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

Particles in an extended air shower (EAS), initiated by a cosmic ray primary, lead to two nearly simultaneous detections in a scintillator pair. The angle of the EAS and the axis through both scintillators can be reconstructed using the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-06 N. G. Schultheiss

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

A new technique has been devised for the analysis of extensive air shower data in observing the effect of the moon on this data. In this technique the number of EAS events with arrival directions falling in error circles centered about the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-24 F. Sheidaei , M. Bahmanabadi , M. Khakian Ghomi , S. M. Mahdavi , J. Samimi , A. Anvari

The two most powerful extensive air showers (EAS) with energies of about $10^{20}$ eV, registered at the Yakutsk EAS array during the entire observation period of 1974-2024, are considered. Both showers hit the array near the center and…

A key assumption in the reconstruction of extensive air showers using the air fluorescence technique is the hypothesis that fluorescence is proportional to energy deposition at all depths in the shower. This ansatz, along with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 J. Belz