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The arrival directions of ultrahigh energy extensive air showers (EAS) by Yakutsk, AGASA and P. Auger data are considered. It is found that the arrival directions of EAS in the Yakutsk and AGASA data are correlated with pulsars from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-11 A. A. Mikhailov

Sparse digital antenna arrays constitute a promising detection technique for future large-scale cosmic-ray observatories. It has recently been shown that this kind of instrumentation can provide a resolution of the energy and of the shower…

AERA, the Auger Engineering Radio Array, located at the Pierre Auger Observatory in Malarg\"ue, Argentina measures the radio emission of extensive air showers in the 30-80 MHz frequency range and is optimized for the detection of air…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Olga Kambeitz

Double-bump showers are a rare class of extensive air showers (EAS) predicted by Monte Carlo simulations. They occur when a high-energy secondary particle, the leading particle, travels significantly farther than the rest, creating a…

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

Lateral distribution functions of particles in extensive air showers with the energy $E_0 \simeq 10^{19}$ eV recorded by ground-based and underground scintillation detectors with a threshold of $E_{\mu} \simeq 1.0 \times \sec\theta$ GeV at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-29 A. V. Glushkov , K. G. Lebedev , A. V. Sabourov

Extremely asymmetrical scattering (EAS) is a new type of Bragg scattering in thick, slanted, periodic gratings. It is realised when the scattered wave propagates parallel to the front boundary of the grating. Its most important feature is…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. A. Nieminen , D. K. Gramotnev

Cosmic rays extensive air showers (EAS) are associated with transient radio emission, which could provide an efficient new detection method of high energy cosmic rays, combining a calorimetric measurement with a high duty cycle. The…

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 particle density in extensive air showers fluctuates at the ground level. These fluctuations, at the scale of the scintillator detector size (several meters), lead to the diversity of the individual detector responses. Therefore, small…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 V. A. Kuzmin , G. I. Rubtsov

The Telescope Array (TA) experiment is designed to observe cosmic-ray-induced air showers at extremely high energies. It is being deployed in a desert of Utah, USA; an array of 3 m^2 scintillation counters will be distributed over 760 km^…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. kasahara

Extremely asymmetrical scattering (EAS) is an unusual type of Bragg scattering in slanted periodic gratings with the scattered wave (the +1 diffracted order) propagating parallel to the grating boundaries. Here, a unique and strong…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. K. Gramotnev , T. A. Nieminen , T. A. Hopper

Based on extensive air shower simulations it is shown that the electron distributions with respect to the two angles, determining electron direction at a given shower age, for a fixed electron energy and lateral distance, are universal. It…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-22 Andrzej Smialkowski , Maria Giller

A new cluster type shower array NEVOD-EAS is designed for estimating the size, axis position and arrival direction of extensive air showers registered by the Cherenkov water detector NEVOD and coordinate detector DECOR (Moscow, Russia). In…

The Hellenic Open University extensive air shower array (also known as Astroneu array) is a small scale hybrid detection system operating in an area with high levels of electromagnetic noise from anthropogenic activity. In the present study…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-01-18 S. Nonis , A. Leisos , A. Tsirigotis , G. Bourlis , K. Papageorgiou , I. Gkialas , I. Manthos , S. Tzamarias

The simulation of the extensive air showers was performed by investigating the longitudinal development parameters (N and Xmax) by using AIRES system version 19.04.0. The simulation was performed at the energy range (10^18-10^20 eV) for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-04 Abbas Rahi Raham , A. A. Al-Rubaiee , Majida H. Al-Kubaisy

We study the azimuthal distributions of Cherenkov photons in Extensive Air Showers (EASs) initiated by $\gamma$-ray, proton and iron primaries of different energies incident at various zenith angles over a high altitude observation level.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-03 G. S. Das , P. Hazarika , U. D. Goswami

Using simulations of geosynchrotron radiation from extensive air showers, we present a relation between the shape of the geosynchrotron radiation front and the distance of the observer to the maximum of the air shower. By analyzing the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 S. Lafebre , H. Falcke , J. Hörandel , T. Huege , J. Kuijpers

The detection of extensive air showers (EAS) through their radio signal is becoming one of the most promising techniques for the study of Neutrinos and Cosmic rays at the highest energies. For the design, optimization and characterization…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Matias Tueros , Anne Zilles