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The current studies of cosmic rays are focused on most energetic particles entering the atmosphere and producing a single Extensive Air Shower (EAS). There are, however, models predicting that interactions of high energy particles may…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-10 Weronika Stanek , Jerzy Pryga

We consider the guaranteed physics of horizontal (hadron) air-showers, HAS, developing at high (tens km) altitudes. Their morphology and information traces are different from vertical ones. Hundreds of km long HAS are often split by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 D. Fargion

We report a measurement of the cosmic ray energy spectrum obtained using the inclined events detected with the Pierre Auger Observatory. Showers with zenith angles between 60 and 80 degrees recorded in the period between 1 January 2004 and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 P. Facal San Luis

When high-energy cosmic rays (gamma's, protons, or heavy nuclei) impinge onto the Earth's atmosphere, they interact at high altitude with the air nuclei as targets. By repeated interaction of the secondaries an `extensive air shower' (EAS)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Heck

The Tunka Radio Extension (Tunka-Rex) is a digital antenna array for the detection of radio emission from cosmic-ray air showers in the frequency band of 30 to 80 MHz and for primary energies above 100 PeV. The standard analysis of…

Present status of experimental studies of inelastic diffraction at the Large Hadron Collider is analysed. Impact of the current uncertainties concerning the diffraction rate on the predicted extensive air shower development is investigated.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-23 Sergey Ostapchenko

Using detailed Monte Carlo simulations we have characterized the features of the radio emission of inclined air showers in the Ultra-High Frequency band (300 MHz - 3 GHz). The Fourier-spectrum of the radiation is shown to have a sizable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-09 Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz , Washington R. Carvalho , Andrés Romero-Wolf , Matías Tueros , Enrique Zas

The simulation of the Cherenkov light lateral distribution function (LDF) in Extensive Air Showers (EAS) was perfomed with the CORSIKA code in the energy range 10^13-10^16 eV for configuration of the Tunka-25 EAS array. On the basis of this…

Cherenkov light lateral distribution function (CLLDF) in Extensive Air Showers (EAS) for different primary particles (e-, n , p, F, K and Fe) was simulated using CORSIKA code for conditions and configurations of Yakutsk EAS array with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-28 Marwah M. Abdulsttar , A. A. Al-Rubaiee , Abdul Halim Kh. Ali

The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA), at the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina, measures the radio emission of extensive air showers in the 30-80 MHz frequency range. AERA consists of more than 150 antenna stations distributed over…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Olga Kambeitz

The development of a 3-dimensional simulation for Cherenkov photon emissions in Extensive Air Showers (EAS) is reported in this paper. CORSIKA is the most widely used Monte-Carlo generator for the description of EAS, but it is not…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-13 João Espadanal , Patrícia Gonçalves

The Telescope Array (TA) experiment, located in the western desert of Utah,USA, is designed for observation of extensive air showers from extremely high energy cosmic rays. The experiment has a surface detector array surrounded by three…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 T. Abu-Zayyad , R. Aida , M. Allen , R. Anderson , R. Azuma , E. Barcikowski , J. W. Belz , D. R. Bergman , S. A. Blake , R. Cady , B. G. Cheon , J. Chiba , M. Chikawa , E. J. Cho , W. R. Cho , H. Fujii , T. Fujii , T. Fukuda , M. Fukushima , D. Gorbunov , W. Hanlon , K. Hayashi , Y. Hayashi , N. Hayashida , K. Hibino , K. Hiyama , K. Honda , T. Iguchi , D. Ikeda , K. Ikuta , N. Inoue , T. Ishii , R. Ishimori , D. Ivanov , S. Iwamoto , C. C. H. Jui , K. Kadota , F. Kakimoto , O. Kalashev , T. Kanbe , K. Kasahara , H. Kawai , S. Kawakami , S. Kawana , E. Kido , H. B. Kim , H. K. Kim , J. H. Kim , J. H. Kim , K. Kitamoto , K. Kobayashi , Y. Kobayashi , Y. Kondo , K. Kuramoto , V. Kuzmin , Y. J. Kwon , S. I. Lim , S. Machida , K. Martens , J. Martineau , T. Matsuda , T. Matsuura , T. Matsuyama , J. N. Matthews , I. Myers , M. Minamino , K. Miyata , H. Miyauchi , Y. Murano , T. Nakamura , S. W. Nam , T. Nonaka , S. Ogio , M. Ohnishi , H. Ohoka , K. Oki , D. Oku , T. Okuda , A. Oshima , S. Ozawa , I. H. Park , M. S. Pshirkov , D. Rodriguez , S. Y. Roh , 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. I. Shin , T. Shirahama , J. D. Smith , P. Sokolsky , T. J. Sonley , R. W. Springer , B. T. Stokes , S. R. Stratton , T. A. Stroman , S. Suzuki , Y. Takahashi , M. Takeda , 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. Tsuyuguchi , Y. Uchihori , S. Udo , H. Ukai , G. Vasiloff , Y. Wada , T. Wong , M. Wood , Y. Yamakawa , H. Yamaoka , K. Yamazaki , J. Yang , S. Yoshida , H. Yoshii , R. Zollinger , Z. Zundel

The lateral density distributions (LDD) of inclined cosmic ray air shower are asymmetric and the corresponding iso-density contours are of increasing eccentric ellipses with zenith angles of different showers. The polar asymmetry of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-08 Animesh Basak , Rajat K. Dey

In Extensive Air Shower (EAS) experiments, the primary direction is reconstructed by the space-time pattern of secondary particles. Thus the equalization of the transit time of signals coming from different parts of the detector is crucial…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-09-29 H. H. He , P. Bernardini , A. K. Calabrese Melcarne , S. Z. Chen

We present a new analytical approach to the longitudinal development of electromagnetic air showers, offering improvements to the classical Greisen formalism. We introduce a novel profile for the slope function $\lambda_1(s)$ that achieves…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-21 Sebastián Mendizabal , Nicolás Viaux M. , Sebastián Tapia , Raquel Pezoa R. , Barbara Gutiérrez , Constanza Valdivieso

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

In this paper we propose a 'knee-like' approximation of the lateral distribution of the Cherenkov light from extensive air showers in the energy range 30-3000 TeV and study a possibility of its practical application in high energy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-29 A. Sh. M. Elshoukrofy , E. B. Postnikov , E. E. Korosteleva , L. G. Sveshnikova , H. A. Motaweh

Three months of data taken by the Engineering Array Surface Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory have been analyzed with the aim of setting a procedure for the study of showers at E_0 ~ 10^18 eV. We present the results, concerning: (i)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Piera Luisa Ghia

Over the last few decades, radio detection has become one of the standard techniques to study high-energy cosmic-ray air showers. For the purpose of analysing the data, we heavily rely on Monte Carlo simulations. Upcoming dense radio array…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-20 Mitja Desmet , Stijn Buitink , Tim Huege

Purposeful investigation of radiation fluxes strongly delayed in relation to the main particles front of extensive air shower (EAS) was undertaken at the Tien Shan Mountain Cosmic Ray Station. It was found that the passage of the EAS can be…