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Supplemented with suitable buffering techniques, the low-frequency part of the SKA can be used as an ultra-precise detector for cosmic-ray air showers at very high energies. This would enable a wealth of scientific applications: the physics…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-09 T. Huege , J. D. Bray , S. Buitink , R. Dallier , R. D. Ekers , H. Falcke , C. W. James , L. Martin , B. Revenu , O. Scholten , F. G. Schröder

The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) aims to detect extensive air showers caused by the interactions of ultra-high energy cosmic rays with the Earth's atmosphere, providing complementary information to the Auger surface, fluorescence…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-18 Qader Dorosti Hasankiadeh

Astrophysical flares are one of the possible prominent source classes of ultra-high-energy (UHE, $E > 10^{17}$ eV) cosmic rays, which can be detected by recording clusters of extensive air showers in arrays of detectors. The search for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-01 Jaroslaw Stasielak , Chaitanya Priyadarshi , Dariusz Góra , Nataliia Borodai , Marcus Niechciol , Jan Pękala

The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) is an enhancement of the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina. Covering about View the $17\,$km$^2$, AERA is the world-largest antenna array for cosmic-ray observation. It consists of more than 150…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Frank G. Schröder

Cascades of charged particles are created when high-energy cosmic rays enter the earth's atmosphere: these 'extensive air-showers' are studied to gain information on the energy spectrum, arrival direction distribution and mass composition…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 A A Watson

Air-shower measurements in the primary energy range beyond 10 TeV can be used to address important questions of astroparticle and particle physics. The most prominent among these questions are the search for the origin of charged Galactic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-25 Martin Tluczykont , Daniel Hampf , Dieter Horns , Dominik Spitschan , Leonid Kuzmichev , Vasily Prosin , Christian Spiering , Ralf Wischnewski

One of the primary targets of third-generation (3G) ground-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors is detecting the stochastic GW background (SGWB) from early universe processes. The astrophysical foreground from compact binary mergers will…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-12 Zhen Pan , Huan Yang

A promising approach to detect high-energy tau neutrinos is through the measurement of impulsive radio emission from horizontal air showers initiated in the Earth's atmosphere. Observations at frequencies between 30 and 80 MHz seem…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-31 Tim Huege , Oliver Krömer

The primary challenge in the study of explosive astrophysical transients is their detection and characterisation using multiple messengers. For this purpose, we have developed a new data-driven discovery framework, based on deep learning.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-14 Iftach Sadeh

Ultra High Energy, UHE, Neutrino Astronomy should be soon tested looking toward the Earth. At present High Energy Neutrino Astronomy is searched by AMANDA, ANTARES underground detectors looking for its consequent unique muons secondary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Fargion

Radio detection of air showers in the current era has progressed immensely to effectively extract the properties of these air showers. Primary cosmic rays with energies of hundreds of PeV have been successfully measured with the method of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-23 Aswathi Balagopal V. , Andreas Haungs , Thomas Huber , Tim Huege , Matthias Kleifges , Max Renschler , Harald Schieler , Frank G. Schröder , Andreas Weindl

Neutrino astronomy offers the possibility to perform extra-galactic observations well beyond the photon absorption cutoff above 50 TeV. Based on observations of cosmic rays, we already know that astrophysical sources produce particles with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 David Saltzberg

The field of ultra-high energy cosmic rays made a lot of progresses last years with large area experiments such as the Pierre Auger Observatory, HiRes and the Telescope Array. A suppression of the cosmic ray flux at energies above…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Benoît Revenu

Resonant annihilation of extremely high-energy cosmic neutrinos on big-bang relic anti-neutrinos (and vice versa) into Z-bosons leads to sizable absorption dips in the neutrino flux to be observed at Earth. The high-energy edges of these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Birgit Eberle , Andreas Ringwald , Liguo Song , Thomas J. Weiler

Horizontal and Upward air-showers are suppressed by deep atmosphere opacity and by the Earth shadows. In such noise-free horizontal and upward directions rare Ultra High Cosmic rays and rarer neutrino induced air-showers may shine, mostly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Fargion

The principle and performances of the CODALEMA experimental device, set up to study the possibility of high energy cosmic rays radio detection, are presented. Radio transient signals associated to cosmic rays have been identified, for which…

Astroparticles offer a new path for research in the field of particle physics, allowing investigations at energies above those accesible with accelerators. Ultra-high energy cosmic rays can be studied via the observation of the showers they…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-21 Analisa Mariazzi

Tau Air-showers are the best trace of rarest Ultra High Energy neutrinos UHE $\nu_{\tau}$, $\bar\nu_{\tau}$ and $\bar{\nu}_e$ at PeV and higher energy. $\tau$ Air-showers may generate billion times amplified signals by their secondaries .…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniele Fargion

Gamma ray astronomy is now at the leading edge for studies related both to fundamental physics and astrophysics. The sensitivity of gamma detectors is limited by the huge amount of background, constituted by hadronic cosmic rays (typically…

Measuring the energy spectrum of air shower components crucial for understanding primary cosmic rays and the physical processes governing their interactions in the atmosphere. However, accurately measuring the energy of shower particles…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-09-25 P. Assis , R. Conceição , P. J. Costa , M. Freitas , B. Tomé