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We investigate the feasibility of detecting extensive air showers via their geo-synchrotron X-ray emission from high-altitude platforms. Starting from first principles, we derive a differential expression for the number of emitted photons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-14 Rodrigo Alberto Torres Saavedra , Caterina Trimarelli , Roberto Aloisio , John F. Krizmanic , Johannes Eser , Austin Cummings

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

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

Extensice Air Shower (EAS) arrays are survey instruments able to monitor continuously all the overhead sky. Their wide field of view (about 2 sr) is ideal to complement directional detectors by performing unbiased sky surveys, by monitoring…

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

The arrival directions of ultrahigh energy extensive air showers (EAS) by Yakutsk, AGASA and SUGAR array data are considered. For the first time, the maps of equal exposition of celestial sphere for the distribution of particles by AGASA…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-09 A. A. Mikhailov

One of the main objectives of the CREDO project is to search for so-called Cosmic-Ray Ensembles (CRE) \cite{homola2020cosmic}. To confirm the existence of such phenomena a massive scale observation of even relatively low energy Extensive…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-05 Jerzy Pryga , Weronika Stanek

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

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

An ultra-high-energy cosmic ray (UHECR) colliding with the Earth's atmosphere gives rise to an Extensive Air Shower (EAS). Due to different charge separation mechanisms within the thin shower front coherent electromagnetic radiation will be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-03-01 Krijn D. de Vries , Olaf Scholten , Klaus Werner

Arrival directions of ultrahigh energy extensive air showers (EAS) by world arrays data are analyzed. It is shown that arrival directions of ultrahigh energy EAS by Yakutsk and P. Auger data are some correlated with pulsars of Local Arm…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-07-22 V. A. Kolosov , A. A. Mikhailov

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

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…

Using air showers induced by TeV gamma-rays from Mrk 501, the radial distribution of Cherenkov light is investigated. The shower geometry is reconstructed from the stereoscopic shower images obtained with the telescopes of the HEGRA IACT…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 HEGRA Collaboration , F. Aharonian et al

We investigate the feasibility of detecting extensive air showers by the radar technique at viewing angles smaller than $\sim 25^\circ$ to the shower axis. Considering a bistatic radar setup and shower geometries in which the receiver…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-11 J. Stasielak , S. Baur , R. Engel , P. Neunteufel , J. Pekala , R. Šmída , F. Werner , H. Wilczyński

A shower array exploiting the full coverage approach with a high segmentation of the readout allow to image the front of atmospheric showers with unprecedented resolution and detail. The grid distance determines the energy threshold (small…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-11 G. Di Sciascio , INFN - Roma Tor Vergata

In this paper we discuss the calibration of the NEVOD-EAS array which is a part of the Experimental Complex NEVOD, as well as the results of studying the response features of its scintillation detectors. We present the results of the…

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