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A Ground Level Enhancement event was observed by neutron detectors designed for the registration of extensive air showers at the Experimental Complex NEVOD. The potential for that was unlocked by a recent modernization of the experimental…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-20 Evgenii Volkov , Kseniia Chelidze , Dmitrii Gromushkin , Semen Khokhlov , Evgenii Khomchuk , Anatoly Petrukhin , Ivan Shulzhenko

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…

An analysis of calibrations of extensive air showers with zenith angles $\theta \le 50^{\circ}$ and energies $E_{\text{SD}} \ge 10^{18.5}$ eV was carried out in experiments at the Yakutsk array and Telescope Array. The values of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-02 A. V. Glushkov , A. V. Saburov , L. T. Ksenofontov , K. G. Lebedev

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…

A large distance between true and reconstructed core locations of an extensive air shower (EAS) may results in great systematic mis-estimation of EAS parameters. The reconstruction of those EASs whose core locations are outside the boundary…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-28 H. Hedayati Kh

The paper is devoted to the results of the EAS neutron component investigations by means of the PRISMA-32 array. The array consists of 32 en-detectors and enables to record delayed thermal neutrons accompanying showers. For registration of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-02 D. M. Gromushkin , F. A. Bogdanov , A. A. Petrukhin , O. B. Shchegolev , Yu. V. Stenkin , V. I. Stepanov , I. I. Yashin , K. O. Yurin

Frequency distributions of local muon densities in high-energy extensive air-showers (EAS) are presented as signature of the primary cosmic ray energy spectrum in the knee region. Together with the gross shower variables like shower core…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Antoni

We report on the design and the expected performance of a low cost hybrid detection system suitable for operation as an autonomous unit in strong electromagnetic noise environments. The system consists of three particle detectors…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-03-24 A. G. Tsirigotis , A. Leisos , S. Nonis , M. Petropoulos , G. Georgis , K. Papageorgiou , I. Gkialas , I. Manthos , S. E. Tzamarias

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

Radio detection is now an established technique for the study of ultra-high-energy (UHE) cosmic rays with energies above $\sim10^{17}$ eV. The next-generation of radio experiments aims to extend this technique to the observation of UHE…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-14 Marion Guelfand , Valentin Decoene , Olivier Martineau-Huynh , Simon Prunet , Matías Tueros , Oscar Macias , Aurélien Benoit-Lévy

The dependence of the number of extensive air showers (EAS) on the zenith angle is obtained in groups with a constant solid-angle step with different election types at separations between stations of 500 and 1000 m by using the Yakutsk EAS…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. S. Nikiforova

A toy detector array is designed to detect a shower generated by the interaction between a TeV cosmic ray and the atmosphere. In the present paper, the primary energies of showers detected by the detector array are reconstructed with the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-11 Ying Bai , Ye Xu , JieQin Lan , WeiWei Gao

The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) aims to detect highly inclined extensive air showers (EAS) with down-going and up-going trajectories. Several working groups in the GRAND collaboration are developing methods to…

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

Extensive air showers (EAS) are a cascade of electromagnetic radiation and ionized particles that produced in the atmosphere through the interaction of a primary cosmic ray with the atom of nucleus in the air producing a huge amount of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-03 Hassanen Abdulhussaen Jassim , A. A. Al-Rubaiee , Iman Tarik Al-Alawy

The first phase of the Alborz Observatory Array (Alborz-I) consists of 20 plastic scintillation detectors each one with surface area of 0.25 $m^{2}$ spread over an area of 40$\times$40 $m^{2}$ realized to the study of Extensive Air Showers…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-05 Soheila Abdollahi , Mahmud Bahmanabadi , Yousef Pezeshkian , Saba Mortazavi Moghaddam

Results obtained from an analysis of the energy spectrum of cosmic rays with energies in the region of $E_0 \ge 10^{17}$ eV over the period of continuous observations from 1974 to 2017 are presented. A refined expression for estimating the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-25 A. V. Glushkov , M. I. Pravdin , A. V. Sabourov

During the 1960s, a small but vibrant community of cosmic ray physicists, pioneered novel optical methods of detecting extensive air showers (EAS) in the Earth's atmosphere with the prime objective of searching for point sources of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-14 David J. Fegan

The main goals of the KASCADE (KArlsruhe Shower Core and Array DEtector) experiment are the determination of the energy spectrum and elemental composition of the charged cosmic rays in the energy range around the knee at ca. 5 PeV. Due to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 KASCADE collaboration , A. Haungs , T. Antoni , W. D. Apel

Responses of surface and underground scintillation detectors of Yakutsk array are calculated for showers initiated by primary particles with energy E0>=1.0E17 eV within the frameworks of QGSJet01 QGSIIJet-II-04, SIBYLL-2.1 and EPOS-LHC…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 A. V. Glushkov , M. I. Pravdin , A. Sabourov