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A Segmented Total Energy Detector (sTED) optimized for $(n,\gamma)$ cross-section measurements at n_TOF EAR2

The neutron time-of-flight facility n_TOF at CERN is a spallation source dedicated to measurements of neutron-induced reaction cross-sections of interest in nuclear technologies, astrophysics, and other applications. Since 2014,…

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First Detection of Extensive Air Showers Using a Small-Aperture Fluorescence Telescope

We report on the successful detection of extensive air showers (EAS) generated by ultra-high-energy cosmic rays using a small-aperture fluorescence telescope (FT) deployed at the Mount Aragats high-altitude research station. The instrument…

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Shower Studies at around 10^18 eV with the Surface Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory

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)…

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Energy spectrum of cascade showers generated by cosmic ray muons in water

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Uncertainties in the Estimation of Air Shower Observables from Monte Carlo Simulation of Radio Emission

The detection of extensive air showers (EAS) induced by cosmic rays via radio signals has undergone significant advancements in the last two decades. Numerous ultra-high energy cosmic ray experiments routinely capture radio pulses in the…

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Recent measurements of the spectrum and composition of cosmic rays between 10 TeV and 1 EeV from EAS experiments

In the last two decades, different advances with extensive air shower (EAS) experiments have allowed to unveil several details about the composition and energy spectrum of galactic cosmic rays from some TeV up to several hundreds of PeV,…

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The expectation of cosmic ray proton and helium energy spectrum below 4 PeV measured by LHAASO

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Electron muon identification by atmospheric shower and electron beam in a new concept of an EAS detector

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Cosmic Ray Air Shower Characteristics in the Framework of the Parton-Based Gribov-Regge Model NEXUS

The purpose of this paper is twofold: first we want to introduce a new type of hadronic interaction model (NEXUS), which has a much more solid theoretical basis as, for example, presently used models like QGSJET and VENUS, and ensures…

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The Science Case for a Southern Wide Field of View Detector

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Full Monte-Carlo description of the Moscow State University Extensive Air Shower experiment

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The neutron 'thunder' accompanying the extensive air shower

Simulations show that neutrons are the most abundant component among extensive air shower hadrons. However, multiple neutrons which appear with long delays in neutron monitors nearby the EAS core ('neutron thunder') are mostly not the…

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Search for photons above 10$^{18}$ eV by simultaneously measuring the atmospheric depth and the muon content of air showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Observatory is the most sensitive instrument to detect photons with energies above $10^{17}$ eV. It measures extensive air showers generated by ultra high energy cosmic rays using a hybrid technique that exploits the…

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Investigating double bump air showers with the SKA-Low

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…

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Advances in reconstructing the cosmic-ray energy spectrum with IceTop

The IceTop array at the surface of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory measures extensive air showers produced by cosmic-ray particles with energies from PeV up to EeV, covering the transition region from galactic to extragalactic sources.…

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A reconstruction procedure for near horizon extensive air showers based on radio signals

Very inclined extensive air showers (EAS), with both down-going and up-going trajectories, are particularly targeted by the next generation of extended radio arrays, such as GRAND. Methods to reconstruct the incoming direction, core…

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Investigating the Longitudinal Development of EAS with Ultra High Energies

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

Angular distribution of extensive air showers by TEL array under GELATICA experiment

Extensive Air Showers (EAS) arrival direction distribution is studied by means of a 4-detector installation in Telavi (TEL array), which is a node of GELATICA net in Georgia. The description of EAS arrival zenith angle distribution within…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-12 Manana Svanidze , Yuri Verbetsky , Ia Iashvili , Abesalom Iashvili , Alexi Gongadze , Levan Kakabadze , George Kapanadze , Edisher Tskhadadze , George Chonishvili

A Model-Independent Method of Determining Energy Scale and Muon Number in Cosmic Ray Surface Detectors

Surface detector arrays are designed to measure the spectrum and composition of high-energy cosmic rays by detecting the secondary particle flux of the Extensive Air Showers (EAS) induced by the primary cosmic rays. Electromagnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Fabian Schmidt , Maximo Ave , Lorenzo Cazon , Aaron Chou

EeV Neutrinos

We discuss the recent developments in the study of alternative detection possibilites offered by the radio technique and air shower arrays.

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