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Detailed measurements of the spectral structure of cosmic-ray electrons and positrons from 10.6 GeV to 7.5 TeV are presented from over 7 years of observations with the CALorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) on the International Space…

Analyzing simulated EAS events generated with the CORSIKA code, the characteristics of lateral distribution of electrons in EAS around the knee energy region of the primary energy spectrum have been studied and compared with experimental…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-09-29 R. K. Dey , A. Bhadra , J. N. Capdevielle

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

We explore the feasibility of estimating primary cosmic ray composition at ultra high energies from the study of lateral age parameter of Extensive Air Showers (EAS) at ground level. Using different types of lateral distribution functions,…

An analysis of arrival directions of extensive air showers generated by cosmic rays in the PeV energy range and registered with the EAS MSU and EAS-1000 Prototype arrays reveals a considerable number of regions of excessive flux of cosmic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Yu. Zotov , G. V. Kulikov

The energy dependence of such characteristics as a ratio of the total number of charged particles to the total flux of EAS Cherenkov radiation, a ratio of E(thr)>=1GeV muon flux density at the distance of 600m from a shower core to charged…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-15 S. P. Knurenko , A. V. Sabourov , I. Ye. Sleptsov

Two EAS arrays during a day have recorded 3 particles with energies above 30 EeV arriving from the same sky region. Two events were registered by the Yakutsk array and one - by the Telescope Array. Two Yakutsk events were estimated to be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-27 G. F. Krymsky , I. Ye. Sleptsov , M. I. Pravdin , A. D. Krasilnikov

Radio emissions from extensive air showers (EAS) provide a valuable tool for detecting ultra-high-energy (UHE) astroparticles. In this context, several radio arrays focus on detecting highly inclined EAS, as this enables the observation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-09 Valentin Decoene , Marion Guelfand , Matìas Tueros

In a recent review of a paper by the Yakutsk Group, submitted to the Journal Physics of Atomic Nuclei and arXiv, the energy scales of the Yakutsk and Telescope Array (TA) experiments were examined. The authors developed a custom detector…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-19 John N. Matthews , Yoshiki Tsunesada

Several energy spectra of cosmic rays with energies E_0 \geq 10^17 eV measured at the Yakutsk EAS, AGASA, Haverah Park, HiRes, Auger, and SUGAR arrays are considered. It is shown that the fairly good mutual agreement of the spectrum shapes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-02-29 A. V. Glushkov

The small change in the spectral slope of the overall intensity of cosmic rays near 1 PeV may be associated with the endpoint energy of supernova shock acceleration. A crucial test of this connection and other ideas of the origin of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 S. P. Swordy , D. B. Kieda

The general aim of this work is to obtain the lateral distribution of atmospheric Cherenkov light in extensive air showers produced by different primary particles precisely by. protons, Helium, Iron, Oxygen, Carbon, Nitrogen, Calcium,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Mishev , J. Stamenov

The rate of extensive air-showers observed with imaging air-Cherenkov telescopes is zenith angle dependent. This effect originates from the increasing geometrical distance of the observed shower to the telescope with increasing zenith…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-12 Thomas Bretz

Evidence of azimuthal asymmetries in the time structure and signal size has been found in non-vertical showers as a function of zenith angle. These asymmetries arise because of the different paths traveled by particles in the upper and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Maria Teresa Dova

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory, located 4100 m above sea level near Sierra Negra (19$^\circ$ N) in Mexico, is sensitive to gamma rays and cosmic rays at TeV energies. The arrival direction distribution of cosmic rays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 S. Y. BenZvi , D. W. Fiorino , S. Westerhoff

The differential cross section for proton-proton elastic scattering has been measured at a beam energy of 1.0 GeV and in 200 MeV steps from 1.6 to 2.8 GeV for centre-of-mass angles in the range from 12-16 degrees to 25-30 degrees, depending…

In March of 2018, after the completion of the Physics Run 2, an upgrade has been installed at an innovative detector system Horizon-T, with the upgraded version now called Horizon-10T. It was constructed to study Extensive Air Showers (EAS)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-06-14 D. Beznosko , A. Iakovlev , S. Jakupov , D. Turganov , A. Tussipzhan , T. Uakhitov , M. I. Vildanova , A. Yeltokov , V. V. Zhukov

We propose to explore the so-far poorly measured cosmic ray and gamma-ray sky (accelerator sky) in the energy range from 10 TeV to 1 EeV. New physics questions might be addressed in this last remaining observation window of gamma-ray…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-03 M. Tluczykont , T. Kneiske , D. Hampf , D. Horns

We present a new measurement of the energy spectrum of iron nuclei in cosmic rays from 20 to 500 TeV. The measurement makes use of a template-based analysis method, which, for the first time, is applied to the energy reconstruction of…