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Next-generation large-volume detectors, such as GRAND, POEMMA, Trinity, TAROGE-M, TAMBO, or PUEO, have been designed to search for ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) with unprecedented sensitivity. We propose to use these detectors to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-28 Robert Heighton , Lucien Heurtier , Michael Spannowsky

The TUS observatory was the first orbital detector aimed at the detection of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). It was launched on April 28, 2016, from the Vostochny cosmodrome in Russia and operated until December 2017. It collected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-22 Francesco Fenu , Kenji Shinozaki , Mikhail Zotov , Mario Bertaina , Antonella Castellina , Alberto Cellino , Pavel Klimov

The southern Pierre Auger Observatory, presently under construction in Malarg"ue, Argentina, is nearing completion. The instrument is designed to measure extensive air-showers with energies ranging from $10^{18}$-$10^{20}$ eV and beyond. It…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-06 Karl-Heinz Kampert

Over the last decade a number of important observational results have been reported using data from the Pierre Auger Observatory. We shall review some of the recent key findings that have significantly advanced our understanding of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-02 Karl-Heinz Kampert

After the Pierre Auger Observatory, it is likely that space-based experiments might be required for next-generation studies of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Particles. An overview of this challenging task is presented, emphasizing the main…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-04 Alessandro Petrolini

We investigate the capability of the Probe Of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (POEMMA) in performing Target-of-Opportunity (ToO) neutrino observations. POEMMA will detect tau neutrinos via Cherenkov radiation from their upward-moving…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-04 Tonia M. Venters , Mary Hall Reno , John F. Krizmanic , Luis A. Anchordoqui , Claire Guépin , Angela V. Olinto

EUSO-TA is a ground-based telescope, located at the Black Rock Mesa site of Telescope Array (TA), Utah, USA. The main aim of the instrument is observation of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays through detection of ultraviolet light generated by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-23 Lech Wiktor Piotrowski

EUSO-TA is a ground-based florescence detector built to validate the design of an ultra-high energy cosmic ray fluorescence detector to be operated in space. EUSO-TA detected the first air shower events with the technology developed within…

POEMMA-Balloon with Radio (PBR) is a scaled-down version of the Probe Of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (POEMMA) design, optimized to be flown as a payload on one of NASA's sub-orbital super pressure balloons circling the Earth above…

EUSO--TA is a ground-based telescope installed in 2013 in the Black Rock Mesa Telescope Array (BRM-TA) site, operating with 2.5$\mu$s time resolution to observe the night sky in the UV range. The optical system contains two 1m$^2$ Fresnel…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-19 Zbigniew Plebaniak

The development of detectors using Silicon Photo-Multipliers for acquisition of fast light signals coming from Cherenkov and fluorescence emissions started by particle showers in the terrestrial atmosphere is the main goal of the Italian…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-19 Rossella Caruso

Ultra-High Energy (UHE, $>$0.1\,PeV) $\gamma$-ray Astronomy is rapidly evolving into an expanding branch of the $\gamma$-ray astronomy with the surprising discovery of 12 PeVatrons and the detection of a handful of photons above 1 PeV.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-04 Zhen Cao , Songzhan Chen , Ruoyu Liu , Ruizhi Yang

Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECR), of energy >10 EeV, arrive at the Earth regularly, but their sources, acceleration mechanisms, details of propagation through the universe, and particle composition remain mysteries. In addition, their…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-10 Sijbrand de Jong

An Atmospheric Monitoring System (AMS) is a mandatory and key device of a space-based mission which aims to detect Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) and Extremely-High Energy Cosmic Rays (EHECR) from Space. JEM-EUSO has a dedicated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 M. D. Rodriguez Frias , S. Toscano , E. Bozzo , L. del Peral , A. Neronov , S. Wada

The detection of very-high-energy (VHE) neutrinos ($E_\nu \gtrsim 10$ PeV) is a challenge that future generations of experiments are being designed and constructed to address. One promising method relies on using the Earth as a neutrino…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 Claire Guépin , Frédéric Sarazin , John Krizmanic , Jacqueline Loerincs , Angela Olinto , Ashley Piccone

EUSO experiment, while monitoring the downward Earth atmosphere layers, may observe among common Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays, UHECR, also High Energy Neutrino-Induced Showers either blazing upward to the detectors at high (PeVs) energies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 D. Fargion

Any considerations on propagation of particles through the Universe must involve particle interactions: processes leading to production of particle cascades. While one expects existence of such cascades, the state of the art cosmic-ray…

JEM-EUSO is a mission to study ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) by measuring the fluorescence light from giant air showers at the altitude of the International Space Station. In the tilted mode, JEM-EUSO will become very sensitive to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-08-05 Katsuaki Asano , Kenji Shinozaki , Masahiro Teshima

The Pierre Auger Observatory aims to determine the nature and origin of the ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR). The Auger hybrid detector combines fluorescence observations of extended air showers, initiated in the atmosphere by these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Serguei Vorobiov