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The muon charge ratio of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays may provide information to detect the composition of the primary cosmic rays. We propose to extract the charge information of high energy muons in very inclined extensive air showers by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Bo-Qiang Ma

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

Muon tomography is developing as a promising system to detect high-Z (atomic number) material for ensuring homeland security. In the present work, three kinds of spatial locations of materials which are made of aluminum, iron, lead and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-04 Xiao-Dong Wang , Kai-Xuan Ye , Yu-Lei Li , Wen Luo , Hui-Yin Wu , He-Run Yang , Guo-Xiang Chen , Zhi-Chao Zhu , Xiu-Liang Zhao

The Fluorescence detector Array of Single-pixel Telescopes aims to deploy an array of simplified, autonomous fluorescence telescopes over an area of $\sim60,000$ km$^{2}$ to observe ultra-high energy cosmic rays. The unprecedented size of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-28 Fraser Bradfield

Medium-energy electron beam-dump experiments provide an intense sources of secondary muons. These particles can be used to search for muon-coupling light dark scalars that may explain the $(g-2)_\mu$ anomaly. We applied this idea to SLAC…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-12-26 L. Marsicano , M. Battaglieri , A. Celentano , R. De Vita , Yi-Ming Zhong

A feasibility demonstration of three-dimensional (3D) muon tomography was performed for infrastructure equivalent targets using the proposed portable muography detector. For the target, we used two sets of lead blocks placed at different…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-01-19 Kullapha Chaiwongkhot , Tadahiro Kin , Yuta Nagata , Tomohiro Komori , Naoya Okamoto , Hamid Basiri

At present there are still several open questions about the origin of the ultra high energy cosmic rays. However, great progress in this area has been made in recent years due to the data collected by the present generation of ground based…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 A. D. Supanitsky , A. Etchegoyen , D. Melo , F. Sanchez

We present the measurement of the the flux and angular distribution of atmospheric muon neutrinos using the MACRO detector. Three different event topologies are detected in two different energy ranges. High energy neutrinos (E~80 GeV) via…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Spurio

Extensive air showers initiated by ultra-high energy cosmic rays are sensitive to the details of hadronic interactions models, so we present the main results obtained using the data of the Pierre Auger Observatory. The depth at which the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-21 J. Espadanal

21cm tomography opens a window to directly study astrophysics and fundamental physics of early epochs in our Universe's history, the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR) and Cosmic Dawn (CD). Summary statistics such as the power spectrum omit…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 S. Neutsch , C. Heneka , M. Brüggen

The Pierre Auger Observatory has conducted measurements of the energy spectrum and mass composition of cosmic rays using different methods. Utilizing both surface and fluorescence detectors (SD and FD), the Observatory provides…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-07 Vladimír Novotný

We propose a large-area, cost-effective Muon Telescope Detector (MTD) for the Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC (STAR) at mid-rapidity and for the next generation of detectors at a possible electron-ion collider. We utilize Multi-gap Resistive…

Some of the main features of the new generation Trasgo detectors are their capability in measuring the incoming direction and the arrival time of secondary cosmic particles. They also offer the identification capability between muon and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-17 A. Álvarez-Díaz , P. Cabanelas , Y. Fontenla , J. A. Garzón

The average mass composition of cosmic rays with primary energies between $10^{17}$eV and $10^{18}$eV has been studied using a hybrid detector consisting of the High Resolution Fly's Eye (HiRes) prototype and the MIA muon array.…

Measuring the angles of muons and electrons in air showers is proposed as a method for studying the primary cosmic-ray mass composition near the knee of the cosmic-ray energy spectrum at a few $10^{15}$ eV. Conventional tracking detectors…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Konrad Bernlöhr

Measurements of the cosmic-ray air-shower fluorescence at extreme energies require precise knowledge of atmospheric conditions. The absolute calibration of the cosmic-ray energy depends on the absorption of fluorescence light between its…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-05-23 A. Filipcic , M. Horvat , D. Veberic , D. Zavrtanik , M. Zavrtanik

The detection of inclined air showers (zenith angles $\theta \gtrsim 65^\circ$) with kilometer-spaced radio-antenna arrays allows measuring cosmic rays at ultra-high energies ($E \lesssim 10^{20}\,\mathrm{eV}$). Radio and particle detector…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-11 Felix Schlüter , Tim Huege

The Surface Detector (SD) of the Pierre Auger Observatory is a 3000 km$^2$ array of stations, whose main components are Water-Cherenkov Detectors (WCDs) recording ground-level signals from Extensive Air Showers (EASs) initiated by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-15 Margita Kubátová