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The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory comprises 300 water Cherenkov detectors, each equipped with four photomultipliers, located on the Volc\'{a}n Sierra Negra in Mexico at 4,100 masl. This observatory can detect gamma rays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-04 J. Jaimes , T. Capistrán , I. Torres

Pattern recognition problems in high energy physics are notably different from traditional machine learning applications in computer vision. Reconstruction algorithms identify and measure the kinematic properties of particles produced in…

Indirect detection of gamma rays with ground-based observatories is currently the most sensitive experimental approach to characterize the gamma-ray sky at energies $>0.1$\,TeV. Ground-based detection of gamma-rays relies on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-10 Manel Errando , Takayuki Saito

Dark100 is a planned array of six telescopes, using the Panoramic Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (PANOSETI) telescope system. It will operate as an imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope array, with a telescope design and array…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-05 Sruthiranjani Ravikularaman , Felix Riehn , Dominik Elsaesser

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the world's leading ground-based gamma-ray observatory allowing us to study very high energy phenomena in the Universe. CTA will produce huge data sets, of the order of petabytes, and the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-02 S. Mangano , C. Delgado , M. Bernardos , M. Lallena , J. J. Rodríguez Vázquez

A Monte-Carlo study to reconstruct energy and mass of cosmic rays with energies above 300 TeV using ground based measurements of the electromagnetic part of showers initiated in the atmosphere is presented. The shower properties determined…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Lindner

Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy is a powerful tool to study cosmic-ray physics, providing a diagnostic of the high-energy processes at work in the most extreme astrophysical accelerators of the universe. Ground-based gamma-ray detectors…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-07 Ulisses Barres de Almeida , Martin Tluczykont

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), conceived as an array of tens of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs), is an international project for a next-generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory, aiming to improve on the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-14 Tjark Miener , Daniel Nieto , Aryeh Brill , Samuel Spencer , Jose Luis Contreras

In this document we consider the problem of finding the optimal layout for the array of water Cherenkov detectors proposed by the SWGO collaboration to study very-high-energy gamma rays in the southern hemisphere. We develop a continuous…

A simple 3D-reconstruction method for gamma-ray induced air showers is presented, which takes full advantage of the assets of a system of Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes combining stereoscopy and fine-grain imaging like the High Energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Lemoine-Goumard , B. Degrange , M. Tluczykont

Ground-level particle detection has recently emerged as an extremely powerful approach to TeV-PeV gamma-ray astronomy. The most successful observatories of this type, HAWC and LHAASO, utilise water-Cherenkov based detector units, housed in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-15 Hazal Goksu , Werner Hofmann , Felix Werner , Fabian Haist , Jim Hinton

The surface detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory has recently been upgraded with the addition of radio antennas, forming the radio detector (RD). This contribution outlines the standard methods for reconstructing extensive air showers…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-22 Simon Strähnz

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

We highlight the capacity of current and forthcoming air shower arrays using water-Cherenkov stations to detect neutrino events spanning energies from $10\,$GeV to $100\,$TeV. This detection approach leverages individual stations equipped…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-25 J. Alvarez-Muñiz , R. Conceição , P. J. Costa , B. S. González , M. Pimenta , B. Tomé

The TeV gamma ray sky is observable by recording footprints of extensive air showers with an array of particle detectors. In the northern hemisphere there are currently two projects employing this technique: The HAWC gamma ray observatory…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-19 Harm Schoorlemmer , Rubén López-Coto , Jim Hinton

In this paper we present a new method for ground based gamma ray astronomy based only on atmospheric Cherenkov light flux analysis. The Cherenkov light flux densities in extensive air showers (EAS) initiated by different primaries are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Mishev , S. Mavrodiev , J. Stamenov

The stereoscopic reconstruction of air showers viewed by multiple imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) allows a more precise reconstruction of shower energies and hence an improved determination of energy spectra. Reconstruction…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Hofmann

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next generation ground-based observatory for very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy, with the deployment of tens of highly sensitive and fast-reacting Cherenkov telescopes. It will cover a…

Gamma ray astronomy is now at the leading edge for studies related both to fundamental physics and astrophysics. The sensitivity of gamma detectors is limited by the huge amount of background, constituted by hadronic cosmic rays (typically…

The extremely low flux of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) makes their direct observation by orbital experiments practically impossible. For this reason all current and planned UHECR experiments detect cosmic rays indirectly by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-15 D. Ivanov , O. E. Kalashev , M. Yu. Kuznetsov , G. I. Rubtsov , T. Sako , Y. Tsunesada , Y. V. Zhezher