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The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) is an enhancement of the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina. Covering about View the $17\,$km$^2$, AERA is the world-largest antenna array for cosmic-ray observation. It consists of more than 150…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Frank G. Schröder

The EUSO-TA ground-based fluorescence detector of the JEM-EUSO program, which operates at the Telescope Array (TA) site in Utah (USA), is being upgraded. In the previous data acquisition campaigns, it detected the first nine ultra-high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-22 Francesca Bisconti

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation facility of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes. It will reach unprecedented sensitivity and energy resolution in very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. CTA will detect…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. Doro , M. Daniel , R. de los Reyes , M. Gaug , M. C. Maccarone

One of the main goals of investigations using present and future giant extensive air shower (EAS) arrays is the mass composition of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). A new approach to the problem is presented, combining analysis of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-21 A. A. Ivanov

Ultra High Energy (UHE) neutrino Astronomy and relic Neutrino masses may play a key role in solving the Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray (UHECR) puzzle within the Z-Showering model. Tau air-shower originated by UHE neutrino in matter may probe…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 D. Fargion , M. Khlopov , R. Konoplich , P. G. De Sanctis Lucentini , M. De Santis , B. Mele

Despite large progresses in building new detectors and in the analysis techniques, the key questions concerning the origin, acceleration and propagation of Galactic Cosmic Rays are still open. A number of new EAS arrays is in progress. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-20 Giuseppe Di Sciascio

Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory(LHAASO) is a composite cosmic ray observatory consisting of three detector arrays: kilometer square array (KM2A) which includes the electromagnetic detector array and muon detector array, water…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-22 L. Q. Yin , S. S. Zhang , Z. Cao , B. Y. Bi , C. Wang , J. L. Liu , L. L. Ma , M. J. Yang , Tiina Suomijarvi , Y. Zhang , Z. Y. You , Z. Z Zong

Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are the highest energy messengers in the universe, with energies up to $10^{20}$ eV. Studies of astrophysical particles (nuclei, electrons, neutrinos and photons) at their highest observed energies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-25 Joao de Mello Neto

We address the challenge of reconstructing the energy of three ultra-high-energy cosmic rays registered with a small fluorescence telescope EUSO-TA that operated in 2015 at the site of the Telescope Array experiment in Utah, USA. Each of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Mikhail Zotov , Andrei Trusov

Experiments designed to detect ultra-high energy (UHE) neutrinos using radio techniques are also capable of detecting the radio signals from cosmic-ray (CR) induced air showers. These CR signals are important both as a background and as a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-07 Shoukat Ali , Dave Z. Besson

At present, the ground-based astronomy of very high energy (VHE) (E>100 GeV) gamma-rays experiences the challenging transition phase caused by the substantial upgrading of its observational instrumentation. Recently the HEGRA collaboration…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alexander K Konopelko

Extensice Air Shower (EAS) arrays are survey instruments able to monitor continuously all the overhead sky. Their wide field of view (about 2 sr) is ideal to complement directional detectors by performing unbiased sky surveys, by monitoring…

Despite deflections by Galactic and extragalactic magnetic fields, the distribution of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) over the celestial sphere remains a most promising observable for the identification of their sources. Thanks to a…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation ground-based observatory for gamma-ray astronomy at very-high energies. It will be capable of detecting gamma rays in the energy range from 20 GeV to more than 300 TeV with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-22 Daniel Mazin

The Tianshan Radio Experiment for Neutrino Detection (TREND) is a sino-french collaboration (CNRS/IN2P3 and Chinese Academy of Science) developing an autonomous antenna array for the detection of high energy Extensive Air Showers (EAS) on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Olivier Martineau-Huynh

IceTop is the cosmic-ray detector located on the surface of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole, consisting of 81 pairs of ice-Cherenkov tanks. The rise in the energy threshold of air-shower measurements in IceTop due to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-03 Megha Venugopal

We investigate a possible new technique for microwave measurements of ultra-high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) extensive air showers which relies on detection of expected continuum radiation in the microwave range, caused by free-electron…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the major ground-based gamma-ray observatory planned for the next decade and beyond. Consisting of two large atmospheric Cherenkov telescope arrays (one in the southern hemisphere and one in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 The CTA Consortium , represented by Rene A. Ong

The Askaryan Radio Array (ARA) is an in-ice ultrahigh energy (UHE) neutrino experiment at the South Pole. ARA aims to detect the radio emissions from neutrino-induced particle showers using in-ice clusters of antennas buried ${\sim}200$ m…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-09 Marco Stein Muzio

A new EAS Cherenkov light array, Tunka-133, with ~1 km^2 geometrical area has been installed at the Tunka Valley (50 km from Lake Baikal) in 2009. The array permits a detailed study of cosmic ray energy spectrum and mass composition in the…