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Gamma-ray Bursts (GRB) were discovered by satellite-based detectors as powerful sources of transient $\gamma$-ray emission. The Fermi satellite detected an increasing number of these events with its dedicated Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM),…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 G. La Mura , U. Barres de Almeida , R. Conceição , A. De Angelis , F. Longo , M. Pimenta , E. Prandini , E. Ruiz-Velasco , B. Tomé

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) have been detected at GeV energies by EGRET and models predict emission at > 100 GeV. Milagro is a wide field (2 sr) high duty cycle (> 90 %) ground based water Cherenkov detector that records extensive air showers…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pablo M. Saz Parkinson

Cosmic rays are hampered by the Moon and a deficit in its direction is expected (the so-called \emph{Moon shadow}). The Moon shadow is an important tool to determine the performance of an air shower array. In fact, the displacement of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 G. Di Sciascio , R. Iuppa

The HEGRA experiment is an air shower detector system for the study of neutral and charged cosmic rays in the energy range between 500 GeV to 10 PeV. Here we give an overview of how the HEGRA detector is used to search for TeV…

A new ground-based wide-field extensive air shower array known as the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory promises a new window to monitoring the $\sim$100 GeV gamma-ray sky with the potential for detecting a high energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-08 Joshua Wood

Cosmic ray antiprotons provide an important probe to study the cosmic ray propagation in the interstellar space and to investigate the existence of dark matter. Acting the Earth-Moon system as a magnetic spectrometer, paths of primary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 YBJ Collaboration

The ARGO-YBJ experiment, currently under construction at the Yangbaijing Laboratory (4300 m a.s.l.), consists of a single layer of about 2000 Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) for a total instrumented area of about 6700 m^2. The digital…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-15 M. Iacovacci , S. Catalanotti , P. Creti , G. Liguori , L. Saggese

The ARGO-YBJ experiment is a full coverage air shower array; its lowest energy threshold is reached using the "scaler mode technique". Working in this mode, the signals generated by any particle hitting each cluster are put in coincidence…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Elio Giroletti , Irene Bolognino , Claudio Cattaneo , Giuseppe Liguori , Paola Salvini , Piero Vallania , Carlo Vigorito

The measurement of proton plus helium and all-particle energy spectra in the range $20\,$ TeV to $5 \,$PeV and $80 \,$TeV to $5 \,$PeV respectively are presented. Data taken by the ARGO-YBJ detector in the 2010 year have been analyzed. The…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-10-04 P. Montini , S. M. Mari

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are the most energetic electromagnetic explosions in the universe. Recently, the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) reported the breakthrough observation of GRB 221009A with gamma-ray energies beyond…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-10 Yunlei Huang , Sujie Lin , Soebur Razzaque , Lili Yang , Zijie Huang

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory is a ground-based TeV gamma-ray observatory in the state of Puebla, Mexico at an altitude of 4100 m. Its 22,000 m$^2$ instrumented area, wide field of view ($\sim$2 sr), and >95% uptime…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Joshua Wood

The number of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) detected at high energies ($\sim\,0.1-100$ GeV) has seen a rapid increase over the last decade, thanks to observations from the Fermi-Large Area Telescope. The improved statistics and quality of data…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 Lara Nava

The Milagro gamma-ray observatory employs a water Cherenkov detector to observe extensive air showers produced by high energy particles interacting in the Earth's atmosphere. Milagro has a wide field of view and high duty cycle, monitoring…

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 Tibet experiment, operating at Yangbajing (4,300 m above sea level), is the lowest energy air shower array and the new high density array constructed in 1996 has sensitivity to $\gamma$-ray air showers at energies as low as 3 TeV. With…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Amenomori

Recent findings by the LHAASO experiment are opening a new window, that of the PeV sky, to the observation of the electromagnetic spectrum. Several astronomical objects emitting gamma-rays at energies well above 100 TeV have been observed…

It has been established that Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRB) can produce Very High Energy radiation (E > 100 GeV), opening a new window on the investigation of particle acceleration and radiation properties in the most energetic domain. We expect…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-03 G. La Mura