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The Simulation of Cherenkov light lateral distribution function (LDF) from particles of Extensive Air Showers (EAS) with ultra high energy cosmic rays (E>=10^16 eV) was simulated for primary protons by the computer code CORSIKA. The…

General Physics · Physics 2011-04-14 A. A. Al-Rubaiee

The Cherenkov Telescope Array will provide unprecedented sensitivity and angular resolution to gamma rays across orders of magnitude in energy. Above 1 TeV up to around 300 TeV an array of Small-Sized Telescopes (SSTs) will cover several…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-17 Richard White

The Pierre Auger Observatory has been designed to study the highest-energy cosmic rays in nature (E > 10^{18.5} eV). The determination of their arrival direction, energy and composition is performed by the analysis of the atmospheric…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next generation ground based observatory in very high energy gamma ray astronomy. The facility will achieve a wide energy coverage, starting from a threshold of a few tens of GeV up to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. K. Daniel , M. Gaug , P. Majumdar

Gamma-rays provide a powerful insight into the non-thermal universe and perhaps a unique probe for new physics beyond the standard model. Current experiments are already giving results in the physics of acceleration of cosmic rays in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Michele Doro

The present study investigates the feasibility of employing Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) technology for the detection of ultra-high-energy (UHE) neutrino-tau particles. By observing the Cherenkov light produced by charged particles…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-04 Tariq Bitam , Bouzid Boussaha , Mossaab Messamah

This report presents a draft of a new detector designed to determine the chemical composition of primary cosmic rays based on the characteristics of the angular distribution of Cherenkov light from EAS. The installation, consisting of…

Tunka-Rex, the Tunka Radio extension at the TAIGA facility (Tunka Advanced Instrument for cosmic ray physics and Gamma Astronomy) in Siberia, has recently been expanded to a total number 63 SALLA antennas, most of them distributed on an…

The Telescope Array (TA) experiment is the largest detector to observe ultra-high-energy cosmic rays in the northern hemisphere. The fluorescence detectors at southern two stations of TA are newly constructed and have now completed seven…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-28 The Telescope Array Collaboration

We give an overview of the SPHERE experiment based on detection of reflected Vavilov-Cherenkov radiation (Cherenkov light) from extensive air showers in the energy region E>10^{15} eV. A brief history of the reflected Cherenkov light…

A new project is developed with the implementation of a relatively new method of studying the primary cosmic ray -- the registration of extensive air showers' optical Vavilov-Cherenkov radiation (Cherenkov light) reflected from the snow…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-30 D. Chernov , E. Bonvech , M. Finger , M. Finger , V. Galkin , V. Ivanov , D. Podgrudkov , T. Roganova , I. Vaiman

The study of cosmic rays in the energy range from 1 to 1000 PeV is crucial for understanding their origins and propagation paths. As part of this research, a new SPHERE-3 installation is being developed, featuring enhanced light sensitivity…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-22 V. A. Ivanov , V. I. Galkin , E. A. Bonvech , T. M. Roganova , D. V. Chernov , D. A. Podgrudkov , M. D. Ziva , V. S. Latypova , C. G. Azra , E. L. Entina

The Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS) represents an important step forward in the study of extreme astrophysical processes in the universe. It combines the power of the atmospheric Cherenkov imaging technique…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 T. C. Weekes

The Tunka Radio Extension (Tunka-Rex) is a digital radio array operating in the frequency band of 30-80 MHz and detecting radio emission from air-showers produced by cosmic rays with energies above 100 PeV. The experiment is installed at…

The Telescope Array (TA) collaboration has measured the energy spectrum of ultra-high energy cosmic rays with primary energies above 1.6 x 10^(18) eV. This measurement is based upon four years of observation by the surface detector…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-12 T. Abu-Zayyad , R. Aida , M. Allen , R. Anderson , R. Azuma , E. Barcikowski , J. W. Belz , D. R. Bergman , S. A. Blake , R. Cady , B. G. Cheon , J. Chiba , M. Chikawa , E. J. Cho , W. R. Cho , H. Fujii , T. Fujii , T. Fukuda , M. Fukushima , W. Hanlon , K. Hayashi , Y. Hayashi , N. Hayashida , K. Hibino , K. Hiyama , K. Honda , T. Iguchi , D. Ikeda , K. Ikuta , N. Inoue , T. Ishii , R. Ishimori , D. Ivanov , S. Iwamoto , C. C. H. Jui , K. Kadota , F. Kakimoto , O. Kalashev , T. Kanbe , K. Kasahara , H. Kawai , S. Kawakami , S. Kawana , E. Kido , H. B. Kim , H. K. Kim , J. H. Kim , J. H. Kim , K. Kitamoto , S. Kitamura , Y. Kitamura , K. Kobayashi , Y. Kobayashi , Y. Kondo , K. Kuramoto , V. Kuzmin , Y. J. Kwon , J. Lan , S. I. Lim , S. Machida , K. Martens , T. Matsuda , T. Matsuura , T. Matsuyama , J. N. Matthews , M. Minamino , K. Miyata , Y. Murano , I. Myers , K. Nagasawa , S. Nagataki , T. Nakamura , S. W. Nam , T. Nonaka , S. Ogio , M. Ohnishi , H. Ohoka , K. Oki , D. Oku , T. Okuda , A. Oshima , S. Ozawa , I. H. Park , M. S. Pshirkov , D. C. Rodriguez , S. Y. Roh , G. Rubtsov , D. Ryu , H. Sagawa , N. Sakurai , A. L. Sampson , L. M. Scott , P. D. Shah , F. Shibata , T. Shibata , H. Shimodaira , B. K. Shin , J. I. Shin , T. Shirahama , J. D. Smith , P. Sokolsky , B. T. Stokes , S. R. Stratton , T. A. Stroman , S. Suzuki , Y. Takahashi , M. Takeda , A. Taketa , M. Takita , Y. Tameda , H. Tanaka , K. Tanaka , M. Tanaka , S. B. Thomas , G. B. Thomson , P. Tinyakov , I. Tkachev , H. Tokuno , T. Tomida , S. Troitsky , Y. Tsunesada , K. Tsutsumi , Y. Tsuyuguchi , Y. Uchihori , S. Udo , H. Ukai , G. Vasiloff , Y. Wada , T. Wong , M. Wood , Y. Yamakawa , R. Yamane , H. Yamaoka , K. Yamazaki , J. Yang , Y. Yoneda , S. Yoshida , H. Yoshii , X. Zhou , R. Zollinger , Z. Zundel

The lateral distribution of particles in extensive air showers from cosmic rays with energy above $10^{17}$ eV registered at the Yakutsk complex array was analyzed. Experimentally measured particle densities were compared to the predictions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-29 A. V. Glushkov , A. V. Sabourov , L. T. Ksenofontov , K. G. Lebedev

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an international project for a next-generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory. CTA, conceived as an array of tens of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes, comprising small, medium and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 T. Hassan , B. Humensky , D. Nieto , M. Wood

As TeV gamma-ray astronomy progresses into the era of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), there is a desire for the capacity to instantaneously follow up on transient phenomena and continuously monitor gamma-ray flux at energies above…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an initiative to build a next-generation observatory for very-high energy $\gamma$-rays. Its expected large effective area ($\mathcal{O}(10^{7} \mathrm{m}^2)$) and energy threshold as low as 25 GeV…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Manuel Paz Arribas , Ullrich Schwanke , Ralf Wischnewski

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is planned to serve as a ground-based observatory for (very-)high-energy gamma-ray astronomy, open to a wide astrophysics community, providing a deep insight into the non-thermal high-energy universe. It…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 M. Renaud