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WALTA school-network cosmic ray detectors

The Washington Area Large-scale Time coincidence Array (WALTA) is placing particle detector arrays in secondary schools in the Seattle area to build up a large-scale ultra-high energy cosmic ray detector network, one of several such…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 Richard Gran , R. Jeffrey Wilkes , Hans-Gerd Berns , T. H. Burnett

The Current Status and Prospect of the Ta Experiment

The Telescope Array (TA) experiment is designed to observe cosmic-ray-induced air showers at extremely high energies. It is being deployed in a desert of Utah, USA; an array of 3 m^2 scintillation counters will be distributed over 760 km^…

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First Upper Limits on the Radar Cross Section of Cosmic-Ray Induced Extensive Air Showers

TARA (Telescope Array Radar) is a cosmic ray radar detection experiment colocated with Telescope Array, the conventional surface scintillation detector (SD) and fluorescence telescope detector (FD) near Delta, Utah, U.S.A. The TARA detector…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 R. U. Abbasi , M. Abe , M. Abou Bakr Othman , T. Abu-Zayyad , M. Allen , R. Anderson , R. Azuma , E. Barcikowski , J. W. Belz , D. R. Bergman , D. Besson , S. A. Blake , M. Byrne , R. Cady , M. J. Chae , B. G. Cheon , J. Chiba , M. Chikawa , W. R. Cho , B. Farhang-Boroujeny , T. Fujii , M. Fukushima , W. H. Gillman , T. Goto , W. Hanlon , J. C. Hanson , Y. Hayashi , N. Hayashida , K. Hibino , K. Honda , D. Ikeda , N. Inoue , T. Ishii , R. Ishimori , H. Ito , D. Ivanov , C. Jayanthmurthy , C. C. H. Jui , K. Kadota , F. Kakimoto , O. Kalashev , K. Kasahara , H. Kawai , S. Kawakami , S. Kawana , K. Kawata , E. Kido , H. B. Kim , J. H. Kim , J. H. Kim , S. Kitamura , Y. Kitamura , S. Kunwar , V. Kuzmin , Y. J. Kwon , J. Lan , S. I. Lim , J. P. Lundquist , K. Machida , K. Martens , T. Matsuda , T. Matsuyama , J. N. Matthews , M. Minamino , K. Mukai , I. Myers , K. Nagasawa , S. Nagataki , T. Nakamura , T. Nonaka , A. Nozato , S. Ogio , J. Ogura , M. Ohnishi , H. Ohoka , K. Oki , T. Okuda , M. Ono , A. Oshima , S. Ozawa , I. H. Park , S. Prohira , M. S. Pshirkov , A. Rezazadeh-Reyhani , D. C. Rodriguez , G. Rubtsov , D. Ryu , H. Sagawa , N. Sakurai , A. L. Sampson , L. M. Scott , D. Schurig , P. D. Shah , F. Shibata , T. Shibata , H. Shimodaira , B. K. Shin , J. D. Smith , P. Sokolsky , R. W. Springer , B. T. Stokes , S. R. Stratton , T. A. Stroman , T. Suzawa , H. Takai , M. Takamura , M. Takeda , R. Takeishi , 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. Uchihori , S. Udo , F. Urban , G. Vasiloff , S. Venkatesh , T. Wong , R. Yamane , H. Yamaoka , K. Yamazaki , J. Yang , K. Yashiro , Y. Yoneda , S. Yoshida , H. Yoshii , R. Zollinger , Z. Zundel

High-precision measurements of extensive air showers with the SKA

As of 2023, the Square Kilometre Array will constitute the world's largest radio telescope, offering unprecedented capabilities for a diverse science programme in radio astronomy. At the same time, the SKA will be ideally suited to detect…

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Probing the Climatological Impact of a Cosmic Ray-Cloud Connection through Low-Frequency Radio Observations

It has been proposed that cosmic ray events could have a causal relationship with cloud formation rates. Given the weak constraints on the role that cloud formation plays in climate forcing it is essential to understand the role such a…

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Detection of the RF Pulse Associated With Cosmic Ray Air Showers

Initial results of a project to detect the radio-frequency pulse associated with extensive air showers of cosmic rays are described briefly. This work is being performed at the CASA/MIA array in Utah, with the intention of designing…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Jonathan L. Rosner , John F. Wilkerson

Evidence for Radio Detection of Extensive Air Showers Induced by Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays

Firm evidence for a radio emission counterpart of cosmic ray air showers is presented. By the use of an antenna array set up in coincidence with ground particle detectors, we find a collection of events for which both time and arrival…

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Computational Challenges and Opportunities of Simulating Cosmic Ray Showers at Global Scale

Galactic cosmic rays are the high-energy particles that stream into our solar system from distant corners of our Galaxy and some low energy particles are from the Sun which are associated with solar flares. The Earth atmosphere serves as an…

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Detection of the RF Pulse Associated With Cosmic Ray Air Showers

A project to detect the radio-frequency pulse associated with extensive air showers of cosmic rays is described briefly. Prototype work is being performed at the CASA/MIA array in Utah, with the intention of designing equipment that can be…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Jonathan L. Rosner

The surface detector array of the Telescope Array experiment

The Telescope Array (TA) experiment, located in the western desert of Utah,USA, is designed for observation of extensive air showers from extremely high energy cosmic rays. The experiment has a surface detector array surrounded by three…

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A prototype system for detecting the radio-frequency pulse associated with cosmic ray air showers

The development of a system to detect the radio-frequency (RF) pulse associated with extensive air showers of cosmic rays is described. This work was performed at the CASA/MIA array in Utah, with the intention of designing equipment that…

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Studies of Air Showers above 10^18 eV with the CHICOS Array

CHICOS (California HIgh school Cosmic ray ObServatory) is presently an array of more than 140 detectors distributed over a large area (~400 km^2) of southern California, and will consist of 180 detectors at 90 locations in the near future.…

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Low-Cost Data Acquisition Card for School-Network Cosmic Ray Detectors

The Cosmic Ray Observatory Project (CROP) at University of Nebraska/Lincoln and the Washington Area Large-scale Time coincidence Array (WALTA) at University of Washington/Seattle are among several outreach projects siting cosmic-ray…

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Cosmic rays studied with a hybrid high school detector array

The LORUN/NAHSA system is a pathfinder for hybrid cosmic ray research combined with education and outreach in the field of astro-particle physics. Particle detectors and radio antennae were mainly setup by students and placed on public…

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Particle density fluctuations and correlations in low energy Cosmic-Ray showers simulated with CORSIKA

The current studies of cosmic rays are focused on most energetic particles entering the atmosphere and producing a single Extensive Air Shower (EAS). There are, however, models predicting that interactions of high energy particles may…

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The Cosmic Ray Observatory Project: A Statewide Outreach and Education Experiment in Nebraska

The Cosmic Ray Observatory Project (CROP) is a statewide education and research experiment involving Nebraska high school students, teachers and university undergraduates in the study of extensive cosmic-ray air showers. A network of high…

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Feasibility of Correlated Extensive Air Shower Detection with a Distributed Cosmic Ray Network

We explore the sensitivity offered by a global network of cosmic ray detectors to a novel, unobserved phenomena: widely separated simultaneous extended air showers. Existing localized observatories work independently to observe individual…

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Very high energy cosmic rays are typically studied by measuring extensive air showers formed by secondary particles produced in collisions with air nuclei. The indirect character of the measurement makes the physics interpretation of cosmic…

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The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) has three sub-arrays, KM2A, WCDA and WFCTA. The flux variations of cosmic ray air showers were studied by analyzing the KM2A data during the thunderstorm on 10 June 2021. The number of…

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A Monte Carlo simulation study for cosmic-ray chemical composition measurement with Cherenkov Telescope Array

Our Galaxy is filled with cosmic-ray particles and more than 98% of them are atomic nuclei. In order to clarify their origin and acceleration mechanism, chemical composition measurements of these cosmic rays with wide energy coverage play…

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