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Atmospheric Cherenkov technique is an established methodology to study TeV energy gamma rays. Here we carry out systematic monte carlo simulation studies of the timing information of Cherenkov photons. Extensive studies have already been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. R. Chitnis , P. N. Bhat

The IceCube neutrino observatory uses $1\,\mathrm{km}^{3}$ of the natural Antarctic ice near the geographic South Pole as optical detection medium. When charged particles, such as particles produced in neutrino interactions, pass through…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-21 Anna Pollmann

This work summarizes the results presented at 29th International Cosmic Ray Conference in Pune India. Generally the aim of this work is to obtain the lateral distribution of the atmospheric Cherenkov light in extensive air showers produced…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Mishev , Strashimir Mavrodiev , Jordan Stamenov

The Yakutsk array group is developing a wide field-of-view Cherenkov telescope to be operated in coincidence with the surface detectors of the extensive air shower array. Currently, the engineering prototype of the reflecting telescope with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 A. A. Ivanov , S. P. Knurenko , A. D. Krasilnikov , Z. E. Petrov , M. I. Pravdin , I. Ye. Sleptsov , L. V. Timofeev

The radio approach for detecting the ultra-high energy cosmic neutrinos has become a mature field. The Cherenkov pulse in radio detection originates from the charge excess of particle showers due to Askaryan effect. The conventional way of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-04-29 Chia-Yu Hu , Chih-Ching Chen , Pisin Chen

Cherenkov light lateral distribution function (CLLDF) in Extensive Air Showers (EAS) for different primary particles (e-, n , p, F, K and Fe) was simulated using CORSIKA code for conditions and configurations of Yakutsk EAS array with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-28 Marwah M. Abdulsttar , A. A. Al-Rubaiee , Abdul Halim Kh. Ali

Modern detectors of cosmic gamma-rays are a special type of imaging telescopes (air Cherenkov telescopes) supplied with cameras with a relatively large number of photomultiplier-based pixels. For example, the camera of the TAIGA-IACT…

Cherenkov detectors have been used in space missions for many decades, and for a variety of purposes, including for example, for Galactic Cosmic Ray (GCR) and Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) measurements. Cherenkov detectors are sensitive to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-20 Christopher S. W. Davis , Fan Lei , Keith Ryden , Clive Dyer , Giovanni Santin , Piers Jiggens , Melanie Heil

We present a method to reconstruct the longitudinal profile of electrons in showers using Cherenkov telescopes. We show how the Cherenkov light collected by an array of telescopes can be transformed into the number of electrons as a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-12 Andrés G. Delgado Giler , Vitor de Souza

A new SPHERE seires complex extensive air showers detector is under development. The main goal of its mission is to study the mass composition of cosmic ray nuclei in the 1-100 PeV energy range at a new level. The already well-established…

Large mass ice/water Cherenkov experiments, optimized to detect low energy (1-20 GeV) atmospheric neutrinos, have the potential to discriminate between normal and inverted neutrino mass hierarchies. The sensitivity depends on several model…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-12 D. Franco , C. Jollet , A. Kouchner , V. Kulikovskiy , A. Meregaglia , S. Perasso , T. Pradier , A. Tonazzo , V. Van Elewyck

Models for the source and propagation of cosmic rays are stressed by observations of cosmic rays with energies $E>10^{20}$ eV. A key discriminant between different models may be complementary observations of neutrinos with energies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 D. Seckel

The Cherenkov Telescope Array is the future of ground-based gamma-ray astronomy. Its first prototype telescope built on-site, the Large Size Telescope 1, is currently under commissioning and taking its first scientific data. In this paper,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-10 Mikaël Jacquemont , Thomas Vuillaume , Alexandre Benoit , Gilles Maurin , Patrick Lambert , Giovanni Lamanna

Ground-based Imaging Cherenkov Telescope Arrays observe the Cherenkov radiation emitted in extended atmospheric showers generated by cosmic gamma rays in the TeV regime. The rate of these events is normally overwhelmed by 2-3 orders of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-05 Michele Doro

The measurement of the flux of muons produced in cosmic ray air showers is essential for the study of primary cosmic rays. Such measurements are important in extensive air shower detectors to assess the energy spectrum and the chemical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-16 KM3NeT Collaboration

We have investigated some features of the density and arrival time distributions of Cherenkov photons in extensive air showers using the CORSIKA simulation package. The main thrust of this study is to see the effect of hadronic interaction…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-23 P. Hazarika , U. D. Goswami , V. R. Chitnis , B. S. Acharya , G. S. Das , B. B. Singh , R. J. Britto

UHE particle detection using the lunar Cherenkov technique aims to detect nanosecond pulses of Cherenkov emission which are produced during UHE cosmic ray and neutrino interactions in the Moon's regolith. These pulses will reach Earth-based…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 R. McFadden , R. Ekers , P. Roberts

A wide field-of-view Cherenkov telescope has been working in the surroundings of the Yakutsk array experiment since 2012. Its main function is to measure the waveform of the Cherenkov radiation signal induced by extensive air showers of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-01 A. A. Ivanov , S. V. Matarkin , L. V. Timofeev

Currently new radio detection techniques are being explored to detect astrophysical neutrinos beyond the PeV scale interacting in polar ice. Due to the long attenuation length of radio waves in a medium, it can be expected that such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-18 Simon De Kockere , Krijn D. de Vries , Nick van Eijndhoven

To characterize the signals registered by the different types of water Cherenkov detectors (WCD) used by the Latin American Giant Observatory (LAGO) Project, it is necessary to develop detailed simulations of the detector response to the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 R. Calderón , H. Asorey , L. A. Núñez
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