Measurements of the proton-air cross section with high energy cosmic ray experiments

R Abbasi - EPJ Web of Conferences, 2016 - epj-conferences.org
Detecting Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) enables us to measure the proton-air
inelastic cross section σ inel p–air at energies that we are unable to access with particle …

[PDF][PDF] Telescope array composition summary

W Hanlon, JP Lundquist - International Cosmic Ray Conference 2017, 2018 - inspirehep.net
The source of UHECRs still remains a mystery over a century after the first cosmic rays were
observed by Hess in 1912. The flux of cosmic rays above the knee,⪆ 1015 eV, displays …

A search for particle showers at the edge of IceCube's instrumented volume

JA Stößl - 2017 - edoc.hu-berlin.de
Among the analysis strategies used in IceCube, searches for neutrinoinduced particle
showers, so called cascades, provide good energy resolution and a relative low …

Cosmic ray mass composition problem: toward model-independent evaluation based on the analysis of the spatial structure of EAS charged components

RI Raikin, AA Lagutin, TL Serebryakova… - Physics of Atomic …, 2021 - Springer
The problem of cosmic ray mass composition is considered in the context of its current state
and prospects for achieving progress in the nearest future due to improving data quality of …

河外极高能宇宙线的起源

柳若愚, 王祥玉, 张冰 - 中国科学: 物理学, 力学, 天文学, 2015 - cqvip.com
由于大型宇宙线探测器Pierre Auger, Telescope Array 等的观测, 极高能宇宙线(能量大于10^
18eV 的宇宙线) 的研究取得了很大进展, 包括探测到高能能谱变陡, 与河外天体源的可能相关性 …

Energy systematics and long term performance of the Pierre Auger Observatory's fluorescence telescopes

PH Nguyen - 2018 - digital.library.adelaide.edu.au
Since the discovery of cosmic rays in the early 20th century, physicists have strived to gain a
deeper understanding of the properties behind the universe's most energetic particles …

[PDF][PDF] Search for EAS candidates with the TUS/Lomonosov orbital experiment: results of preliminary data reconstruction and analysis

L Tkachev - Proceedings of Science (ICRC2017), 2017 - s3.cern.ch
The" Lomonosov" satellite, with the TUS instrument on board, was launched on April 28,
2016 on solar-synchronized orbit with altitude about 500 km. The main goal of TUS space …

Measurement of anisotropy and the search for ultra high energy cosmic ray sources

O Deligny, K Kawata, P Tinyakov - Progress of Theoretical and …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are particles, likely protons and/or nuclei, with
energies up to eV that are observed through the giant air showers they produce in the …

Evidence of intermediate-scale energy spectrum anisotropy in the northern hemisphere from telescope array

JP Lundquist - International Cosmic Ray Conference, 2018 - repozitorij.ung.si
Ultra-high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) sources are still unknown, though the lack of any
strong anisotropy largely rules out galactic origin for energies above 1019. 0 eV. The …

Radio measurements for determining the energy scale of cosmic rays

R Hiller - 2016 - publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu
This work is about Tunka-Rex, a radio detector for air showers in Siberia. After calibrating
the detector and developing a reconstruction method for air shower events, three results are …