extensive air showers
LHC data and extensive air showers
... called extensive air-showers (EAS), that they produce in the atmosphere (for a recent review, see ...of air-shower simulations has become the source of the largest systematic uncertainty in ...
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Extensive Air Showers and Cosmic Ray Physics above 1017 eV
... This fact prevents the possibility of a direct observation of its structure by currently planned satellites or balloon experiments. Indeed, at least hundred of events above the knee are necessary to determine its ...
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Study of muons in extensive air showers from ultra-high energy cosmic rays measured with the Telescope Array experiment
... for air shower Monte-Carlo (MC) ...induced air showers is expected to depend upon the composition of primary cosmic ...UHE extensive air showers by analyzing the signal of TA SD ...
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Determination of the invisible energy of extensive air showers from the data collected at Pierre Auger Observatory
... the extensive air showers (EAS) they produce in the atmo- ...of air excited by the charged particles of the EAS is produced in proportion to the energy dissipa- tion, allowing a reconstruction ...
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The hadronic interaction model Sibyll 2.3c and muon production in extensive air-showers
... The interaction picture in Sibyll is inspired by the dual parton (DPM) [5] and minijet [6–9] models. The hadronization algorithm is based on the LUND model [10, 11], also known as string fragmentation. Details of the un- ...
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Extensive Air Showers: from the muonic smoking guns to the hadronic backbone
... The origin and nature of UHECR remains a mystery. Our current understanding says that the vast majority of these particles are hadronic (atomic nuclei [1, 2]), exclud- ing neutrinos [3] and photons [4]. The final ...
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Radio detection of extensive air showers - Measurements of the properties of cosmic rays with the radio technique — past, present, future
... LOFAR has a very dense antenna spacing in its core [25], which is very useful to examine details of the radio emission processes in the atmosphere. There is now consensus that the bulk of the radiation originates from ...
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Steepness of the Lateral Distribution Function of Secondary Hadrons in Extensive Air Showers
... of extensive air shower to investigate hadrons lateral distribution and η (the steepness of hadrons lateral distribution) at the different energy and mass of ...Vertical showers initiated by primary ...
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Grand, A Giant Radio Array For Neutrino Detection: Objectives, Design And Current Status
... detecting extensive air showers with incoming directions within a few degrees from the horizon: Earth-skimming events and horizontal atmospheric ...
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Measurement of the muon content in air showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory
... of extensive air showers produced by ultra-high energy cosmic rays is an observable sensitive to the composition of primary particles and to the properties of hadronic interactions governing the ...
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pp interactions in extended air showers
... of Extensive Air Showers (EAS) reaches the 100 TeV region of pp center of mass energies ( √ s ) that are well above the present accelerator ...
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Report on Tests and Measurements of Hadronic Interaction Properties with Air Showers
... in extensive air showers, while others reported no ...leading air shower experiments to cover shower energies from PeV to tens of ...simulated air showers for each of the six ...
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QGSJET-II: physics, recent improvements, and results for air showers
... Abstract. Modeling of high energy hadronic and nuclear interactions by the QGSJET-II generator is discussed. Recent updates related to the treatment of nonlinear effects in the interaction dynamics and to the model cali- ...
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New technique and results of cosmic ray investigations in the energy interval 1015–1019 eV
... studying extensive air showers that is based on measuring spectra of the local muon density at various zenith angles makes it possible to obtain information about the properties of the flux and ...
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Depth of maximum of air-shower profiles: testing the compatibility of measurements performed at the Pierre Auger Observatory and the Telescope Array experiment
... The activities of the mass composition working group in the recent years have been focused on the comparison of the Auger and TA data on the depth of the maximum of the extensive air showers measured ...
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Simulation of Cosmic Ray MUON Charge Ratio at Energies Up To 10 Tev Using EPOS LHC
... of extensive air showers initiated by high energy cosmic ray ...of extensive air showers by CORSIKA achieves a full 3 dimensional simulation program for particles interacting and ...
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Hadronic Interactions and Air Showers: Where Do We Stand?
... detailed air shower simulations. COR- SIKA is one of the most commonly used air shower Monte Carlo ...precise air shower and LHC measurements introduced new ...on air shower predictions are ...
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Investigating cosmic rays and air shower physics with IceCube/IceTop
... Since these simulations carry uncertainties themselves, they have to be tested in experiments. This requires both dedicated analyses of data from collider experiments which measure particles going into the forward direc- ...
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Search for neutrino generated air shower candidates with energy ≥ 1019 eV and Zenith angle θ
... through the thickness of two atmospheres, and these particles are most likely high-energy muons. They arrive at sea level in a compact group, which forms a single and sufficiently narrow pulse. As can be seen, there is a ...
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Multi-wavelength observation of cosmic-ray air-showers with CODALEMA/EXTASIS
... tensive air shower in the range [20-200] ...that extensive air shower emit a strong electric field in this band and that there is evidence of a large increase in the amplitude of the radio pulse at ...
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