Ebook: Extensive Air Showers: High Energy Phenomena and Astrophysical Aspects A Tutorial, Reference Manual and Data Book
- Tags: Particle and Nuclear Physics, Extraterrestrial Physics Space Sciences, Astrophysics and Astroparticles
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Extensive air showers are a very unique phenomenon. In the more than six decades since their discovery by Auger et al. we have learned a great deal about these extremely energetic events and gained deep insights into high-energy phenomena, particle physics and astrophysics.
In this Tutorial, Reference Manual and Data Book Peter K. F. Grieder provides the reader with a comprehensive view of the phenomenology and facts of the various types of interactions and cascades, theoretical background, experimental methods, data evaluation and interpretation, and air shower simulation. He discusses astrophysical aspects of the primary radiation and addresses the questions that continue to puzzle researchers.
The book is divided into two parts, each in its own separate volume:
- Part I in Volume I deals mainly with the basic theoretical framework of the processes that determine an air shower and ends with a summary of ways to extract information on the primary radiation from air shower observations. It also presents a compilation of data representing our current knowledge of the high-energy portion of the primary spectrum and composition.
- Part II in Volume II mainly contains compilations of experimental and theoretical data, as well as predictions from simulations of individual air shower constituents. Also included are chapters dedicated exclusively to special processes and detection methods: optical atmospheric Cherenkov and fluorescence phenomena that represent special observational windows and have proven to be successful alternatives to particle measurements, yielding three-dimensional insights into the shower process, as well as radio emission, which may develop into a useful future method of detection.
Extensive air showers are a very unique phenomenon. In the more than six decades since their discovery by Auger et al. we have learned a great deal about these extremely energetic events and gained deep insights into high-energy phenomena, particle physics and astrophysics.
In this Tutorial, Reference Manual and Data Book Peter K. F. Grieder provides the reader with a comprehensive view of the phenomenology and facts of the various types of interactions and cascades, theoretical background, experimental methods, data evaluation and interpretation, and air shower simulation. He discusses astrophysical aspects of the primary radiation and addresses the questions that continue to puzzle researchers.
The book is divided into two parts, each in its own separate volume:
- Part I in Volume I deals mainly with the basic theoretical framework of the processes that determine an air shower and ends with a summary of ways to extract information on the primary radiation from air shower observations. It also presents a compilation of data representing our current knowledge of the high-energy portion of the primary spectrum and composition.
- Part II in Volume II mainly contains compilations of experimental and theoretical data, as well as predictions from simulations of individual air shower constituents. Also included are chapters dedicated exclusively to special processes and detection methods: optical atmospheric Cherenkov and fluorescence phenomena that represent special observational windows and have proven to be successful alternatives to particle measurements, yielding three-dimensional insights into the shower process, as well as radio emission, which may develop into a useful future method of detection.
Extensive air showers are a very unique phenomenon. In the more than six decades since their discovery by Auger et al. we have learned a great deal about these extremely energetic events and gained deep insights into high-energy phenomena, particle physics and astrophysics.
In this Tutorial, Reference Manual and Data Book Peter K. F. Grieder provides the reader with a comprehensive view of the phenomenology and facts of the various types of interactions and cascades, theoretical background, experimental methods, data evaluation and interpretation, and air shower simulation. He discusses astrophysical aspects of the primary radiation and addresses the questions that continue to puzzle researchers.
The book is divided into two parts, each in its own separate volume:
- Part I in Volume I deals mainly with the basic theoretical framework of the processes that determine an air shower and ends with a summary of ways to extract information on the primary radiation from air shower observations. It also presents a compilation of data representing our current knowledge of the high-energy portion of the primary spectrum and composition.
- Part II in Volume II mainly contains compilations of experimental and theoretical data, as well as predictions from simulations of individual air shower constituents. Also included are chapters dedicated exclusively to special processes and detection methods: optical atmospheric Cherenkov and fluorescence phenomena that represent special observational windows and have proven to be successful alternatives to particle measurements, yielding three-dimensional insights into the shower process, as well as radio emission, which may develop into a useful future method of detection.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-LIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction, Facts and Phenomenology....Pages 3-32
Shower Detection Methods and Basic Event Reconstruction....Pages 33-76
Hadronic Interactions and Cascades....Pages 77-146
Electromagnetic Interactions and Photon–Electron Cascades....Pages 147-203
Muon and Neutrino Interactions....Pages 205-236
Longitudinal Development and Equal Intensity Distributions....Pages 237-302
Depth of Shower Maximum and Elongation Rate....Pages 303-358
Lateral Structure of Showers and Energy Flow....Pages 359-397
Temporal Structure of Showers and Front Curvature....Pages 399-418
Derived Shower and Interaction Parameters, Refined Event Reconstruction....Pages 419-477
Primary Cosmic Radiation and Astrophysical Aspects....Pages 479-588
Front Matter....Pages 611-611
Common Shower Properties, Observables and Data....Pages 613-682
Hadrons....Pages 683-739
Muons....Pages 741-802
Electrons and Photons....Pages 803-834
Atmospheric Cherenkov Radiation....Pages 835-878
Atmospheric Fluorescence....Pages 879-912
Radio Emission and Detection....Pages 913-948
Correlations and Miscellaneous Topics....Pages 949-987
Air Shower Simulations....Pages 989-1007
Back Matter....Pages 1035-1114
Definitions and Relations....Pages 1009-1034
Experimental Installations....Pages 1035-1091
Extensive air showers are a very unique phenomenon. In the more than six decades since their discovery by Auger et al. we have learned a great deal about these extremely energetic events and gained deep insights into high-energy phenomena, particle physics and astrophysics.
In this Tutorial, Reference Manual and Data Book Peter K. F. Grieder provides the reader with a comprehensive view of the phenomenology and facts of the various types of interactions and cascades, theoretical background, experimental methods, data evaluation and interpretation, and air shower simulation. He discusses astrophysical aspects of the primary radiation and addresses the questions that continue to puzzle researchers.
The book is divided into two parts, each in its own separate volume:
- Part I in Volume I deals mainly with the basic theoretical framework of the processes that determine an air shower and ends with a summary of ways to extract information on the primary radiation from air shower observations. It also presents a compilation of data representing our current knowledge of the high-energy portion of the primary spectrum and composition.
- Part II in Volume II mainly contains compilations of experimental and theoretical data, as well as predictions from simulations of individual air shower constituents. Also included are chapters dedicated exclusively to special processes and detection methods: optical atmospheric Cherenkov and fluorescence phenomena that represent special observational windows and have proven to be successful alternatives to particle measurements, yielding three-dimensional insights into the shower process, as well as radio emission, which may develop into a useful future method of detection.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-LIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction, Facts and Phenomenology....Pages 3-32
Shower Detection Methods and Basic Event Reconstruction....Pages 33-76
Hadronic Interactions and Cascades....Pages 77-146
Electromagnetic Interactions and Photon–Electron Cascades....Pages 147-203
Muon and Neutrino Interactions....Pages 205-236
Longitudinal Development and Equal Intensity Distributions....Pages 237-302
Depth of Shower Maximum and Elongation Rate....Pages 303-358
Lateral Structure of Showers and Energy Flow....Pages 359-397
Temporal Structure of Showers and Front Curvature....Pages 399-418
Derived Shower and Interaction Parameters, Refined Event Reconstruction....Pages 419-477
Primary Cosmic Radiation and Astrophysical Aspects....Pages 479-588
Front Matter....Pages 611-611
Common Shower Properties, Observables and Data....Pages 613-682
Hadrons....Pages 683-739
Muons....Pages 741-802
Electrons and Photons....Pages 803-834
Atmospheric Cherenkov Radiation....Pages 835-878
Atmospheric Fluorescence....Pages 879-912
Radio Emission and Detection....Pages 913-948
Correlations and Miscellaneous Topics....Pages 949-987
Air Shower Simulations....Pages 989-1007
Back Matter....Pages 1035-1114
Definitions and Relations....Pages 1009-1034
Experimental Installations....Pages 1035-1091
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