Extensive Air Showers High Energy Phenomena and Astrophysical Aspects A Tutorial, Reference Manual and Data Book /

• Main Author: Grieder, Peter K.F (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Edition: 1.
• Subjects: Physics.; Astrophysics.; Space sciences.; Nuclear physics.; Particle and Nuclear Physics.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.

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, Referen...

Table of Contents:

• I
• Introduction, Facts and Phenomenology
• Shower Detection Methods and Basic Event Reconstruction
• Hadronic Interactions and Cascades
• Electromagnetic Interactions and Photon–Electron Cascades
• Muon and Neutrino Interactions
• Longitudinal Development and Equal Intensity Distributions
• Depth of Shower Maximum and Elongation Rate
• Lateral Structure of Showers and Energy Flow
• Temporal Structure of Showers and Front Curvature
• Derived Shower and Interaction Parameters, Refined Event Reconstruction
• Primary Cosmic Radiation and Astrophysical Aspects
• II
• Common Shower Properties, Observables and Data
• Hadrons
• Muons
• Electrons and Photons
• Atmospheric Cherenkov Radiation
• Atmospheric Fluorescence
• Radio Emission and Detection
• Correlations and Miscellaneous Topics
• Air Shower Simulations
• Definitions and Relations
• Experimental Installations.