Download or read book A Search for Point Sources of Cosmic Gamma Rays at Energies Greater Than 40 TeV written by Gerard H. Gillanders and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Search for Gamma Radiation Above 24 TeV Energy from Cosmic Point Sources written by Max-Planck-Institut für Physik and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A search for gamma radiation above 24 TeV energy from cosmic point sources written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 300 Gev Observations of Unidentified Egret Sources a Search for TeV Counterparts to Batse Gamma Ray Bursts written by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-02 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are few things more intriguing in high energy astrophysics than the study of the highest energy particles in the universe. Where and how these particles achieve their extreme energies is of interest not only to the astrophysicist but also to the particle physicist. At GeV and TeV energies the problem is manageable since the physics is known and the acceleration processes feasible. But the energy spectrum extends to 10(exp 20)Ev and there the problem of their origin is both more difficult and interesting; in fact at these high energies we do not even know what the particles are. The study of the origin and distribution of relativistic particles in the universe has been a challenge for more than 80 years but it is only in recent years that the technology has become available to really address the question. Although something can be learned from studies of composition and energy spectrum, the origins (and thence the acceleration mechanisms) can only come from the direct study of the neutral particle component (in this respect the highest energy particles are effectively neutral since they are virtually undeflected). The feasible channels of investigation are therefore the study of the arrival directions of: (1) TeV photons (covered by the following U.S. experiments: STACEE, Whipple/VERITAS, MILAGRO and, to some extent, by EGRET/GLAST); (2) neutrinos of TeV energy and above (AMANDA/KM3); (3) the highest energy cosmic rays (HiRes, Auger). While these studies represent a form of astronomy they are the astronomy of the extraordinary universe, the universe populated by the most dynamic and physically exciting objects, the universe of the high energy astrophysicist whose cosmic laboratories represent conditions beyond anything that can be duplicated in a terrestrial laboratory. This extraordinary astronomy may say little about the normal evolution of stars and galaxies but it opens windows into cosmic particle acceleration where new and strange physical processes take ...
Download or read book Gamma ray Large Area Space Telescope written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Search for PeV Gamma Rays with the IceCube Observatory written by Zachary Dean Griffith and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last several decades, a wealth of observations of gamma-ray emission at TeV energies has increased our understanding of the extreme physical processes happening in our Galaxy. However, fundamental questions remain unanswered. To how high an energy are cosmic rays able to be accelerated in our galaxy, and how does that connect with the features observed in the cosmic-ray energy spectrum such as the "knee'', the "second knee'', and the "ankle''? Answers to these questions can be searched for by extending gamma-ray observations to higher energies. As the only experiment sensitive to PeV gamma rays in the Southern Hemisphere, the IceCube observatory can address these issues from a unique perspective. In this work, gamma-ray candidate events are selected from data observed by the surface and in-ice arrays of the IceCube observatory. This is accomplished by leveraging characteristic properties of gamma-ray induced air showers such as low muonic content and a deep shower maximum. Using five years of data, several searches for gamma-ray emission using unbinned likelihood methods are presented. The results of all searches are consistent with background, resulting in 90% flux upper limits that are the most stringent ever placed on PeV emission. The limits set on PeV gamma-ray point sources constrain, for the first time, the energy extension of a power-law flux for sources observed by HESS to have no break in their energy spectrum at TeV energies. Additionally, the resulting limit set by a search for an angular-integrated diffuse flux from the Galactic plane provides an upper bound useful for constructing Galactic cosmic-ray transport models
Download or read book Gamma Rays in the 100 TeV Region from Potential Galactic PeVatron Candidates written by Sei Kato and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of Particle Detection and Imaging written by Claus Grupen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-01-08 with total page 1251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The handbook centers on detection techniques in the field of particle physics, medical imaging and related subjects. It is structured into three parts. The first one is dealing with basic ideas of particle detectors, followed by applications of these devices in high energy physics and other fields. In the last part the large field of medical imaging using similar detection techniques is described. The different chapters of the book are written by world experts in their field. Clear instructions on the detection techniques and principles in terms of relevant operation parameters for scientists and graduate students are given.Detailed tables and diagrams will make this a very useful handbook for the application of these techniques in many different fields like physics, medicine, biology and other areas of natural science.
Download or read book A Search for Gamma rays from the Crab Nebula Using a Digitized Spark Chamber written by Donald Avery Kniffen and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Discovery of Localized Tev Gamma ray Sources and Diffuse Tev Gamma ray Emission written by Aous Abdo and published by . This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Very high energy gamma-rays can be used to probe some of the most violent environments in the Universe, such as supernovae and supernovae remnants, pulsar-powered nebulae, and superluminal jets of active galaxies powered by super-massive black holes. The diffuse gamma radiation arising from the interaction of cosmic-ray particles with matter and radiation in the Galaxy is one of the few probes available to study the origin of cosmic-rays, whose origin is still a mystery a century after their discovery. Unlike charged cosmic-ray particles, gamma-ray photons are not bent in galactic and extra-galactic magnetic fields. They are also less easily absorbed by gas and dust in galaxies than light of longer wavelengths. Since there are very few of these photons, detection is done using ground instruments with large sensitive area. The main challenge for such instruments is to distinguish gamma-ray photons from the overwhelming background of hadronic cosmic rays. In this book, a new background rejection technique for the Milagro detector is presented. This new technique resulted in the discovery of three new VHE gamma-ray sources along with diffuse emission of VHE gamma-rays from the Galaxy.
Download or read book Cosmic Gamma Rays Neutrinos and Related Astrophysics written by M.M. Shapiro and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-05-31 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Erice, Sicily, Italy, April 20-30, 1988
Download or read book Search for Discrete Sources of High Energy Cosmic Gamma Rays written by H. Ögelman and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Observation of Gamma ray Point sources with Energy Greater Than 40 GeV Along the Galactic Plane by Airborne Experiment written by R. Enomoto and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chants de France et de chr tient written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ultra High Energy Gamma Ray Point Sources and Cosmic Ray Anisotropy written by Lilian Joan Graham and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Search for Gamma Ray Emission from the Region of the Galactic Center written by Glen Hamilton Dahlbacka and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cosmic Rays at Earth written by P.K.F. Grieder and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2001-07-27 with total page 1117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1912 Victor Franz Hess made the revolutionary discovery that ionizing radiation is incident upon the Earth from outer space. He showed with ground-based and balloon-borne detectors that the intensity of the radiation did not change significantly between day and night. Consequently, the sun could not be regarded as the sources of this radiation and the question of its origin remained unanswered. Today, almost one hundred years later the question of the origin of the cosmic radiation still remains a mystery.Hess' discovery has given an enormous impetus to large areas of science, in particular to physics, and has played a major role in the formation of our current understanding of universal evolution. For example, the development of new fields of research such as elementary particle physics, modern astrophysics and cosmology are direct consequences of this discovery. Over the years the field of cosmic ray research has evolved in various directions: Firstly, the field of particle physics that was initiated by the discovery of many so-called elementary particles in the cosmic radiation. There is a strong trend from the accelerator physics community to reenter the field of cosmic ray physics, now under the name of astroparticle physics. Secondly, an important branch of cosmic ray physics that has rapidly evolved in conjunction with space exploration concerns the low energy portion of the cosmic ray spectrum. Thirdly, the branch of research that is concerned with the origin, acceleration and propagation of the cosmic radiation represents a great challenge for astrophysics, astronomy and cosmology. Presently very popular fields of research have rapidly evolved, such as high-energy gamma ray and neutrino astronomy. In addition, high-energy neutrino astronomy may soon initiate as a likely spin-off neutrino tomography of the Earth and thus open a unique new branch of geophysical research of the interior of the Earth. Finally, of considerable interest are the biological and medical aspects of the cosmic radiation because of it ionizing character and the inevitable irradiation to which we are exposed. This book is a reference manual for researchers and students of cosmic ray physics and associated fields and phenomena. It is not intended to be a tutorial. However, the book contains an adequate amount of background materials that its content should be useful to a broad community of scientists and professionals. The present book contains chiefly a data collection in compact form that covers the cosmic radiation in the vicinity of the Earth, in the Earth's atmosphere, at sea level and underground. Included are predominantly experimental but also theoretical data. In addition the book contains related data, definitions and important relations. The aim of this book is to offer the reader in a single volume a readily available comprehensive set of data that will save him the need of frequent time consuming literature searches.
