Showing papers in "Astroparticle Physics in 2016"
TL;DR: In this paper, the MAGIC-I camera and its trigger system were replaced with a new one for low and medium zenith angles to assess the key performance parameters of MAGIC stereo system for point-like sources with Crab Nebula-like spectrum.
421 citations
TL;DR: The MAGIC telescopes as mentioned in this paper are two Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) located on the Canary island of La Palma, Spain, which are designed to measure Cherennikov light from air showers initiated by gamma rays in the energy regime from around 50GeV to more than 50TeV.
210 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the DEAP-1 low-background liquid argon detector was used to measure scintillation pulse shapes of electron and nuclear recoil events and to demonstrate the feasibility of pulse-shape discrimination (PSD) down to an electron-equivalent energy of 20 keV.
105 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a large cylindrical crystalline element (with a size of circle divide 40 x 40 mm) was used to fabricate a scintillating bolometer for low-counting experiment to search for neutrinoless double beta decay of Mo-100.
105 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the Galactic latitude distribution of IceCube astrophysical neutrino events with energies above 100 TeV is inconsistent with the isotropic model of the astrophysical NE flux.
91 citations
TL;DR: In this article, an analysis of the energetic photon data of the gamma-ray bursts observed by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (FGST) revealed a surprising regularity of the observed time lags between photons of different energies with respect to the Lorentz violation factor due to the light speed energy dependence.
88 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the physics of the Diffuse Supernova Neutrino flux (or Background, DSNB) were discussed in the context of future searches at the next generation of neutrino observatories.
86 citations
TL;DR: The General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) is a novel approach for indirect dark matter searches that exploits cosmic antiparticles, especially antideuterons as mentioned in this paper, which is proposed to fly from Antarctica in the austral summer of 2019-2020.
79 citations
TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that high-energy astrophysical neutrinos observed in the IceCube experiment can be produced by protons accelerated in extragalactic Type IIn supernova remnants by shocks propagating in the dense circumstellar medium.
71 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a real-time supernova neutrino burst monitor at Super-Kamiokande (SK) is proposed to detect supernova explosions by neutrinos in real time for giving a clear picture of the explosion mechanism.
71 citations
University of Utah1, Saitama University2, Tokyo Institute of Technology3, Hanyang University4, Tokyo University of Science5, Kindai University6, Yonsei University7, University of Chicago8, University of Tokyo9, Osaka City University10, Kanagawa University11, University of Yamanashi12, Tokyo City University13, Waseda University14, Chiba University15, Kōchi University16, Ritsumeikan University17, Kyushu University18, Chubu University19, Sungkyunkwan University20, Moscow State University21, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology22, Rutgers University23, Hiroshima City University24, Université libre de Bruxelles25, Shinshu University26, National Institute of Radiological Sciences27, Ewha Womans University28, Ehime University29
TL;DR: The Telescope Array (TA) experiment is the largest detector to observe ultra-high-energy cosmic rays in the northern hemisphere as mentioned in this paper, which has now completed seven years of steady operation.
University of Hawaii at Manoa1, Max Planck Society2, California Institute of Technology3, University of California, Los Angeles4, University of Santiago de Compostela5, Washington University in St. Louis6, California Polytechnic State University7, Ohio State University8, University of California, Irvine9, University of Kansas10, National Research Nuclear University MEPhI11, National Taiwan University12, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory13, University of Delaware14, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology15, University College London16, University of Chicago17, University of Minnesota18
TL;DR: The first flight of the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) experiment recorded 16 radio signals that were emitted by cosmic-ray induced air showers in this paper.
TL;DR: In this paper, the multiplicity spectrum of TeV muons in cosmic ray air showers for primaries in the energy range from the knee to the ankle is derived and found to be consistent with recent results from surface detectors.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the cosmogenic production rates in some materials that are commonly used as targets and shielding/supporting components for detecting rare events, and demonstrate that the production rates from the Geant4-based simulations agree with the available data reasonably well.
TL;DR: In this article, the lateral distribution function (LDF) of the radio signal emitted by cosmic ray air-showers with primary energies E pr > 0.1 EeV and its connection to airshower parameters such as energy and X max were investigated.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the final few seconds of BH evaporation, using the Standard Model and incorporating the most recent Large Hadron Collider (LHC) results, and provided a new parameterization for the instantaneous emission spectrum.
Washington University in St. Louis1, California Institute of Technology2, Rice University3, Georgia College & State University4, North-West University5, Technical University of Denmark6, Yale University7, University of Virginia8, Durham University9, North Carolina State University10, University of Cambridge11, Pennsylvania State University12, University of California, Berkeley13, Purdue University14, Texas Tech University15, Nagoya University16, University of Maryland, College Park17, University of Michigan18, Harvard University19, University of Arizona20, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory21, Goddard Space Flight Center22, Tohoku University23
TL;DR: The Polarization Spectroscopic Telescope Array (PolSTAR) as discussed by the authors is a mission proposed to NASA's 2014 Small Explorer (SMEX) announcement of opportunity, which measures the linear polarization of 3-50 keV X-rays probing the behavior of matter, radiation and the very fabric of spacetime under the extreme conditions close to the event horizons of black holes, as well as in and around magnetars and neutron stars.
TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of these restrictions on the source properties, such as evolution and distribution of sources, their energy spectrum and admixture of nuclei, was studied, and the sensitivity of restrictions to various Fermi LAT galactic foreground models (model B being less restrictive), to the choice of extragalactic background light model and to overall normalization of the energy spectrum.
TL;DR: In this paper, the spectral energy distribution of a 13-day blazar-neutrino flare in 2010 with unprecedented multi-wavelength coverage was modeled and a correlation between the neutrino and photon fluxes was found.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used Cluster four spacecraft data in the solar wind at 1 AU to estimate the mass upper limit for the photon, and showed that the upper bound for mγ lies between 1.4 × 10 − 49 and 3.4× 10 − 51 ǫ kg.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared LOPES measurements of air-shower radio emission with CoREAS 3.11 simulations, and showed that the current state of knowledge on the radio emission of air showers is in agreement with experimental data.
TL;DR: In this paper, a novel approach for observing cosmic rays at ultra-high energy (>1018 eV) was proposed by repurposing the existing network of smartphones as a ground detector array.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the effect of non-standard interactions of neutrinos with the Earth matter on the detected flavor content of ultra high-energy astrophysical neutrino.
TL;DR: In this paper, the neutrino flux propagation in the extragalactic medium and also through the galactic halo of dark matter is analyzed using transport equations that account for regeneration and absorption of neutrinos.
TL;DR: The High Energy cosmic-Radiation Detection (HERD) is the high energy cosmic-radiation detection instrument proposed to operate onboard China's space station in the 2020s as mentioned in this paper.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a concept for large-area, low-cost detection of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) with a Fluorescence detector Array of Single-pixel Telescopes (FAST), addressing the requirements for the next generation of UHECR experiments.
TL;DR: In this article, a measurement of thermal neutrons, generated by the hadronic component of extensive air showers (EAS), by means of a small array of EN-detectors developed for the PRISMA project (PRImary Spectrum Measurement Array), novel devices based on a compound alloy of ZnS(Ag) and 6 LiF.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a comprehensive calculation of the secondary hadron, lepton, gamma-ray and neutrino yields produced by the inelastic interactions between several species of stable or long-lived cosmic rays projectiles (p, D, T, 3He, 4He, 6Li, 7Li, 9Be, 10Be, 11B, 12C, 14N, 16O, 20Ne, 24Mg, 28Si and 40Ar).
TL;DR: In this article, the authors considered the S2 star orbital precession around the massive compact dark object at the Galactic Center where the simulated orbits in hybrid modified gravity are compared with astronomical observations.
TL;DR: In this paper, the radio emission from high-energy cosmic-ray induced air showers hitting Earth's surface before the cascade has died out in the atmosphere is discussed, which gives rise to a radio signal which should be detectable in the currently operating Askaryan radio detectors built to search for the GZK neutrino flux in ice.