J 2022

A Search for Cosmic Ray Bursts at 0.1 PeV with a Small Air Shower Array

CLAY, Roger, Jassimar SINGH, Piotr HOMOLA, Bar OLAF, Dmitry BEZNOSKO et. al.

Basic information

Original name

A Search for Cosmic Ray Bursts at 0.1 PeV with a Small Air Shower Array

Authors

CLAY, Roger, Jassimar SINGH, Piotr HOMOLA, Bar OLAF, Dmitry BEZNOSKO, Apoorva BHATT, Gopal BHATTA, Lukasz BIBRZYCKI, Nikolay BUDNEV, David E ALVAREZ-CASTILLO, Niraj DHITAL, Alan R DUFFY, Michal FRONTCZAK, Dariusz GORA, Alok C GUPTA, Bartosz LOZOWSKI, Mikhail V MEDVEDEV, Justyna MEDRALA, Justyna MISZCZYK, Michal NIEDZWIECKI, Marcin PIEKARCZYK, Krzysztof RZECKI, Jilberto ZAMORA-SAA, Katarzyna SMELCERZ, Karel SMOLEK, Tomasz SOSNICKI, Jaroslaw STASIELAK, Slawomir STUGLIK, Oleksandr SUSHCHOV, Arman TURSUNOV (860 Uzbekistan, belonging to the institution) and Tadeusz WIBIG

Edition

SYMMETRY-BASEL, Švýcarsko, 2022, 2073-8994

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10308 Astronomy

Country of publisher

Switzerland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

URL

RIV identification code

RIV/47813059:19630/22:A0000198

Organization unit

Institute of physics in Opava

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/sym14030501

UT WoS

000774608500001

Keywords in English

cosmic rays; extensive air showers; time correlated events; CREDO collaboration

Tags

, RIV23

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 27/1/2023 08:56, Mgr. Pavlína Jalůvková

Abstract

V originále

The Cosmic Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory (CREDO) pursues a global research strategy dedicated to the search for correlated cosmic rays, so-called Cosmic Ray Ensembles (CRE). Its general approach to CRE detection does not involve any a priori considerations, and its search strategy encompasses both spatial and temporal correlations, on different scales. Here we search for time clustering of the cosmic ray events collected with a small sea-level extensive air shower array at the University of Adelaide. The array consists of seven one-square-metre scintillators enclosing an area of 10 m x 19 m. It has a threshold energy -0.1 PeV, and records cosmic ray showers at a rate of similar to 6 mHz. We have examined event arrival times over a period of over 2.5 years in two equipment configurations (without and with GPS timing), recording similar to 300 k events and similar to 100 k events. We determined the event time spacing distributions between individual events and the distributions of time periods which contained specific numbers of multiple events. We find that the overall time distributions are as expected for random events. The distribution which was chosen a priori for particular study was for time periods covering five events (four spacings). Overall, these distributions fit closely with expectation, but there are two outliers of short burst periods in data for each configuration. One of these outliers contains eight events within 48 s. The physical characteristics of the array will be discussed together with the analysis procedure, including a comparison between the observed time distributions and expectation based on randomly arriving events.
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