We are all the Cosmic-Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory
Authors:
- N. Dhital,
- P. Homola,
- J. Jarvis,
- P. Poznański,
- K. Almeida Cheminant,
- Ł. Bratek,
- T. Bretz,
- D. Gora,
- P. Jagoda,
- J. Jałocha,
- K. Kopański,
- D. Lemański,
- M. Magryś,
- V. Nazari,
- J. Niedzwiedzki,
- M. Nocuń,
- W. Noga,
- A. Ozieblo,
- K. Smelcerz,
- K. Smolek,
- J. Stasielak,
- S. Stuglik,
- M. Sułek,
- O. Sushchov,
- J. Zamora-Saa
Abstract
The Cosmic-Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory (CREDO) is an infrastructure for global analysis of extremely extended cosmic-ray phenomena, so-called super-preshowers, beyond the capabilities of existing, discrete, detectors and observatories. To date cosmic-ray research has been focused on detecting single air showers, while the search for ensembles of cosmic-ray events induced by super-preshowers is a scientific terra incognita - CREDO explores this uncharted realm. Positive detection of super-preshowers would have an impact on ultra-high energy astrophysics, cosmology and the physics of fundamental particle interactions as they can theoretically be formed within both classical (photon-photon interactions) and exotic (Super Heavy Dark Matter particle decay and interaction) scenarios. Some super-preshowers are predicted to have a significant spatial extent - a unique signature only detectable with the existing cosmic-ray infrastructure taken as a global network. An obvious, although yet unprobed, super-preshower 'detection limit' would be located somewhere between an air shower, induced by a super-preshower composed of tightly collimated particles, and a super-preshower composed of particles spread so widely that only few of them can reach the Earth. CREDO will probe this detection limit, leading to either an observation of an as yet unseen physical phenomenon, or the setting upper limits to the existence of large extraterrestrial cascades which would constrain fundamental physics models. While CREDO’s focus is on testing physics at energies close to the Grand Unified Theories range, the broader phenomena are expected to be composed of particles with energies ranging from GeV to ZeV. This motivates our advertising of this concept across the astroparticle physics community.
- Record ID
- CUTa6757d225036435dbe05ef8b28395d8c
- Publication categories
- ; ;
- Author
- Journal series
- PoS - Proceedings of Science, ISSN 1824-8039, Irregular
- Issue year
- 2018
- Vol
- 301
- Pages
- [1-8]
- Article number
- PoS(ICRC2017)1078
- Other elements of collation
- il. (w tym kolor.); Bibliografia (na s.) - 7-8; Bibliografia (liczba pozycji) - 30; Oznaczenie streszczenia - Streszcz. ang.; Data udostępnienia on-line - 2017-08-16; Numeracja w czasopiśmie - Vol. 301
- Substantive notes
- Autorzy wg informacji na publikacji: Full author list and acknowledgments: http://credo.science, ścieżka dostępu: strona główna CREDO/publications, bezpośredni dostęp do pliku: https://credo.science/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/We_Are_All_CREDO.pdf
- Conference
- 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference : The Astroparticle Physis Conference (ICRC2017), 2017, 10-07-2017 - 20-07-2017, Bexco, Busan, Korea Południowa
- Keywords in English
- cosmic rays, dark matter
- DOI
- DOI:10.22323/1.301.1078 Opening in a new tab
- URL
- https://pos.sissa.it/301/ Opening in a new tab
- Language
- eng (en) English
- License
- Score (nominal)
- 15
- Additional fields
- Indeksowana w: Scopus
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- https://cris.pk.edu.pl/info/article/CUTa6757d225036435dbe05ef8b28395d8c/
- URN
urn:pkr-prod:CUTa6757d225036435dbe05ef8b28395d8c
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