Invitation to the Cosmic Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory
Authors:
- Piotr Homola,
- David E. Alvarez Castillo,
- Kevin Almeida Cheminant,
- Dmitriy Beznosko,
- Nikolai Budnev,
- Dariusz Góra,
- Alok C. Gupta,
- Bohdan Hnatyk,
- Marcin Kasztelan,
- Peter Kovacs,
- Bartosz Łozowski,
- Mikhail V. Medvedev,
- Justyna Miszczyk,
- Alona Mozgova,
- Vahab Nazari,
- Michał Niedźwiecki,
- Maciej Pawlik,
- Matías Rosas,
- Krzysztof Rzecki,
- Katarzyna Smelcerz,
- Karel Smolek,
- Jarosław Stasielak,
- Sławomir Stuglik,
- Oleksandr Sushchov,
- Manana Svanidze,
- Arman Tursunov,
- Jose M. Vaquero,
- Yuri Verbetsky,
- Tadeusz Wibig,
- Krzysztof Woźniak,
- Jilberto Zamora-Saa
Abstract
Cosmic Ray Ensembles (CRE) are very large, yet not observed particle cascades initiated above the Earth atmosphere. Such cascades could be formed both within classical models (e.g. products of photon-photon interactions) and exotic scenarios (e.g. result of decay of Super Heavy Dark Matter particles and subsequent interactions). Some of CRE might have a significant spatial extent which could serve as a unique signature detectable with the existing cosmic ray infrastructure taken as a network of detectors. This signature would be composed of a number of air showers with parallel axes. An obvious, although yet not probed, CRE "detection horizon" can be located somewhere between an air shower induced by an CRE composed of tightly collimated particles (preshower effect), and undetectable CRE composed of particles spread so widely that only one of them have a chance to reach Earth. Probing the CRE horizon with a global approach to the cosmic ray data, as proposed by the newly formed Cosmic Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory (CREDO), defines an extensive scientific program oriented on the search for physics manifestations at largest energies known, with potential impact on ultra-high energy astrophysics, the physics of fundamental particle interactions and cosmology. In this talk the current status and perspectives of CREDO will be summarized, with an open invitation for the colleagues interested in a global approach to cosmic ray studies, and in particular in observing and investigating multi-primary cosmic ray events such as CRE.
- Record ID
- CUT034e8a850e6843719b536b424adf8f8c
- Publication categories
- ; ;
- Author
- Journal series
- PoS - Proceedings of Science, ISSN 1824-8039, Irregular
- Issue year
- 2022
- Vol
- 395
- Pages
- [1-9]
- Article number
- PoS(ICRC2021)942
- Other elements of collation
- fot.; rys.; Bibliografia (na s.) - 7-8; Bibliografia (liczba pozycji) - 18; Oznaczenie streszczenia - Streszcz. ang.; Numeracja w czasopiśmie - Vol. 395
- Conference
- 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2021), 2021, 12-07-2021 - 23-07-2021, Online, Niemcy
- Keywords in English
- Cosmic Ray Ensembles, Cosmic Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory
- DOI
- DOI:10.22323/1.395.0942 Opening in a new tab
- URL
- https://pos.sissa.it/395/942 Opening in a new tab
- Language
- eng (en) English
- License
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- 5
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- Uniform Resource Identifier
- https://cris.pk.edu.pl/info/article/CUT034e8a850e6843719b536b424adf8f8c/
- URN
urn:pkr-prod:CUT034e8a850e6843719b536b424adf8f8c
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