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Cosmic Ray Astronomy

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Observatories for cosmic rays are ground based or space based. As discussed for gamma rays, the low energy side is the domain of balloon borne or space based observatories, that show close similarities with the instrumentation at colliders. Due to the decreasing rates with increasing energy, cosmic rays at higher energies are measured with ground based arrays consisting of a large number of detectors distributed over extended areas, the Extensive Air Shower arrays.

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    http://www.cosmic-ray.org/.

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    Rosa Poggiani

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Poggiani, R. (2017). Cosmic Ray Astronomy. In: High Energy Astrophysical Techniques. UNITEXT for Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44729-2_13

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