TY - BOOK ID - 7838459 TI - Extensive Air Showers : High Energy Phenomena and Astrophysical Aspects - A Tutorial, Reference Manual and Data Book PY - 2010 SN - 3642427758 3540769404 9786613054449 3540769412 1283054442 PB - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Cosmic rays. KW - Physics KW - Physical Sciences & Mathematics KW - Nuclear Physics KW - Light & Optics KW - Cosmic ray showers. KW - Astrophysics. KW - Astronomical physics KW - Auger showers KW - Cosmic showers KW - EAS (Cosmic rays) KW - Extensive air showers KW - Showers, Auger KW - Showers, Cosmic KW - Showers, Extensive air KW - Physics. KW - Space sciences. KW - Nuclear physics. KW - Particle and Nuclear Physics. KW - Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences. KW - Astrophysics and Astroparticles. KW - Astronomy KW - Cosmic physics KW - Cosmic rays KW - Pair production KW - Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics). KW - Science and space KW - Space research KW - Cosmology KW - Science KW - Atomic nuclei KW - Atoms, Nuclei of KW - Nucleus of the atom UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7838459 AB - Extensive air showers are a very unique phenomenon. In the more than six decades since their discovery by Auger et al. we have learned a great deal about these extremely energetic events and gained deep insights into high-energy phenomena, particle physics and astrophysics. In this Tutorial, Reference Manual and Data Book Peter K. F. Grieder provides the reader with a comprehensive view of the phenomenology and facts of the various types of interactions and cascades, theoretical background, experimental methods, data evaluation and interpretation, and air shower simulation. He discusses astrophysical aspects of the primary radiation and addresses the questions that continue to puzzle researchers. The book is divided into two parts, each in its own separate volume: Part I in Volume I deals mainly with the basic theoretical framework of the processes that determine an air shower and ends with a summary of ways to extract information on the primary radiation from air shower observations. It also presents a compilation of data representing our current knowledge of the high-energy portion of the primary spectrum and composition. Part II in Volume II mainly contains compilations of experimental and theoretical data, as well as predictions from simulations of individual air shower constituents. Also included are chapters dedicated exclusively to special processes and detection methods: optical atmospheric Cherenkov and fluorescence phenomena that represent special observational windows and have proven to be successful alternatives to particle measurements, yielding three-dimensional insights into the shower process, as well as radio emission, which may develop into a useful future method of detection. ER -