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Cosmic Rays - NJSF130
Title: Kosmické záření
Guaranteed by: Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics (32-UCJF)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2018
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 3
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech, English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Additional information: http://www-ucjf.troja.mff.cuni.cz/~nosek/Nosek_CR.html
Guarantor: doc. RNDr. Dalibor Nosek, Dr.
Annotation -
Last update: doc. RNDr. Dalibor Nosek, Dr. (22.04.2013)
Experimental facts on cosmic rays, ideas on their origin and their detection at the Earth. Properties of cosmic rays, phenomenology, origin, acceleration and propagation. Gamma rays in Universe. Detection techniques of cosmic rays, cosmic ray interaction with the Earth atmosphere, extended air showers.
Course completion requirements - Czech
Last update: doc. RNDr. Dalibor Nosek, Dr. (10.06.2019)

Ústní zkouška

Literature -
Last update: doc. RNDr. Dalibor Nosek, Dr. (16.04.2013)

C.Grupen, Astroparticle Physics, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005. Chapters 6 a 7.

D.H.Perkins, Particle Astrophysics, Oxford University Press, 2003, Chapter 6.

T.K.Gaisser, Cosmic Ray and Particle Physics, Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Requirements to the exam - Czech
Last update: doc. RNDr. Dalibor Nosek, Dr. (12.10.2017)

Ústní zkouška a diskuze nad domácími úkoly.

Syllabus -
Last update: doc. RNDr. Dalibor Nosek, Dr. (22.04.2013)

1. Cosmic ray energy spectrum, composition, anisotropy and arrival directions.

2. Possible sources, acceleration and propagation of cosmic rays.

3. Gamma rays in Universe. Cosmic neutrinos.

4. Techniques for cosmic ray, cosmic neutrinos and gamma ray detection, satellite detectors, ballon experiments, extended showers in the Earth atmosphere. Current cosmic ray detectors.

 
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