Overview
- Third updated edition of a successful book used for study and reference of cosmic ray astrophysics
- Covers the very latest topics in cosmic ray research, including high energy neutrino and gamma-ray astronomy
- Allows the understanding of theoretical models and experimental results without working through the mathematics
Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library (ASSL, volume 462)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Standard Model of Cosmic Rays
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Front Matter
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Contemporary Challenges
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book on high-energy cosmic rays deals in its first part with the standard model of cosmic rays, describing how they are born in a wide range of cosmic processes, how they are accelerated and how they interact with matter, magnetic fields and radiation during their journey across the Galaxy. In its second part the book presents contemporary challenges in very high energy cosmic rays, with focus on their detection in the Earth’s atmosphere and underground, as well as new developments in gamma-ray and neutrino astronomy.
A decade after the publication of the second edition of this book, there are many new experimental results in the fields of high energy neutrino astronomy and in the whole energy range of detection of gamma-rays. There have also been many attempts for studies for multi-messenger events in these and all other fields. These new experimental efforts and their results are covered in this third edition. This is accompanied by a general analysis of these new results and the additional knowledge that they bring to our understanding of cosmic rays and their propagation in our Galaxy and extragalactic space.
A large part of the interpretation of these new findings is related to the development of the hadronic interaction models that we use to understand and describe the experimental results. The author describes the relation between the new high energy physics experiments and such models.
Students and lecturers of advanced undergraduate courses on cosmic rays and astroparticle physics as well as post-graduates and researchers will continue tofind this book a valuable source of learning and reference.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Todor Stanev is professor for astrophysics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware. He is a member of the IceCube neutrino observatory collaboration.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: High Energy Cosmic Rays
Authors: Todor Stanev
Series Title: Astrophysics and Space Science Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71567-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71566-3Published: 02 June 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71569-4Published: 03 June 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-71567-0Published: 01 June 2021
Series ISSN: 0067-0057
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7985
Edition Number: 3
Number of Pages: XVI, 342
Number of Illustrations: 142 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour
Topics: Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics), Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory