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most citedMeasurements of the Higgs boson production and decay rates and constraints on its couplings from a combined ATLAS and CMS analysis of the LHC collision data at 7 and 8 TeV

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astro-ph.IM2020★ 2 cited

Investigation of energy spectrum and chemical composition of primary cosmic rays in 1-100 PeV energy range with a UAV-borne installation

D. Chernov, E. Bonvech, M. Finger +5

A new project is developed with the implementation of a relatively new method of studying the primary cosmic ray -- the registration of extensive air showers' optical Vavilov-Chere…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 33 cited

Design and construction of a new detector to measure ultra-low radioactive-isotope contamination of argon

The DarkSide Collaboration, C. E. Aalseth, S. Abdelhakim +328

Large liquid argon detectors offer one of the best avenues for the detection of galactic weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) via their scattering on atomic nuclei. The liq…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 11 cited

The SPHERE-2 detector for observation of extensive air showers in 1 PeV -- 1 EeV energy range

R. A. Antonov, E. A. Bonvech, D. V. Chernov +6

The SPHERE-2 balloon-borne detector designed for extensive air shower (EAS) observations using EAS optical Vavilov-Cherenkov radiation (``Cherenkov light''), reflected from the sno…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 4 cited

Measurement of the ion fraction and mobility of Po produced in Rn decays in liquid argon

P. Agnes, I. F. M. Albuquerque, T. Alexander +163

We report measurements of the charged daughter fraction of Po as a result of the Rn alpha decay, and the mobility of Po ions, using radon-polonium coinc…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 11 cited

Mini-EUSO data acquisition and control software

F. Capel, A. Belov, G. Cambiè +6

We present the data acquisition and control software for the operation of the Mini-Extreme Universe Space Observatory (EUSO), a space-based fluorescence telescope for the observati…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 3 cited

First analysis of inclined air showers detected by Tunka-Rex

T. Marshalkina, P. A. Bezyazeekov, N. M. Budnev +22

The Tunka Radio Extension (Tunka-Rex) is a digital antenna array for the detection of radio emission from cosmic-ray air showers in the frequency band of 30 to 80 MHz and for prima…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 1 cited

Present status and prospects of the Tunka Radio Extension

D. Kostunin, P. A. Bezyazeekov, N. M. Budnev +21

The Tunka Radio Extension (Tunka-Rex) is a digital radio array operating in the frequency band of 30-80 MHz and detecting radio emission from air-showers produced by cosmic rays wi…

astro-ph.IM2018

Monitoring activities of satellite data processing services in real-time with SDDS Live Monitor

Minh Duc Nguyen

This work describes Live Monitor, the monitoring subsystem of SDDS - an automated system for space experiment data processing, storage, and distribution created at SINP MSU. Live M…

astro-ph.IM2018

A Scientific Workflow System for Satellite Data Processing with Real-Time Monitoring

Minh Duc Nguyen

This paper provides a case study on satellite data processing, storage, and distribution in the space weather domain by introducing the Satellite Data Downloading System (SDDS). Th…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 1 cited

A framework to monitor activities of satellite data processing in real-time

Minh Duc Nguyen, Alexander Kryukov

Space Monitoring Data Center (SMDC) of SINP MSU is one of the several centers in the world that collects data on the radiational conditions in near-Earth orbit from various Russian…

astro-ph.IM2018

A distributed data warehouse system for astroparticle physics

Minh-Duc Nguyen, Alexander Kryukov, Julia Dubenskaya +10

A distributed data warehouse system is one of the actual issues in the field of astroparticle physics. Famous experiments, such as TAIGA, KASCADE-Grande, produce tens of terabytes…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 2 cited

Particle identification in ground-based gamma-ray astronomy using convolutional neural networks

E. B. Postnikov, I. V. Bychkov, J. Y. Dubenskaya +10

Modern detectors of cosmic gamma-rays are a special type of imaging telescopes (air Cherenkov telescopes) supplied with cameras with a relatively large number of photomultiplier-ba…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 5 cited

Gamma/Hadron Separation in Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes Using Deep Learning Libraries TensorFlow and PyTorch

E. B. Postnikov, A. P. Kryukov, S. P. Polyakov +2

In this work we compare two open source machine learning libraries, PyTorch and TensorFlow, as software platforms for rejecting hadron background events detected by imaging air Che…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 12 cited

Signal recognition and background suppression by matched filters and neural networks for Tunka-Rex

D. Shipilov, P. A. Bezyazeekov, N. M. Budnev +21

The Tunka Radio Extension (Tunka-Rex) is a digital antenna array, which measures the radio emission of the cosmic-ray air-showers in the frequency band of 30-80 MHz. Tunka-Rex is c…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 21 cited

Russian-German Astroparticle Data Life Cycle Initiative

Igor Bychkov, Andrey Demichev, Julia Dubenskaya +19

Modern large-scale astroparticle setups measure high-energy particles, gamma rays, neutrinos, radio waves, and the recently discovered gravitational waves. Ongoing and future exper…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 2 cited

Prospects of observing gamma-ray bursts with orbital detectors of ultra-high energy cosmic rays

M. S. Pshirkov, M. Yu. Zotov

TUS (Tracking Ultraviolet Set-up), the first orbital telescope of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs), has demonstrated that instruments of this kind have much broader capabilit…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 1 cited

NUCLEON-2 Mission for the investigation of heavy cosmic rays nuclei

V. Bulatov, S. Filipov, D. Karmanov +10

The NUCLEON-2 experiment is aimed at the investigation of isotope and charge composition of ions from carbon up to trans-uranium elements in the energy range over about a hundred M…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 24 cited

First observations of speed of light tracks by a fluorescence detector looking down on the atmosphere

G. Abdellaoui, S. Abe, J. H. Adams +311

EUSO-Balloon is a pathfinder mission for the Extreme Universe Space Observatory onboard the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM-EUSO). It was launched on the moonless night of the 25$^…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 3 cited

Observations of Near-Earth Optical Transients with the Lomonosov Space Observatory

V. M. Lipunov, E. S. Gorbovskoy, V. G. Kornilov +8

The results of observations with the MASTER-SHOK robotic wide-field optical cameras onboard the Lomonosov Space Observatory carried out in 2016 are presented. In all, the automated…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 46 cited

Reconstruction of cosmic ray air showers with Tunka-Rex data using template fitting of radio pulses

P. A. Bezyazeekov, N. M. Budnev, D. Chernykh +22

We present an improved method for the precise reconstruction of cosmic ray air showers above eV with sparse radio arrays. The method is based on the comparison of predict…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 47 cited

Mini-EUSO: A high resolution detector for the study of terrestrial and cosmic UV emission from the International Space Station

Francesca Capel, Alexander Belov, Marco Casolino +1

The Mini-EUSO instrument is a UV telescope to be placed inside the International Space Station (ISS), looking down on the Earth from a nadir-facing window in the Russian Zvezda mod…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 8 cited

Early Results from TUS, the First Orbital Detector of Extreme Energy Cosmic Rays

Mikhail Zotov

TUS is the world's first orbital detector of extreme energy cosmic rays (EECRs), which operates as a part of the scientific payload of the Lomonosov satellite since May 19, 2016. T…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 1 cited

Parametric Analysis of Cherenkov Light LDF from EAS for High Energy Gamma Rays and Nuclei: Ways of Practical Application

A. Sh. M. Elshoukrofy, E. B. Postnikov, E. E. Korosteleva +2

In this paper we propose a 'knee-like' approximation of the lateral distribution of the Cherenkov light from extensive air showers in the energy range 30-3000 TeV and study a possi…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 6 cited

Hybrid method for identifying mass groups of primary cosmic rays in the joint operation of IACTs and wide angle Cherenkov timing arrays

E. B. Postnikov, A. A. Grinyuk, L. A. Kuzmichev +1

This work is a methodical study of another option of the hybrid method originally aimed at gamma/hadron separation in the TAIGA experiment. In the present paper this technique was…