Exam:
Oral exam. We will make a detailed schedule end of May/begin of June.

Lectures:

28.01.2021	1. Historical introduction, basic properties of cosmic rays - I
04.02.2021	1a. Historical introduction, basic properties of cosmic rays - II
09.02.2021	2. Hadronic interactions and accelerator data
16.02.2021	3. Cascade equations
18.02.2021	4. Electromagnetic cascades
23.02.2021	5. Extensive air showers
25.02.2021	5a. Extensive air showers - shower universality
02.03.2021	6. Detectors for extensive air showers
09.03.2021	7. High energy cosmic rays and the knee in the energy spectrum of cosmic rays
11.03.2021	8. Radio detection of extensive air showers
06.04.2021	9. Acceleration, astrophysical accelerators and beam dumps
13.04.2021	10. Extragalactic propagation of cosmic rays
20.04.2021	11. Ultra high energy cosmic rays
22.04.2021	12. Astrophysical gamma rays and neutrinos
25.05.2021	13. Neutrino astronomy
01.06.2021	14. Gamma-ray astronomy
03.06.2021	reserve

Student presentations:

08.04.2021	Aikaterini Pesini	Air showers - Matthews Heitler model
15.04.2021	Casper Moltzer	The knee in teh energy spectrum of cosmic rays
29.04.2021	Lars Cuijpers	KM3NeT project, ARCA, ORCA
11.05.2021	Simon Strähnz	Detectors for ultra-heigh-energy cosmic rays
20.05.2021	Henk Brans	Cherenkov telescope array - CTA
27.05.2021	Ariane Guiot	Gravitational waves and LIGO

assistant: Sukanth Karapakula (s.karapakula # astro.ru.nl)

Literature:

T.K. Gaisser et al Cosmic Rays and Particle Physics, 2nd edition Cambridge University Press
Primary literature, journal articles