Exam:
Oral exam. We will make a detailed schedule towards the end of the course.

Lectures:

01.02.2022	1. Historical introduction, basic properties of cosmic rays - I
03.02.2022	1a. Historical introduction, basic properties of cosmic rays - II
08.02.2022	2. Hadronic interactions and accelerator data
10.02.2022	3. Cascade equations
22.02.2022	4. Electromagnetic cascades
24.02.2022	5. Extensive air showers
03.03.2022	5a. Extensive air showers - shower universality
08.03.2022	6. Detectors for extensive air showers
10.03.2022	7. High energy cosmic rays and the knee in the energy spectrum of cosmic rays
12.04.2022	8. Radio detection of extensive air showers
19.04.2022	9. Acceleration, astrophysical accelerators and beam dumps
26.04.2022	10. Extragalactic propagation of cosmic rays
10.05.2022	11. Ultra high energy cosmic rays
17.05.2022	12. Astrophysical gamma rays and neutrinos
19.05.2022	13. Neutrino astronomy
31.05.2022	14. Gamma-ray astronomy
07.06.2022	extra

Student presentations:

14.04.2022	Jikke Tacken	The knee in the energy spectrum of cosmic rays
21.04.2022	Robin Rietman	GZK effect and the end of the cosmic-ray spectrum - Auger, TA
28.04.2022	Bas Slotema	IceCube neutrino astronomy
12.05.2022	Anne Timmermans	KM3NeT project ARCA + ORCA
24.05.2022	Bart Steeman	H.E.S.S. TeV gamma-ray astronomy galactic center emission
02.06.2022	Reinald Jansen	XENON dark matter search
09.06.2022	N.N.	extra slot

assistant:

Literature:

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