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

Lectures:

31.01.2023	1. Historical introduction, basic properties of cosmic rays - I
02.02.2023	1a. Historical introduction, basic properties of cosmic rays - II
07.02.2023	2. Hadronic interactions and accelerator data
09.02.2023	3. Cascade equations
14.02.2023	4. Electromagnetic cascades
16.02.2023	5. Extensive air showers
23.02.2023	5a. Extensive air showers - shower universality
02.03.2023	6. Detectors for extensive air showers
14.03.2023	7. High energy cosmic rays and the knee in the energy spectrum of cosmic rays
11.04.2023	8. Radio detection of extensive air showers
13.04.2023	9. Acceleration, astrophysical accelerators and beam dumps
18.04.2023	10. Extragalactic propagation of cosmic rays
25.04.2023	11. Ultra high energy cosmic rays
09.05.2023	12. Astrophysical gamma rays and neutrinos
11.05.2023	13. Neutrino astronomy
23.05.2023	14. Gamma-ray astronomy

Student presentations:

20.04.2023	Air Showers - Matthews Heitler model	Floris van Oers
16.05.2023	Radio detection of air showers	Luuk van Zuijlen
25.05.2023	The knee in teh energy spectrum of cosmic rays	Kris Dano
30.05.2023	IceCube neutrino astronomy	Leonids Cepcovs
01.06.2023	H.E.S.S. TeV gamma ray astronomy	Kate Kelley
13.06.2023	Dark Matter	Bram van den Berg
08.06.2023	reserve

assistant: Washington Carvalho

Literature:

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