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

Lectures:

31.01.2024	1. Historical introduction, basic properties of cosmic rays - I
01.02.2024	1a. Historical introduction, basic properties of cosmic rays - II
07.02.2024	2. Hadronic interactions and accelerator data
08.02.2024	3. Cascade equations
14.02.2024	4. Electromagnetic cascades
15.02.2024	5. Extensive air showers
21.02.2024	5a. Extensive air showers - shower universality
22.02.2024	6. Detectors for extensive air showers
28.02.2024	7. High energy cosmic rays and the knee in the energy spectrum of cosmic rays
29.02.2024	8. Radio detection of extensive air showers
06.03.2024	9. Acceleration, astrophysical accelerators and beam dumps
10.04.2024	10. Extragalactic propagation of cosmic rays
24.04.2024	11. Ultra high energy cosmic rays
08.05.2024	12. Astrophysical gamma rays and neutrinos
15.05.2024	13. Neutrino astronomy
22.05.2024	14. Gamma-ray astronomy

Student presentations:

11.04.2024	Air Showers - Matthews Heitler model	Roger Dhooge
17.04.2024	Radio detection of air showers	Lars Cuijpers
18.04.2024	The knee in the energy spectrum of cosmic rays	Marteen Wijdeveld
25.04.2024	Cosmic magnetic fields	Caroline van Bergen
16.05.2024	CR mass composition at highest energies, Auger, TA	Tycho Jongens
23.05.2024	IceCube project + results	Jochem van Rabenswaaij
29.05.2024	KM3NeT project+results	Isha Loudon
30.05.2024	CR anisotropy at highest energies, Auger, TA	Lucas van Dongen
05.06.2024	H.E.S.S. project + results	Jeipe van Eif
06.06.2024	Origin of the heavy elements from GW events	Anna Friso

material

assistant: Krishna Gopinath

Literature:

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