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

Lectures:

04.02.2020	1. Historical introduction, basic properties of cosmic rays
06.02.2020	2. Hadronic interactions and accelerator data
11.02.2020	3. Cascade equations
13.02.2020	4. Electromagnetic cascades
18.02.2020	5. Extensive air showers
20.02.2020	6. Detectors for extensive air showers
27.02.2020	7. High energy cosmic rays and the knee in the energy spectrum of cosmic rays
03.03.2020	8. Radio detection of extensive air showers
05.03.2020	9. Acceleration, astrophysical accelerators and beam dumps
10.03.2020	10. Extragalactic propagation of cosmic rays
12.03.2020	11. Ultra high energy cosmic rays
17.03.2020	12. Astrophysical gamma rays and neutrinos
14.04.2020	13. Neutrino astronomy
12.05.2020	14. Gamma-ray astronomy

Student presentations:

16.04.2020	Cosmic-ray anisotropy at highest energies Auger/TA	Björk Johannes
21.04.2020	KM3NeT project ARCA+ORCA	Eric Teunis de Boone
23.04.2020	Radio detection of air showers	Jur Remeijn
07.05.2020	IceCube neutrino astronomy	Martijn Appeldoorn
14.05.2020	GZK effect and the end of the cosmic-ray spectrum, Auger,TA	Youri Sloots
26.05.2020	H.E.S.S. TeV gamma-ray astronomy galactic center emission	John Dunne
28.05.2020	Cherenkov Telescope Array - CTA	Viktor Traykov
04.06.2020	The knee in the energy spectrum of cosmic rays	Jesse Polman
11.06.2020	Cosmic ray anisotropy at TeV energies, Icecube/Top, HAWC	Chris van den Oetelaar

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