Recent Advance in Elementary Particle Physics

Dear Colleagues,

The scope of this Special Issue on “Recent Advances in Elementary Particle Physics” includes topics from the field of high-energy astrophysics, including multimessenger astronomy aimed at the investigation of astrophysical phenomena using various instruments operating at different bands in the electromagnetic spectrum as well as detecting cosmic particles, namely cosmic rays, gamma rays, neutrino, and recently discovered gravitational waves. Modern astrophysical detectors provide a rich set of data which can shed light on the particle production, acceleration, and propagation processes in cosmic accelerators (supernova explosions, compact objects, active galactic nuclei, etc.) at energies and scales exceeding beyond the ones achievable on the colliders. These observations connect cosmology and astrophysics with high-energy particle physics, providing an opportunity for fundamental probes of matter and space, e.g., dark matter and exotic particles, Lorentz invariance violation, and neutrino oscillations. Moreover, direct studies of the secondary cascades produced by cosmic particles in atmosphere and detector media allow one to test hadronic models in ultra-high-energy and forward-production regimes. Thus, the recent progress in astroparticle physics instrumentation, experimental methods, and online data processing as well as theoretical predictions for future observations and experiments can be covered in this Special Issue.

Dr. Dmitriy Kostunin
Guest Editor

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• Astroparticle Physics
• Multimessenger Astronomy
• Cosmic Rays
• Gamma Rays
• Neutrino
• Gravitational Waves