Miguel Mostafa

Penn State University

H-index: 99

North America-United States

Description

Miguel Mostafa, With an exceptional h-index of 99 and a recent h-index of 57 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Penn State University, specializes in the field of experimental particle astrophysics.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Exploring the Coronal Magnetic Field with Galactic Cosmic Rays: The Sun Shadow Observed by HAWC

The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection experiment

Search for decaying dark matter in the Virgo cluster of galaxies with HAWC

Detailed Analysis of the TeV γ-Ray Sources 3HWC J1928+ 178, 3HWC J1930+ 188, and the New Source HAWC J1932+ 192

Search for Gamma-Ray and Neutrino Coincidences Using HAWC and ANTARES Data

Discovery of gamma rays from the quiescent Sun with HAWC

Expected performance of the AugerPrime Radio Detector

The high-altitude water cherenkov (HAWC) observatory in méxico: The primary detector

Professor Information

University	Penn State University
Position	Professor of Physics
Citations(all)	37282
Citations(since 2020)	15051
Cited By	26824
hIndex(all)	99
hIndex(since 2020)	57
i10Index(all)	277
i10Index(since 2020)	185
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Research & Interests List

experimental particle astrophysics

Top articles of Miguel Mostafa

Exploring the Coronal Magnetic Field with Galactic Cosmic Rays: The Sun Shadow Observed by HAWC

Galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) are charged particles that reach the heliosphere almost isotropically in a wide energy range. In the inner heliosphere, the GCR flux is modulated by solar activity so that only energetic GCRs reach the lower layers of the solar atmosphere. In this work, we propose that high-energy GCRs can be used to explore the solar magnetic fields at low coronal altitudes. We used GCR data collected by the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov observatory to construct maps of GCR flux coming from the Sun's sky direction and studied the observed GCR deficit, known as Sun shadow (SS), over a 6 yr period (2016–2021) with a time cadence of 27.3 days. We confirm that the SS is correlated with sunspot number, but we focus on the relationship between the photospheric solar magnetic field measured at different heliolatitudes and the relative GCR deficit at different energies. We found a linear relationship …

Authors

R Alfaro,C Alvarez,JC Arteaga-Velázquez,KP Arunbabu,D Avila Rojas,R Babu,E Belmont-Moreno,KS Caballero-Mora,T Capistrán,A Carramiñana,S Casanova,P Colín-Farias,U Cotti,J Cotzomi,S Coutiño de León,E De la Fuente,C de León,D Depaoli,R Diaz Hernandez,JC Díaz-Vélez,M Durocher,MA DuVernois,K Engel,C Espinoza,KL Fan,N Fraija,JA García-González,F Garfias,A Gonzalez Muñoz,MM González,JA Goodman,JP Harding,D Huang,F Hueyotl-Zahuantitla,A Iriarte,S Kaufmann,A Lara,J Lee,H León Vargas,AL Longinotti,G Luis-Raya,K Malone,O Martinez,J Martínez-Castro,JA Matthews,P Miranda-Romagnoli,E Moreno,M Mostafá,A Nayerhoda,L Nellen,T Niembro,R Noriega-Papaqui,N Omodei,EG Pérez-Pérez,CD Rho,D Rosa-González,E Ruiz-Velasco,J Ryan,H Salazar,D Salazar-Gallegos,A Sandoval,J Serna-Franco,AJ Smith,Y Son,RW Springer,O Tibolla,K Tollefson,I Torres,R Turner,F Ureña-Mena,E Varela,L Villaseñor,X Wang,IJ Watson,E Willox,S Yun-Cárcamo,H Zhou

Journal

The Astrophysical Journal

Published Date

2024/4/25

The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection experiment

The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) experiment represents a groundbreaking venture at the forefront of astroparticle physics. This ambitious project aims to explore the cosmos through an innovative detection methodology, using a vast array of radio antennas distributed across extensive regions of Earth's surface.GRAND's primary objective is to discover and study ultra-high-energy (UHE> 10 EeV) cosmic neutrinos. By leveraging Earth's atmospheric medium as a giant detector, GRAND harnesses the radio emissions produced when these UHE neutrinos interact with the atmosphere, enabling the reconstruction of their properties and origins. GRAND will be the largest cosmic-ray detector, with a detection rate of UHE cosmic rays 20 times larger than currently operating experiments. Thus, GRAND science goals also include studying UHE cosmic-ray sources, cosmic radio background, the opacity …

Authors

Miguel Mostafa

Journal

Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Published Date

2024/4/3

Search for decaying dark matter in the Virgo cluster of galaxies with HAWC

The decay or annihilation of dark matter particles may produce a steady flux of very-high-energy gamma rays detectable above the diffuse background. Nearby clusters of galaxies provide excellent targets to search for the signatures of particle dark matter interactions. In particular, the Virgo cluster spans several degrees across the sky and can be efficiently probed with a wide field-of-view instrument. The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory, due to its wide field of view and sensitivity to gamma rays at an energy scale of 300 GeV–100 TeV is well-suited for this search. Using 2141 days of data, we search for γ-ray emission from the Virgo cluster, assuming well-motivated dark matter substructure models. Our results provide some of the strongest constraints on the decay lifetime of dark matter for masses above 10 TeV.

Authors

A Albert,R Alfaro,C Alvarez,JC Arteaga-Velázquez,HA Ayala Solares,R Babu,E Belmont-Moreno,KS Caballero-Mora,T Capistrán,A Carramiñana,S Casanova,J Cotzomi,S Coutiño de León,D Depaoli,R Diaz Hernandez,MA DuVernois,M Durocher,N Fraija,JA García-González,MM González,JA Goodman,JP Harding,S Hernández-Cadena,I Herzog,D Huang,F Hueyotl-Zahuantitla,V Joshi,S Kaufmann,H León Vargas,JT Linnemann,AL Longinotti,G Luis-Raya,K Malone,J Martínez-Castro,JA Matthews,P Miranda-Romagnoli,JA Morales-Soto,M Mostafá,A Nayerhoda,L Nellen,MU Nisa,R Noriega-Papaqui,N Omodei,EG Pérez-Pérez,CD Rho,D Rosa-González,M Schneider,Y Son,RW Springer,O Tibolla,K Tollefson,I Torres,R Torres-Escobedo,R Turner,F Ureña-Mena,L Villaseñor,X Wang,IJ Watson,S Yun-Cárcamo,HAWC Collaboration

Journal

Physical Review D

Published Date

2024/2/21

Detailed Analysis of the TeV γ-Ray Sources 3HWC J1928+ 178, 3HWC J1930+ 188, and the New Source HAWC J1932+ 192

The latest High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) point-like source catalog up to 56 TeV reported the detection of two sources in the region of the Galactic plane at galactic longitude 52< ℓ< 55, 3HWC J1930+ 188 and 3HWC J1928+ 178. The first one is associated with a known TeV source, the supernova remnant SNR G054. 1+ 00.3. It was discovered by one of the currently operating Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope (IACT), the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS), detected by the High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS), and identified as a composite SNR. However, the source 3HWC J1928+ 178, discovered by HAWC and coincident with the pulsar PSR J1928+ 1746, was not detected by any IACT despite their long exposure on the region, until a recent new analysis of HESS data was able to confirm it. Moreover, no X-ray counterpart has been detected from this …

Authors

A Albert,R Alfaro,C Alvarez,JC Arteaga-Velázquez,D Avila Rojas,HA Ayala Solares,R Babu,E Belmont-Moreno,C Brisbois,KS Caballero-Mora,T Capistrán,A Carramiñana,S Casanova,O Chaparro-Amaro,U Cotti,J Cotzomi,S Coutiño de León,E De la Fuente,C de León,R Diaz Hernandez,JC Díaz-Vélez,BL Dingus,MA DuVernois,M Durocher,K Engel,C Espinoza,KL Fan,M Fernández Alonso,N Fraija,JA García-González,F Garfias,H Goksu,MM González,JA Goodman,JP Harding,S Hernandez,J Hinton,B Hona,D Huang,F Hueyotl-Zahuantitla,P Hüntemeyer,A Iriarte,A Jardin-Blicq,V Joshi,S Kaufmann,D Kieda,WH Lee,H León Vargas,JT Linnemann,AL Longinotti,G Luis-Raya,R López-Coto,K Malone,V Marandon,O Martinez,J Martínez-Castro,JA Matthews,P Miranda-Romagnoli,JA Morales-Soto,E Moreno,M Mostafá,A Nayerhoda,L Nellen,M Newbold,MU Nisa,R Noriega-Papaqui,L Olivera-Nieto,N Omodei,A Peisker,Y Pérez Araujo,EG Pérez-Pérez,CD Rho,D Rosa-González,E Ruiz-Velasco,H Salazar,D Salazar-Gallegos,F Salesa Greus,A Sandoval,M Schneider,J Serna-Franco,AJ Smith,Y Son,RW Springer,O Tibolla,K Tollefson,I Torres,R Torres-Escobedo,R Turner,F Ureña-Mena,L Villaseñor,X Wang,F Werner,E Willox,H Zhou,HAWC collaboration

Journal

The Astrophysical Journal

Published Date

2023/1/17

Search for Gamma-Ray and Neutrino Coincidences Using HAWC and ANTARES Data

The Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network (AMON; Ayala Solares et al. 2020) is a virtual hub that integrates heterogeneous data from different astrophysical observatories with the main objective of enabling multimessenger astrophysics. Observatories that become members of AMON can act as trigger observatories or as follow-up observatories. Trigger observatories have high-duty cycles and a large field of view. Follow-up observatories have better angular resolution and sensitivity. AMON has developed coincidence analyses between high-energy gamma-ray and high-energy neutrino data. AMON mainly, but not necessarily, receives and uses data that are below the astrophysical-event selection threshold (called subthreshold) for the individual observatories. In these data, possible signal events of astrophysical origin can be present and due to the limited sensitivity of a given detector (eg, HAWC or …

Authors

HA Ayala Solares,Stephane Coutu,Douglas Cowen,DB Fox,Timothée Grégoire,Felicia McBride,Miguel Mostafá,Kohta Murase,Stephanie Wissel,Arthur Albert,S Alves,Michel André,M Ardid,S Ardid,J-J Aubert,J Aublin,B Baret,S Basa,B Belhorma,M Bendahman,F Benfenati,V Bertin,S Biagi,M Bissinger,J Boumaaza,M Bouta,MC Bouwhuis,H Brânzaş,R Bruijn,J Brunner,J Busto,B Caiffi,D Calvo,A Capone,L Caramete,J Carr,V Carretero,S Celli,M Chabab,TN Chau,R Cherkaoui El Moursli,T Chiarusi,M Circella,JAB Coelho,A Coleiro,R Coniglione,P Coyle,A Creusot,AF Díaz,G de Wasseige,B De Martino,C Distefano,I Di Palma,A Domi,C Donzaud,D Dornic,D Drouhin,T Eberl,T van Eeden,D van Eijk,N El Khayati,A Enzenhöfer,P Fermani,G Ferrara,F Filippini,L Fusco,J García,P Gay,H Glotin,R Gozzini,R Gracia Ruiz,K Graf,C Guidi,S Hallmann,H van Haren,AJ Heijboer,Yann Hello,JJ Hernández-Rey,J Hößl,J Hofestädt,F Huang,G Illuminati,CW James,B Jisse-Jung,M de Jong,P de Jong,M Kadler,O Kalekin,U Katz,A Kouchner,I Kreykenbohm,V Kulikovskiy,R Lahmann,M Lamoureux,R Le Breton,D Lefèvre,E Leonora,G Levi,S Le Stum,D Lopez-Coto,S Loucatos,L Maderer,J Manczak,M Marcelin,A Margiotta,A Marinelli,JA Martínez-Mora,K Melis,P Migliozzi,A Moussa,R Muller,L Nauta,S Navas,E Nezri,B Ó Fearraigh,A Păun,GE Păvălaş,C Pellegrino,M Perrin-Terrin,V Pestel,P Piattelli,C Pieterse,C Poirè,V Popa,T Pradier,N Randazzo,D Real,S Reck,G Riccobene,A Romanov,A Sánchez-Losa,DFE Samtleben,M Sanguineti,P Sapienza,J Schnabel,J Schumann,F Schüssler,J Seneca,M Spurio,Th Stolarczyk,M Taiuti,Y Tayalati,SJ Tingay,B Vallage,V Van Elewyck,F Versari,S Viola,D Vivolo,J Wilms,S Zavatarelli

Journal

The Astrophysical Journal

Published Date

2023/2/22

Discovery of gamma rays from the quiescent Sun with HAWC

We report the first detection of a TeV γ-ray flux from the solar disk (6.3 σ), based on 6.1 years of data from the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory. The 0.5–2.6 TeV spectrum is well fit by a power law, d N/d E= A (E/1 TeV)− γ, with A=(1.6±0.3)× 10− 12 TeV− 1 cm− 2 s− 1 and γ= 3.62±0.14. The flux shows a strong indication of anticorrelation with solar activity. These results extend the bright, hard GeV emission from the disk observed with Fermi-LAT, seemingly due to hadronic Galactic cosmic rays showering on nuclei in the solar atmosphere. However, current theoretical models are unable to explain the details of how solar magnetic fields shape these interactions. HAWC’s TeV detection thus deepens the mysteries of the solar-disk emission.

Authors

A Albert,R Alfaro,C Alvarez,JC Arteaga-Velázquez,D Avila Rojas,HA Ayala Solares,R Babu,E Belmont-Moreno,C Brisbois,KS Caballero-Mora,T Capistrán,A Carramiñana,S Casanova,O Chaparro-Amaro,U Cotti,J Cotzomi,S Coutiño de León,E De la Fuente,R Diaz Hernandez,BL Dingus,MA DuVernois,M Durocher,JC Díaz-Vélez,RW Ellsworth,K Engel,C Espinoza,KL Fan,K Fang,M Fernández Alonso,H Fleischhack,N Fraija,JA García-González,F Garfias,MM González,JA Goodman,JP Harding,S Hernandez,J Hinton,D Huang,F Hueyotl-Zahuantitla,P Hüntemeyer,A Iriarte,V Joshi,S Kaufmann,J Lee,JT Linnemann,AL Longinotti,G Luis-Raya,K Malone,O Martinez,J Martínez-Castro,JA Matthews,P Miranda-Romagnoli,JA Morales-Soto,E Moreno,M Mostafá,A Nayerhoda,L Nellen,MU Nisa,R Noriega-Papaqui,L Olivera-Nieto,N Omodei,Y Pérez Araujo,EG Pérez-Pérez,CD Rho,D Rosa-González,E Ruiz-Velasco,H Salazar,D Salazar-Gallegos,A Sandoval,M Schneider,J Serna-Franco,AJ Smith,Y Son,RW Springer,O Tibolla,K Tollefson,I Torres,R Torres-Escobedo,R Turner,F Ureña-Mena,E Varela,L Villaseñor,X Wang,IJ Watson,E Willox,S Yun-Cárcamo,H Zhou,C de León,JF Beacom,T Linden,KCY Ng,AHG Peter,B Zhou,HAWC Collaboration

Journal

Physical review letters

Published Date

2023/8/3

Expected performance of the AugerPrime Radio Detector

The AugerPrime Radio Detector will significantly increase the sky coverage of mass-sensitive measurements of ultra-high energy cosmic rays with the Pierre Auger Observatory. The detection of highly inclined air showers with the world’s largest 3000 km2 radio-antenna array in coincidence with the Auger water-Cherenkov detector provides a clean separation of the electromagnetic and muonic shower components. The combination of these highly complementary measurements yields a strong sensitivity to the mass composition of cosmic rays. We will present the first results of an end-to-end simulation study of the performance of the AugerPrime Radio Detector. The study features a complete description of the AugerPrime radio antennas and reconstruction of the properties of inclined air showers, in particular the electromagnetic energy. The performance is evaluated utilizing a comprehensive set of simulated air showers together with recorded background. The estimation of an energy-and direction-dependent aperture yields an estimation of the expected 10-year event statistics. The potential to measure the number of muons in air showers with the achieved statistics is outlined. Based on the achieved energy resolution, the potential to discriminate between different cosmic-ray primaries is presented.

Authors

F Schluter,Pedro Abreu,Marco Aglietta,Justin M Albury,Ingomar Allekotte,Alejandro Almela,Jaime Alvarez-Muniz,Rafael Alves Batista,Gioacchino Alex Anastasi,L Anchordoqui,Belén Andrada,Sofia Andringa,Carla Aramo,Paulo Ricardo Araújo Ferreira,Juan Carlos Arteaga Velazquez,H Asorey,Pedro Assis,Gualberto Avila,Alina Mihaela Badescu,Alena Bakalova,Alexandru Balaceanu,Felicia Barbato,Ricardo Jorge Bar-Reira Luz,Karl-Heinz Becker,Jose A Bellido,Corinne Berat,Mario Edoardo Bertaina,Xavier Bertou,Peter L Biermann,Virginia Binet,Kathrin Bismark,Teresa Bister,Jonathan Biteau,Jiri Blazek,Carla Bleve,Martina Bohacova,Denise Boncioli,Carla Bonifazi,Luan Bonneau Arbeletche,Nataliia Borodai,Ana Martina Botti,Jeffrey Brack,Thomas Bretz,PG Brichetto Orchera,Florian Lukas Briechle,Peter Buchholz,Antonio Bueno,Stijn Buitink,Mario Buscemi,M Busken,Karen S Caballero-Mora,Lorenzo Caccianiga,Fabrizia Canfora,Ioana Caracas,Juan Miguel Carceller,Rossella Caruso,Antonella Castellina,Fernando Catalani,Gabriella Cataldi,Lorenzo Cazon,Marcos Cerda,Jose Augusto Chinellato,Jirí Chudoba,Ladislav Chytka,Roger W Clay,AC Cobos Cerutti,Roberta Colalillo,Alan Coleman,Maria Rita Coluccia,Rúben Conceicao,Antonio Condorelli,Giovanni Consolati,Fernando Contreras,Fabio Convenga,D Correia dos Santos,CE Covault,Sergio Dasso,Kai Daumiller,Bruce R Dawson,Jarryd A Day,Rogerio M de Almeida,Joaquín de Jesus,Sijbrand J de Jong,Giuseppe De Mauro,JRT de Mello Neto,Ivan De Mitri,Jaime de Oliveira,Danelise de Oliveira Franco,Francesco de Palma,Vitor de Souza,Emanuele De Vito,Mariano del Río,Olivier Deligny,Luca Deval,Armando di Matteo,Carola Dobrigkeit,Juan Carlos D'Olivo,LM Domingues Mendes,Rita Cassia dos Anjos,Diego dos Santos,Maria Teresa Dova,Jan Ebr,Ralph Engel,Italo Epicoco,Martin Erdmann,Carlos O Escobar,Alberto Etchegoyen,Heino Falcke,John Farmer,G Farrar,AC Fauth,Norberto Fazzini,Fridtjof Feldbusch,Francesco Fenu,Brian Fick,Juan Manuel Figueira,Andrej Filipcic,Thomas Fitoussi,Tomáš Fodran,Martín Miguel Freire,Toshihiro Fujii,Alan Fuster,Cristina Galea,Claudio Galelli,Beatriz Garcia,AL Garcia Vegas,Hartmut Gemmeke,Flavia Gesualdi,Alexandru Gherghel-Lascu,Piera Luisa Ghia,Ugo Giaccari,Marco Giammarchi,Jonas Glombitza,Fabian Gobbi,Fernando Gollan,Geraldina Golup,M Gomez Berisso,PF Gomez Vitale,Juan Pablo Gongora,Juan Manuel Gonzalez,N González,Isabel Goos,Dariusz Gora,Alessio Gorgi,Marvin Gottowik,Trent D Grubb,F Guarino,GP Guedes,Eleonora Guido,S Hahn

Journal

Pos proceedings of science

Published Date

2022

The high-altitude water cherenkov (HAWC) observatory in méxico: The primary detector

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory is a second-generation continuously operated, wide field-of-view, TeV gamma-ray observatory. The HAWC observatory and its analysis techniques build on experience of the Milagro experiment in using ground-based water Cherenkov detectors for gamma-ray astronomy. HAWC is located on the Sierra Negra volcano in México at an elevation of 4100 meters above sea level. The completed HAWC observatory principal detector (HAWC) consists of 300 closely spaced water Cherenkov detectors, each equipped with four photomultiplier tubes to provide timing and charge information to reconstruct the extensive air shower energy and arrival direction. The HAWC observatory has been optimized to observe transient and steady emission from sources of gamma rays within an energy range from several hundred GeV to several hundred TeV. However, most of the …

Authors

Anushka Udara Abeysekara,Andrea Albert,R Alfaro,C Alvarez,JD Álvarez,M Araya,Juan Carlos Arteaga-Velázquez,Kollamparambil Paul Arunbabu,D Avila Rojas,HA Ayala Solares,Rishi Babu,Ahron S Barber,A Becerril,Ernesto Belmont-Moreno,Segev Y BenZvi,O Blanco,J Braun,Chad Brisbois,Karen Salomé Caballero-Mora,JI Cabrera Martínez,T Capistrán,Alberto Carramiñana,Sabrina Casanova,M Castillo,O Chaparro-Amaro,U Cotti,Jorge Cotzomi,S Coutiño de León,E de la Fuente,C de León,Tyce De Young,R Diaz Hernandez,Brenda L Dingus,Michael A DuVernois,Mora Durocher,Juan Carlos Díaz-Vélez,Robert W Ellsworth,K Engel,C Espinoza,Kwok Lung Fan,Ke Fang,B Fick,Henrike Fleischhack,Jorge Luis Flores,N Fraija,José Andrés García-González,Guillermo Garcia-Torales,Fernando Garfias,Gwenael Giacinti,Hazal Goksu,María Magdalena González,Adiv González-Muñoz,Jordán Alvin Goodman,J Patrick Harding,E Hernandez,Sergio Hernández,J Hinton,Binita Hona,Dezhi Huang,Filiberto Hueyotl-Zahuantitla,Chiumun Michelle Hui,Thomas Brian Humensky,Petra Hüntemeyer,Arturo Iriarte,Asif Imran,Armelle Jardin-Blicq,Vikas Joshi,Sarah Kaufmann,D Kieda,Gerd J Kunde,A Lara,R Lauer,William H Lee,Dirk Lennarz,H León Vargas,James T Linnemann,Anna Lía Longinotti,Gilgamesh Luis-Raya,Joseph Lundeen,Kelly Malone,Vincent Marandon,Antonio Marinelli,O Martinez,Israel Martínez-Castellanos,J Martínez-Castro,Humberto Martínez-Huerta,John A Matthews,Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli,Teresa Montaruli,Jorge Antonio Morales-Soto,E Moreno,M Mostafá,Amid Nayerhoda,Lukas Nellen,Michael Newbold,Mehr Un Nisa,Roberto Noriega-Papaqui,T Oceguera-Becerra,Laura Olivera-Nieto,Nicola Omodei,Alison Peisker,Y Pérez Araujo,Eucario Gonzalo Pérez-Pérez,E Ponce,John Pretz,Chang Dong Rho,Daniel Rosa-González,E Ruiz-Velasco,H Salazar,Daniel Salazar-Gallegos,F Salesa Greus,Andrés Sandoval,Michael Schneider,Harm Schoorlemmer,J Serna-Franco,Gus Sinnis,Andrew James Smith,Youngwan Son,K Sparks Woodle,Robert Wayne Springer,I Taboada,Andreas Tepe,Omar Tibolla,K Tollefson,I Torres,Ramiro Torres-Escobedo,Rhiannon Turner,F Ureña-Mena,Tilan N Ukwatta,Enrique Varela,Mariana Vargas-Magaña,L Villaseñor,Xiaojie Wang,Ian James Watson,Felix Werner,Stefan Westerhoff,E Willox,I Wisher,Joshua Wood,Gaurang B Yodh,D Zaborov,Arnulfo Zepeda,Hao Zhou,historical and present HAWC Collaboration

Journal

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Published Date

2023/7/1