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1. Closing the Net on Transient Sources of Ultrahigh-energy Cosmic Rays

Author

Sullivan Marafico, Jonathan Biteau, Antonio Condorelli, Olivier Deligny, and Johan Bregeon

Subjects
Cosmic ray astronomy, Large-scale structure of the universe, Magnetic fields, Transient sources, Ultra-high-energy cosmic radiation, Astrophysics, QB460-466
Abstract

The arrival directions of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) observed above 4 × 10 ^19 eV provide evidence of localized excesses that are key to identifying their sources. We leverage the 3D matter distribution from optical and infrared surveys as a density model of UHECR sources, which are considered to be transient. Agreement of the sky model with UHECR data imposes constraints on both the emission rate per unit matter and the time spread induced by encountered turbulent magnetic fields. Based on radio measurements of cosmic magnetism, we identify the Local Sheet as the magnetized structure responsible for the kiloyear duration of UHECR bursts for an observer on Earth and find that the turbulence amplitude must be within 0.5–20 nG for a coherence length of 10 kpc. At the same time, the burst-rate density must be above 50 Gpc ^−3 yr ^−1 for Local Sheet galaxies to reproduce the UHECR excesses and below 5000 Gpc ^−3 yr ^−1 (30,000 Gpc ^−3 yr ^−1 ) for the Milky Way (Local Group galaxies) not to outshine other galaxies. For the transient emissions of protons and nuclei to match the energy spectra of UHECRs, the kinetic energy of the outflows responsible for UHECR acceleration must be below 4 × 10 ^54 erg and above 5 × 10 ^50 erg (2 × 10 ^49 erg) if we consider the Milky Way (or not). The only stellar-sized transients that satisfy both Hillas’ and our criteria are long-duration gamma-ray bursts.

Published
2024
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2. Floor of Cosmogenic Neutrino Fluxes above 1017 eV

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Corinne Bérat, Antonio Condorelli, Olivier Deligny, François Montanet, and Zoé Torrès

Subjects
Astrophysical processes, Cosmic rays, Non-thermal radiation sources, Astrophysics, QB460-466
Abstract

The search for neutrinos with energies greater than 10 ^17 eV is being actively pursued. Although normalization of the dominant neutrino flux is highly uncertain, a floor level is guaranteed by the interactions of extragalactic cosmic rays with milky Way gas. We estimate that this floor level gives an energy flux of ${E}^{2}{\phi }_{\nu }\,\simeq {10}^{-{13}_{-0.5}^{+0.5}}\,\mathrm{GeV}\,{\mathrm{cm}}^{-2}\,{\mathrm{sr}}^{-1}\,{{\rm{s}}}^{-1}$ at 10 ^18 eV, where uncertainties arise from the modeling of the gas distribution and the experimental determination of the mass composition of ultra–high-energy cosmic rays on Earth. Based on a minimal model of cosmic-ray production to explain the mass-discriminated energy spectra observed on Earth above 5 × 10 ^18 eV, we also present generic estimates of the neutrino fluxes expected from extragalactic production that generally exceed the aforementioned guaranteed floor. The prospects for detecting neutrinos above 10 ^18 eV remain challenging, however, unless proton acceleration to the highest energies is at play in a subdominant population of cosmic-ray sources or new physical phenomena are at work.

Published
2024
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3. Impact of Galaxy Clusters on the Propagation of Ultrahigh-energy Cosmic Rays

Author

Antonio Condorelli, Jonathan Biteau, and Remi Adam

Subjects
Cosmic ray astronomy, Astrophysics, QB460-466
Abstract

Galaxy clusters are the largest objects in the Universe kept together by gravity. Most of their baryonic content is made of a magnetized diffuse plasma. We investigate the impact of such a magnetized environment on the propagation of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). The intracluster medium (ICM) is described according to the self-similar assumption, in which gas density and pressure profiles are fully determined by the cluster mass and redshift. The magnetic field is scaled to the thermal components of the ICM under different assumptions. We model the propagation of UHECRs in the ICM using a modified version of the Monte Carlo code SimProp , where hadronic processes and diffusion in the turbulent magnetic field are implemented. We provide a universal parameterization that approximates the UHECR fluxes escaping from the environment as a function of the most relevant quantities, such as the mass of the cluster, the position of the source with respect to the center of the cluster, and the nature of the accelerated particles. We show that galaxy clusters are an opaque environment, especially for UHECR nuclei. The role of the most massive nearby clusters in the context of the emerging UHECR astronomy is finally discussed.

Published
2023
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4. Mappatura dell'inquinamento elettromagnetico con GIS e GPS

Author

Giuseppe Mussumeci, Antonio Condorelli, Francesco Musumeci, and Simone Carruba

Subjects
GIS, GPS, mappatura, Cartography, GA101-1776, Cadastral mapping, GA109.5
Abstract

Un approccio innovativo per la mappatura mediante georeferenziazione GPS e trattamento dati in ambiente GIS

Published
2017

5. Un GIS per valutare le potenzialità fotovoltaiche in ambito urbano

Author

Giuseppe Mussumeci, Antonio Condorelli, and Alfonso Capizzi

Subjects
irragiamento, spazio urbano, potenzialità fotovoltaiche, Cartography, GA101-1776, Cadastral mapping, GA109.5
Abstract

Urban photovoltaic capabilities' evaluation utilizing GIS We propose a methodology based on GIS technology to evaluate the solar radiation on the different faces of the roofs in an urban area. This methodology is based on complex algorithms used to model the phenomenon of solar radiation onto detailed 3D models of buildings, also for heterogeneous and morphologically complex problems. The proposed methodology provides support for the energetic planning of a territory as it facilitates the evaluation of the photovoltaic potential of a particular site, using highly informative detail and a wide reference scale on the territory.

Published
2009

6. Un sistema informativo territoriale 3D degli ostacoli alla navigazione aerea

Author

Antonio Condorelli, Filippo Colombrita, and Giancarlo Guarrera

Subjects
SIT, navigazione aerea, ENAV, Cartography, GA101-1776, Cadastral mapping, GA109.5
Abstract

I campi d’applicazione dei Sistemi Informativi Territoriali divengono via via sempre più vasti ed eterogenei, per numerose motivazioni. Se, da una parte, è innegabile un interesse sempre crescente da parte di enti pubblici e/o privati che operano sul territorio e che, sulla base di un know-how culturale che va accrescendosi e consolidandosi, percepiscono i vantaggi che derivano dall’implementazione di simili sistemi, dall’altra il continuo sviluppo delle funzionalità dei software nonché delle potenzialità di calcolo, di archiviazione e di comunicazione dell’hardware hanno oggettivamente reso possibili applicazioni fino a pochi anni fa impensabili.

Published
2005

8. Observational constraints on cosmic-ray escape from ultra-high energy accelerators

Author

Antonio Condorelli, Quentin Luce, Sullivan Marafico, Jonathan Biteau, Olivier Deligny, and HEP, INSPIRE

Subjects
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), density, accelerator, mass number, nucleus, energy spectrum, FOS: Physical sciences, power spectrum, UHE, electric, Auger, flux, observatory, mass spectrum, benchmark, charge, cosmic radiation, confinement, production, secondary, [PHYS.ASTR] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, energy
Abstract

The energy spectrum and mass composition of ultra-high energy cosmic rays inferred at the Pierre Auger Observatory are used to derive a benchmark scenario for the emission mechanisms at play in extragalactic accelerators as well as for their energetics and for the abundances of elements in their environments. Assuming a distribution of sources following the density of stellar mass, the gradual increase of the cosmic ray mass number observed on Earth from $\simeq$2\:EeV up to the highest energies is shown to call for nuclei accelerated up to an energy proportional to their electric charge and emitted with a hard spectral index. In addition, the inferred flux of protons down to $\simeq$0.6\:EeV is shown to require for this population a spectral index significantly softer than that of heavier nuclei. This is consistent with in-source interactions that shape the energy production rate of injected charged nuclei differently from that of the secondary neutrons escaping from the confinement zone. Together with the inferred abundances of nuclei, these results provide constraints on the radiation levels in the source environments. Within this scenario, an additional component that falls off steeply with increasing energy up to the ankle feature is necessary to make up the all-particle flux in the sub-ankle energy range., Presented at the 27th European Cosmic Ray Symposium, Nijmegen, July 2022 (ECRS 2022). 8 pages, 2 figures

Published
2022

9. Probing hadronic interactions using the latest data measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory

Author

Caterina Trimarelli, Pedro Abreu, Marco Aglietta, Ingomar Allekotte, Kévin Almeida Cheminant, Alejandro Almela, Jaime Alvarez-Muniz, Juan Ammerman Yebra, Gioacchino Alex Anastasi, Luis A. Anchordoqui, Belén Andrada, Sofia Andringa, Carla Aramo, Paulo Ricardo Araújo Ferreira, Enrico Arnone, Juan Carlos Arteaga Velazquez, Hernán Gonzalo Asorey, Pedro Assis, Gualberto Avila, Emanuele Avocone, Alina Mihaela Badescu, Alena Bakalova, Alexandru Balaceanu, Felicia Barbato, Jose A. Bellido, Corinne Berat, Mario Edoardo Bertaina, Gopal Bhatta, Peter L. Biermann, Virginia Binet, Kathrin Bismark, Teresa Bister, Jonathan Biteau, Jiri Blazek, Carla Bleve, Johannes Blümer, Martina Bohacova, Denise Boncioli, Carla Bonifazi, Luan Bonneau Arbeletche, Nataliia Borodai, Jeffrey Brack, Thomas Bretz, P. Gabriel Brichetto Orchera, Florian Lukas Briechle, Peter Buchholz, Antonio Bueno, Stijn Buitink, Mario Buscemi, Max Büsken, Anthony Bwembya, Karen S. Caballero-Mora, Lorenzo Caccianiga, Ioana Caracas, Rossella Caruso, Antonella Castellina, Fernando Catalani, Gabriella Cataldi, Lorenzo Cazon, Marcos Cerda, Jose Augusto Chinellato, Jiří Chudoba, Ladislav Chytka, Roger W Clay, Agustín Cobos Cerutti, Roberta Colalillo, Alan Coleman, Maria Rita Coluccia, Rúben Conceição, Antonio Condorelli, Giovanni Consolati, Fernando Contreras, Fabio Convenga, Diego Correia dos Santos, Corbin Covault, Markus Cristinziani, Sergio Dasso, Kai Daumiller, Bruce R. Dawson, Jarryd A. Day, Rogerio M. de Almeida, Joaquin de Jesus, Sijbrand J. de Jong, João de Mello Neto, Ivan De Mitri, Jaime de Oliveira, Danelise de Oliveira Franco, Francesco de Palma, Vitor de Souza, Emanuele De Vito, Antonino Del Popolo, Olivier Deligny, Luca Deval, Armando di Matteo, Madalina Dobre, Carola Dobrigkeit, Juan Carlos D'Olivo, Luis Miguel Domingues Mendes, Rita Cassia dos Anjos, Maria Teresa Dova, Jan Ebr, Mohamed Eman, Ralph Engel, Italo Epicoco, Martin Erdmann, Carlos O. Escobar, Alberto Etchegoyen, Heino Falcke, John Farmer, Glennys R. Farrar, Anderson Campos Fauth, Norberto Fazzini, Fridtjof Feldbusch, Francesco Fenu, Brian Fick, Juan Manuel Figueira, Andrej Filipcic, Thomas Fitoussi, Tomáš Fodran, Toshihiro Fujii, Alan Fuster, Cristina Galea, Claudio Galelli, Beatriz García, Hartmut Gemmeke, Flavia Gesualdi, Alexandru Gherghel-Lascu, Piera Luisa Ghia, Ugo GIACCARI, Marco Giammarchi, Jonas Glombitza, Fabian Gobbi, Fernando Gollan, Geraldina Golup, Mariano Gómez Berisso, Primo F. Gómez Vitale, Juan Pablo Gongora, Juan Manuel González, Nicolas Martin Gonzalez, Isabel Goos, Dariusz Gora, Alessio Gorgi, Marvin Gottowik, Trent D. Grubb, Fausto Guarino, Germano Guedes, Eleonora Guido, Steffen Traugott Hahn, Petr Hamal, Matías Rolf Hampel, Patricia María Hansen, Diego Harari, Violet M. Harvey, Andreas Haungs, Thomas Hebbeker, Dieter Heck, Carlos Hojvat, Jörg R. Hörandel, Pavel Horvath, Miroslav Hrabovsky, Tim Huege, Antonio Insolia, Paula Gina Isar, Petr Janecek, Jeffrey A. Johnsen, Jakub Jurysek, Alex Kääpä, Karl-Heinz Kampert, Bianca Keilhauer, Abha Khakurdikar, Varada Varma Kizakke Covilakam, Hans Klages, Matthias Kleifges, Jonny Kleinfeller, Felix Knapp, Norbert Kunka, Bruno L. Lago, Niklas Langner, Marcelo Augusto Leigui de Oliveira, Vladimir Lenok, Antoine Letessier-Selvon, Isabelle Lhenry-Yvon, Domenico Lo Presti, Luis LOPES, Rebeca López, Lu Lu, Quentin Luce, Jon Paul Lundquist, Allan Machado Payeras, Giovanni Mancarella, Dusan Mandat, Bradley C. Manning, Julien Manshanden, Paul Mantsch, Sullivan Marafico, Federico Maria Mariani, Analisa Mariazzi, Ioana Maris, Giovanni Marsella, Daniele Martello, Sara Martinelli, Oscar Martínez Bravo, Miguel Alexandre Martins, Massimo Mastrodicasa, Hermann-Josef Mathes, James Matthews, Giorgio Matthiae, Eric William Mayotte, Sonja Mayotte, Peter Mazur, Gustavo Medina-Tanco, Diego Melo, Alexander Menshikov, Stanislav Michal, Maria Isabel Micheletti, Lino Miramonti, Silvia Mollerach, François Montanet, Leonel Morejon, Carlo Morello, Ana L. Müller, Katharine Mulrey, Roberto Mussa, Marco Stein Muzio, Wilson M. Namasaka, Alina Nasr-Esfahani, Lukas Nellen, Gabriela Nicora, Mihai Niculescu-Oglinzanu, Marcus Niechciol, Dave Nitz, Ian Norwood, Dalibor Nosek, Vladimír Novotný, Libor Nozka, Achille Nucita, Luis A. Nunez, Cainã Oliveira, Miroslav Palatka, Juan Pallotta, Gonzalo Parente, Alejandra Parra, Jannis Pawlowsky, Miroslav Pech, Jan Pękala, Rodrigo Pelayo, Edyvania Emily Pereira Martins, Johnnier Perez Armand, Carmina Pérez Bertolli, Lorenzo Perrone, Sergio Petrera, Camilla Petrucci, Tanguy Pierog, Mário Pimenta, Manuel Platino, Bjarni Pont, Mart Pothast, Paolo Privitera, Michael Prouza, Andrew Puyleart, Sven Querchfeld, Julian Rautenberg, Diego Ravignani, Maximilian Reininghaus, Jan Ridky, Felix Riehn, Markus Risse, Vincenzo Rizi, Washington Rodrigues de Carvalho, Jorge Rubén Rodriguez Rojo, Matías J. Roncoroni, Simone Rossoni, Markus Roth, Esteban Roulet, Adrian Rovero, Philip Ruehl, Alexandra Saftoiu, Mohit Saharan, Francesco Salamida, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, Gaetano Salina, Jose Sanabria Gomez, Federico Andrés Sánchez, Edivaldo Moura Santos, Eva Santos, Fred Sarazin, Raul Sarmento, Ricardo Sato, Pierpaolo Savina, Christoph M. Schäfer, Viviana Scherini, Harald Schieler, Martin Schimassek, Michael Schimp, Felix Schlüter, David Schmidt, Olaf Scholten, Harm Schoorlemmer, Petr Schovanek, Frank G. Schröder, Josina Schulte, Tobias Schulz, Sergio J Sciutto, Marina Scornavacche, Alberto Segreto, Srijan Sehgal, Shima Ujjani Shivashankara, Guenter Sigl, Gaia Silli, Octavian Sima, Raluca Smau, Radomir Smida, Paul Sommers, Jorge F. Soriano, Ruben Squartini, Maximilian Stadelmaier, Denis Stanca, Samo Stanič, Jaroslaw Stasielak, Patrick Stassi, Maximilian Straub, Alexander Streich, Mauricio Suárez-Durán, Tristan Sudholz, Tiina Suomijarvi, A. Daniel Supanitsky, Zbigniew Szadkowski, Alex Tapia, Carla Taricco, Charles Timmermans, Olena Tkachenko, Petr Tobiska, Carlos J. Todero Peixoto, Bernardo Tomé, Zoé Torrès, Andres Travaini, Petr Travnicek, Matias Jorge Tueros, Ralf Ulrich, Michael Unger, Lukáš Vaclavek, Martin Vacula, Jose F. Valdés Galicia, Laura Valore, Enrique Varela, Adriana Vásquez-Ramírez, Darko Veberic, Cynthia Ventura, Indira D. Vergara Quispe, Valerio Verzi, Jakub Vicha, Jacco Vink, Serguei Vorobiov, Hernan Wahlberg, Clara Keiko Oliveira Watanabe, Alan Watson, Andreas Weindl, Lawrence Wiencke, Henryk Wilczyński, David Wittkowski, Brian Wundheiler, Alexey Yushkov, Orazio Zapparrata, Enrique Zas, Danilo Zavrtanik, Marko Zavrtanik, and Lukas Zehrer

Published
2022

10. Testing hadronic and photo-hadronic interactions as responsible for UHECR and neutrino fluxes from Starburst Galaxies

Author

Antonio Condorelli, Denise Boncioli, Enrico Peretti, and Sergio Petrera

Subjects
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), FOS: Physical sciences, General Medicine, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

We test the hypothesis of starburst galaxies as sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays and high-energy neutrinos. The computation of interactions of ultra-high energy cosmic rays in the starburst environment as well as in the propagation to the Earth is made using a modified version of the Monte Carlo code {\it SimProp}, where hadronic processes in the environment of sources are implemented for the first time. Taking into account a star-formation-rate distribution of sources, the fluxes of ultra-high energy cosmic rays and high-energy neutrinos are computed and compared with observations, and the explored parameter space for the source characteristics is discussed. We find that, depending on the density of the gas in the source environment, spallation reactions could exceed theoutcome in neutrinos from photo-hadronic interactions in the source environment and in the extra-galactic space., 10 pages, 9 figures, comments are welcome

Published
2022

12. Coronary Cannulation After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

Author

Angelo Giuffrida, Alessia Giaquinta, Enrico Criscione, Roberto Valvo, Martin B. Leon, Claudia Reddavid, Denise Todaro, Giorgia Politi, Corrado Tamburino, Wanda Deste, Marco Barbanti, Antonio Condorelli, Giuseppe De Luca, Carmelo Sgroi, Orazio Strazzieri, Alessandra Licciardello, Valeria Garretto, Silvia Motta, Matteo Scalia, John G. Webb, Giuliano Costa, Andrea Picci, and Pierfrancesco Veroux

Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty, Transcatheter aortic, business.industry, medicine.medical_treatment, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, medicine.disease, Coronary arteries, Coronary artery disease, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, medicine.anatomical_structure, Valve replacement, Internal medicine, cardiovascular system, medicine, Cardiology, 030212 general & internal medicine, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, business
Abstract

Objectives The aims of this study were to investigate the feasibility of coronary ostia cannulation after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) and to assess potential predictors o...

Published
2020

13. Observational Constraints on Cosmic-Ray Escape from Ultrahigh-energy Accelerators

Author

Quentin Luce, Sullivan Marafico, Jonathan Biteau, Antonio Condorelli, and Olivier Deligny

Subjects
Space and Planetary Science, Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, ddc:530
Abstract

Interactions of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) accelerated in specific astrophysical environments have been shown to shape the energy production rate of nuclei differently from that of the secondary neutrons escaping from the confinement zone. Here, we aim at testing a generic scenario of in-source interactions through phenomenological modeling of the flux and composition of UHECRs. We fit a model in which nucleons and nuclei follow different particle energy distributions to the all-particle energy spectrum and proton spectrum below the ankle energy and distributions of maximum shower depths above this energy, as inferred at the Pierre Auger Observatory. We obtain that the data can be reproduced using a spatial distribution of sources that follows the density of extragalactic matter on both local and large scales, providing hence a realistic set of constraints for the emission mechanisms in cosmic accelerators, for their energetics, and for the abundances of elements at escape from their environments. While the quasi monoelemental increase of the cosmic-ray mass number observed on Earth from ≃2 EeV up to the highest energies calls for nuclei accelerated with a hard spectral index, the inferred flux of protons down to ≃0.6 EeV is shown to require for this population a spectral index significantly softer than that generally obtained up to now. We demonstrate that modeling UHECR data across the ankle substantiates the conjecture of in-source interactions in a robust statistical framework, although pushing the mechanism to the extreme.

Published
2022

14. Extraction of the Muon Signals Recorded with the Surface Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory Using Recurrent Neural Networks

Author

Jose Chinellato, Marvin Gottowik, Dariusz Gora, Eric Mayotte, A. Gorgi, M. Gómez Berisso, Alan Coleman, S. J. Saffi, Ioana Caracas, R. C. Shellard, R.J. Barreira Luz, Miroslav Pech, M. Pothast, Pavel Horvath, A. Letessier-Selvon, Mario Buscemi, G. De Mauro, A. Tapia, Jörg R. Hörandel, I. Lhenry-Yvon, P. Ruehl, L. Valore, H. Gemmeke, Lorenzo Cazon, C. Pérez Bertolli, M. Suárez-Durán, M. Unger, E. M. Santos, Sullivan Marafico, Clara Keiko Oliveira Watanabe, Serguei Vorobiov, Marco Giammarchi, Jon Paul Lundquist, A. Menshikov, R. Alves Batista, Bruce R. Dawson, F. Pedreira, Sofia Andringa, Julien Manshanden, Andres Travaini, E. Varela, J.D. Sanabria Gomez, Roberto Mussa, Frank G. Schröder, P.O. Mazur, Marina Scornavacche, Jonathan Biteau, F. Salamida, A. Yushkov, Paul Sommers, Maximilian Reininghaus, Raul Sarmento, Felix Schlüter, Fabian Gobbi, Ioana Codrina Maris, Violet M. Harvey, D. Harari, Martina Bohacova, G. P. Guedes, Toshihiro Fujii, Jakub Juryšek, John Farmer, D. Nitz, G. Cataldi, V. Scherini, J. Rautenberg, M. Risse, Jonathan Blazek, Q. Luce, Juan Pablo Gongora, Alena Bakalova, K. Choi, Esteban Roulet, D. Melo, M. Schimp, H. J. Mathes, A. Puyleart, Stanislav Michal, Corinne Berat, M. Giller, Orazio Zapparrata, B. C. Manning, Marcio Aparecido Muller, Maria-Teresa Dova, Markus Roth, R. Sato, Lourenco Lopes, P. Abreu, D. Ravignani, G. Golup, N. Kunka, T. Bister, Maria Rita Coluccia, G. C. Hill, Maximilian Stadelmaier, J. F. Valdés Galicia, I. De Mitri, N. Fazzini, Petr Hamal, Ana Martina Botti, Francesco Fenu, Steffen Hahn, Juan Carlos D'Olivo, T. Pierog, Antonio Condorelli, Alina Mihaela Badescu, Cristina Galea, Jonas Glombitza, F. C. T. Barbato, M. Prouza, Justin M. Albury, P. L. Ghia, L. R. Wiencke, S. Schröder, Niklas Langner, Italo Epicoco, G. Parente, Fabrizia Canfora, Jose J. Gonzalez, Dusan Mandat, Ralph Engel, J. Ridky, J. Rodriguez Rojo, Fridtjof Feldbusch, Enrique Zas, Lorenzo Caccianiga, L. Zehrer, Thomas Hebbeker, M. A. Leigui de Oliveira, Sergio Dasso, Tristan Sudholz, M. I. Micheletti, J. Chudoba, F. Riehn, Carola Dobrigkeit, M. Muzio, V. Novotny, A.L. Garcia Vegas, C. M. Schäfer, Marcel Köpke, M. Platino, François Montanet, A. Insolia, M. Kleifges, D. Zavrtanik, Fernando Contreras, Valerio Verzi, B. Tome, Martín Miguel Freire, Rossella Caruso, B. L. Lago, A. Lucero, Fernando Catalani, Bjarni Pont, E.E. Pereira Martins, J. de Oliveira, J. Pȩkala, Alejandro Almela, Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz, Alexandru Gherghel-Lascu, Brian Fick, Josina Schulte, V. Pirronello, C. J.W.P. Timmermans, Martin Vacula, Julian Kemp, Philipp Papenbreer, Rúben Conceição, M. E. Bertaina, Alan Watson, M. Perlin, Mihai Niculescu-Oglinzanu, L. Bonneau Arbeletche, G. Marsella, Petr Travnicek, Paula Gina Isar, Peter Hansen, W. M. Namasaka, M. Mastrodicasa, Carla Bleve, Rodrigo Guedes Lang, David Wittkowski, Lukáš Vaclavek, Belén Andrada, A. C. Rovero, Eleonora Guido, G. Mancarella, Jesús Peña-Rodríguez, B. Keilhauer, G. Salina, Olivier Deligny, Trent D. Grubb, F. Guarino, John Matthews, Peter Buchholz, Heino Falcke, Alexandru Balaceanu, Vladimir Lenok, P. Tobiska, L. Perrone, Alex Kääpä, Magdalena Cerdá, Juan Manuel Figueira, Roberta Colalillo, Carla Aramo, Matías J. Roncoroni, S. J. Sciutto, R.C. dos Anjos, A. G. Mariazzi, Adriana Vásquez-Ramírez, Vincenzo Rizi, Julien Souchard, D. Martello, J. Vicha, Hernán Asorey, A. Di Matteo, Juan Miguel Carceller, Silvia Mollerach, Flavia Gesualdi, Tomáš Fodran, Alina Nasr-Esfahani, M. Palatka, Xavier Bertou, Marco Aglietta, O. Martínez Bravo, B. Wundheiler, A. Zepeda, Miroslav Hrabovský, Pedro Assis, H. Martinez, A. Etchegoyen, Jeffrey A. Johnsen, L. Lu, H. Schieler, Ugo Giaccari, N. González, A. Segreto, J. F. Soriano, Günter Sigl, Antonella Castellina, A. Haungs, P. Stassi, Radomir Smida, A. Machado Payeras, Thomas Bretz, Gaia Silli, A. Filipčič, Kai Daumiller, F. Sanchez, Petr Janecek, Corbin Covault, F. Sarazin, Srijan Sehgal, Matías Rolf Hampel, Fernando Gollan, S. Petrera, Marc Weber, F. de Palma, P. Mantsch, Lino Miramonti, V. de Souza, D. de Oliveira Franco, G. Matthiae, Z. Szadkowski, Christian Sarmiento-Cano, P. Savina, W. Rodrigues de Carvalho, Antonio Bueno, G. Farrar, T. Huege, Jeffrey Brack, Olaf Scholten, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, R. M. de Almeida, Gualberto Avila, Octavian Sima, Nataliia Borodai, Miguel Mostafa, A. Fuster, Samo Stanič, D. Lo Presti, D. Correia dos Santos, Isabel Goos, D. Heck, Rodrigo Pelayo, S. J. De Jong, L. Nellen, L. Anchordoqui, A. Taboada, Stijn Buitink, Katie Mulrey, M. del Río, Jarryd A. Day, A. Saftoiu, P.F. Gómez Vitale, C. Morello, A.C. Cobos Cerutti, T. Suomijärvi, D. Nosek, E. Santos, J. Pallotta, J. R. T. de Mello Neto, A. Weindl, Peter L. Biermann, David Schmidt, Paolo Privitera, Hernan Wahlberg, Darko Veberič, A. Parra, M. Schimassek, C. Hojvat, Jan Ebr, Jacco Vink, H.O. Klages, M. Trini, A. A. Nucita, J. 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Subjects
Photon, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astronomy, Electron, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Auger, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), mass [cosmic radiation], surface [detector], Observatory, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], photon: cosmic radiation, Instrumentation, Mathematical Physics, Physics, AGASA, Settore FIS/01 - Fisica Sperimentale, Detector, cosmic radiation [photon], Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Monte Carlo [numerical calculations], electromagnetic [showers], observatory, cosmic radiation [electron], Analysis and statistical methods, numerical calculations: Monte Carlo, Analysis and statistical method, performance, positron: cosmic radiation, atmosphere [showers], Cherenkov detector, data analysis method, Calibration and fitting methods, Cherenkov detectors, Cluster finding, Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physics, Pattern recognition, Cherenkov counter: water, air, neural network, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, cosmic radiation [positron], cosmic radiation: mass, Calibration and fitting method, Nuclear physics, statistical analysis, 0103 physical sciences, showers: electromagnetic, ddc:530, ddc:610, High Energy Physics, 010306 general physics, Zenith, Pierre Auger Observatory, cosmic radiation [muon], Muon, showers: atmosphere, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, detector: surface, hep-ex, water [Cherenkov counter], electron: cosmic radiation, Recurrent neural network, muon: cosmic radiation, Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physic, Experimental High Energy Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, RAIOS CÓSMICOS, experimental results
Abstract

The Pierre Auger Observatory, at present the largest cosmic-ray observatory ever built, is instrumented with a ground array of 1600 water-Cherenkov detectors, known as the Surface Detector (SD). The SD samples the secondary particle content (mostly photons, electrons, positrons and muons) of extensive air showers initiated by cosmic rays with energies ranging from $10^{17}~$eV up to more than $10^{20}~$eV. Measuring the independent contribution of the muon component to the total registered signal is crucial to enhance the capability of the Observatory to estimate the mass of the cosmic rays on an event-by-event basis. However, with the current design of the SD, it is difficult to straightforwardly separate the contributions of muons to the SD time traces from those of photons, electrons and positrons. In this paper, we present a method aimed at extracting the muon component of the time traces registered with each individual detector of the SD using Recurrent Neural Networks. We derive the performances of the method by training the neural network on simulations, in which the muon and the electromagnetic components of the traces are known. We conclude this work showing the performance of this method on experimental data of the Pierre Auger Observatory. We find that our predictions agree with the parameterizations obtained by the AGASA collaboration to describe the lateral distributions of the electromagnetic and muonic components of extensive air showers., Comment: Published version, 23 pages, 15 figures

Published
2022

15. MultI-messenger probe of Cosmic Ray Origins: MICRO project

Author

Antonio Condorelli

Subjects
General Medicine
Abstract

We present the milestones achieved by the MICRO (MultI-messenger probe of Cosmic Ray Origins) project. This multi-institute project consists of a study of bursting astrophysical sources as candidate sources for ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). We aim at identifying source classes that correlate best with existing observational data (arrival direction distribution, energy spectrum and primary mass composition) and to constrain the origin of UHECRs on the basis of the largest datasets acquired to this day. The study of the secondary fluxes of neutrinos and gamma rays will provide a powerful test of the most suitable astrophysical scenarios. For these achievements, a public software enabling a joint fit of both composition and flux data as a function of energy and direction is being developed. In addition, a modelling of transient sources is foreseen, including the treatment of hadronic interactions within the sources, which represents a novelty for UHECR simulation codes. This contribution will highlight the first results of the project and detail upcoming software releases, which will benefit the astroparticle community at large.

Published
2023

16. Astrophysical interpretation of Pierre Auger Observatory measurements of the UHECR energy spectrum and mass composition

Author

Antonio Condorelli

Subjects
General Medicine
Abstract

We present a combined fit of a simple astrophysical model of Ultra-high-energy cosmic-ray sources to both the energy spectrum and mass composition data measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory. The astrophysical model we adopted consists of identical sources uniformly distributed in a comoving volume, where nuclei are accelerated with a rigidity-dependent mechanism. The fit has been performed at first for energies above 5 EeV, i.e., the region of the all-particle spectrum above the so-called “ankle” feature, and has then been extended to lower energies in order to include this feature. The fit results and their astrophysical implications in both cases are discussed.

Published
2023

17. The FRAM robotic telescope for atmospheric monitoring at the Pierre Auger Observatory

Author

Jose Chinellato, Ioana Caracas, Lorenzo Cazon, C. Pérez Bertolli, Ioana Codrina Maris, Marina Scornavacche, R. Ulrich, G. C. Hill, Jorge F. Soriano, Ralph Engel, M. Risse, H. J. Mathes, J. Ridky, Xavier Bertou, G. Marsella, David Wittkowski, G. Salina, Olivier Deligny, M. Unger, Tomáš Fodran, Alina Nasr-Esfahani, Stanislav Michal, Jonathan Blazek, Ugo Giaccari, J. Kleinfeller, K. Choi, Julien Manshanden, Andres Travaini, E. Varela, J.D. Sanabria Gomez, K.-H. Becker, M. Pimenta, P.R. Araújo Ferreira, Tobias Winchen, Denis Stanca, Florian Lukas Briechle, F. Canfora, G. Farrar, Antonio Condorelli, Carla Bleve, Rodrigo Guedes Lang, G. De Mauro, Silvia Mollerach, N. Fazzini, Jonas Glombitza, F. C. T. Barbato, P. Abreu, D. Ravignani, Alena Bakalova, G. Matthiae, Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz, J. Rodriguez Rojo, Fridtjof Feldbusch, Enrique Zas, Marvin Gottowik, Carlos Escobar, Kevin-Druis Merenda, R.J. Barreira Luz, G. P. Guedes, G. Parente, L. Zehrer, A. Puyleart, Corinne Berat, M. Giller, Jörg R. Hörandel, Paul Sommers, P. Kubánek, Flavia Gesualdi, Fernando Contreras, Alexandru Gherghel-Lascu, Belén Andrada, P. Tobiska, Antonio Bueno, Violet M. Harvey, D. Harari, J. Chudoba, Valerio Pirronello, Gualberto Avila, B. García, Lukáš Vaclavek, Toshihiro Fujii, Dariusz Gora, Eric Mayotte, A. Zepeda, R. López, G. Mancarella, Pedro Assis, H. Martinez, A. Etchegoyen, Matías J. Roncoroni, Martina Bohacova, A. Aab, J. Biteau, I. Lhenry-Yvon, Karen S. Caballero-Mora, A.L. Garcia Vegas, B. Keilhauer, J. de Oliveira, A.D. Supanitsky, M. Gómez Berisso, Jakub Juryšek, Alejandro Almela, R. C. Shellard, S. J. Sciutto, A. Di Matteo, Alan Coleman, S. J. Saffi, B. Wundheiler, Marcel Köpke, Martin Erdmann, J. de Jesús, Juan Miguel Carceller, C. J. Todero Peixoto, Alina Mihaela Badescu, Cristina Galea, John Farmer, Serguei Vorobiov, M. Platino, Maria Rita Coluccia, Carla Taricco, M. Prouza, G. Cataldi, A. Streich, Gioacchino Alex Anastasi, D. Nitz, Juan Pablo Gongora, F. Pedreira, M. I. 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Zavrtanik D., Zavrtanik M., Zehrer L., Zepeda A., Cunniffe R., Eliasek J., Ebrova I., Jelinek M., Karpov S., Kubanek P., Masek M., and Physics

Subjects
Astronomy, Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physics, Optics, Photon detectors for UV, visible and IR photons (solid-state) (PIN diodes, APDs, Si-PMTs, G-APDs, CCDs, EBCCDs, EMCCDs, CMOS imagers, etc), Real-time monitoring, 01 natural sciences, Auger, Successful operation, Observatory, optical, APDs, hardware, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Instrumentation, Photon detectors for UV, Mathematical Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), astro-ph.HE, EBCCDs, Settore FIS/01 - Fisica Sperimentale, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Si-PMTs, observatory, Robotic telescope, G-APDs, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Sciences exactes et naturelles, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, programming, detector: fluorescence, Photometry (optics), 0103 physical sciences, ddc:610, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], High Energy Physics, visible and IR photons (solid-state) (PIN diodes, CMOS imagers, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Remote sensing, etc), fluorescence [detector], Pierre Auger Observatory, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Active monitoring, CCDs, laser, monitoring, EMCCDs, Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physic, atmosphere, Experimental High Energy Physics, Optic, Environmental science, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], RAIOS CÓSMICOS, astro-ph.IM
Abstract

FRAM (F/Photometric Robotic Atmospheric Monitor) is a robotic telescope operated at the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina for the purposes of atmospheric monitoring using stellar photometry. As a passive system which does not produce any light that could interfere with the observations of the fluorescence telescopes of the observatory, it complements the active monitoring systems that use lasers. We discuss the applications of stellar photometry for atmospheric monitoring at optical observatories in general and the particular modes of operation employed by the Auger FRAM. We describe in detail the technical aspects of FRAM, the hardware and software requirements for a successful operation of a robotic telescope for such a purpose and their implementation within the FRAM system., Published version, 27 pages, 8 figures

Published
2021

18. Measurement of the Fluctuations in the Number of Muons in Extensive Air Showers with the Pierre Auger Observatory

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H. J. Mathes, Stanislav Michal, Miroslav Pech, Antonio Condorelli, M. Pothast, Pavel Horvath, A.L. Garcia Vegas, W. M. Namasaka, A. C. Rovero, M. Risse, J. Rodriguez Rojo, Fridtjof Feldbusch, B. Andrada, Alexandru Balaceanu, Jonathan Blazek, Carla Aramo, Vincenzo Rizi, J. F. Valdés Galicia, Julien Souchard, Sofia Andringa, Enrique Zas, Magdalena Cerdá, Hernán Asorey, I. De Mitri, D. Martello, David Wittkowski, O. Martínez Bravo, K. Mulrey, P. Abreu, D. Ravignani, G. Salina, Danielle LaHurd, Olivier Deligny, Marcel Köpke, M. Platino, Fernando Contreras, A. Tapia, H. Gemmeke, G. Parente, Fabrizia Canfora, L. Zehrer, L. Lopes, Tomáš Fodran, Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz, Alexandru Gherghel-Lascu, M. A. Leigui de Oliveira, Flavia Gesualdi, G. Kukec Mezek, G. Marsella, Valerio Pirronello, R. Lorek, G. De Mauro, M. Unger, Ugo Giaccari, Silvia Mollerach, H. Dembinski, N. Fazzini, Jonas Glombitza, F. C. T. Barbato, Dariusz Gora, M. E. Bertaina, Jon Paul Lundquist, A. Menshikov, K.-H. Becker, M. Pimenta, P.R. Araújo Ferreira, J. de Oliveira, Alejandro Almela, C. J. Todero Peixoto, M. Zavrtanik, Lukáš Vaclavek, W. Rodrigues de Carvalho, Jörg R. Hörandel, B. Keilhauer, Marcus Niechciol, A. C. Fauth, Teresa Bister, J. Chudoba, Alan Coleman, B. Tome, Josina Schulte, S. J. Saffi, Tobias Winchen, Julian Kemp, S. J. Sciutto, Carla Bleve, Rodrigo Guedes Lang, Florian Lukas Briechle, Peter Hansen, Lorenzo Caccianiga, Marvin Gottowik, Julien Manshanden, G. Cataldi, E. De Vito, F. Guarino, John Matthews, I. Lhenry-Yvon, Nataliia Borodai, V. Scherini, Paul Sommers, Peter Buchholz, Andres Travaini, Giovanni Consolati, E. Varela, J.D. Sanabria Gomez, Juan Miguel Carceller, Christian Sarmiento-Cano, R. M. de Almeida, P. Tobiska, Alex Kääpä, F. Pedreira, Carla Bonifazi, D. Lo Presti, Jose A. Bellido, S. J. De Jong, Marco Aglietta, Vladimir Lenok, Eric Mayotte, Raul Sarmento, Fabio Convenga, M. M. Freire, Felix Schlüter, H. Wilczyński, Jeffrey A. Johnsen, Fabian Gobbi, Jose Chinellato, F. Sánchez, Serguei Vorobiov, L. Perrone, Alena Bakalova, E. M. Santos, D. Nitz, R. Squartini, Alfred Müller, Petr Schovanek, Valerio Verzi, A. Fuster, G. Golup, M. Gómez Berisso, R. C. Shellard, Octavian Sima, Jarryd A. Day, A. Saftoiu, A.C. Cobos Cerutti, J. R. T. de Mello Neto, G. Torralba Elipe, R. Alves Batista, Bruce R. Dawson, G. Matthiae, Jesús Peña-Rodríguez, Antonio Bueno, Thomas Hebbeker, Sergio Dasso, Tristan Sudholz, H. Schieler, Antonella Castellina, Maria Rita Coluccia, A. Di Matteo, M. Schimp, B. Wundheiler, B. C. Manning, A. Insolia, M. Kleifges, D. Zavrtanik, A.D. Supanitsky, Fred Sarazin, J. Pȩkala, Ioana Caracas, A. Letessier-Selvon, B. García, R. López, Karen S. Caballero-Mora, P.O. Mazur, Thomas Bretz, Lorenzo Cazon, Darko Veberič, Mario Buscemi, Roberto Mussa, T. Huege, I.D. Vergara Quispe, G. Medina-Tanco, R. Halliday, L. Valore, J. Rautenberg, Jeffrey Brack, Günter Sigl, Olaf Scholten, F. Riehn, Marina Scornavacche, Corbin Covault, Jonathan Biteau, Francesco Fenu, Xavier Bertou, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, L. R. Wiencke, Rodrigo Pelayo, Stijn Buitink, Niklas Langner, S. Querchfeld, Olena Tkachenko, J. Šupík, Carlo Ventura, Gualberto Avila, Q. Luce, M. Suárez-Durán, Maximilian Reininghaus, A. Zepeda, Brian Fick, Nicolás González, P. Stassi, Ladislav Chytka, Lino Miramonti, Ioana Codrina Maris, Pedro Assis, François Montanet, Radomir Smida, A. Machado Payeras, Martin Erdmann, J. de Jesús, H. Martinez, A. Etchegoyen, Maximilian Stadelmaier, Sullivan Marafico, Miguel Mostafa, P. Ruehl, D. de Oliveira Franco, A. Streich, Gioacchino Alex Anastasi, Dusan Mandat, J. Stasielak, J. Hulsman, J. Kleinfeller, G. C. Hill, Marco Giammarchi, M. Wirtz, Frank G. Schröder, Eleonora Guido, Roger W Clay, Jorge F. Soriano, Ralph Engel, Denis Stanca, C. M. Schäfer, Fernando Gollan, Massimo Mastrodicasa, Hernan Wahlberg, L. Nellen, Carlos Escobar, Kevin-Druis Merenda, Samo Stanič, K. H. Kampert, J. Ridky, R.J. Barreira Luz, Martin Vacula, John Farmer, C. Morello, Heino Falcke, A. Puyleart, V. de Souza, R. Conceição, Miroslav Hrabovský, Corinne Berat, M. Giller, Isabel Goos, Luis A. Anchordoqui, A. Parra, J. Perez Armand, Kai Daumiller, D. Heck, Maria-Teresa Dova, M. R. Hampel, J. Vicha, A. Haungs, L. Bonneau Arbeletche, Peter L. Biermann, Philipp Papenbreer, M. Schimassek, M. del Río, C. Hojvat, Petr Travnicek, Jan Ebr, Claudio Galelli, Denise Boncioli, Trent D. Grubb, Paolo Privitera, P. Ristori, Jacco Vink, M. Trini, H.O. Klages, M. A. Muller, Markus Roth, Juan Manuel Figueira, Roberta Colalillo, A. G. Mariazzi, P. Savina, A. Aab, A. A. Nucita, Ralf Ulrich, Martina Bohacova, M. I. Micheletti, B. L. Lago, R.C. dos Anjos, Adriana Vásquez-Ramírez, Giovanni Mancarella, Juan Pablo Gongora, M. Palatka, P. Mantsch, A. Cancio, Z. Szadkowski, Matias Tueros, Luis A. Nunez, Paula Gina Isar, F. Salamida, V. Novotny, I. Allekotte, M. J. Roncoroni, Rossella Caruso, A. Lucero, Fernando Catalani, T. Suomijärvi, Caterina Trimarelli, A. Yushkov, D. Melo, D. Nosek, E. Santos, R. Sato, J. Pallotta, A. M. Botti, Niraj Dhital, I. Valiño, G. P. Guedes, Alessio Gorgi, A. Weindl, L. Nožka, Toshihiro Fujii, Orazio Zapparrata, Jakub Juryšek, J. Debatin, Carola Dobrigkeit, M. Muzio, Steffen Hahn, Juan Carlos D'Olivo, T. Pierog, Esteban Roulet, Justin M. Albury, Alan Watson, David Schmidt, S. Schröder, Italo Epicoco, M. Perlin, Mihai Niculescu-Oglinzanu, Piera Luisa Ghia, G. Farrar, A. Taboada, P.F. Gómez Vitale, Violet M. Harvey, D. Harari, Alina Mihaela Badescu, Cristina Galea, M. Prouza, Gaia Silli, A. Filipčič, S. Petrera, Marc Weber, Bjarni Pont, C. J.W.P. Timmermans, K. 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Subjects
interaction: model, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astronomy, Hadron, General Physics and Astronomy, Ultra-high energy cosmic rays, muons properties, hadronic models, 01 natural sciences, cosmic ray, particle interaction, astroparticle detectors, Auger, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), iron, surface [detector], Observatory, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Physics, 4. Education, Settore FIS/01 - Fisica Sperimentale, measured [fluctuation], model [interaction], Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, model: hadronic, fluctuation: measured, 3. Good health, observatory, Sciences exactes et naturelles, atmosphere [showers], model [particle], air, Cherenkov counter: water, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, UHE [cosmic radiation], FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, detector: fluorescence, Nuclear physics, cosmic rays, muon, 0103 physical sciences, calorimeter, ddc:530, 14. Life underwater, cosmic radiation: UHE, High Energy Physics, distribution function, electromagnetic component, 010306 general physics, Astrophysique, Pierre Auger Observatory, fluorescence [detector], Muon, showers: atmosphere, hep-ex, detector: surface, water [Cherenkov counter], particle: model, Small deviations, Física, ASTROFÍSICA, Air shower, Experimental High Energy Physics, Elementary Particles and Fields, hadronic [model], High Energy Physics::Experiment
Abstract

The successful installation, commissioning, and operation of the Pierre Auger Observatory would not have been possible without the strong commitment and effort from the technical and administrative staff in Malargue. We are very grateful to the following agencies and organizations for financial support: Argentina-Comision Nacional de Energia Atomica, Agencia Nacional de Promocion Cientifica y Tecnologica (ANPCyT), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CONICET), Gobierno de la Provincia de Mendoza, Municipalidad de Malargue, NDM Holdings and Valle Las Lenas; in gratitude for their continuing cooperation over land access; Australia-the Australian Research Council; BrazilConselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq), Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (FINEP), Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ), Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) Grants No. 2019/10151-2, No. 2010/07359-6, and No. 1999/05404-3, Ministerio da Ciencia, Tecnologia, Inovacoes e Comunicacoes (MCTIC); Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech RepublicGrants No. MSMT CR LTT18004, No. LM2015038, No. LM2018102, No. CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_013/0001402, No. CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/18_046/0016010, and No. CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/17_049/0008422; France-Centre de Calcul IN2P3/CNRS, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Conseil Regional Ile-de-France, Departement Physique Nucl ' eaire et Corpusculaire (PNC-IN2P3/CNRS), Departement Sciences de l'Univers (SDU-INSU/CNRS), Institut Lagrange de Paris (ILP) Grant No. LABEX ANR-10-LABX-63 within the Investissements d'Avenir Programme Grant No. ANR11-IDEX-0004-02; Germany-Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Finanzministerium Baden-Wurttemberg, Helmholtz Alliance for Astroparticle Physics (HAP), Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (HGF), Ministerium fur Innovation, Wissenschaft und Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Ministerium fur Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst des Landes Baden-Wurttemberg; Italy-Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita e della Ricerca (MIUR), CETEMPS Center of Excellence, Ministero degli Affari Esteri (MAE); Mexico-Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACYT) Grant No. 167733, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), PAPIIT DGAPA-UNAM; The Netherlands-Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Dutch national e-infrastructure with the support of SURF Cooperative; Poland-Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Grant No. DIR/WK/2018/11, National Science Centre, Grants No. 2013/08/M/ST9/00322, No. 2016/23/B/ST9/01635, and No. HARMONIA 5-2013/10/M/ST9/00062, UMO-2016/22/M/ST9/00198; Portugal -Portuguese national funds and FEDER funds within Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade through Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (COMPETE); Romania-Romanian Ministry of Education and Research, the Program Nucleu within MCI (PN19150201/16N/2019 and PN19060102), and project PN-III-P1-1.2-PCCDI-2017-0839/19PCCDI/2018 within PNCDI III; Slovenia-Slovenian Research Agency, Grants No. P1-0031, No. P1-0385, No. I00033, No. N1-0111; Spain-Ministerio de Economia, Industria y Competitividad (FPA2017-85114-P and FPA2017-85197-P), Xunta de Galicia (ED431C 2017/07), Junta de Andalucia (SOMM17/6104/UGR), Feder Funds, RENATA Red Nacional Tematica de Astroparticulas (FPA2015-68783-REDT), and Maria de Maeztu Unit of Excellence (MDM-2016-0692); U.S.Department of Energy, Awards No. DE-AC0207CH11359, No. DE-FR02-04ER41300, No. DE-FG0299ER41107, and No. DE-SC0011689, National Science Foundation, Grant No. 0450696, The Grainger Foundation, Marie Curie-IRSES/EPLANET, European Particle Physics Latin American Network, and UNESCO., We present the first measurement of the fluctuations in the number of muons in extensive air showers produced by ultrahigh energy cosmic rays. We find that the measured fluctuations are in good agreement with predictions from air shower simulations. This observation provides new insights into the origin of the previously reported deficit of muons in air shower simulations and constrains models of hadronic interactions at ultrahigh energies. Our measurement is compatible with the muon deficit originating from small deviations in the predictions from hadronic interaction models of particle production that accumulate as the showers develop., Argentina-Comision Nacional de Energia Atomica, ANPCyT, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CONICET), Gobierno de la Provincia de Mendoza, Municipalidad de Malargue, NDM Holdings, Valle Las Lenas, Australian Research Council, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPQ), Fundacao de Apoio a Pesquisa do Distrito Federal (FAPDF), Financiadora de Inovacao e Pesquisa (Finep), Fundacao Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio De Janeiro (FAPERJ), Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP) 2019/10151-2 2010/07359-6 1999/05404-3, Ministerio da Ciencia, Tecnologia, Inovacoes e Comunicacoes (MCTIC), Ministry of Education, Youth & Sports - Czech Republic MSMT CR LTT18004 LM2015038 LM2018102 CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_013/0001402 CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/18_046/0016010 CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/17_049/0008422, France-Centre de Calcul IN2P3/CNRS, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Region Ile-de-France, Departement Sciences de l'Univers (SDU-INSU/CNRS), French National Research Agency (ANR) LABEX ANR-10-LABX-63 ANR11-IDEX-0004-02, Federal Ministry of Education & Research (BMBF), German Research Foundation (DFG), Finanzministerium Baden-Wurttemberg, Helmholtz Alliance for Astroparticle Physics (HAP), Helmholtz Association, Ministerium fur Innovation, Wissenschaft und Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Ministerium fur Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst des Landes Baden-Wurttemberg, Italy-Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Istituto Nazionale Astrofisica (INAF), Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR), CETEMPS Center of Excellence, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (Italy), Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACyT) 167733, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), PAPIIT DGAPA-UNAM, Netherlands-Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), Dutch national e-infrastructure, SURF Cooperative, Poland-Ministry of Science and Higher Education DIR/WK/2018/11, National Science Centre, Poland 2013/08/M/ST9/00322 2016/23/B/ST9/01635 HARMONIA 5-2013/10/M/ST9/00062 UMO-2016/22/M/ST9/00198, Portugal -Portuguese national funds, FEDER funds within Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade through Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (COMPETE), Romania-Romanian Ministry of Education and Research, the Program Nucleu within MCI PN19150201/16N/2019 PN19060102, Romania-Romanian Ministry of Educatio n and Research, the Program Nucleu within PNCDI III PN-III-P1-1.2-PCCDI-2017-0839/19PCCDI/2018, Slovenian Research Agency - Slovenia P1-0031 P1-0385 I00033 N1-0111, Spain-Ministerio de Economia, Industria y Competitividad FPA2017-85114-P FPA2017-85197-P, Xunta de Galicia European Commission ED431C 2017/07, Junta de Andalucia SOMM17/6104/UGR, European Commission, RENATA Red Nacional Tematica de Astroparticulas FPA2015-68783-REDT, Maria de Maeztu Unit of Excellence MDM-2016-0692, United States Department of Energy (DOE) DE-AC0207CH11359 DE-FR02-04ER41300 DE-FG0299ER41107 DE-SC0011689, National Science Foundation (NSF) 0450696, Grainger Foundation, Marie Curie-IRSES/EPLANET, European Particle Physics Latin American Network, UNESCO

Published
2021

19. Design, upgrade and characterization of the silicon photomultiplier front-end for the AMIGA detector at the Pierre Auger Observatory

Author

Silvia Mollerach, N. Fazzini, Jonas Glombitza, F. C. T. Barbato, D. Zavrtanik, Serguei Vorobiov, J. Kleinfeller, Marcos Cerda, Denis Stanca, D. Melo, W. M. Namasaka, L. Lopes, A. C. Rovero, Alexandru Balaceanu, Carla Aramo, Julien Souchard, D. Martello, O. Martínez Bravo, K. Mulrey, Carla Bleve, Rodrigo Guedes Lang, Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz, Kevin-Druis Merenda, Alexandru Gherghel-Lascu, E. Santos, Thomas Bretz, Tiina Suomijarvi, V. Rizi, Corbin Covault, Vladimir Lenok, J. Stasielak, P. Tobiska, L. Perrone, L. Valore, R. Sato, Lino Miramonti, D. de Oliveira Franco, Lukáš Vaclavek, G. Mancarella, G. Marsella, A. Weindl, P. Savina, W. Rodrigues de Carvalho, Teresa Bister, Dalibor Nosek, M. Schimp, B. C. Manning, G. P. Guedes, Bjarni Pont, Luis A. Anchordoqui, A. Di Matteo, Marvin Gottowik, B. Keilhauer, P. Abreu, D. Ravignani, Alessio Gorgi, Maximilian Reininghaus, Flavia Gesualdi, Dusan Mandat, Sullivan Marafico, M. Risse, Orazio Zapparrata, Francesco Fenu, Ralf Ulrich, B. Wundheiler, Paul Sommers, Patricia María Hansen, Philipp Papenbreer, E. M. Santos, Eric Mayotte, Toshihiro Fujii, S. J. Sciutto, Juan Miguel Carceller, David Schmidt, J. Perez Armand, M. Gómez Berisso, S. Schröder, Italo Epicoco, Kai Daumiller, F. Sánchez, Marco Giammarchi, Nataliia Borodai, Christian Sarmiento-Cano, G. Parente, Fabrizia Canfora, K. Choi, L. Zehrer, Miroslav Pech, M. Pothast, Valerio Pirronello, C. J.W.P. Timmermans, C. M. Schäfer, C. J. Todero Peixoto, J. F. Valdés Galicia, I. De Mitri, Denise Boncioli, Jakub Juryšek, J. Debatin, Antonio Condorelli, Carola Dobrigkeit, M. Muzio, J. de Oliveira, Martin Vacula, Marcel Köpke, M. Platino, R. Alves Batista, Bruce R. Dawson, Trent D. Grubb, D. Nitz, Alejandro Almela, P. Horvath, J. Chudoba, P.O. Mazur, Darko Veberič, Julian Kemp, B. Andrada, A.L. Garcia Vegas, Sofia Andringa, M. A. Muller, A. Aab, G. Cataldi, Michael Prouza, Fred Sarazin, F. Riehn, T. Huege, Marina Scornavacche, A. Tapia, B. Tome, Josina Schulte, Alex Kääpä, Martina Bohacova, L. Nožka, G. De Mauro, F. Guarino, John Matthews, Peter Buchholz, Steffen Hahn, Claudio Galelli, Juan Carlos D'Olivo, T. Pierog, Juan Manuel Figueira, Mario Buscemi, L. R. Wiencke, Niklas Langner, Roberta Colalillo, Heino Falcke, V. Scherini, Maria Rita Coluccia, Jeffrey Brack, Olaf Scholten, Octavian Sima, Marco Aglietta, Marko Zavrtanik, H. Schieler, Esteban Roulet, A. G. Mariazzi, Justin M. Albury, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, Hernán Asorey, M. I. Micheletti, Karl-Heinz Kampert, Antonella Castellina, Jonathan Biteau, J. Vicha, G. Farrar, Juan Pablo Gongora, K.-H. Becker, Nicolás González, Jose Chinellato, Alan Watson, H. Wilczyński, M. Suárez-Durán, Xavier Bertou, M. Perlin, Matias Tueros, Mihai Niculescu-Oglinzanu, M. Pimenta, I. Lhenry-Yvon, Jiri Blazek, E. De Vito, Giovanni Consolati, A. Zepeda, Gaetano Salina, Violet M. Harvey, D. Harari, Luis A. Nunez, Pedro Assis, P.R. Araújo Ferreira, Brian Fick, Piera Luisa Ghia, D. 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Unger, Jeffrey A. Johnsen, Z. Szadkowski, Gaia Silli, Isabel Goos, R. Squartini, A. Filipčič, D. Heck, Alfred Müller, H.O. Klages, Thomas Hebbeker, Sergio Dasso, Tristan Sudholz, S. Petrera, Marc Weber, A. Letessier-Selvon, Paula Gina Isar, M. del Río, Günter Sigl, Martín Miguel Freire, Roberto Mussa, P. Stassi, Radomir Smida, G. Medina-Tanco, A. A. Nucita, J. Rautenberg, A. Machado Payeras, B. García, R.C. Shellard, Q. Luce, F. Salamida, Maximilian Stadelmaier, R. López, Karen S. Caballero-Mora, R. M. de Almeida, A. Yushkov, Lorenzo Caccianiga, Lorenzo Cazon, G. Golup, Rodrigo Pelayo, Stijn Buitink, Martin Erdmann, François Montanet, J. de Jesús, A. Streich, Gioacchino Alex Anastasi, M. Wirtz, Eleonora Guido, Valerio Verzi, L. Nellen, Roger W Clay, Fernando Gollan, C. Morello, V. de Souza, Peter L. Biermann, Paolo Privitera, David Wittkowski, Olivier Deligny, Tomáš Fodran, Ugo Giaccari, Ioana Codrina Maris, A. C. Fauth, Carla Bonifazi, Jose A. Bellido, Fabio Convenga, G. C. 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Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astronomy, Performance of High Energy Physics Detector, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Etc), 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, 0302 clinical medicine, Front-end electronics for detector readout, APDs, Instrumentation, physics.ins-det, Photon detectors for UV, Mathematical Physics, Instrumentation et méthodes en physique, EBCCDs, Visible and IR photons (solid-state) (PIN diodes, APDs, Si-PMTs, G-APDs, CCDs, EBCCDs, EMCCDs, CMOS imagers, etc), electronics, Settore FIS/01 - Fisica Sperimentale, Calibration and fitting methods, Performance of High Energy Physics Detectors, Photon detectors for UV, visible and IR photons (solid-state) (PIN diodes, APDs, Si-PMTs, G-APDs, CCDs, EBCCDs, EMCCDs, CMOS imagers, etc), Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Si-PMTs, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), charged particle, CCDs, Cluster finding, CMOS imagers, EMCCDs, Pattern recognition, G-APDs, Visible and IR photons (solid-state) (PIN diodes, Auger, observatory, density [muon], Pattern recognition, cluster finding, calibration and fitting method, Christian ministry, upgrade, ddc:620, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, performance, atmosphere [showers], Land access, Cherenkov counter: water, air, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, UHE [cosmic radiation], FOS: Physical sciences, 03 medical and health sciences, Political science, 0103 physical sciences, muon: density, photomultiplier: silicon, High Energy Physics, cosmic radiation: UHE, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], ddc:610, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Engineering & allied operations, scintillation counter, showers: atmosphere, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, water [Cherenkov counter], Autres mathématiques, Research council, efficiency, Experimental High Energy Physics, silicon [photomultiplier], High Energy Physics::Experiment, Humanities, RAIOS CÓSMICOS, astro-ph.IM
Abstract

The successful installation, commissioning, and operation of the Pierre Auger Observatory would not have been possible without the strong commitment and effort from the technical and administrative staff in Malargue. We are very grateful to the following agencies and organizations for financial support: Argentina -Comision Nacional de Energia Atomica; Agencia Nacional de Promocion Cientifica y Tecnologica (ANPCyT); Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CONICET); Gobierno de la Provincia de Mendoza; Municipalidad de Malargue; NDM Holdings and Valle Las Lenas; in gratitude for their continuing cooperation over land access; Australia -the Australian Research Council; Brazil -Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq); Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (FINEP); Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ); Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) Grants No. 2019/10151-2, No. 2010/07359-6 and No. 1999/05404-3; Ministerio da Ciencia, Tecnologia, Inovacoes e Comunicacoes (MCTIC); Czech Republic Grant No. MSMT CR LTT18004, LM2015038, LM2018102, CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_013/0001402, CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/18_046/0016010 and CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/17_049/0008422; France -Centre de Calcul IN2P3/CNRS; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Conseil Regional Ile-de-France; Departement Physique Nucleaire et Corpusculaire (PNC-IN2P3/CNRS); Departement Sciences de l'Univers (SDU-INSU/CNRS); Institut Lagrange de Paris (ILP) Grant No. LABEX ANR-10-LABX-63 within the Investissements d'Avenir Programme Grant No. ANR-11-IDEX-0004-02; Germany-Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung (BMBF); Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG); Finanzministerium Baden-Wurttemberg; Helmholtz Alliance for Astroparticle Physics (HAP); Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (HGF); Ministerium fur Innovation, Wissenschaft und Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen; Ministerium fur Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst des Landes Baden-Wurttemberg; Italy-Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN); Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF); Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita e della Ricerca (MIUR); CETEMPS Center of Excellence; Ministero degli Affari Esteri (MAE); Mexico-Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACYT) No. 167733; Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM); PAPIIT DGAPA-UNAM; The Netherlands -Ministry of Education, Culture and Science; Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO); Dutch national e-infrastructure with the support of SURF Cooperative; Poland-Ministry of Science and Higher Education, grant No. DIR/WK/2018/11; National Science Centre, Grants No. 2013/08/M/ST9/00322, No. 2016/23/B/ST9/01635 and No. HARMONIA 5-2013/10/M/ST9/00062, UMO-2016/22/M/ST9/00198; Portugal -Portuguese national funds and FEDER funds within Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade through Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (COMPETE); Romania-Romanian Ministry of Education and Research, the Program Nucleu within MCI(PN19150201/16N/2019 and PN19060102) and project PN-III-P1-1.2-PCCDI-2017-0839/19PCCDI/2018 within PNCDI III; Slovenia -Slovenian Research Agency, grants P1-0031, P1-0385, I0-0033, N1-0111; Spain-Ministerio de Economia, Industria y Competitividad (FPA2017-85114-P and FPA2017-85197-P), Xunta de Galicia (ED431C 2017/07), Junta de Andalucia (SOMM17/6104/UGR), Feder Funds, RENATA Red Nacional Tematica de Astroparticulas (FPA2015-68783-REDT) and Maria de Maeztu Unit of Excellence (MDM-2016-0692); U.S.A. -Department of Energy, Contracts No. DE-AC02-07CH11359, No. DE-FR02-04ER41300, No. DE-FG02-99ER41107 and No. DE-SC0011689; National Science Foundation, Grant No. 0450696; The Grainger Foundation; Marie Curie-IRSES/EPLANET; European Particle Physics Latin American Network; and UNESCO., AMIGA (Auger Muons and Infill for the Ground Array) is an upgrade of the Pierre Auger Observatory to complement the study of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECR) by measuring the muon content of extensive air showers (EAS). It consists of an array of 61 water Cherenkov detectors on a denser spacing in combination with underground scintillation detectors used for muon density measurement. Each detector is composed of three scintillation modules, with 10 m(2) detection area per module, buried at 2.3 m depth, resulting in a total detection area of 30 m(2). Silicon photomultiplier sensors (SiPM) measure the amount of scintillation light generated by charged particles traversing the modules. In this paper, the design of the front-end electronics to process the signals of those SiPMs and test results from the laboratory and from the Pierre Auger Observatory are described. Compared to our previous prototype, the new electronics shows a higher performance, higher efficiency and lower power consumption, and it has a new acquisition system with increased dynamic range that allows measurements closer to the shower core. The new acquisition system is based on the measurement of the total charge signal that the muonic component of the cosmic ray shower generates in the detector., Argentina - Comision Nacional de Energia Atomica, Argentina - Agencia Nacional de Promocion Cientifica y Tecnologica (ANPCyT), Argentina - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CONICET), Argentina - Gobierno de la Provincia de Mendoza, Argentina - Municipalidad de Malargue, Argentina - NDM Holdings, Argentina - Valle Las Lenas, Australian Research Council, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPQ) Fundacao de Apoio a Pesquisa do Distrito Federal (FAPDF) Brazil - Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (FINEP), Fundacao Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio De Janeiro (FAPERJ), Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP) 2019/10151-2 2010/07359-6 1999/05404-3, Brazil - Ministerio da Ciencia, Tecnologia, Inovacoes e Comunicacoes (MCTIC), Brazil - Czech Republic Grant MSMT CR LTT18004 LM2015038 LM2018102 CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_013/0001402 CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/18_046/0016010 CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/17_049/0008422, France - Centre de Calcul IN2P3/CNRS, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France - Conseil Regional Ile-de-France, France - Departement Physique Nucleaire et Corpusculaire (PNC-IN2P3/CNRS), France - Departement Sciences de l'Univers (SDU-INSU/CNRS), French National Research Agency (ANR) LABEX ANR-10-LABX-63, Institut Lagrange de Paris (ILP) within the Investissements d'Avenir Programme ANR-11-IDEX-0004-02, Federal Ministry of Education & Research (BMBF), Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), German Research Foundation (DFG), Germany - Finanzministerium Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany - Helmholtz Alliance for Astroparticle Physics (HAP), Germany - Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (HGF), Germany - Ministerium fur Innovation, Wissenschaft und Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Ministerium fur Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst des Landes Baden-Wurttemberg, Italy - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Italy - Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Italy - Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita e della Ricerca (MIUR), Italy - CETEMPS Center of Excellence, Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACyT) 167733, Mexico - Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico - PAPIIT DGAPA-UNAM, Netherlands - Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), The Netherlands - SURF Cooperative, Poland - Ministry of Science and Higher Education DIR/WK/2018/11 Poland - National Science Centre 2013/08/M/ST9/00322 2016/23/B/ST9/01635 HARMONIA 5-2013/10/M/ST9/00062 UMO-2016/22/M/ST9/00198, Portugal - Portuguese national funds Portugal - FEDER funds within Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade through Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (COMPETE), Romania - Romanian Ministry of Education and Research Romania - Program Nucleu within MCI PN19150201/16N/2019 PN19060102 Romania - PNCDI III PN-III-P1-1.2-PCCDI-2017-0839/19PCCDI/2018, Slovenian Research Agency - Slovenia P1-0031 P1-0385 I0-0033 N1-0111, Spain - Ministerio de Economia, Industria y Competitividad FPA2017-85114-P FPA2017-85197-P, Spain - Xunta de Galicia ED431C 2017/07, Junta de Andalucia SOMM17/6104/UGR, Spain - Feder Funds, Spain - RENATA Red Nacional Tematica de Astroparticulas FPA2015-68783-REDT, Spain - Maria de Maeztu Unit of Excellence MDM-2016-0692, United States Department of Energy (DOE) DE-AC02-07CH11359, National Science Foundation (NSF) 0450696, U.S.A. - Grainger Foundation U.S.A. - Marie Curie-IRSES/EPLANET U.S.A. - European Particle Physics Latin American Network U.S.A. - UNESCO, Italy - Ministero degli Affari Esteri (MAE), The Netherlands - Dutch national e-infrastructure

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2021

20. Deep-learning based reconstruction of the shower maximum X max using the water-Cherenkov detectors of the Pierre Auger Observatory

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A. Segreto, Günter Sigl, Orazio Zapparrata, P. Stassi, Radomir Smida, A. Machado Payeras, G. Cataldi, V. Scherini, Carola Dobrigkeit, M. Muzio, Marcio Aparecido Muller, Srijan Sehgal, Fernando Gollan, Carla Bleve, Rodrigo Guedes Lang, M. E. Bertaina, F. de Palma, Alan Watson, M. Perlin, Mihai Niculescu-Oglinzanu, L. Valore, Belén Andrada, Marina Scornavacche, V. de Souza, G. Golup, Violet M. Harvey, D. Harari, N. Kunka, T. Bister, F. Riehn, P. Tobiska, Jonathan Biteau, M. I. Micheletti, A. Insolia, Jesús Peña-Rodríguez, Matías J. Roncoroni, Sullivan Marafico, M. Kleifges, D. Zavrtanik, Marco Giammarchi, R.J. Barreira Luz, D. Melo, G. P. Guedes, F. Salamida, N. Fazzini, Jonas Glombitza, F. C. T. Barbato, A. Yushkov, Alina Mihaela Badescu, Ioana Codrina Maris, R. Sato, Lourenco Lopes, Toshihiro Fujii, S. Schröder, Italo Epicoco, Marvin Gottowik, Cristina Galea, M. Prouza, Brian Fick, Xavier Bertou, A. Di Matteo, Julian Kemp, Eric Mayotte, D. Nitz, Esteban Roulet, P. Abreu, D. Ravignani, R. M. de Almeida, K. H. Kampert, J. C. Arteaga Velázquez, J. Kleinfeller, A. Zepeda, M. Gómez Berisso, R. C. Shellard, Roberto Mussa, A. Puyleart, Jakub Juryšek, Petr Hamal, Steffen Hahn, Juan Carlos D'Olivo, Julien Manshanden, Lorenzo Caccianiga, Pedro Assis, H. Martinez, A. Etchegoyen, G. C. Hill, Corinne Berat, M. Giller, Jan Pękala, Rúben Conceição, Valerio Verzi, B. Tome, J. Chudoba, L. Lu, H. J. Mathes, Stanislav Michal, B. Wundheiler, Andres Travaini, K. Choi, Alex Kääpä, Ralph Engel, Flavia Gesualdi, J. Perez Armand, E. Varela, D. Correia dos Santos, J. Ridky, L. R. Wiencke, T. Pierog, François Montanet, Justin M. Albury, P. L. Ghia, Marcel Köpke, M. Platino, J.D. Sanabria Gomez, Rodrigo Pelayo, Jose J. Gonzalez, Stijn Buitink, Katie Mulrey, Carlos Escobar, G. De Mauro, Kevin-Druis Merenda, Vladimir Lenok, L. Perrone, H. Schieler, C. J. Todero Peixoto, Mario Buscemi, D. Nosek, E. Santos, Niklas Langner, Antonella Castellina, Eleonora Guido, Antonio Condorelli, M. Risse, Jörg R. Hörandel, J. F. Valdés Galicia, I. De Mitri, Jonathan Blazek, Jose Chinellato, J. Rodriguez Rojo, Fridtjof Feldbusch, A.L. Garcia Vegas, Enrique Zas, I. Lhenry-Yvon, C. Trimarelli, Gaia Silli, A. Filipčič, A.D. Supanitsky, Philipp Papenbreer, Claudio Galelli, A. Weindl, M. Suárez-Durán, J. Stasielak, T. Huege, Hernán Gonzalo Asorey, L. Nellen, L. Anchordoqui, Alena Bakalova, C. Morello, Miroslav Hrabovský, Petr Travnicek, Trent D. Grubb, G. Parente, Fabrizia Canfora, Fernando Contreras, A. Haungs, Juan Manuel Figueira, Roberta Colalillo, Paul Sommers, Clara Keiko Oliveira Watanabe, B. García, M. Schimp, A. G. Mariazzi, R. López, Karen S. Caballero-Mora, H. Wilczyński, Ioana Caracas, A. Letessier-Selvon, Lorenzo Cazon, C. Pérez Bertolli, F. Sanchez, F. Sarazin, S. Petrera, Marc Weber, David Schmidt, G. Farrar, L. Zehrer, J. de Oliveira, Alejandro Almela, P. Mantsch, Z. Szadkowski, M. Schimassek, C. Hojvat, Jan Ebr, Jacco Vink, Peter L. Biermann, L. Bonneau Arbeletche, Maximilian Reininghaus, Paolo Privitera, M. A. Leigui de Oliveira, Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz, Alexandru Gherghel-Lascu, Martin Erdmann, J. de Jesús, A. Taboada, G. Marsella, E. M. Santos, A. Gorgi, H.O. Klages, B. C. Manning, Dariusz Gora, Bjarni Pont, Thomas Bretz, Petr Janecek, Corbin Covault, Matías Rolf Hampel, Frank G. Schröder, R. Squartini, Alfred Müller, P.F. Gómez Vitale, A. Streich, Gioacchino Alex Anastasi, M. Wirtz, David Wittkowski, G. Salina, Roger W Clay, Olivier Deligny, W. M. Namasaka, M. Mastrodicasa, A. C. Rovero, Alexandru Balaceanu, A. A. Nucita, Alan Coleman, Lino Miramonti, S. J. Saffi, Lukáš Vaclavek, J. F. Soriano, D. de Oliveira Franco, R. Alves Batista, Bruce R. Dawson, Octavian Sima, Ana Martina Botti, Jeffrey Brack, Olaf Scholten, P.O. Mazur, K.-H. Becker, Maria Rita Coluccia, Dusan Mandat, Francesco Fenu, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, M. Pimenta, Tomáš Fodran, Alina Nasr-Esfahani, P.R. Araújo Ferreira, Tobias Winchen, G. Mancarella, B. Keilhauer, Florian Lukas Briechle, Darko Veberič, Ugo Giaccari, S. J. Sciutto, F. Pedreira, Christian Sarmiento-Cano, Raul Sarmento, G. Medina-Tanco, Felix Schlüter, P. Ruehl, Carla Aramo, Vincenzo Rizi, C. J.W.P. Timmermans, Julien Souchard, Jon Paul Lundquist, A. Menshikov, D. Martello, Juan Miguel Carceller, C. M. Schäfer, Markus Roth, Silvia Mollerach, O. Martínez Bravo, Isabel Goos, D. Heck, A. Tapia, Josina Schulte, Peter Hansen, M. del Río, H. Gemmeke, Fabian Gobbi, B. L. Lago, P. Savina, W. Rodrigues de Carvalho, Denise Boncioli, M. Unger, F. Guarino, John Matthews, Peter Buchholz, Marco Aglietta, Miguel Mostafa, E.E. Pereira Martins, Serguei Vorobiov, Martina Bohacova, Miroslav Pech, M. Pothast, J. Hulsman, J. Rautenberg, Pavel Horvath, Q. Luce, Marcus Niechciol, Juan Pablo Gongora, Paula Gina Isar, Sofia Andringa, Maximilian Stadelmaier, Nataliia Borodai, Marcos Cerda, D. Lo Presti, S. J. De Jong, Samo Stanič, Jarryd A. Day, A. Saftoiu, A.C. Cobos Cerutti, Martin Vacula, J. R. T. de Mello Neto, V. Novotny, V. K.C. Varma, Rossella Caruso, A. Lucero, Fernando Catalani, N. González, Kai Daumiller, Heino Falcke, S. Querchfeld, Olena Tkachenko, Thomas Hebbeker, Sergio Dasso, Tristan Sudholz, J. Šupík, Carlo Ventura, Martín Miguel Freire, V. Pirronello, J. Vicha, Ladislav Chytka, A. Aab, Carla Taricco, Matias Tueros, Luis A. Nunez, T. Suomijärvi, J. Pallotta, Hernan Wahlberg, A. Parra, A. Fuster, M. Trini, P.G. Brichetto Orchera, I. Allekotte, A. C. Fauth, Carla Bonifazi, Jose A. Bellido, Fabio Convenga, I.D. Vergara Quispe, M. Zavrtanik, E. De Vito, Giovanni Consolati, Petr Schovanek, Denis Stanca, Ralf Ulrich, L. Nožka, G. Matthiae, Antonio Bueno, Gualberto Avila, John Farmer, Maria-Teresa Dova, R.C. dos Anjos, Adriana Vásquez-Ramírez, M. Palatka, Jeffrey A. Johnsen, Aab, A., Abreu, P., Aglietta, M., Albury, J. M., Allekotte, I., Almela, A., Alvarez-Mu??iz, J., Alves Batista, R., Anastasi, G. 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P., Guido, E., Hahn, S., Hamal, P., Hampel, M. R., Hansen, P., Harari, D., Harvey, V. M., Haungs, A., Hebbeker, T., Heck, D., Hill, G. C., Hojvat, C., H??randel, J. R., Horvath, P., Hrabovsk??, M., Huege, T., Hulsman, J., Insolia, A., Isar, P. G., Janecek, P., Johnsen, J. A., Jurysek, J., K????p??, A., Kampert, K. H., Keilhauer, B., Kemp, J., Klages, H. O., Kleifges, M., Kleinfeller, J., K??pke, M., Kunka, N., Lago, B. L., Lang, R. G., Langner, N., Leigui de Oliveira, M. A., Lenok, V., Letessier-Selvon, A., Lhenry-Yvon, I., Lo Presti, D., Lopes, L., L??pez, R., Lu, L., Luce, Q., Lucero, A., Lundquist, J. P., Machado Payeras, A., Mancarella, G., Mandat, D., Manning, B. C., Manshanden, J., Mantsch, P., Marafico, S., Mariazzi, A. G., Mari??, I. C., Marsella, G., Martello, D., Martinez, H., Mart??nez Bravo, O., Mastrodicasa, M., Mathes, H. J., Matthews, J., Matthiae, G., Mayotte, E., Mazur, P. O., Medina-Tanco, G., Melo, D., Menshikov, A., Merenda, K. -D., Michal, S., Micheletti, M. I., Miramonti, L., Mollerach, S., Montanet, F., Morello, C., Mostaf??, M., M??ller, A. L., Muller, M. A., Mulrey, K., Mussa, R., Muzio, M., Namasaka, W. M., Nasr-Esfahani, A., Nellen, L., Niculescu-Oglinzanu, M., Niechciol, M., Nitz, D., Nosek, D., Novotny, V., No??ka, L., Nucita, A., N????ez, L. A., Palatka, M., Pallotta, J., Papenbreer, P., Parente, G., Parra, A., Pech, M., Pedreira, F., P??kala, J., Pelayo, R., Pe??a-Rodriguez, J., Pereira Martins, E. E., Perez Armand, J., P??rez Bertolli, C., Perlin, M., Perrone, L., Petrera, S., Pierog, T., Pimenta, M., Pirronello, V., Platino, M., Pont, B., Pothast, M., Privitera, P., Prouza, M., Puyleart, A., Querchfeld, S., Rautenberg, J., Ravignani, D., Reininghaus, M., Ridky, J., Riehn, F., Risse, M., Rizi, V., Rodrigues de Carvalho, W., Rodriguez Rojo, J., Roncoroni, M. J., Roth, M., Roulet, E., Rovero, A. C., Ruehl, P., Saffi, S. J., Saftoiu, A., Salamida, F., Salazar, H., Salina, G., Sanabria Gomez, J. D., S??nchez, F., Santos, E. M., Santos, E., Sarazin, F., Sarmento, R., Sarmiento-Cano, C., Sato, R., Savina, P., Sch??fer, C. M., Scherini, V., Schieler, H., Schimassek, M., Schimp, M., Schl??ter, F., Schmidt, D., Scholten, O., Schov??nek, P., Schr??der, F. G., Schr??der, S., Schulte, J., Sciutto, S. J., Scornavacche, M., Segreto, A., Sehgal, S., Shellard, R. C., Sigl, G., Silli, G., Sima, O., m??da, R., Sommers, P., Soriano, J. F., Souchard, J., Squartini, R., Stadelmaier, M., Stanca, D., Stani??, S., Stasielak, J., Stassi, P., Streich, A., Su??rez-Dur??n, M., Sudholz, T., Suomij??rvi, T., Supanitsky, A. D., up??k, J., Szadkowski, Z., Taboada, A., Tapia, A., Taricco, C., Timmermans, C., Tkachenko, O., Tobiska, P., Todero Peixoto, C. J., Tom??, B., Travaini, A., Travnicek, P., Trimarelli, C., Trini, M., Tueros, M., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Vaclavek, L., Vacula, M., Galicia, J. F. Vald??s., Valore, L., Varela, E., Varma K. C., V., V??squez-Ram??rez, A., Veberi??, D., Ventura, C., Vergara Quispe, I. 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Subjects
showers: energy, longitudinal [showers], interaction: model, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astronomy, Calibration and fitting methods, Cluster finding, Data analysis, Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physics, Particle identification methods, Pattern recognition, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Auger, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), cluster finding, surface [detector], Observatory, Large detector systems, Instrumentation, Mathematical Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), astro-ph.HE, Physics, Pattern recognition, cluster finding, calibration and fitting methods, Settore FIS/01 - Fisica Sperimentale, model [interaction], Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Data analysi, calibration and fitting methods, energy [showers], observatory, Pattern recognition, cluster finding, calibration and fitting method, astroparticle physics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, atmosphere [showers], air, neural network, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, UHE [cosmic radiation], FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, detector: fluorescence, 0103 physical sciences, ddc:530, High Energy Physics, ddc:610, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], cosmic radiation: UHE, structure, particle physics, network: performance, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Ciencias Exactas, Cherenkov radiation, fluorescence [detector], Pierre Auger Observatory, mass spectrum [nucleus], showers: atmosphere, detector: surface, hep-ex, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Física, resolution, calibration, Computational physics, performance [network], Cherenkov counter, Air shower, Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physic, Experimental High Energy Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, nucleus: mass spectrum, showers: longitudinal, RAIOS CÓSMICOS, Energy (signal processing), astro-ph.IM
Abstract

The atmospheric depth of the air shower maximum $X_{\mathrm{max}}$ is an observable commonly used for the determination of the nuclear mass composition of ultra-high energy cosmic rays. Direct measurements of $X_{\mathrm{max}}$ are performed using observations of the longitudinal shower development with fluorescence telescopes. At the same time, several methods have been proposed for an indirect estimation of $X_{\mathrm{max}}$ from the characteristics of the shower particles registered with surface detector arrays. In this paper, we present a deep neural network (DNN) for the estimation of $X_{\mathrm{max}}$. The reconstruction relies on the signals induced by shower particles in the ground based water-Cherenkov detectors of the Pierre Auger Observatory. The network architecture features recurrent long short-term memory layers to process the temporal structure of signals and hexagonal convolutions to exploit the symmetry of the surface detector array. We evaluate the performance of the network using air showers simulated with three different hadronic interaction models. Thereafter, we account for long-term detector effects and calibrate the reconstructed $X_{\mathrm{max}}$ using fluorescence measurements. Finally, we show that the event-by-event resolution in the reconstruction of the shower maximum improves with increasing shower energy and reaches less than $25~\mathrm{g/cm^{2}}$ at energies above $2\times 10^{19}~\mathrm{eV}$., Published version, 29 pages, 12 figures

Published
2021

21. The energy spectrum of cosmic rays beyond the turn-down around 1017 eV as measured with the surface detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory

Author

A. C. Fauth, Vladimir Lenok, L. Perrone, M. I. Micheletti, M. Risse, Jonathan Blazek, Alessio Gorgi, Carla Bonifazi, Jose A. Bellido, Fabio Convenga, Marvin Gottowik, G. Matthiae, Brian Fick, Orazio Zapparrata, Antonio Bueno, Carola Dobrigkeit, M. Muzio, G. Parente, D. Melo, J. Rautenberg, M. E. Bertaina, Abha Khakurdikar, P. Abreu, Fabrizia Canfora, D. Ravignani, L. Bonneau Arbeletche, L. Zehrer, Q. Luce, M. Schimassek, C. Hojvat, Jan Ebr, Alan Watson, I.D. Vergara Quispe, G. P. Guedes, Toshihiro Fujii, Jakub Juryšek, Petr Hamal, Steffen Hahn, Juan Carlos D'Olivo, T. Pierog, Eric Mayotte, Esteban Roulet, M. Gómez Berisso, R. C. Shellard, Justin M. Albury, P. L. Ghia, Gualberto Avila, Sara Martinelli, M. Perlin, Mihai Niculescu-Oglinzanu, Zoé Torrès, Dariusz Gora, B. Tome, Josina Schulte, Maximilian Stadelmaier, F. Riehn, Marina Scornavacche, Jonathan Biteau, K. H. Kampert, J. C. Arteaga Velázquez, Ioana Codrina Maris, Octavian Sima, J. de Oliveira, R. Conceição, Alejandro Almela, Jacco Vink, H.O. Klages, Alan Coleman, Peter Hansen, F. Guarino, John Matthews, Peter Buchholz, J. F. Valdés Galicia, L. Valore, D. Nitz, W. M. Namasaka, A. C. Rovero, S. J. Saffi, Isabel Goos, D. Heck, Jeffrey A. Johnsen, Miroslav Hrabovský, A. Haungs, Julien Manshanden, V. V. Kizakke Covilakam, Andres Travaini, A. Segreto, Günter Sigl, D. Nosek, E. Santos, A. A. Nucita, I. De Mitri, R. Sato, M. del Río, P. Stassi, Hernan Wahlberg, Radomir Smida, Mario Buscemi, John Farmer, F. Fenu, A. Machado Payeras, Violet M. Harvey, D. Harari, Marcel Köpke, M. Platino, G. C. Hill, P. Mantsch, D. Lo Presti, S. J. De Jong, Alexandru Balaceanu, Z. Szadkowski, E. Varela, J.D. Sanabria Gomez, Roberto Mussa, Marco Aglietta, Julian Kemp, Paul Sommers, Srijan Sehgal, Jorge F. Soriano, Thomas Hebbeker, Fernando Gollan, Max Büsken, Sergio Dasso, Tristan Sudholz, Martín Miguel Freire, M. A. Leigui de Oliveira, F. Pedreira, V. de Souza, Carla Aramo, Vincenzo Rizi, J. Perez Armand, Maria-Teresa Dova, M. R. Hampel, Pierre Billoir, A. Puyleart, Corinne Berat, Julien Souchard, Thomas Fitoussi, D. Martello, Alena Bakalova, Jarryd A. Day, A. Saftoiu, Ralph Engel, J. Ridky, A. Parra, M. Zavrtanik, L. R. Wiencke, Niklas Langner, Alex Kääpä, Marcio Aparecido Muller, Martina Bohacova, Giovanni Mancarella, O. Martínez Bravo, K. Mulrey, F. Sánchez, Miroslav Pech, V. Pirronello, Raul Sarmento, Felix Schlüter, Fabian Gobbi, Sullivan Marafico, Juan Pablo Gongora, Alina Mihaela Badescu, A. Weindl, Cristina Galea, François Montanet, M. Pothast, A.C. Cobos Cerutti, F. de Palma, E. De Vito, Darko Veberič, M. Suárez-Durán, Pavel Horvath, Claudio Galelli, M. Prouza, P. Ruehl, Marco Giammarchi, Clara Keiko Oliveira Watanabe, Flavia Gesualdi, J. R. T. de Mello Neto, Carla Taricco, Carla Bleve, Rodrigo Guedes Lang, R. M. de Almeida, T. Huege, Jeffrey Brack, Matias Tueros, G. Golup, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, Eleonora Guido, Giovanni Consolati, Frank G. Schröder, N. 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F., Souchard, J., Squartini, R., Stadelmaier, M., Stanca, D., Stanic, S., Stasielak, J., Stassi, P., Streich, A., Suarez-Duran, M., Sudholz, T., Suomijarvi, T., Supanitsky, A. D., Szadkowski, Z., Tapia, A., Taricco, C., Timmermans, C., Tkachenko, O., Tobiska, P., Todero Peixoto, C. J., Tome, B., Torres, Z., Travaini, A., Travnicek, P., Trimarelli, C., Tueros, M., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Vaclavek, L., Vacula, M., Valdes Galicia, J. F., Valore, L., Varela, E., Vasquez-Ramirez, A., Veberic, D., Ventura, C., Vergara Quispe, I. D., Verzi, V., Vicha, J., Vink, J., Vorobiov, S., Wahlberg, H., Watanabe, C., Watson, A. A., Weber, M., Weindl, A., Wiencke, L., Wilczynski, H., Wirtz, M., Wittkowski, D., Wundheiler, B., Yushkov, A., Zapparrata, O., Zas, E., Zavrtanik, D., Zavrtanik, M., Zehrer, L., Physics, Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Pierre Auger, Abreu P., Aglietta M., Albury J.M., Allekotte I., Almela A., Alvarez-Muniz J., Alves Batista R., Anastasi G.A., Anchordoqui L., Andrada B., Andringa S., Aramo C., Araujo Ferreira P.R., Arteaga Velazquez J.C., Asorey H., Assis P., Avila G., Badescu A.M., Bakalova A., Balaceanu A., Barbato F., Barreira Luz R.J., Becker K.H., Bellido J.A., Berat C., Bertaina M.E., Bertou X., Biermann P.L., Billoir P., Binet V., Bismark K., Bister T., Biteau J., Blazek J., Bleve C., Bohacova M., Boncioli D., Bonifazi C., Bonneau Arbeletche L., Borodai N., Botti A.M., Brack J., Bretz T., Brichetto Orchera P.G., Briechle F.L., Buchholz P., Bueno A., Buitink S., Buscemi M., Busken M., Caballero-Mora K.S., Caccianiga L., Canfora F., Caracas I., Carceller J.M., Caruso R., Castellina A., Catalani F., Cataldi G., Cazon L., Cerda M., Chinellato J.A., Chudoba J., Chytka L., Clay R.W., Cobos Cerutti A.C., Colalillo R., Coleman A., Coluccia M.R., Conceicao R., Condorelli A., Consolati G., Contreras F., Convenga F., Correia dos Santos D., Covault C.E., Dasso S., Daumiller K., Dawson B.R., Day J.A., de Almeida R.M., de Jesus J., de Jong S.J., De Mauro G., de Mello Neto J.R.T., De Mitri I., de Oliveira J., de Oliveira Franco D., de Palma F., de Souza V., De Vito E., del Rio M., Deligny O., Di Matteo A., Dobrigkeit C., D'Olivo J.C., Domingues Mendes L.M., dos Anjos R.C., dos Santos D., Dova M.T., Ebr J., Engel R., Epicoco I., Erdmann M., Escobar C.O., Etchegoyen A., Falcke H., Farmer J., Farrar G., Fauth A.C., Fazzini N., Feldbusch F., Fenu F., Fick B., Figueira J.M., Filipcic A., Fitoussi T., Fodran T., Freire M.M., Fujii T., Fuster A., Galea C., Galelli C., Garcia B., Garcia Vegas A.L., Gemmeke H., Gesualdi F., Gherghel-Lascu A., Ghia P.L., Giaccari U., Giammarchi M., Glombitza J., Gobbi F., Gollan F., Golup G., Gomez Berisso M., Gomez Vitale P.F., Gongora J.P., Gonzalez J.M., Gonzalez N., Goos I., Gora D., Gorgi A., Gottowik M., Grubb T.D., Guarino F., Guedes G.P., Guido E., Hahn S., Hamal P., Hampel M.R., Hansen P., Harari D., Harvey V.M., Haungs A., Hebbeker T., Heck D., Hill G.C., Hojvat C., Horandel J.R., Horvath P., Hrabovsky M., Huege T., Insolia A., Isar P.G., Janecek P., Johnsen J.A., Jurysek J., Kaapa A., Kampert K.H., Karastathis N., Keilhauer B., Kemp J., Khakurdikar A., Kizakke Covilakam V.V., Klages H.O., Kleifges M., Kleinfeller J., Kopke M., Kunka N., Lago B.L., Lang R.G., Langner N., Leigui de Oliveira M.A., Lenok V., Letessier-Selvon A., Lhenry-Yvon I., Lo Presti D., Lopes L., Lopez R., Lu L., Luce Q., Lundquist J.P., Machado Payeras A., Mancarella G., Mandat D., Manning B.C., Manshanden J., Mantsch P., Marafico S., Mariazzi A.G., Maris I.C., Marsella G., Martello D., Martinelli S., Martinez H., Martinez Bravo O., Mastrodicasa M., Mathes H.J., Matthews J., Matthiae G., Mayotte E., Mazur P.O., Medina-Tanco G., Melo D., Menshikov A., Merenda K.-D., Michal S., Micheletti M.I., Miramonti L., Mockler D., Mollerach S., Montanet F., Morello C., Mostafa M., Muller A.L., Muller M.A., Mulrey K., Mussa R., Muzio M., Namasaka W.M., Nasr-Esfahani A., Nellen L., Niculescu-Oglinzanu M., Niechciol M., Nitz D., Nosek D., Novotny V., Nozka L., Nucita A., Nunez L.A., Palatka M., Pallotta J., Papenbreer P., Parente G., Parra A., Pawlowsky J., Pech M., Pedreira F., Pekala J., Pelayo R., Pena-Rodriguez J., Pereira Martins E.E., Perez Armand J., Perez Bertolli C., Perlin M., Perrone L., Petrera S., Pierog T., Pimenta M., Pirronello V., Platino M., Pont B., Pothast M., Privitera P., Prouza M., Puyleart A., Querchfeld S., Rautenberg J., Ravignani D., Reininghaus M., Ridky J., Riehn F., Risse M., Rizi V., Rodrigues de Carvalho W., Rodriguez Rojo J., Roncoroni M.J., Roth M., Roulet E., Rovero A.C., Ruehl P., Saffi S.J., Saftoiu A., Salamida F., Salazar H., Salina G., Sanabria Gomez J.D., Sanchez F., Santos E.M., Santos E., Sarazin F., Sarmento R., Sarmiento-Cano C., Sato R., Savina P., Schafer C.M., Scherini V., Schieler H., Schimassek M., Schimp M., Schluter F., Schmidt D., Scholten O., Schovanek P., Schroder F.G., Schroder S., Schulte J., Schulz A., Sciutto S.J., Scornavacche M., Segreto A., Sehgal S., Shellard R.C., Sigl G., Silli G., Sima O., Smida R., Sommers P., Soriano J.F., Souchard J., Squartini R., Stadelmaier M., Stanca D., Stanic S., Stasielak J., Stassi P., Streich A., Suarez-Duran M., Sudholz T., Suomijarvi T., Supanitsky A.D., Szadkowski Z., Tapia A., Taricco C., Timmermans C., Tkachenko O., Tobiska P., Todero Peixoto C.J., Tome B., Torres Z., Travaini A., Travnicek P., Trimarelli C., Tueros M., Ulrich R., Unger M., Vaclavek L., Vacula M., Valdes Galicia J.F., Valore L., Varela E., Vasquez-Ramirez A., Veberic D., Ventura C., Vergara Quispe I.D., Verzi V., Vicha J., Vink J., Vorobiov S., Wahlberg H., Watanabe C., Watson A.A., Weber M., Weindl A., Wiencke L., Wilczynski H., Wirtz M., Wittkowski D., Wundheiler B., Yushkov A., Zapparrata O., Zas E., Zavrtanik D., Zavrtanik M., and Zehrer L.

Subjects
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Astronomy, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, UHE [cosmic radiation], FOS: Physical sciences, Flux, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, detector: fluorescence, Auger, cosmic rays, surface [detector], Observatory, 0103 physical sciences, calorimeter, ddc:530, High Energy Physics, cosmic radiation: UHE, spectrum [cosmic radiation], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Engineering (miscellaneous), Engineering & allied operations, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), fluorescence [detector], Pierre Auger Observatory, Physics, astro-ph.HE, cosmic radiation: energy spectrum, cosmic radiation: spectrum, detector: surface, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Settore FIS/01 - Fisica Sperimentale, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Calorimeter, flux, observatory, spectral, ddc:620, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, energy spectrum [cosmic radiation], Energy (signal processing), RAIOS CÓSMICOS, ultra-high energy cosmic rays, energy spectrum features
Abstract

The successful installation, commissioning, and operation of the Pierre Auger Observatory would not have been possible without the strong commitment and effort from the technical and administrative staff in Malargüe. We are very grateful to the following agencies and organizations for financial support: Argentina – Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica; Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica (ANPCyT); Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET); Gobierno de la Provincia de Mendoza; Municipalidad de Malargüe; NDM Holdings and Valle Las Leñas; in gratitude for their continuing cooperation over land access; Australia – the Australian Research Council; Belgium – Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS); Research Foundation Flanders (FWO); Brazil – Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq); Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (FINEP); Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ); São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) Grants No. 2019/10151-2, No. 2010/07359-6 and No. 1999/05404-3; Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia, Inovações e Comunicações (MCTIC); Czech Republic – Grant No. MSMT CR LTT18004, LM2015038, LM2018102, CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_013/0001402, CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/18_046/0016010 and CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/17_049/0008422; France – Centre de Calcul IN2P3/CNRS; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Conseil Régional Ile-de-France; Département Physique Nucléaire et Corpusculaire (PNC-IN2P3/CNRS); Département Sciences de l’Univers (SDU-INSU/CNRS); Institut Lagrange de Paris (ILP) Grant No. LABEX ANR-10-LABX-63 within the Investissements d’Avenir Programme Grant No. ANR-11-IDEX-0004-02; Germany – Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF); Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG); Finanzministerium Baden-Württemberg; Helmholtz Alliance for Astroparticle Physics (HAP); Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (HGF); Ministerium für Innovation, Wissenschaft und Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen; Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst des Landes Baden-Württemberg; Italy – Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN); Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF); Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Universitá e della Ricerca (MIUR); CETEMPS Center of Excellence; Ministero degli Affari Esteri (MAE); México – Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT) No. 167733; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM); PAPIIT DGAPA-UNAM; The Netherlands – Ministry of Education, Culture and Science; Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO); Dutch national e-infrastructure with the support of SURF Cooperative; Poland -Ministry of Science and Higher Education, grant No. DIR/WK/2018/11; National Science Centre, Grants No. 2013/08/M/ST9/00322, No. 2016/23/B/ST9/01635 and No. HARMONIA 5–2013/10/M/ST9/00062, UMO-2016/22/M/ST9/00198; Portugal – Portuguese national funds and FEDER funds within Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade through Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (COMPETE); Romania – Romanian Ministry of Education and Research, the Program Nucleu within MCI (PN19150201/16N/2019 and PN19060102) and project PN-III-P1-1.2-PCCDI-2017-0839/19PCCDI/2018 within PNCDI III; Slovenia – Slovenian Research Agency, grants P1-0031, P1-0385, I0-0033, N1-0111; Spain – Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad (FPA2017-85114-P and PID2019-104676GB-C32), Xunta de Galicia (ED431C 2017/07), Junta de Andalucía (SOMM17/6104/UGR, P18-FR-4314) Feder Funds, RENATA Red Nacional Temática de Astropartículas (FPA2015-68783-REDT) and María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence (MDM-2016-0692); USA – Department of Energy, Contracts No. DE-AC02-07CH11359, No. DE-FR02-04ER41300, No. DE-FG02-99ER41107 and No. DE-SC0011689; National Science Foundation, Grant No. 0450696; The Grainger Foundation; Marie Curie-IRSES/EPLANET; European Particle Physics Latin American Network; University of Delaware Research Foundation (UDRF) – 2019; and UNESCO., We present a measurement of the cosmic-ray spectrum above 100 PeV using the part of the surface detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory that has a spacing of 750 m. An inflection of the spectrum is observed, confirming the presence of the so-called second-knee feature. The spectrum is then combined with that of the 1500 m array to produce a single measurement of the flux, linking this spectral feature with the three additional breaks at the highest energies. The combined spectrum, with an energy scale set calorimetrically via fluorescence telescopes and using a single detector type, results in the most statistically and systematically precise measurement of spectral breaks yet obtained. These measurements are critical for furthering our understanding of the highest energy cosmic rays., ANR-10-LABX-63 ANR-11-IDEX-0004-02, Belgium – Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Département Physique Nucléaire et Corpusculaire PNC-IN2P3/CNRS, Département Sciences de l’Univers, Feder Funds, María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence MDM-2016-0692, Ministero degli Affari Esteri, RENATA Red Nacional Temática de Astropartículas FPA2015-68783-REDT, SURF, National Science Foundation 0450696, U.S. Department of Energy DE-AC02-07CH11359, DE-FG02-99ER41107, DE-FR02-04ER41300, DE-SC0011689, University of Delaware Research Foundation, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Australian Research Council, Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo 1999/05404-3, 2010/07359-6, 2019/10151-2, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Fonds De La Recherche Scientifique - FNRS, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica, Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología 167733, Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap, Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca, Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Conseil Régional, Île-de-France, Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Narodowe Centrum Nauki 2013/08/M/ST9/00322, 2013/10/M/ST9/00062, 2016/23/B/ST9/01635, UMO-2016/22/M/ST9/00198, Javna Agencija za Raziskovalno Dejavnost RS I0-0033, N1-0111, P1-0031, P1-0385, Ministerstwo Edukacji i Nauki DIR/WK/2018/11, Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ministry of Education and Research, Romania PN-III-P1-1.2-PCCDI-2017-0839/19PCCDI/2018, PN19060102, PN19150201/16N/2019, European Regional Development Fund, Ministerium für Innovation, Wissenschaft und Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad, Gobierno de España FPA2017-85114-P, PID2019-104676GB-C32, Xunta de Galicia ED431C 2017/07, Junta de Andalucía P18-FR-4314, Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia, Inovações e Comunicações CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_013/0001402, CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/17_049/0008422, CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/18_046/0016010, LM2015038, LM2018102, MSMT CR LTT18004, Programa Operacional Temático Factores de Competitividade, Institut Lagrange de Paris

Published
2021

22. Measurement of the cosmic-ray energy spectrum above 2.5×1018 eV using the Pierre Auger Observatory

Author

Jaroslaw Stasielak, Ana Martina Botti, Marcus Niechciol, Alberto Daniel Supanitsky, Alexey Yushkov, Petr Schovánek, Pavel Horváth, Pedro Assis, Nataliia Borodai, Luis Lopes, Luis Nunez, Carla Bleve, Alberto Blanco, Katharine Mulrey, Antonella Castellina, Francesca Zuccarello, Felicia Carla Tiziana Barbato, Emanuele De Vito, Jose Alfredo Bellido Caceres, Fausto Guarino, Jeffrey Brack, Kai Daumiller, Dariusz Gora, Christian Sarmiento-Cano, Alessio Gorgi, Peter Biermann, Teresa Bister, LORENZO CACCIANIGA, Beatriz Garcia, Bruce Dawson, Alena Bakalova, MASSIMO MASTRODICASA, Edivaldo Moura Santos, Stijn Buitink, Bernardo Tomé, Ana Laura Müller, Mario BUSCEMI, Francesco Salamida, Johannes Hulsman, Henryk Wilczyński, Michael Unger, Ronald Cintra Shellard, Miguel Mostafa, Achille Nucita, Frederic Sarazin, Paul Mantsch, Ruben Conceição, Roger Clay, Lukáš Václavek, Giovanni Marsella, Markus Roth, Jakub Jurysek, Lorenzo Cazon, Eva Dos Santos, Corbin Covault, Francesco Fenu, Dalibor Nosek, Rossella Caruso, Alexandra Saftoiu, Tim Huege, Antonio CONDORELLI, Orazio Zapparrata, Jaime Alvarez-Muniz, Denise Boncioli, Guillermo Torralba Elipe, Martin Erdmann, Bruno Lazarotto Lago, Carlos José Todero Peixoto, Geraldina Golup, Jan Pękala, Maximilian Stadelmaier, Raul Sarmento, Enrique Varela, Antoine Letessier selvon, Vincenzo Rizi, Eleonora Guido, Pedro T. Abreu, Rafael Alves Batista, Arjen Van Vliet, and Jan Ebr

Subjects
Pierre Auger Observatory, Physics, Spectral index, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Hadron, Flux, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Flattening, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, Anisotropy, Zenith
Abstract

We report a measurement of the energy spectrum of cosmic rays for energies above 2.5×1018 eV based on 215,030 events recorded with zenith angles below 60°. A key feature of the work is that the estimates of the energies are independent of assumptions about the unknown hadronic physics or of the primary mass composition. The measurement is the most precise made hitherto with the accumulated exposure being so large that the measurements of the flux are dominated by systematic uncertainties except at energies above 5×1019 eV. The principal conclusions are(1) The flattening of the spectrum near 5×1018 eV, the so-called "ankle,"is confirmed.(2) The steepening of the spectrum at around 5×1019 eV is confirmed.(3) A new feature has been identified in the spectrum: in the region above the ankle the spectral index γ of the particle flux (∝E-γ) changes from 2.51±0.03 (stat)±0.05 (syst) to 3.05±0.05 (stat)±0.10 (syst) before changing sharply to 5.1±0.3 (stat)±0.1 (syst) above 5×1019 eV.(4) No evidence for any dependence of the spectrum on declination has been found other than a mild excess from the Southern Hemisphere that is consistent with the anisotropy observed above 8×1018 eV.

Published
2020

23. Features of the Energy Spectrum of Cosmic Rays above 2.5×1018 eV Using the Pierre Auger Observatory

Author

Jaroslaw Stasielak, Ana Martina Botti, Marcus Niechciol, Alberto Daniel Supanitsky, Alexey Yushkov, Petr Schovánek, Toshihiro Fujii, Pavel Horváth, Pedro Assis, Nataliia Borodai, Luis Lopes, Luis Nunez, Carla Bleve, Alberto Blanco, Katharine Mulrey, Antonella Castellina, Francesca Zuccarello, Felicia Carla Tiziana Barbato, Emanuele De Vito, Jose Alfredo Bellido Caceres, Fausto Guarino, Jeffrey Brack, Kai Daumiller, Dariusz Gora, Christian Sarmiento-Cano, Carola Dobrigkeit Chinellato, Alessio Gorgi, Peter Biermann, Teresa Bister, LORENZO CACCIANIGA, Beatriz Garcia, Bruce Dawson, Alena Bakalova, MASSIMO MASTRODICASA, Edivaldo Moura Santos, Stijn Buitink, Bernardo Tomé, Ana Laura Müller, Mario BUSCEMI, Francesco Salamida, Johannes Hulsman, Henryk Wilczyński, Michael Unger, Ronald Cintra Shellard, Miguel Mostafa, Achille Nucita, Frederic Sarazin, Paul Mantsch, Ruben Conceição, Roger Clay, Lukáš Václavek, Giovanni Marsella, Markus Roth, Jakub Jurysek, Lorenzo Cazon, Eva Dos Santos, Corbin Covault, Francesco Fenu, Dalibor Nosek, Rossella Caruso, Alexandra Saftoiu, Tim Huege, Antonio CONDORELLI, Orazio Zapparrata, Jaime Alvarez-Muniz, Denise Boncioli, Guillermo Torralba Elipe, Martin Erdmann, Bruno Lazarotto Lago, Carlos José Todero Peixoto, Geraldina Golup, Jan Pękala, Maximilian Stadelmaier, Raul Sarmento, Enrique Varela, Antoine Letessier selvon, Vincenzo Rizi, Eleonora Guido, Pedro T. Abreu, Rafael Alves Batista, Arjen Van Vliet, and Jan Ebr

Subjects
010308 nuclear & particles physics, 0103 physical sciences, General Physics and Astronomy, 010306 general physics, 01 natural sciences
Published
2020

24. Coronary Cannulation After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: The RE-ACCESS Study

Author

Marco, Barbanti, Giuliano, Costa, Andrea, Picci, Enrico, Criscione, Claudia, Reddavid, Roberto, Valvo, Denise, Todaro, Wanda, Deste, Antonio, Condorelli, Matteo, Scalia, Alessandra, Licciardello, Giorgia, Politi, Giuseppe De Luca, Orazio, Strazzieri, Silvia, Motta, Valeria, Garretto, Veroux, Pierfrancesco, Giaquinta, Alessia, Angelo, Giuffrida, Carmelo, Sgroi, Leon, Martin B., Webb, John G., and Tamburino, Corrado

Subjects
Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement, Treatment Outcome, Risk Factors, Aortic Valve, Heart Valve Prosthesis, Humans, Reproducibility of Results, Aortic Valve Stenosis, Prospective Studies, Prosthesis Design, Catheterization
Abstract

The aims of this study were to investigate the feasibility of coronary ostia cannulation after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) and to assess potential predictors of coronary access impairment.Certain data concerning the feasibility and reproducibility of coronary cannulation after TAVR are lacking.RE-ACCESS (Reobtain Coronary Ostia Cannulation Beyond Transcatheter Aortic Valve Stent) was an investigator-driven, single-center, prospective, registry-based study that enrolled consecutive patients undergoing TAVR using all commercially available devices. All patients underwent coronary angiography before and after TAVR. The primary endpoint was the rate of unsuccessful coronary ostia cannulation after TAVR. Secondary endpoints were the identification of factors associated with the inability to selectively cannulate coronary ostia after TAVR.Among 300 patients enrolled in the RE-ACCESS study from December 2018 to January 2020, a total of 23 cases (7.7%) of unsuccessful coronary cannulation after TAVR were documented. This issue occurred in 22 of 23 cases with the use of Evolut R/PRO transcatheter aortic valves (TAVs) (17.9% vs. 0.4%; p 0.01). In multivariate analysis, the use of Evolut R/PRO TAVs (odds ratio [OR]: 29.6; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 2.6 to 335.0; p 0.01), the TAV-sinus of Valsalva relation (OR: 1.1 per 1-mm increase; 95% CI: 1.0 to 1.2; p 0.01), and the mean TAV implantation depth (OR: 1.7 per 1-mm decrease; 95% CI: 1.3 to 2.3; p 0.01) were found to be independent predictors of unsuccessful coronary cannulation after TAVR. A model combining these factors was demonstrated to predict with very high accuracy the risk for unsuccessful coronary cannulation after TAVR (area under the curve: 0.94; p 0.01).Unsuccessful coronary cannulation following TAVR was observed in 7.7% of patients and occurred almost exclusively in those receiving Evolut TAVs. The combination of Evolut TAV, a higher TAV-sinus of Valsalva relation, and implantation depth predicts with high accuracy the risk for unsuccessful coronary cannulation after TAVR. (Reobtain Coronary Ostia Cannulation Beyond Transcatheter Aortic Valve Stent [RE-ACCESS]; NCT04026204).

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2020

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A. Zepeda, Pedro Assis, H. Martinez, A. Etchegoyen, Dariusz Gora, Bjarni Pont, Alan Coleman, B. Tome, Peter Hansen, F. Guarino, John Matthews, Peter Buchholz, S. J. Saffi, D. Lo Presti, S. J. De Jong, B. García, R. López, Karen S. Caballero-Mora, G. Cataldi, V. Scherini, Martin Erdmann, G. Matthiae, J. de Jesús, Frank G. Schröder, Antonio Bueno, A. Streich, Gioacchino Alex Anastasi, M. Wirtz, Thomas Hebbeker, Sergio Dasso, Tristan Sudholz, P. Abreu, D. Ravignani, Roger W Clay, Marco Aglietta, Marko Zavrtanik, E. Santos, Jarryd A. Day, G. De Mauro, F. Riehn, Marina Scornavacche, Alexandra Saftoiu, Tiina Suomijarvi, F. Pedreira, Raul Sarmento, Felix Schlüter, Martin Vacula, J. Rautenberg, Q. Luce, Gualberto Avila, Martín Miguel Freire, Fabian Gobbi, Jiri Blazek, Lorenzo Caccianiga, Denis Stanca, I. Lhenry-Yvon, Miroslav Pech, M. Pothast, Markus Roth, D. Nitz, A.C. Cobos Cerutti, J. R. T. de Mello Neto, Paul Sommers, A. Blanco, Marcus Niechciol, B. Vargas Cárdenas, J. Pallotta, L. R. 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Hulsman J., Insolia A., Isar P.G., Johnsen J.A., Jurysek J., Kaapa A., Kampert K.H., Keilhauer B., Kemp J., Klages H.O., Kleifges M., Kleinfeller J., Kopke M., Mezek G.K., Lago B.L., Lahurd D., Lang R.G., De Oliveira M.A.L., Lenok V., Letessier-Selvon A., Lhenry-Yvon I., Presti D.L., Lopes L., Lopez R., Lorek R., Luce Q., Lucero A., Payeras A.M., Malacari M., Mancarella G., Mandat D., Manning B.C., Manshanden J., Mantsch P., Marafico S., Mariazzi A.G., Maris I.C., Marsella G., Martello D., Martinez H., Bravo O.M., Mastrodicasa M., Mathes H.J., Matthews J., Matthiae G., Mayotte E., Mazur P.O., Medina-Tanco G., Melo D., Menshikov A., Merenda K.-D., Michal S., Micheletti M.I., Miramonti L., Mockler D., Mollerach S., Montanet F., Morello C., Mostafa M., Muller A.L., Muller M.A., Mulrey K., Mussa R., Muzio M., Namasaka W.M., Nellen L., Niculescu-Oglinzanu M., Niechciol M., Nitz D., Nosek D., Novotny V., Nozka L., Nucita A., Nunez L.A., Palatka M., Pallotta J., Panetta M.P., Papenbreer P., 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Sudholz T., Suomijarvi T., Supanitsky A.D., Supik J., Szadkowski Z., Taboada A., Tapia A., Timmermans C., Tkachenko O., Tobiska P., Peixoto C.J.T., Tome B., Elipe G.T., Travaini A., Travnicek P., Trimarelli C., Trini M., Tueros M., Ulrich R., Unger M., Urban M., Vaclavek L., Vacula M., Galicia J.F.V., Valino I., Valore L., Vliet A.V., Varela E., Cardenas B.V., Vasquez-Ramirez A., Veberic D., Ventura C., Quispe I.D.V., Verzi V., Vicha J., Villasenor L., Vink J., Vorobiov S., Wahlberg H., Watson A.A., Weber M., Weindl A., Wiencke L., Wilczynski H., Winchen T., Wirtz M., Wittkowski D., Wundheiler B., Yushkov A., Zapparrata O., Zas E., Zavrtanik D., Zavrtanik M., Zehrer L., Zepeda A., Ziolkowski M., and Zuccarello F.

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Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astronomy, 01 natural sciences, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, law.invention, 0302 clinical medicine, law, Observatory, atmosphere [muon], Instrumentation, physics.ins-det, Mathematical Physics, Large detector-systems performance, Physics, Instrumentation et méthodes en physique, Performance of high energy physics detectors, Data reduction methods, Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physics, Detector, Settore FIS/01 - Fisica Sperimentale, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, resistive plate chamber, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), trajectory [muon], Auger, observatory, muon: atmosphere, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, atmosphere [showers], Cherenkov detector, air, Cherenkov counter: water, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, UHE [cosmic radiation], FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, muon: trajectory, Nuclear physics, 03 medical and health sciences, Hodoscope, Data reduction method, 0103 physical sciences, Calibration, High Energy Physics, ddc:610, cosmic radiation: UHE, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Zenith, Ciencias Exactas, Pierre Auger Observatory, showers: atmosphere, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, water [Cherenkov counter], hodoscope, Física, Autres mathématiques, stability, calibration, Data reduction methods, Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physics, Large detector-systems performance, Performance of High Energy Physics Detectors, Experimental High Energy Physics, Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physic, High Energy Physics::Experiment, RAIOS CÓSMICOS, astro-ph.IM
Abstract

Extensive air showers, originating from ultra-high energy cosmic rays, have been successfully measured through the use of arrays of water-Cherenkov detectors (WCDs). Sophisticated analyses exploiting WCD data have made it possible to demonstrate that shower simulations, based on different hadronic-interaction models, cannot reproduce the observed number of muons at the ground. The accurate knowledge of the WCD response to muons is paramount in establishing the exact level of this discrepancy. In this work, we report on a study of the response of a WCD of the Pierre Auger Observatory to atmospheric muons performed with a hodoscope made of resistive plate chambers (RPCs), enabling us to select and reconstruct nearly 600 thousand single muon trajectories with zenith angles ranging from 0º to 55º. Comparison of distributions of key observables between the hodoscope data and the predictions of dedicated simulations allows us to demonstrate the accuracy of the latter at a level of 2%. As the WCD calibration is based on its response to atmospheric muons, the hodoscope data are also exploited to show the long-term stability of the procedure., La lista completa de autores que integran el documento puede consultarse en el archivo., Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Instituto de Física La Plata

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2020
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26. A 3-Year Sample of Almost 1,600 Elves Recorded Above South America by the Pierre Auger Cosmic-Ray Observatory

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B. García, M. L. Díaz Castro, G. Farrar, R. López, Karen S. Caballero-Mora, Francesca Zuccarello, Hernan Wahlberg, Q. Luce, Jose Chinellato, P. H. Nguyen, Martin Erdmann, Octavian Sima, J. Kleinfeller, H. J. Mathes, Z. Zong, G. Matthiae, R. R. Prado, F. Diogo, E. M. Santos, M. Schauer, A. Streich, Gioacchino Alex Anastasi, Stanislav Michal, A. Taboada, A. Letessier-Selvon, A. Parra, Antonio Bueno, Daniel Kuempel, M. Wirtz, Isabel Goos, Lorenzo Cazon, R. M. de Almeida, Kevin-Druis Merenda, D. Heck, G. P. Guedes, Roger W Clay, A. van Vliet, Frank G. Schröder, Toshihiro Fujii, P. Ristori, M. del Río, Bruce R. Dawson, Tim Huege, M. Trini, P.F. Gómez Vitale, Gualberto Avila, P.O. Mazur, David Wittkowski, J. Rodriguez Rojo, Jakub Juryšek, J. Debatin, Ivone F. M. Albuquerque, Angela V. Olinto, G. Salina, Danielle LaHurd, Olivier Deligny, Charles Timmermans, Lukas Middendorf, Fridtjof Feldbusch, Ioana Codrina Maris, M. I. Micheletti, Antonio Condorelli, R. Lorek, Giuseppe De Mauro, J. F. Valdés Galicia, G. C. Hill, Ugo Giaccari, Jorge F. Soriano, Enrique Zas, A. Cancio, Ralph Engel, Rodrigo Pelayo, Q. Dorosti, J. Ridky, Stijn Buitink, Christine Peters, M. Scornavacche, M. Zavrtanik, M. Schimp, M. Risse, Juan Carlos D'Olivo, T. Pierog, Justin M. Albury, Max Malacari, Lili Yang, Markus Roth, I. Allekotte, John Farmer, Piotr Homola, Fernando Contreras, E.M. Holt, Giovanni Consolati, B. C. Manning, Jonathan Blazek, R. Ramos-Pollan, L. Nellen, Piera Luisa Ghia, M. Josebachuili, C. Morello, A. Tapia, Jonathan Biteau, Dariusz Gora, Maria-Teresa Dova, Giovanni Marsella, D. Nosek, Luis A. Anchordoqui, Benedikt Zimmermann, Rúben Conceição, E. Santos, Alessio Gorgi, A. C. Fauth, Vladimir Lenok, L. Perrone, M. A. Leigui de Oliveira, A.M. van den Berg, Darko Veberič, G. Torralba Elipe, Philipp Papenbreer, G. Parente, Fabrizia Canfora, A. Aab, R. Krause, L. Valore, G. Morlino, Hernán Asorey, A. Bridgeman, Esteban Roulet, Petr Travnicek, Carla Bonifazi, S. J. 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010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Astronomy, Field of view, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Auger, lcsh:QB1-991, Observatory, ultraviolet, Storm, ddc:550, UHE Cosmic Rays, time resolution, Cosmic-ray observatory, Physics, lcsh:QE1-996.5, astro-ph, Geology, width [beam], Ionosphere, lcsh:Astronomy, UHE [cosmic radiation], Environmental Science (miscellaneous), horizon, Lightning, ddc:530, High Energy Physics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, fluorescence [detector], background, Física, sensitivity, optics, lcsh:Geology, Elves, UV fluorescence detectors, Thunderstorm, 13. Climate action, Experimental High Energy Physics, network, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Elves
Abstract

The time and location of the 1,598 verified and reconstructed elves, used for the analysis showcased in this paper, are publicly available on the website of the Pierre Auger Observatory (https://www.auger.org/ index.php/science/data). We wish to thank the World Wide Lightning Location Network (http://wwlln.net), a collaboration among over 50 universities and institutions, for providing the lightning location data used in this paper. We acknowledge Robert Marshall for providing one of the most advanced elve simulations to the public, a key tool in understanding the elves observed by the Pierre Auger Observatory. The successful installation, commissioning, and operation of the Pierre Auger Observatory would not have been possible without the strong commitment and effort from the technical and administrative staff in Malargüe., Elves are a class of transient luminous events, with a radial extent typically greater than 250 km, that occur in the lower ionosphere above strong electrical storms. We report the observation of 1,598 elves, from 2014 to 2016, recorded with unprecedented time resolution (100 ns) using the fluorescence detector (FD) of the Pierre Auger Cosmic-Ray Observatory. The Auger Observatory is located in the Mendoza province of Argentina with a viewing footprint for elve observations of 3 · 106 km2, reaching areas above the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, as well as the Córdoba region, which is known for severe convective thunderstorms. Primarily designed for ultrahigh energy cosmic-ray observations, the Auger FD turns out to be very sensitive to the ultraviolet emission in elves. The detector features modified Schmidt optics with large apertures resulting in a field of view that spans the horizon, and year-round operation on dark nights with low moonlight background, when the local weather is favorable. The measured light profiles of 18% of the elve events have more than one peak, compatible with intracloud activity. Within the 3-year sample, 72% of the elves correlate with the far-field radiation measurements of the World Wide Lightning Location Network. The Auger Observatory plans to continue operations until at least 2025, including elve observations and analysis. To the best of our knowledge, this observatory is the only facility on Earth that measures elves with year-round operation and full horizon coverage., Argentina—Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica; Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica (ANPCyT); Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET); Gobierno de la Provincia de Mendoza; Municipalidad de Malargüe; and NDM Holdings and Valle Las Leñas, in gratitude for their continuing cooperation over land access; Australia—the Australian Research Council; Brazil—Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq); Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (FINEP); Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ); São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) Grants 2010/07359-6 and 1999/05404-3; Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia, Inovações e Comunicações (MCTIC); Czech Republic—Grants MSMT CRLTT18004, LO1305, LM2015038, and CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_013/0001402; France—Centre de Calcul IN2P3/CNRS; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Conseil Régional Ile-de-France; Département Physique Nucléaire et Corpusculaire (PNC-IN2P3/CNRS); Département Sciences de l'Univers (SDU-INSU/CNRS); Institut Lagrange de Paris (ILP) Grant LABEX ANR-10-LABX-63 within the Investissements d'Avenir Programme Grant ANR-11-IDEX-0004-02; Germany—Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF); Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG); Finanzministerium Baden-Württemberg; Helmholtz Alliance for Astroparticle Physics (HAP); Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft. Deutscher Forschungszentren (HGF); Ministerium für Innovation, Wissenschaft und Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen; Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst des Landes Baden-Württemberg; Italy—Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN); Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF); Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universitá e della Ricerca (MIUR); CETEMPS Center of Excellence; Ministero degli Affari Esteri (MAE); México—Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT)167733; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM); PAPIIT DGAPA-UNAM; The Netherlands—Ministry of Education, Culture and Science; Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO); Dutch National e-Infrastructure with the support of SURF Cooperative; Poland—National Centre for Research and Development, Grant ERA-NET-ASPERA/02/11; National Science Centre, Grants 2013/08/M/ST9/00322, 2016/23/B/ST9/01635, and HARMONIA 5–2013/10/M/ST9/00062, UMO-2016/22/M/ST9/00198; Portugal—Portuguese national funds and FEDER funds within Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade through Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (COMPETE); Romania—Romanian Ministry of Research and InnovationCNCS/CCCDI-UESFISCDI, projects PN-III-P1-1.2-PCCDI-2017- 0839/19PCCDI/2018, PN-III-P2-2.1-PED-2016-1922, PN-III-P2-2.1-PED-2016-1659, and PN18090102 within PNCDI III; Slovenia—Slovenian Research Agency; Spain—Comunidad de Madrid; Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER) funds; Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad; Xunta de Galicia; European Community 7th Framework Program Grant FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF-328826; USA—Department of Energy, Contracts DE-AC02-07CH11359, DE-FR02-04ER41300, DE-FG02-99ER41107, and DE-SC0011689; National Science Foundation, Grant 0450696; The Grainger Foundation; Marie Curie-IRSES/EPLANET; European Particle Physics Latin American Network; European Union 7th Framework Program, Grant PIRSES-2009-GA-246806; and UNESCO.

Published
2020

27. Reconstruction of events recorded with the surface detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory

Author

Roberto Mussa, M. I. Micheletti, B. Tome, François Montanet, M. Schimassek, Frank G. Schröder, Peter Hansen, F. Guarino, John Matthews, Ioana Codrina Maris, Peter Buchholz, C. Hojvat, G. C. Hill, Jorge F. Soriano, Vladimir Lenok, Ralph Engel, L. Perrone, Jan Ebr, J. Ridky, Denis Stanca, A. Aab, Brian Fick, Eleonora Guido, Luis Villaseñor, John Farmer, Marco Aglietta, Markus Roth, Lorenzo Caccianiga, Julien Manshanden, Andres Travaini, E. Varela, H. J. Mathes, Maximilian Reininghaus, J.D. Sanabria Gomez, L. Nellen, B. Vargas Cárdenas, Maria-Teresa Dova, Jacco Vink, H.O. Klages, P. Savina, W. Rodrigues de Carvalho, Bjarni Pont, Stanislav Michal, C. Morello, Miroslav Pech, T. Suomijärvi, J. Pallotta, Alena Bakalova, M. Pothast, Pavel Horvath, B. L. Lago, Ralf Ulrich, A. M. Botti, Dusan Mandat, M. L. Díaz Castro, Teresa Bister, Valerio Verzi, M. R. Hampel, Valerio Pirronello, Niraj Dhital, J. Rodriguez Rojo, I. Valiño, Marvin Gottowik, Peter L. Biermann, Jeffrey A. Johnsen, A. A. 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A., Weber, M., Weindl, A., Wiencke, L., Wilczynski, H., Winchen, T., Wirtz, M., Wittkowski, D., Wundheiler, B., Yushkov, A., Zapparrata, O., Zas, E., Zavrtanik, D., Zavrtanik, M., Zehrer, L., Zepeda, A., Ziolkowski, M., Zuccarello, F., Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Pierre Auger, Research unit Astroparticle Physics, Physics, Elementary Particle Physics, Aab A., Abreu P., Aglietta M., Albury J.M., Allekotte I., Almela A., Castillo J.A., Alvarez-Muñiz J., Batista R.A., Anastasi G.A., Anchordoqui L., Andrada B., Andringa S., Aramo C., Ferreira P.R.A., Asorey H., Assis P., Avila G., Badescu A.M., Bakalova A., Balaceanu A., Barbato F., Luz R.J.B., Becker K.H., Bellido J.A., Berat C., Bertaina M.E., Bertou X., Biermann P.L., Billoir P., Bister T., Biteau J., Blanco A., Blazek J., Bleve C., Bohacova M., Boncioli D., Bonifazi C., Arbeletche L.B., Borodai N., Botti A.M., Brack J., Bretz T., Bridgeman A., Briechle F.L., Buchholz P., Bueno A., Buitink S., Buscemi M., Caballero-Mora K.S., Caccianiga L., Calcagni L., Cancio A., Canfora F., Caracas I., Carceller J.M., Caruso R., Castellina A., Catalani F., Cataldi G., Cazon L., Cerda M., Chinellato J.A., Choi K., Chudoba J., Chytka L., Clay R.W., Cerutti A.C.C., Colalillo R., Coleman A., Coluccia M.R., Conceicao R., Condorelli A., Consolati G., Contreras F., Convenga F., Covault C.E., Dasso S., Daumiller K., Dawson B.R., Day J.A., De Almeida R.M., De Jesus J., De Jong S.J., Mauro G.D., Neto J.R.T.D.M., Mitri I.D., De Oliveira J., Franco D.D.O., De Souza V., Vito E.D., Debatin J., Rio M.D., Deligny O., Dhital N., Matteo A.D., Castro M.L.D., Dobrigkeit C., D'Olivo J.C., Dorosti Q., Anjos R.C.D., Dova M.T., Ebr J., Engel R., Epicoco I., Erdmann M., Escobar C.O., Etchegoyen A., Falcke H., Farmer J., Farrar G., Fauth A.C., Fazzini N., Feldbusch F., Fenu F., Fick B., Figueira J.M., Filipcic A., Fodran T., Freire M.M., Fujii T., Fuster A., Galea C., Galelli C., Garcia B., Vegas A.L.G., Gemmeke H., Gesualdi F., Gherghel-Lascu A., Ghia P.L., Giaccari U., Giammarchi M., Giller M., Glombitza J., Gobbi F., Gollan F., Golup G., Berisso M.G., Vitale P.F.G., Gongora J.P., Gonzalez N., Goos I., Gora D., Gorgi A., Gottowik M., Grubb T.D., Guarino F., Guedes G.P., Guido E., Hahn S., Halliday R., Hampel M.R., Hansen P., Harari D., Harvey V.M., Haungs A., Hebbeker T., Heck D., Hill G.C., Hojvat C., Horandel J.R., Horvath P., Hrabovsky M., Huege T., Hulsman J., Insolia A., Isar P.G., Johnsen J.A., Jurysek J., Kaapa A., Kampert K.H., Keilhauer B., Kemp J., Klages H.O., Kleifges M., Kleinfeller J., Kopke M., Mezek G.K., Lago B.L., Lahurd D., Lang R.G., De Oliveira M.A.L., Lenok V., Letessier-Selvon A., Lhenry-Yvon I., Presti D.L., Lopes L., Lopez R., Lorek R., Luce Q., Lucero A., Payeras A.M., Malacari M., Mancarella G., Mandat D., Manning B.C., Manshanden J., Mantsch P., Marafico S., Mariazzi A.G., Maris I.C., Marsella G., Martello D., Martinez H., Bravo O.M., Mastrodicasa M., Mathes H.J., Matthews J., Matthiae G., Mayotte E., Mazur P.O., Medina-Tanco G., Melo D., Menshikov A., Merenda K.-D., Michal S., Micheletti M.I., Miramonti L., Mockler D., Mollerach S., Montanet F., Morello C., Mostafa M., Muller A.L., Muller M.A., Mulrey K., Mussa R., Muzio M., Namasaka W.M., Nellen L., Niculescu-Oglinzanu M., Niechciol M., Nitz D., Nosek D., Novotny V., Nozka L., Nucita A., Nuñez L.A., Palatka M., Pallotta J., Panetta M.P., Papenbreer P., Parente G., Parra A., Pech M., Pedreira F., Pkala J., Pelayo R., Peña-Rodriguez J., Armand J.P., Perlin M., Perrone L., Peters C., Petrera S., Pierog T., Pimenta M., Pirronello V., Platino M., Pont B., Pothast M., Privitera P., Prouza M., Puyleart A., Querchfeld S., Rautenberg J., Ravignani D., Reininghaus M., Ridky J., Riehn F., Risse M., Ristori P., Rizi V., De Carvalho W.R., Rojo J.R., Roncoroni M.J., Roth M., Roulet E., Rovero A.C., Ruehl P., Saffi S.J., Saftoiu A., Salamida F., Salazar H., Salina G., Gomez J.D.S., Sanchez F., Santos E.M., Santos E., Sarazin F., Sarmento R., Sarmiento-Cano C., Sato R., Savina P., Schafer C., Scherini V., Schieler H., Schimassek M., Schimp M., Schluter F., Schmidt D., Scholten O., Schovanek P., Schroder F.G., Schroder S., Schulz A., Sciutto S.J., Scornavacche M., Shellard R.C., Sigl G., Silli G., Sima O., Smida R., Sommers P., Soriano J.F., Souchard J., Squartini R., Stadelmaier M., Stanca D., Stanic S., Stasielak J., Stassi P., Streich A., Suarez-Duran M., Sudholz T., Suomijarvi T., Supanitsky A.D., Supik J., Szadkowski Z., Taboada A., Tapia A., Timmermans C., Tkachenko O., Tobiska P., Peixoto C.J.T., Tome B., Elipe G.T., Travaini A., Travnicek P., Trimarelli C., Trini M., Tueros M., Ulrich R., Unger M., Urban M., Vaclavek L., Vacula M., Galicia J.F.V., Valiño I., Valore L., Vliet A.V., Varela E., Cardenas B.V., Vasquez-Ramirez A., Veberic D., Ventura C., Quispe I.D.V., Verzi V., Vicha J., Villaseñor L., Vink J., Vorobiov S., Wahlberg H., Watson A.A., Weber M., Weindl A., Wiencke L., Wilczynski H., Winchen T., Wirtz M., Wittkowski D., Wundheiler B., Yushkov A., Zapparrata O., Zas E., Zavrtanik D., Zavrtanik M., Zehrer L., Zepeda A., Ziolkowski M., Zuccarello F., and High Energy Astrophys. & Astropart. Phys (API, FNWI)

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Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astronomy, primary [cosmic radiation], 01 natural sciences, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, Auger, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), 0302 clinical medicine, surface [detector], Observatory, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Data Processing, Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physics, Large detector-systems performance, Performance of High Energy Physics Detectors, Instrumentation, Mathematical Physics, Largedetector-systems performance, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, astro-ph.HE, Instrumentation et méthodes en physique, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, cascade, observatory, Cascade, ddc:620, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, atmosphere [showers], air, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, water, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, Atmosphere, 03 medical and health sciences, Optics, 0103 physical sciences, High Energy Physics, 14. Life underwater, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], ddc:610, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Zenith, Engineering & allied operations, Pierre Auger Observatory, showers: atmosphere, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, hep-ex, detector: surface, Autres mathématiques, cosmic radiation: primary, Cherenkov counter, Experimental High Energy Physics, Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physic, High Energy Physics::Experiment, business, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], RAIOS CÓSMICOS, astro-ph.IM
Abstract

Cosmic rays arriving at Earth collide with the upper parts of the atmosphere, thereby inducing extensive air showers. When secondary particles from the cascade arrive at the ground, they are measured by surface detector arrays. We describe the methods applied to the measurements of the surface detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory to reconstruct events with zenith angles less than 60 using the timing and signal information recorded using the water-Cherenkov detector stations. In addition, we assess the accuracy of these methods in reconstructing the arrival directions of the primary cosmic ray particles and the sizes of the induced showers., Argentina - Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Argentina - Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica (ANPCyT), Argentina - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina - Gobierno de la Provincia de Mendoza, Argentina - Municipalidad de Malargue, Argentina - NDM Holdings, Argentina - Valle Las Lenas, Australia - Australian Research Council, National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Brazil - Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (FINEP), Carlos Chagas Filho Foundation for Research Support of the State of Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ), Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP) 2019/10151-2 2010/07359-6 1999/05404-3, Brazil - Ministerio da Ciencia, Tecnologia, Inovacoes e Comunicacoes (MCTIC), Czech Republic Grant MSMT CR LTT18004 LM2015038 LM2018102 CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_013/0001402 CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/18_046/0016010 CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/17_049/0008422, France - Centre de Calcul IN2P3/CNRS, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France - Conseil Regional Ile-de-France, France - Departement Physique Nucleaire et Corpusculaire (PNC-IN2P3/CNRS), France - Departement Sciences de l'Univers (SDU-INSU/CNRS), French National Research Agency (ANR) LABEX ANR-10-LABX-63 ANR11-IDEX-0004-02, Federal Ministry of Education & Research (BMBF), German Research Foundation (DFG), Germany - Finanzministerium Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany - Helmholtz Alliance for Astroparticle Physics (HAP), Germany - Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (HGF), Germany - Min-isterium fur Innovation, Wissenschaft und Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Ministerium fur Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst des Landes Baden-Wurttemberg, Italy - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Italy - Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Italy - Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita e della Ricerca (MIUR), Italy - CETEMPS Center of Excellence, Italy - Ministero degli Affari Esteri (MAE), Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACyT) 167733, México - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), México - PAPIIT DGAPA-UNAM, The Netherlands - Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), The Netherlands - Dutch national e-infrastructure, The Netherlands - SURF Cooperative, Poland - Ministry of Science and Higher Education DIR/WK/2018/11, Poland - National Science Centre 2013/08/M/ST9/00322 2016/23/B/ST9/01635 HARMONIA 52013/10/M/ST9/00062 UMO-2016/22/M/ST9/00198, Portugal - Portuguese national funds, Portugal - FEDER funds within Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade through Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (COMPETE), Romania - Romanian Ministry of Education and Research, the Program Nucleu within MCI PN19150201/16N/2019 PN19060102, Romania - Romanian Ministry of Education and Research, the Program Nucleu within PNCDI III PN-III-P11.2-PCCDI-2017-0839/19PCCDI/2018, Slovenian Research Agency - Slovenia P1-0031 P1-0385 I0-0033 N1-0111, Spain - Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad FPA2017-85114-P FPA2017-85197-P, Spain - Xunta de Galicia ED431C 2017/07, Junta de Andalucía SOMM17/6104/UGR, Spain - Feder Funds, Spain - RENATARedNacional Tematica de Astroparticulas FPA2015-68783-REDT, Spain - Maria de MaeztuUnit of Excellence MDM-2016-0692, United States Department of Energy (DOE) DE-AC02-07CH11359 DE-FR02-04ER41300 DEFG02-99ER41107 DE-SC0011689, National Science Foundation (NSF) 0450696, U.S.A. - Grainger Foundation, U.S.A. - Marie Curie-IRSES/EPLANET, U.S.A. - European Particle Physics Latin American Network, U.S.A. - UNESCO

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2020
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28. Direct measurement of the muonic content of extensive air showers between $\mathbf { 2\times 10^{17}}$ and $\mathbf {2\times 10^{18}}~$eV at the Pierre Auger Observatory

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P. Tobiska, Bjarni Pont, H. J. Mathes, Stanislav Michal, S. Schröder, Italo Epicoco, A. Di Matteo, L. Lopes, B. Wundheiler, Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz, Alexandru Gherghel-Lascu, Lukáš Vaclavek, B. Keilhauer, Ioana Codrina Maris, S. J. Sciutto, J. Rodriguez Rojo, Fridtjof Feldbusch, Alessio Gorgi, D. Melo, G. C. Hill, Juan Miguel Carceller, Jorge F. Soriano, Ralph Engel, Enrique Zas, Orazio Zapparrata, J. Stasielak, L. Calcagni, Kai Daumiller, R. Sato, J. Ridky, Roberto Mussa, Fernando Contreras, Luis Villaseñor, J. Rautenberg, K.-H. Becker, Q. Luce, M. Pimenta, Carola Dobrigkeit, M. Muzio, Maximilian Stadelmaier, Darko Veberič, Maximilian Reininghaus, J. F. Valdés Galicia, I. De Mitri, P.R. Araújo Ferreira, Tobias Winchen, Marvin Gottowik, François Montanet, Alan Watson, M. A. Leigui de Oliveira, M. Perlin, Eric Mayotte, M. Gómez Berisso, Mihai Niculescu-Oglinzanu, J. Alvarez Castillo, Gaia Silli, A. Filipčič, Eleonora Guido, R. C. Shellard, Florian Lukas Briechle, F. Sarazin, T. Huege, Heino Falcke, D. Nitz, A. van Vliet, S. Petrera, L. Nellen, Denise Boncioli, Hernan Wahlberg, P. Abreu, Jeffrey Brack, Olaf Scholten, Mario Buscemi, Marc Weber, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, R. M. de Almeida, D. Ravignani, J. Vicha, L. R. Wiencke, David Wittkowski, G. Salina, Danielle LaHurd, Olivier Deligny, Lorenzo Caccianiga, C. Morello, Jesús Peña-Rodríguez, E. M. Santos, Dusan Mandat, M. L. Díaz Castro, G. Farrar, R. Squartini, R. Lorek, Ugo Giaccari, Miguel Mostafa, J. Kleinfeller, Bruce R. Dawson, Francesca Zuccarello, B. Tome, P.O. Mazur, Rodrigo Pelayo, K. H. Kampert, Peter L. Biermann, Stijn Buitink, Valerio Verzi, Alfred Müller, A. Aab, Violet M. Harvey, D. Harari, C. M. Schäfer, Jose Chinellato, L. Bonneau Arbeletche, Paolo Privitera, Massimo Mastrodicasa, A. López Casado, Frank G. Schröder, Marcel Köpke, Max Malacari, M. Platino, Samo Stanič, R. Conceição, Miroslav Hrabovský, Julien Manshanden, Ioana Caracas, Kevin-Druis Merenda, A. Letessier-Selvon, Dariusz Gora, Andres Travaini, F. Guarino, John Matthews, Flavia Gesualdi, A. Haungs, J. Perez Armand, Matias Tueros, Alina Mihaela Badescu, Cristina Galea, B. L. Lago, Lorenzo Cazon, E. Varela, Peter Buchholz, J.D. Sanabria Gomez, A. Taboada, M. Prouza, P. Mantsch, G. Matthiae, Z. Szadkowski, A. Parra, R.J. Barreira Luz, Luis A. Nunez, Alan Coleman, Christian Sarmiento-Cano, Marco Aglietta, Marcus Niechciol, S. J. Saffi, G. Medina-Tanco, R. Halliday, P.F. Gómez Vitale, Alena Bakalova, Claudio Galelli, Thomas Hebbeker, Paula Gina Isar, S. Müller, Giovanni Marsella, D. Nosek, E. Santos, F. Riehn, A. Fuster, B. García, Sergio Dasso, Tristan Sudholz, S. Querchfeld, R. López, Karen S. Caballero-Mora, F. Pedreira, Marina Scornavacche, Martín Miguel Freire, Markus Roth, F. Salamida, A. Yushkov, J. Šupík, Carlo Ventura, Raul Sarmento, Jonathan Biteau, Felix Schlüter, Nicolás González, Fabian Gobbi, M. Schimp, G. P. Guedes, Martin Erdmann, Toshihiro Fujii, Ladislav Chytka, G. Cataldi, Antonio Bueno, A. Weindl, P. Ristori, J. de Jesús, B. C. Manning, V. Scherini, Jakub Juryšek, A. Streich, J. Debatin, D. Mockler, David Schmidt, A. Tapia, Gioacchino Alex Anastasi, M. Wirtz, P. Ruehl, Alexandra Saftoiu, A. Puyleart, Corinne Berat, M. Giller, Roger W Clay, G. Kukec Mezek, Steffen Hahn, Juan Carlos D'Olivo, T. Pierog, M. Trini, J. Hulsman, M. E. Bertaina, Esteban Roulet, Justin M. Albury, Francesco Fenu, Valerio Pirronello, H. Gemmeke, A. Menshikov, Denis Stanca, C. J. Todero Peixoto, Piera Luisa Ghia, Miroslav Pech, M. Pothast, Jeffrey A. Johnsen, M. Schimassek, C. Hojvat, Jan Ebr, Pavel Horvath, C. O. Escobar, A. Insolia, H. Wilczyński, Günter Sigl, M. Unger, M. Kleifges, D. Zavrtanik, A.D. Supanitsky, J. Pȩkala, B. Andrada, P. Stassi, A. Cancio, Sofia Andringa, Radomir Smida, A. Machado Payeras, Jacco Vink, V. de Souza, Gualberto Avila, P. Savina, H.O. Klages, M. I. Micheletti, M.P. Panetta, I. Allekotte, M. J. Roncoroni, A. A. Nucita, Ralf Ulrich, B. Vargas Cárdenas, T. Suomijärvi, J. Pallotta, John Farmer, Brian Fick, A. M. Botti, Maria-Teresa Dova, M. R. Hampel, Niraj Dhital, I. Valiño, L. Nožka, Jörg R. Hörandel, R.C. dos Anjos, M. Zavrtanik, Adriana Vásquez-Ramírez, M. Palatka, A. C. Fauth, Giovanni Consolati, Carla Bonifazi, Jose A. Bellido, Fabio Convenga, M. Urban, W. M. Namasaka, A. C. Rovero, Petr Schovanek, Alexandru Balaceanu, M. Suárez-Durán, Carla Aramo, Vincenzo Rizi, I.D. Vergara Quispe, Julien Souchard, D. Martello, M. Ziolkowski, O. Martínez Bravo, Silvia Mollerach, N. Fazzini, Jonas Glombitza, F. C. T. Barbato, J. Chudoba, Serguei Vorobiov, O. A. Taborda, Marcos Cerda, D. Lo Presti, S. J. De Jong, Jarryd A. Day, A.C. Cobos Cerutti, J. R. T. de Mello Neto, W. Rodrigues de Carvalho, Teresa Bister, G. Golup, Nataliia Borodai, K. Choi, Paul Sommers, A. Blanco, F. Sánchez, Antonio Condorelli, Christine Peters, A.L. Garcia Vegas, Luis A. Anchordoqui, Maria Rita Coluccia, Julian Kemp, Philipp Papenbreer, Petr Travnicek, Martina Bohacova, Trent D. Grubb, M. A. Muller, Hernán Asorey, Juan Manuel Figueira, Roberta Colalillo, Giovanni Mancarella, A. G. Mariazzi, Xavier Bertou, A. Zepeda, Juan Pablo Gongora, Pedro Assis, H. Martinez, G. Torralba Elipe, A. Etchegoyen, L. Valore, Alex Kääpä, Patricia María Hansen, Marco Giammarchi, V. Novotny, Octavian Sima, Rossella Caruso, A. Lucero, Fernando Catalani, G. De Mauro, Caterina Trimarelli, H. Schieler, Q. Dorosti, I. Lhenry-Yvon, Antonella Castellina, Vladimir Lenok, L. Perrone, Thomas Bretz, Corbin Covault, Lino Miramonti, D. de Oliveira Franco, Isabel Goos, D. Heck, M. del Río, M. Risse, Jonathan Blazek, Charles Timmermans, G. Parente, Fabrizia Canfora, L. Zehrer, J. de Oliveira, Alejandro Almela, Carla Bleve, Rodrigo Guedes Lang, Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), and Pierre Auger

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Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), air, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, UHE [cosmic radiation], Cosmic ray, 01 natural sciences, Auger, detector: fluorescence, Nuclear physics, 5/3, 0103 physical sciences, muon: density, ddc:530, cosmic radiation: UHE, 010306 general physics, Engineering (miscellaneous), Physics, Pierre Auger Observatory, fluorescence [detector], detector [muon], Muon, showers: atmosphere, hybrid, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, muon: detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, observatory, Air shower, density [muon], 13. Climate action, Content (measure theory), High Energy Physics::Experiment, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Muon detector, atmosphere [showers]
Abstract

The hybrid design of the Pierre Auger Observatory allows for the measurement of the properties of extensive air showers initiated by ultra-high energy cosmic rays with unprecedented precision. By using an array of prototype underground muon detectors, we have performed the first direct measurement, by the Auger Collaboration, of the muon content of air showers between $$2\times 10^{17}$$2×1017 and $$2\times 10^{18}$$2×1018 eV. We have studied the energy evolution of the attenuation-corrected muon density, and compared it to predictions from air shower simulations. The observed densities are found to be larger than those predicted by models. We quantify this discrepancy by combining the measurements from the muon detector with those from the Auger fluorescence detector at $$10^{{17.5}}\, {\mathrm{eV}} $$1017.5eV and $$10^{{18}}\, {\mathrm{eV}} $$1018eV. We find that, for the models to explain the data, an increase in the muon density of $$38\%$$38%$$\pm 4\% (12\%)$$±4%(12%)$$\pm {}^{21\%}_{18\%}$$±18%21% for EPOS-LHC, and of $$50\% (53\%)$$50%(53%)$$\pm 4\% (13\%)$$±4%(13%)$$\pm {}^{23\%}_{20\%}$$±20%23% for QGSJetII-04, is respectively needed.

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2020

29. Clinical Outcomes Following Intravascular Imaging-Guided Versus Coronary Angiography–Guided Percutaneous Coronary Intervention With Stent Implantation

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Sebastiano Puglisi, Paolo D'Arrigo, Giuseppe Venuti, Matteo Scalia, Gabriele Franchina, Sergio Buccheri, Corrado Tamburino, Bruno Francaviglia, Piera Capranzano, Marco Barbanti, Davide Capodanno, Sara Romano, and Antonio Condorelli

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medicine.medical_specialty, Percutaneous, medicine.medical_treatment, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, law.invention, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Randomized controlled trial, law, Internal medicine, Intravascular ultrasound, medicine, cardiovascular diseases, 030212 general & internal medicine, Myocardial infarction, medicine.diagnostic_test, business.industry, Percutaneous coronary intervention, Odds ratio, medicine.disease, Conventional PCI, Cardiology, Radiology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, business, Mace
Abstract

Objectives The authors sought to explore the comparative clinical efficacy of different imaging modalities for guiding percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI). Background Coronary angiography (CA) is the standard imaging modality for intraprocedural guidance of PCI. Intracoronary imaging techniques, including intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and optical coherence tomography (OCT), can overcome some limitations of CA. Methods Comprehensive hierarchical Bayesian network meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials and adjusted observational studies comparing clinical outcomes of PCI with stent implantation guided by CA, IVUS, or OCT. Results A total of 31 studies encompassing 17,882 patients were included. Compared with CA guidance, the risks of all-cause death (odds ratio [OR]: 0.74; 95% credible interval [CrI]: 0.58 to 0.98), myocardial infarction (OR: 0.72; 95% CrI: 0.52 to 0.93), target lesion revascularization (OR: 0.74, 95% CrI: 0.58 to 0.90) and stent thrombosis (OR: 0.42; 95% CrI: 0.20 to 0.72) were significantly reduced by IVUS guidance. PCI guidance using either IVUS or OCT was associated with a significant reduction of major adverse cardiovascular events (OR: 0.79; 95% CrI: 0.67 to 0.91 and OR: 0.68; 95% CrI: 0.49 to 0.97, respectively) and cardiovascular death (OR: 0.47; 95% CrI: 0.32 to 0.66 and OR: 0.31; 95% CrI: 0.13 to 0.66, respectively). No differences in terms of comparative clinical efficacy were found between IVUS and OCT for all the investigated outcomes. Pooled estimates were consistent across several sensitivity analyses. However, the treatment effect of IVUS on all-cause death was neutralized in the analysis restricted to randomized clinical trials (OR: 1.03; 95% CrI: 0.41 to 2.14). Conclusions Compared with CA, the use of intravascular imaging techniques for PCI guidance reduces the risk of cardiovascular death and adverse events.

Published
2017

30. Feasibility and predictors of early discharge after percutaneous edge-to-edge mitral valve repair

Author

Piera Capranzano, Antonio Condorelli, Corrado Tamburino, Carmelo Grasso, Giuseppe Caruso, Antonio Popolo Rubbio, Davide Capodanno, Salvatore Scandura, Sergio Buccheri, Marco Barbanti, Maria Elena Di Salvo, Sarah Mangiafico, Sebastiano Immè, and Matteo Scalia

Subjects
Male, Cardiac Catheterization, medicine.medical_specialty, Time Factors, Percutaneous, medicine.medical_treatment, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Severity of Illness Index, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Internal medicine, Severity of illness, medicine, Humans, Registries, 030212 general & internal medicine, Early discharge, Aged, Retrospective Studies, Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation, Mitral regurgitation, Mitral valve repair, business.industry, MitraClip, Mitral Valve Insufficiency, Retrospective cohort study, Prognosis, medicine.disease, Patient Discharge, Surgery, Echocardiography, Heart failure, Cardiology, Feasibility Studies, Mitral Valve, Female, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, business, Follow-Up Studies
Abstract

Percutaneous edge-to-edge mitral valve repair (PMVR) recently emerged as an effective treatment modality for patients with severe mitral regurgitation (MR). Length of postprocedural hospital stay may represent a modifiable cost associated with percutaneous treatment. We looked at feasibility, predictors and safety of early discharge (ED), defined as hospital discharge within 72 hours, in patients undergoing PMVR.Consecutive patients treated with MitraClip from October 2008 to December 2015 were analysed. Primary outcomes of interest were cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular mortality, rehospitalisation for heart failure and major adverse events at 30 days and 90 days. A total of 269 patients were included. Of these, 115 patients were early discharged (ED group). Rates of ED increased from 25.9% for the biennium 2008-2009 to 59.1% in 2014-2015 (p0.001 for trend). In a penalised logistic regression model, male gender (OR=2.13, 95% CI 1.17 to 3.95) and procedural year (OR=2.13, 95% CI 1.51 to 3.11) were associated with higher probability of ED. Conversely, atrial fibrillation (OR=0.48, 95% CI 0.27 to 0.85), any Mitral Valve Academic Research Consortium bleeding (OR=0.07, 95% CI 0.01 to 0.60), log-transformed N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide levels (OR=0.79, 95% CI 0.63 to 0.99) and postimplant MR grade (OR=0.60, 95% CI 0.37 to 0.94) conferred a lower likelihood of ED. In propensity score-weighted analyses, overall survival, freedom from heart failure and major adverse events at 30 days and 90 days were not different in ED and non-ED groups (all weighted log-rank p value0.05).In selected patients undergoing PMVR, ED may be feasible and safe.

Published
2017

31. Risk stratification after ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction

Author

Davide Capodanno, Piera Capranzano, Antonio Condorelli, Matteo Scalia, Sergio Buccheri, and Corrado Tamburino

Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty, Time Factors, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Risk Assessment, Electrocardiography, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Risk Factors, Internal Medicine, Humans, Medicine, ST segment, In patient, cardiovascular diseases, 030212 general & internal medicine, Myocardial infarction, Quality of care, Intensive care medicine, business.industry, General Medicine, Length of Stay, medicine.disease, Hospitalization, Elevation (emotion), surgical procedures, operative, Treatment modality, Emergency medicine, Risk stratification, ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, business
Abstract

Risk stratification according to the timing of assessment, treatment modality and outcome of interest is highly advisable in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) to identify optimal treatment strategies, proper length of hospital stay and correct timing of follow-up. Areas covered: This review is an overview summarizing the characteristics and performance of available risk-scoring systems for STEMI. In particular, we sought to highlight the characteristics of STEMI cohorts used for derivation and validation of the available algorithms and appraise their discrimination ability, calibration and global accuracy. Expert commentary: Applying the appropriate score, customized on patients' profile and clinical characteristics at presentation or during the hospitalization, might prove useful to improve the overall quality of care provided to STEMI patients.

Published
2016

32. Clinical Outcomes Following Intravascular Imaging-Guided Versus Coronary Angiography-Guided Percutaneous Coronary Intervention With Stent Implantation: A Systematic Review and Bayesian Network Meta-Analysis of 31 Studies and 17,882 Patients

Author

Sergio, Buccheri, Gabriele, Franchina, Sara, Romano, Sebastiano, Puglisi, Giuseppe, Venuti, Paolo, D'Arrigo, Bruno, Francaviglia, Matteo, Scalia, Antonio, Condorelli, Marco, Barbanti, Piera, Capranzano, Corrado, Tamburino, and Davide, Capodanno

Subjects
Bayes Theorem, Drug-Eluting Stents, Coronary Artery Disease, Coronary Angiography, Prosthesis Design, Radiography, Interventional, Percutaneous Coronary Intervention, Postoperative Complications, Treatment Outcome, Metals, Predictive Value of Tests, Risk Factors, Humans, Stents, Tomography, Optical Coherence, Ultrasonography, Interventional
Abstract

The authors sought to explore the comparative clinical efficacy of different imaging modalities for guiding percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI).Coronary angiography (CA) is the standard imaging modality for intraprocedural guidance of PCI. Intracoronary imaging techniques, including intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and optical coherence tomography (OCT), can overcome some limitations of CA.Comprehensive hierarchical Bayesian network meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials and adjusted observational studies comparing clinical outcomes of PCI with stent implantation guided by CA, IVUS, or OCT.A total of 31 studies encompassing 17,882 patients were included. Compared with CA guidance, the risks of all-cause death (odds ratio [OR]: 0.74; 95% credible interval [CrI]: 0.58 to 0.98), myocardial infarction (OR: 0.72; 95% CrI: 0.52 to 0.93), target lesion revascularization (OR: 0.74, 95% CrI: 0.58 to 0.90) and stent thrombosis (OR: 0.42; 95% CrI: 0.20 to 0.72) were significantly reduced by IVUS guidance. PCI guidance using either IVUS or OCT was associated with a significant reduction of major adverse cardiovascular events (OR: 0.79; 95% CrI: 0.67 to 0.91 and OR: 0.68; 95% CrI: 0.49 to 0.97, respectively) and cardiovascular death (OR: 0.47; 95% CrI: 0.32 to 0.66 and OR: 0.31; 95% CrI: 0.13 to 0.66, respectively). No differences in terms of comparative clinical efficacy were found between IVUS and OCT for all the investigated outcomes. Pooled estimates were consistent across several sensitivity analyses. However, the treatment effect of IVUS on all-cause death was neutralized in the analysis restricted to randomized clinical trials (OR: 1.03; 95% CrI: 0.41 to 2.14).Compared with CA, the use of intravascular imaging techniques for PCI guidance reduces the risk of cardiovascular death and adverse events.

Published
2017

33. Improving intelligence through use of Natural Language Processing. A comparison between NLP interfaces and traditional visual GIS interfaces

Author

Antonio Condorelli, Marius Rata, Luca Zagarella, Davide Calì, and Santo Papa

Subjects
Standardization, business.industry, Interface (Java), Computer science, Scale (chemistry), media_common.quotation_subject, GIS, computer.software_genre, NLP, A.I, Location-based service, Information system, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Quality (business), Artificial intelligence, Enterprise GIS, business, computer, Natural language processing, General Environmental Science, media_common
Abstract

This paper aims at a comparative analysis between accessing GIS using traditional visual interfaces and new ones, which involve a Natural Language Processing (NLPj approach that provides support for the interaction between users and the information system. Lately, GIS have been used at a very large scale; also, users of these systems are different in many aspects, like technical skills, interests, goals, base of knowledge, etc. Among GIS features the location systems play a big role for ITS. To optimize urban mobility it has become more and more crucial to be able to offer location based services very accurate and available even for not expert use. In this scenario NLP allows to use un-precise expressions and queries, of synonyms and qualitative expressions in a very simple way, proposing itself as a powerful interface enabler. The metrics defined and considered by the authors to be relevant, from the points of view mentioned above, are: accessibility (technical skills required), speed (time required to identify the desired results) and quality (human perception of mistakes and the standardization of the formulas used to perform the queries). Experiments are performed using a traditional GIS interface (ArcGIS) and a NLP based interface called ASQL and provided by the company Ula. Ula's technology is being used for the project i-Tour which is developed under the 7th framework with the financial support of the CE.

Published
2011
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34. Methodological Considerations for the Evaluation of Seismic Risk on Road Network

Author

Antonino D'Andrea, Antonio Condorelli, and Salvatore Cafiso

Subjects
education.field_of_study, Earthquake, Relation (database), Computer science, Transport network, Population, Vulnerability, Sismic risk, Road, Natural hazard, Civil engineering, Geophysics, Seismic hazard, Risk analysis (engineering), Geochemistry and Petrology, Seismic risk, Risk assessment, education, Vulnerability (computing)
Abstract

The recent earthquakes in California and Japan have shown the fundamental role that the road infrastructure plays in emergencies. In fact, only the maintenance of a sufficient level of efficiency can help to quickly reach the affected areas and thus avoid further serious consequences. The necessity of guaranteeing the functionality of the transport network during seismic events therefore requires seismic risk planning extended also to the road infrastructures in order to support the management of post-earthquake emergencies. Analogously it is fundamentally important to have analysis instruments of the road system able to preventatively evaluate the effects of earthquakes in order to identify possible emergencies, therefore preparing a program of intervention to reduce seismic risk on road networks. This paper proposes a methodology for the evaluation of seismic risk of road infrastructures according to the following points: •Study of seismic hazard of the site for the definition of a seismic scenario using attenuation models in relation to historical seismology and the geological and tectonic characteristics of the territory; •Analysis of the direct exposure connected to the probability of the presence of road users on the different parts of the network directly exposed to the seismic event; •Analysis of the indirect exposure relative to the distribution of the population and the infrastructures for which post-earthquake accessibility must be guaranteed; •Evaluation of the functional vulnerability in relation to the potential replaceability of damaged stretches considering network configuration and geometrical characteristics; •Evaluation of structural vulnerability of the stretch correlated to the characteristics (structural, mechanical, technological, etc.) of the different components (bridges, embankments, trenches, tunnels) that make up the stretches obtained by the use of correctly elaborated tables for each component. The determination of global risk indexes of the single stretches and of the network, evaluated by means of a relationship between the ascertained parameters derived from the investigation of the previous points, provides the necessary information for the definition of mitigation measures to reduce the risk and for management planning before and after disaster. The proposed methodology, which has already been applied to a restricted area, is currently being applied to the province of Catania (Sicily, Italy), which is one of the geographical regions of highest seismic risk in Europe, and its future extension to all of eastern Sicily is foreseeable.

Published
2005

35. TCT-629 A simple risk model to refine the predictive ability of the STS score for the estimation of early and mid-term mortality in patients undergoing MitraClip implantation

Author

Sebastiano Immè, Carmelo Grasso, Davide Capodanno, Piera Capranzano, Sandra Giaquinta, Antonio Condorelli, Corrado Tamburino, Antonio Popolo Rubbio, Giuseppe Ronsivalle, Buccheri Sergio, Marco Barbanti, Marilena Di Salvo, Salvatore Scandura, and Sarah Mangiafico

Subjects
Estimation, Sts score, medicine.medical_specialty, Risk model, business.industry, MitraClip, medicine, In patient, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, business, Surgery, Simple (philosophy), Term (time)
Published
2016

36. GIS procedure to forecast and manage woodland fires

Author

Giuseppe Mussumeci and Antonio Condorelli

Subjects
Agroforestry, business.industry, Computer science, Human life, Environmental resource management, GIS, Woodland fire, DSS, Woodland, Natural (archaeology), Fire spread, Work (electrical), Spatial evolution, Resource allocation, Support system, business
Abstract

Over the last few years, the phenomenon of woodland fires has become ever more widespread, this is also due to changes in climatic conditions; unfortunately, experience has shown that the consequences for the environment and human life are very serious if the extinguishing operations are not timely. Starting from a brief analysis of the most important available models to simulate fire evolution, the aim of this work was to propose a dynamic prototypal GIS to support the forecast of woodland fire spread and the management of the available resources for extinguishing operations. Currently GIS technology offers many tools for the implementation of analytical models that are useful to evaluate the temporal and spatial evolution of natural phenomena. Specific functionalities for network and lifeline management are also available that make it possible to create a decisional support system (DSS) to obtain the real-time optimization of resource allocation.

Published
2010

38. Operations of the Pierre Auger Observatory

Author

Alexey Yushkov, Giorgio Matthiae, Francesco Fenu, Carla Bonifazi, Jose A. Bellido, Fabio Convenga, Giovanni Marsella, Gaia Silli, Claudio Galelli, Alessio Gorgi, Jeffrey A. Johnsen, Sven Querchfeld, Jan Ebr, Orazio Zapparrata, Julian Kemp, Karen S. Caballero-Mora, Carla Taricco, Edivaldo Moura Santos, Ana L. Müller, Marc Weber, Matias Tueros, Luis A. Nunez, Carola Dobrigkeit, Gustavo Medina-Tanco, Lino Miramonti, Luca Deval, Miroslav Pech, Achille Nucita, Clara Keiko Oliveira Watanabe, Lukas Zehrer, Michael Schimp, Viviana Scherini, Olena Tkachenko, Giuseppe De Mauro, Julien Manshanden, Andres Travaini, Ladislav Chytka, Norberto Fazzini, Analisa Mariazzi, M. E. Bertaina, Martin Erdmann, Wilson M. Namasaka, Pavel Horvath, Mihai Niculescu-Oglinzanu, Jonny Kleinfeller, Gioacchino Alex Anastasi, Beatriz García, Alexander Menshikov, Jacco Vink, Alex Kääpä, Emanuele De Vito, Dave Nitz, Gonzalo Parente, Bjarni Pont, Denise Boncioli, Marvin Gottowik, Maximilian Reininghaus, Alena Bakalova, G. C. Hill, Jorge F. Soriano, Ralph Engel, Roger W Clay, Flavia Gesualdi, Felix Riehn, Danilo Zavrtanik, Luis A. Anchordoqui, Italo Epicoco, Petr Travnicek, Rogerio M. de Almeida, Allan Machado Payeras, Andrej Filipcic, Jon Paul Lundquist, Washington Rodrigues de Carvalho, Srijan Sehgal, Eric Mayotte, Carmina Pérez Bertolli, Christoph Schäfer, Bianca Keilhauer, Marcus Niechciol, Fernando Gollan, Sofia Andringa, Henryk Wilczyński, Trent D. Grubb, Luis Lopes, Quentin Luce, Octavian Sima, Maria Isabel Micheletti, Juan Manuel Figueira, Fred Sarazin, Frank G. Schröder, Roberta Colalillo, Andreas Weindl, Dusan Mandat, Michael Unger, Dariusz Gora, Dalibor Nosek, R. C. Shellard, Sergio Petrera, Zbigniew Szadkowski, Stijn Buitink, Denis Stanca, Juan Manuel González, Jan Ridky, Jose F. Valdés Galicia, Alejandra Parra, Lukas Nellen, Mario Buscemi, P. Gabriel Brichetto Orchera, Max Büsken, Jorge Rubén Rodriguez Rojo, Karl-Heinz Kampert, Antonella Castellina, Andreas Haungs, Martin Vacula, Matthias Kleifges, Heino Falcke, Jannis Pawlowsky, Jan Pękala, Hans Klages, Alan Coleman, Mauricio Suárez-Durán, Antonio Insolia, Nataliia Borodai, Abha Khakurdikar, P. Abreu, Simone Rossoni, Florian Lukas Briechle, Diego Ravignani, Niklas Langner, Thomas Hebbeker, Sergio Dasso, Tristan Sudholz, Dieter Heck, Marcio Aparecido Muller, Luis Miguel Domingues Mendes, Gaetano Salina, Violet M. Harvey, Philipp Papenbreer, Ana Martina Botti, Peter Mazur, Jaime de Oliveira, Alejandro Almela, G. Cataldi, Alexander Streich, Alan Watson, S. J. Saffi, Juan Pallotta, Zoé Torrès, Diego Melo, Francisco Pedreira, Thomas Bretz, Mart Pothast, Radomir Smida, Germano Guedes, Olivier Deligny, Rodrigo Pelayo, Eva Santos, James Matthews, Philip Ruehl, Felicia Barbato, Joaquín de Jesús, Tomáš Fodran, Petr Janecek, Corbin Covault, João de Mello Neto, Matías Rolf Hampel, Geraldina Golup, Alina Mihaela Badescu, Cristina Galea, Rebeca López, Adrian Rovero, Xavier Bertou, Mariano Gómez Berisso, Alexandra Saftoiu, Ivan De Mitri, Pedro Assis, Diego Correia dos Santos, Marcel Köpke, Jarryd A. Day, Martín Miguel Freire, Francesco Salamida, Carlos J. Todero Peixoto, C. Morello, Hernán Gonzalo Asorey, David Wittkowski, Mariano del Río, Alexandru Balaceanu, Hernan Wahlberg, A. Daniel Supanitsky, Miroslav Hrabovsky, Federico Andrés Sánchez, Jiri Blazek, Hermann-Josef Mathes, Laura Valore, Markus Roth, Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz, Alexandru Gherghel-Lascu, Tiina Suomijarvi, Lawrence Wiencke, Paul Sommers, Felix Schlüter, Miroslav Palatka, Fabian Gobbi, Carla Aramo, Vincenzo Rizi, Julien Souchard, Daniele Martello, Fausto Guarino, Alina Nasr-Esfahani, Ugo Giaccari, Lu Lu, Nikolaos Karastathis, Silvia Mollerach, Sullivan Marafico, Josina Schulte, Jeffrey Brack, Olaf Scholten, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, Harald Schieler, Domenico Lo Presti, Ricardo Jorge Barreira Luz, Antonio Condorelli, Jakub Vicha, Lukáš Vaclavek, Ruben Squartini, Marco Stein Muzio, Jesús Peña-Rodríguez, Nicolas Martin Gonzalez, Paolo Privitera, Edyvania Emily Pereira Martins, Peter L. Biermann, Sergio Sciutto, Tanguy Pierog, Armando di Matteo, Peter Buchholz, Fabrizia Canfora, Isabelle Lhenry-Yvon, Carlos Hojvat, Maria Rita Coluccia, Martin Schimassek, Bradley C. Manning, Terasa Bister, Toshihiro Fujii, Glennys R. Farrar, Bruno L. Lago, Rafael Alves Batista, Sonja Schröder, Massimo Mastrodicasa, Juan Miguel Carceller, Jose Chinellato, Ricardo Sato, Bernardo Tomé, Brian Fick, Samo Stanič, Ralf Ulrich, Marco Aglietta, Guenter Sigl, Indira D. Vergara Quispe, Markus Risse, Jakub Juryšek, Serguei Vorobiov, Marko Zavrtanik, Julian Rautenberg, Juan Carlos Arteaga Velazquez, Stanislav Michal, Rúben Conceição, Ioana Caracas, Varada Varma Kizakke Covilakam, Petr Hamal, Anderson Fauth, Oscar Martínez Bravo, Luan Bonneau Arbeletche, Steffen Hahn, Juan Carlos D'Olivo, Justin M. Albury, Alex Tapia, Kai Daumiller, Roberto Mussa, Fridtjof Feldbusch, Lorenzo Caccianiga, Lorenzo Cazon, Enrique Zas, Mário Pimenta, Manuel Platino, Antoine Letessier-Selvon, Danelise de Oliveira Franco, Brian Wundheiler, Sijbrand J. de Jong, Thomas Fitoussi, David Schmidt, Piera Luisa Ghia, Fernando Contreras, Darko Veberic, Carla Bleve, Rodrigo Guedes Lang, Belén Andrada, Valerio Pirronello, Adrianna Luz García Vegas, Marcos Cerda, Giovanni Consolati, Alberto Segreto, François Montanet, Pierpaolo Savina, Francesco de Palma, Marcelo Augusto Leigui de Oliveira, Norbert Kunka, Miguel Mostafa, Jose Sanabria Gomez, Michael Prouza, Jonas Glombitza, Eleonora Guido, Vladimír Novotný, Petr Schovanek, Valerio Verzi, Matías J. Roncoroni, Lorenzo Perrone, Libor Nozka, Virginia Binet, Christian Sarmiento-Cano, Patrick Stassi, Isabel Goos, Alberto Etchegoyen, Enrique Varela, Charles Timmermans, Andrew Puyleart, Alan Fuster, Vladimir Lenok, Jiri Chudoba, Hartmut Gemmeke, Maximilian Stadelmaier, Katharine Mulrey, Carlos Escobar, Kevin-Druis Merenda, Marcus Wirtz, Kathrin Bismark, Rita dos Anjos, Martina Bohacova, Ioana Codrina Maris, Giovanni Mancarella, John Farmer, Juan Pablo Gongora, Jaroslaw Stasielak, Maria-Teresa Dova, Raul Sarmento, Karl-Heinz Becker, Diego dos Santos, Paul Mantsch, Rossella Caruso, Fernando Catalani, Adriana Vásquez-Ramírez, Caterina Trimarelli, Johnnier Perez Armand, Primo F. Gómez Vitale, Antonio Bueno, Petr Tobiska, Gualberto Avila, Ingomar Allekotte, Sara Martinelli, Agustín Cobos Cerutti, Paulo Ricardo Araújo Ferreira, Matías Perlin, Diego Harari, Vitor de Souza, Cynthia Ventura, Bruce R. Dawson, Tim Huege, Patricia María Hansen, Marco Giammarchi, Jörg R. Hörandel, Paula Gina Isar, Marina Scornavacche, Jonathan Biteau, Esteban Roulet, and Corinne Berat

Subjects
Pierre Auger Observatory, Upgrade, Observatory, Astronomy, Detector, Experimental High Energy Physics, Basic level, Cosmic ray, High Energy Physics, Geology, Remote sensing
Abstract

The construction of the first stage of the Pierre Auger Observatory, designed for research of ultra-high energy cosmic rays, began in 2001 with a prototype system. The Observatory has been collecting data since early 2004 and was completed in 2008. The Observatory is situated at 1400 m above sea level near Malargue, (Mendoza province) in western Argentina, covering a vast plain of 3000 squared km, known as the Pampa Amarillo. The Observatory consists of a hybrid detector, in which there are 1660 water-Cherenkov stations, forming the Surface Detector (SD) and 27 peripheral atmospheric fluorescence telescopes, comprising the Fluorescence Detector (FD).Over time, the Auger Observatory has been enhanced with different R&D prototypes and is recently being to an important upgrade called AugerPrime. In the present contribution, the general operations of the SD and FD will be described. In particular the FD shift procedure - executable locally in Malargue or remotely by teams in control rooms abroad within the Collaboration - and the newly SD shifts (operating since 2019) will be explained. Additionally, the SD and FD maintenance campaigns, as well as the data taking and data handling at a basic level, will be reported

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