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2. Probing hadronic interactions using the latest data measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory
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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
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- 2022
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3. Design and initial performance of the prototype for the BEACON instrument for detection of ultrahigh energy particles
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Dan Southall, Cosmin Deaconu, Valentin Decoene, Eric Oberla, Andrew Zeolla, Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz, Austin Cummings, Zach Curtis-Ginsberg, Angus Hendrick, Kaeli Hughes, Ryan Krebs, Andrew Ludwig, Katharine Mulrey, Steven Prohira, Washington Rodrigues de Carvalho, Andres Rodriguez, Andres Romero-Wolf, Harm Schoorlemmer, Abigail G. Vieregg, Stephanie A. Wissel, and Enrique Zas
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High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors ,Astronomy ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,FOS: Physical sciences ,High Energy Physics - Experiment ,High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) ,High Energy Physics ,Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ,Instrumentation - Abstract
The Beamforming Elevated Array for COsmic Neutrinos (BEACON) is a planned neutrino telescope designed to detect radio emission from upgoing air showers generated by ultrahigh energy tau neutrino interactions in the Earth. This detection mechanism provides a measurement of the tau flux of cosmic neutrinos. We have installed an 8-channel prototype instrument at high elevation at Barcroft Field Station, which has been running since 2018, and consists of 4 dual-polarized antennas sensitive between 30-80 MHz, whose signals are filtered, amplified, digitized, and saved to disk using a custom data acquisition system (DAQ). The BEACON prototype is at high elevation to maximize effective volume and uses a directional beamforming trigger to improve rejection of anthropogenic background noise at the trigger level. Here we discuss the design, construction, and calibration of the BEACON prototype instrument. We also discuss the radio frequency environment observed by the instrument, and categorize the types of events seen by the instrument, including a likely cosmic ray candidate event., 21 pages, 20 figures
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- 2023
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4. Modeling and Validating RF-Only Interferometric Triggering with Cosmic Rays for BEACON
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K. Hughes, Cosmin Deaconu, Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz, Harm Schoorlemmer, Eric Oberla, Andrew Ludwig, A. C. Cummings, Andrew Zeolla, S. Prohira, D. Southall, K. Mulrey, Abigail G. Vieregg, Stephanie Wissel, Enrique Zas, A. Romero-Wolf, Washington Rodrigues de Carvalho, and Z. Curtis-Ginsberg
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Beamforming ,Physics ,COSMIC cancer database ,Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors ,business.industry ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Detector ,Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Cosmic ray ,Interferometry ,Optics ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Antenna (radio) ,Neutrino ,business ,Lepton - Abstract
When Earth-skimming tau neutrinos interact within the Earth, they generate upgoing tau leptons that can decay in the atmosphere, forming extensive air showers. The Beamforming Elevated Array for COsmic Neutrinos (BEACON) is a novel detector concept that utilizes a radio interferometer atop a mountain to search for the radio emission due to these extensive air showers. The prototype, located at the White Mountain Research Station in California, consists of 4 crossed-dipole antennas operating in the 30-80 MHz range and uses a directional interferometric trigger for reduced thresholds and background rejection. The prototype will first be used to detect down-going cosmic rays to validate the detector model. A Monte-Carlo simulation was developed to predict the acceptance of the prototype to cosmic rays, as well as the expected rate of detection. In this simulation, cosmic ray induced air showers with random properties are generated in an area around the prototype array. It is then determined if a given shower triggers the array using radio emission simulations from ZHAireS and antenna modelling from XFdtd. Here, we present the methodology and results of this simulation.
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- 2021
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5. Searching for RF-Only Triggered Cosmic Ray Events with the High-Elevation BEACON Prototype
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Harm Schoorlemmer, S. Prohira, Andrew Ludwig, Zachery Curtis-Ginsberg, Austin Cummings, Andrew Zeolla, Cosmin Deaconu, Kaeli Hughes, Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz, Stephanie Wissel, Andrew Romero-Wolf, Washington Rodrigues de Carvalho, Abigail G. Vieregg, K. Mulrey, Enrique Zas, Eric Oberla, and Daniel Southall
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Beamforming ,Physics ,COSMIC cancer database ,Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Detector ,Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Cosmic ray ,Interferometry ,Tau neutrino ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Neutrino ,Lepton ,Remote sensing - Abstract
The Beamforming Elevated Array for COsmic Neutrinos (BEACON) is a concept for a neutrino telescope designed to measure tau lepton air showers generated from tau neutrino interactions near the horizon. This detection mechanism provides a pure measurement of the tau flavor of cosmogenic neutrinos, which could be used to set limits on the observed flavor ratios for cosmogenic neutrinos in a manner complimentary to the all-flavor neutrino flux measurements made by other experiments. BEACON is expected to also be capable of detecting cosmic rays through RF-only triggers. BEACON aims to achieve this sensitivity by using mountaintop radio arrays of dual-polarized antennas operating in the 30-80 MHz band which utilize directional interferometric triggering. BEACON stations are designed to efficiently use a small amount of instrumentation, allowing for deployment in a variety of high-elevation sites. The interferometric trigger provides a natural tool for directional-based anthropogenic RFI rejection at the trigger level, broadening the list for potential station sites. The BEACON prototype has seen continuous design advancements towards improving the mechanical durability and scientific capabilities since its initial deployment at White Mountain Research Station in 2018. Here we present the current prototype’s sensitivity to RF-triggered cosmic-ray background signals. We also present the next generation prototype, which includes scintillating cosmic ray detectors, improved antennas, and refined calibration techniques.
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- 2021
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6. Updates from the OVRO-LWA: Commissioning a Full-Duty-Cycle Radio-Only Cosmic Ray Detector
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Gregg Hallinan, Konstantin Belov, A. Romero-Wolf, Kathryn Plant, and Washington Rodrigues de Carvalho
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Physics ,Air shower ,Interference (communication) ,Duty cycle ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Detector ,Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Astronomy ,Cosmic ray ,Owens Valley Radio Observatory ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,Energy (signal processing) ,Radio astronomy - Abstract
The Owens Valley Radio Observatory- Long Wavelength Array (OVRO-LWA) in Eastern California is currently undergoing an expansion to 352 dual-polarization antennas and new signal processing infrastructure. The upgraded array will operate a full-duty-cycle cosmic ray detector simultaneously with a variety of radio astronomy observations. Expanding the methods introduced in a previous demonstration, this detector will operate on the radio signals alone to trigger data capture, identify cosmic rays in the presence of radio-frequency interference (RFI), and reconstruct the air shower properties: energy, direction, and Xmax. When fully commissioned, the OVRO-LWA will observe thousands of cosmic rays per year at energies 10^17-10^18 eV and will constrain the cosmic ray composition across the cosmic ray spectrum's second knee with a typical Xmax precision better than 20g/cm^2 per air shower, thereby offering new composition information across the energy limits of Galactic accelerators. Commissioning for the OVRO-LWA is ongoing and is planned for completion in late 2021. I will present the trigger design, RFI flagging strategy, and a progress update from early commissioning.
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- 2021
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7. Towards Interferometric Triggering on Air Showers Induced by Tau Neutrino Interactions
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Daniel Southall, Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz, Andrew Romero-Wolf, H. Schoorlemmer, Mercedes Vasquez, Andrew Ludwig, Caroline Paciaroni, Kaeli Hughes, Andres Rodriguez, Abigail G. Vieregg, Enrique Zas, Washington Rodrigues de Carvalho, Stephanie Wissel, Eric Oberla, Gregg Hallinan, B. Strutt, Cosmin Deaconu, and Austin Cummings
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Beamforming ,Physics ,Interferometry ,COSMIC cancer database ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Tau neutrino ,Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Astronomy ,Cosmic ray ,Neutrino ,Lepton - Abstract
The Beamforming Elevated Array for COsmic Neutrinos (BEACON) Experiment aims to implement a new interferometric trigger targeting air showers initiated by the decay of tau leptons created during neutrino interactions in the earth at energies greater than 100 PeV. Over the past decade, interferometric techniques have been successfully implemented in analysis for many of the leading UHE particle experiments. BEACON has included interferometry at the trigger level, by implementing a beamforming technique in which signals are coherently summed, improving overall sensitivity and providing robust rejection against man-made backgrounds. A two-antenna short-term interferometer and a four-antenna long-term interferometer, both targeting the 30-80 MHz range, were installed on White Mountain near Bishop, California, as part of a months-long site study of man-made backgrounds and rates. Successfully suppressing man-made backgrounds will lead future iterations of BEACON to trigger on both cosmic rays from above and tau lepton air showers from tau neutrino interactions near the horizon.
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- 2019
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8. Concept Study for the Beamforming Elevated Array for Cosmic Neutrinos (BEACON)
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Andrew Ludwig, H. Schoorlemmer, Andres Romero-Wolf, Andres Rodriguez, Washington Rodrigues de Carvalho, Enrique Zas, Abigail G. Vieregg, Caroline Paciaroni, Kaeli Hughes, B. Strutt, Austin Cummings, Gregg Hallinan, Eric Oberla, Stephanie Wissel, Cosmin Deaconu, Dan Southall, Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz, Claire Burch, and Mercedes Vasquez
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Masking (art) ,Beamforming ,Physics ,COSMIC cancer database ,Proof of concept ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Detector ,Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Elevation ,Flux ,Astronomy ,Neutrino - Abstract
Tau neutrinos are expected to comprise one third of both the astrophysical and cosmogenic neutrino flux, but currently the flavor ratio is poorly constrained and the expected flux at energies >100 PeV is low. We present a new concept for a radio detector called BEACON sensitive to tau neutrinos with energies greater than 100 PeV in which a radio interferometer searches for upgoing tau neutrinos from a high elevation mountain. Signals from several antennas are coherently summed at the trigger level, permitting not only directional masking of anthropogenic backgrounds, but also a lower trigger threshold. Simulation studies indicate that a modest array size and small number of stations can achieve competitive sensitivity, provided the receivers are at high enough elevation. As a proof of concept, an array of four 30-80 MHz dual polarized antennas was deployed at the White Mountain Research Station.
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- 2019
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9. Comprehensive analysis of anomalous ANITA events disfavors a diffuse tau-neutrino flux origin
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J. J. Beatty, Berkeley Hill, K. Mulrey, L. Batten, R. J. Nichol, L. Cremonesi, Jarred Matthew Roberts, Cosmin Deaconu, S. Matsuno, J. Stockham, G. S. Varner, Peter Gorham, S. H. Wang, Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz, Patrick Allison, S. Stafford, O. Banerjee, B. D. Fox, R. Hupe, Washington Rodrigues de Carvalho, Keith Bechtol, Enrique Zas, Abigail G. Vieregg, S. Prohira, Jiwoo Nam, M. Stockham, Harm Schoorlemmer, C. Miki, Andres Romero-Wolf, Charles J. Naudet, J. J. Huang, M. S. Sutherland, K. Hughes, D. Seckel, B. Dailey, Brian Rauch, C. C. Chen, V. Bugaev, B. Rotter, Paul Dowkontt, M. H. Israel, J. Shiao, J. W. H. Gordon, J. W. Russell, S. Y. Hsu, Chun Hsiung Chen, Andrew Ludwig, P. Cao, Konstantin Belov, Tsung-Che Liu, W. R. Binns, Eric Oberla, David Saltzberg, C. Hast, A. Novikov, D. Z. Besson, B. Strutt, Pisin Chen, Kurt Liewer, Stephanie Wissel, Amy Connolly, Luca Macchiarulo, and J. M. Clem
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High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) ,Pierre Auger Observatory ,Physics ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,High Energy Physics::Phenomenology ,Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Flux ,Astrophysics ,7. Clean energy ,01 natural sciences ,Standard Model ,Air shower ,13. Climate action ,Observatory ,Tau neutrino ,0103 physical sciences ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Neutrino ,Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,010306 general physics ,Lepton - Abstract
Recently, the ANITA collaboration reported on two upward-going extensive air shower events consistent with a primary particle that emerges from the surface of the ice. These events may be of $\nu_\tau$ origin, in which the neutrino interacts within the Earth to produce a $\tau$ lepton that emerges from the Earth, decays in the atmosphere, and initiates an extensive air shower. In this paper we estimate an upper bound on the ANITA acceptance to a diffuse $\nu_\tau$ flux detected via $\tau$-lepton-induced air showers within the bounds of Standard Model (SM) uncertainties. By comparing this estimate with the acceptance of Pierre Auger Observatory and IceCube and assuming SM interactions, we conclude that a $\nu_\tau$ origin of these events would imply a neutrino flux at least two orders of magnitude above current bounds., Comment: 12 pages, 7 figures
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- 2019
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10. Erratum: Comprehensive approach to tau-lepton production by high-energy tau neutrinos propagating through the Earth [Phys. Rev. D 97 , 023021 (2018)]
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Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz, Austin Cummings, Harm Schoorlemmer, Enrique Zas, K. Payet, Andres Romero-Wolf, and Washington Rodrigues de Carvalho
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Physics ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Perfect fluid ,01 natural sciences ,Gravitation ,General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology ,Theoretical physics ,0103 physical sciences ,Neutrino ,Anomaly (physics) ,010306 general physics ,Scalar field ,Big Bounce ,Loop quantum cosmology ,Lepton - Abstract
Whenever the condition of anomaly freedom is imposed within the framework of effective approaches to loop quantum cosmology, one seems to conclude that a deformation of general covariance is required. Here, starting from a general deformation we regain an effective gravitational Lagrangian including terms up to fourth order in extrinsic curvature. We subsequently constrain the form of the corrections for the homogeneous case, and then investigate the conditions for the occurrence of a big bounce and the realization of an inflationary era, in the presence of a perfect fluid or scalar field.
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11. Prospects for high-elevation radio detection of 0>10 PeV tau neutrinos
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Mercedes Vasquez, Enrique Zas, Austin Cummings, Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz, B. Strutt, Washington Rodrigues de Carvalho, Cosmin Deaconu, Caroline Paciaroni, Kaeli Hughes, Joalda Morancy, S. Prohira, Max Stapel-Kalat, Stephanie Wissel, Abigail G. Vieregg, Eric Oberla, Dan Southall, Andres Romero-Wolf, Harm Schoorlemmer, and Andrew Ludwig
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Masking (art) ,Physics ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Frequency band ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Detector ,Elevation ,Flux ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,Astrophysics ,7. Clean energy ,01 natural sciences ,Duty cycle ,0103 physical sciences ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Neutrino ,Energy (signal processing) - Abstract
Tau neutrinos are expected to comprise roughly one third of both the astrophysical and cosmogenic neutrino flux, but currently the flavor ratio is poorly constrained and the expected flux at energies above 1017 eV is low. We present a detector concept aimed at measuring the diffuse flux of tau neutrinos in this energy range via a high-elevation mountaintop detector using the radio technique. The detector searches for radio signals from upgoing air showers generated by Earth-skimming tau neutrinos. Signals from several antennas in a compact array are coherently summed at the trigger level, permitting not only directional masking of anthropogenic backgrounds, but also a low trigger threshold. This design takes advantage of both the large viewing area available at high-elevation sites and the nearly full duty cycle available to radio instruments. We present trade studies that consider the station elevation, frequency band, number of antennas in the array, and the trigger threshold to develop a highly efficient station design. Such a mountaintop detector can achieve a factor of ten improvement in acceptance over existing instruments with 100 independent stations. With 1000 stations and three years of observation, it can achieve a sensitivity to an integrated −2 flux of
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- 2020
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12. The GRANDproto35 experiment
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Sijbrand J. de Jong, Jacques David, Kumiko Kotera, Olivier Martineau-Huynh, Didier Charrier, David J. Martin, Sandra Le Coz, Krijn de Vries, Valentin Niess, Washington Rodrigues de Carvalho, Junhua Gu, Yi Zhang, Xiang-Ping Wu, Quanbu Gou, Matias Tueros, Mauricio Bustamante, Ke Fang, Rene Habraken, hongbo Hu, C. Medina, Zhen Wang, Jianli Zhang, Charles Timmermans, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de physique subatomique et des technologies associées (SUBATECH), Université de Nantes - UFR des Sciences et des Techniques (UN UFR ST), Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire (IMT Atlantique), Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont (LPC), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] (UCA [2017-2020])-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-IMT Atlantique (IMT Atlantique), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] (UCA [2017-2020])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Nantes - Faculté des Sciences et des Techniques, Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire (IMT Atlantique), and Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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air ,costs ,Scintillator ,7. Clean energy ,01 natural sciences ,off-line ,neutrino ,0103 physical sciences ,site ,cosmic radiation: UHE ,[PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det] ,010306 general physics ,scintillation counter ,Physics ,polarization ,energy: high ,COSMIC cancer database ,showers: atmosphere ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,business.industry ,background ,Antenna aperture ,Detector ,Electrical engineering ,radio wave: detector ,Polarization (waves) ,flux ,Neutrino detector ,Duty cycle ,efficiency ,Neutrino ,business ,[PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph] - Abstract
International audience; The very low flux of ultra-high-energy cosmic-rays (UHECRs) requires detectors with a large effective area and high duty cycle to obtain a statistically relevant sample. Radio detection of extensive air showers (EAS) presents attractive aspects for future giant detectors of high energy cosmic particles, with very low cost per detection unit, easiness of deployment over large areas, and a duty cycle close to 100%. However autonomous detection of EAS -a necessary step towards the realization of this type of ambitious detectors- remains a challenge.GRANDproto35 aims at demonstrating that radio-detection of air showers can be performed with very good background rejection, high efficiency, and an almost 100% duty cycle. The 35 GRANDproto antennas will perform a full measurement of the detected wave polarization. This makes GRANDproto35 uniquely qualified for the investigation of polarization characteristics of the radio emission from EAS, which may contribute to discriminate them from background signals. In addition, an array of 24 scintillators will allow offline cross-checks of the nature of the selected radio-candidates. We detail here the principle, progress and prospects of GRANDproto35, which serves as a step towards the Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) project. GRAND will consist of an array of ∼ 10^5 radio antennas deployed over ∼ 200, 000 km^2 in mountainous sites.
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- 2017
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13. Determination of cosmic-ray primary mass on an event-by-event basis using radio detection
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Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz and Washington Rodrigues de Carvalho
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Physics ,High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) ,Basis (linear algebra) ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,QC1-999 ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Monte Carlo method ,Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,Cosmic ray ,01 natural sciences ,Computational physics ,RADIOASTRONOMIA ,Footprint ,Primary (astronomy) ,0103 physical sciences ,Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,010306 general physics ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics ,Event (particle physics) ,Zenith ,Energy (signal processing) ,Radio wave - Abstract
We present a new methodology to discriminate between light and heavy ultra-high energy cosmic-ray primaries on an event-by-event basis using information from the radio detection of extensive air showers at MHz frequencies. Similarly to other methods to determine primary cosmic ray composition, the one presented here is based on comparisons between detected radio signals and Monte Carlo simulations for multiple primary cosmic ray compositions. Unlike other methods that first reconstruct the depth of maximum shower development $X_{\rm max}$ to relate it to the nature of the primaries, we instead infer the cosmic-ray composition directly. The method is most effective in the case of inclined showers that arrive at large zenith angles with respect to the vertical to the ground, where methods based on the determination of $X_{\rm max}$ lose accuracy. We show that a discrimination efficiency between 65% and 80% can be reached for zenith angles $\theta \gtrsim 60^{\circ}$, even when typical uncertainties in radio detection are taken into account, including shower energy uncertainty. Our methodology could in principle be applied in large and sparse radio arrays, designed with the large radio footprint of inclined showers in mind, to significantly increase the statistics of ultra-high energy cosmic-ray composition studies.
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14. Measurement of the cosmic ray flux with the ANITA experiment
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Washington Rodrigues de Carvalho, Enrique Zas, Daniel García-Fernández, Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz, and H. Schoorlemmer
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Physics ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Payload ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,QC1-999 ,Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Flux ,Cosmic ray ,Astrophysics ,01 natural sciences ,Electric field ,0103 physical sciences ,Ice caps ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics - Abstract
The ANITA experiment consists on an aerostatic balloon flying over Antarctica and carrying a payload with antennas. Although ANITA was designed to detect the electric field of netrino-induced showers in the ice cap, it has also detected 16 radio pulses coming from extensive air showers, and the ANITA collaboration has used these data to produce the first cosmic ray flux measurement obtained by employing radio as a stand-alone technique. We review the experimental results and its interpretation. We also focus on the simulations and the method used for obtaining the cosmic ray flux.
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15. The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection
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Chad Finley, Hongbo Hu, Kumiko Kotera, Zhaoyang Feng, Washington Rodrigues de Carvalho, Mauricio Bustamante, Kohta Murase, Olivier Martineau-Huynh, Krijn D. de Vries, Charles Timmermans, C. Medina, Didier Charrier, Sandra Le Coz, Yi Zhang, Valentin Niess, Sijbrand J. de Jong, Zhen Wang, Xiang-Ping Wu, Quanbu Gou, Ke Fang, Junhua Gu, Foteini Oikonomou, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de physique subatomique et des technologies associées (SUBATECH), Université de Nantes - UFR des Sciences et des Techniques (UN UFR ST), Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire (IMT Atlantique), Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont (LPC), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] (UCA [2017-2020])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), GRAND, Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-IMT Atlantique (IMT Atlantique), Université de Nantes - Faculté des Sciences et des Techniques, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies ( LPNHE ), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 ( UPMC ) -Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 ( UPD7 ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Laboratoire de physique subatomique et des technologies associées ( SUBATECH ), IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire ( IMT Atlantique ) -Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -Université de Nantes ( UN ), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris ( IAP ), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 ( UPMC ) -Institut national des sciences de l'Univers ( INSU - CNRS ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont ( LPC ), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -Université Clermont Auvergne ( UCA ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), and Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire (IMT Atlantique)
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air ,[ PHYS.ASTR ] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph] ,QC1-999 ,FOS: Physical sciences ,7. Clean energy ,01 natural sciences ,decay ,Atmosphere ,0103 physical sciences ,site ,surface ,High Energy Physics ,tau ,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) ,[ PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET ] Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det] ,GeneralLiterature_REFERENCE(e.g.,dictionaries,encyclopedias,glossaries) ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics ,neutrino: interaction ,High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) ,Physics ,astro-ph.HE ,energy: high ,COSMIC cancer database ,showers: atmosphere ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Astronomy ,sensitivity ,Earth surface ,Neutrino detector ,Experimental High Energy Physics ,Neutrino ,Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,[PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph] ,astro-ph.IM - Abstract
The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) is a planned array of ~200 000 radio antennas deployed over ~200 000 km2 in a mountainous site. It aims primarly at detecting high-energy neutrinos via the observation of extensive air showers induced by the decay in the atmosphere of taus produced by the interaction of cosmic neutrinos under the Earth surface. GRAND aims at reaching a neutrino sensitivity of 5.10$^{11}$ E$^{-2}$ GeV$^{-1}$cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$sr$^{-1}$ above 3.10$^{16}$ eV. This ensures the detection of cosmogenic neutrinos in the most pessimistic source models, and ~50 events per year are expected for the standard models. The instrument will also detect UHECRs and possibly FRBs. Here we show how our preliminary design should enable us to reach our sensitivity goals, and discuss the steps to be taken to achieve GRAND., Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, proceedings of the ARENA2016 conference
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16. Radio pulses from electromagnetic, hadronic and neutrino-induced showers up to EeV energies
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Enrique Zas, Washington Rodrigues de Carvalho, Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz, A. Romero-Wolf, and Matias Tueros
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Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Range (particle radiation) ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Hadron ,Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,Astrophysics ,Charged particle ,Magnetic field ,Nuclear physics ,Deflection (physics) ,Monte carlo code ,Neutrino ,Instrumentation - Abstract
The radio pulses emitted by electromagnetic, hadronic, and neutrino-induced showers are calculated for showers of energies in the EeV range and above in ice and in air. These are obtained in three-dimensional simulations of both the shower and the radio emission. An AIRES-based Monte Carlo code, ZHA ire S, has been developed for this purpose that allows us to predict the radio emission in both the time and frequency domains. The algorithms used, obtained from first principles, predict the radio emission due to all emission mechanisms, including the deflection of charged particles in the Earth's magnetic field. The code which has been extended to calculate in the Fresnel regime can reproduce the full complexity of the relevant shower phenomena.
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17. A New Concept for High-Elevation Radio Detection of Tau Neutrinos
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Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz, Andres Romero-Wolf, Enrique Zas, H. Schoorlemmer, Washington Rodrigues de Carvalho, and Stephanie Wissel
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Physics ,COSMIC cancer database ,Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,QC1-999 ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,High Energy Physics::Phenomenology ,Detector ,Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Flux ,Astrophysics ,01 natural sciences ,Earth's magnetic field ,Air shower ,Tau neutrino ,0103 physical sciences ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Neutrino ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics ,Lepton - Abstract
Cosmic neutrinos are expected to include a significant flux of tau neutrinos due to flavor mixing over astronomical length scales. However, the tau-neutrino content of astrophysical neutrinos is poorly constrained and a significant flux of cosmogenic tau neutrinos awaits discovery. Earth-skimming tau neutrinos undergo charged-current interactions that result in a tau lepton exiting the Earth. The tau lepton decay generates anextensive air shower and geomagnetic radio emission. To target the tau neutrinos, we present a new tau neutrino detector concept that uses phased antenna arrays placed on high elevation mountains. Simulation studies indicate that a modest array size and small number of stations can achieve competitive sensitivity, provided the receivers are at highs enough elevation.
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18. Energy estimation of cosmic rays with the Engineering Radio Array of the Pierre Auger Observatory
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Pierre Auger Collaboration (Alexander Aab (Siegen, U. )., Pedro Abreu (LIP, Lisbon &, Lisbon, IST), Marco Aglietta (IFSI, Turin), Eun-Joo Ahn (Fermilab), Imen Al Samarai (Orsay, IPN), Ivone Albuquerque (Sao Paulo, U. )., Ingomar Allekotte (Centro Atomico Bariloche &, Balseiro, Inst., San Carlos de Bariloche), Patrick Allison (Ohio State, U. )., Alejandro Almela, (U. Tech. Natl., Argentina), Jesus Alvarez Castillo (Mexico, U. )., Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz (Santiago de Compostela, U. )., Rafael Alves Batista (Hamburg, U., II), Inst. Theor. Phys., amp, INFN, Michelangelo Ambrosio (Naples U., Naples), Amin Aminaei (Nijmegen, U., IMAPP), INFN, Gioacchino Alex Anastasi (Catania U., Catania), Luis Anchordoqui (Lehman, Coll. )., Sofia Andringa (LIP, INFN, Carla Aramo (Naples U., Fernando Arqueros (Madrid, U. )., Nicusor Arsene (Bucharest, U. )., Hernán Gonzalo Asorey (Centro Atomico Bariloche &, San Carlos de Bariloche &, Cantabria, U., Santander), Pedro Assis (LIP, Julien Aublin (Paris, U., VI-VII), Gualberto Avila (Pierre Auger, Observ. )., Nafiun Awal (New York, U. )., Alina Mihaela Badescu (Bucharest, Polytechnic, Inst. )., Colin Baus (KIT, Karlsruhe, EKP), Jim Beatty (Ohio State, U. )., Karl Heinz Becker (Wuppertal, U. )., Jose A Bellido (Adelaide, U. )., Corinne Berat (LPSC, Grenoble), Mario Edoardo Bertaina (IFSI, Xavier Bertou (Centro Atomico Bariloche &, Peter Biermann (Bonn, Max Planck, Inst., Radioastro, n. )., Pierre Billoir (Paris, U., Simon G Blaess (Adelaide, U. )., Alberto Blanco (LIP, Miguel Blanco (Paris, U., Jiri Blazek (Prague, Ins, t. Phys. )., INFN, Carla Bleve (Salento U., Lecce), Hans Blümer (KIT, Karlsruhe, IKP &, KIT, Karlsruhe, IKP), Martina Boháčová (Prague, Denise Boncioli (Gran Sasso), Carla Bonifazi (Rio de Janeiro Federal, U. )., Nataliia Borodai (Cracow, INP), Jeffrey Brack (Colorado State, U. )., Iliana Brancus (Bucharest, IFIN-HH), Thomas Bretz (Aachen, Tec, h. Hochsch. )., Ariel Bridgeman (KIT, Pedro Brogueira (LIP, Peter Buchholz (Siegen, U. )., CAFPE, Antonio Bueno (Granada U., Granada), Stijn Buitink (Nijmegen, U., INFN, Mario Buscemi (Naples U., Karen, S Caballero-Mora (Unlisted, FR), INFN, Barbara Caccianiga (Milan U., Milan), Lorenzo Caccianiga (Paris, U., Marina Candusso (Rome, U., Tor Vergata &, INFN, Rome2), Laurentiu Caramete (Bucharest, Space Sciences), Inst., Caruso, R, Antonella Castellina (IFSI, INFN, Gabriella Cataldi (Salento U., Lorenzo Cazon (LIP, INFN, Rosanna Cester (Turin U., Alan, G Chavez (IFM-UMSNH, Michoacan), Andrea Chiavassa (IFSI, Jose Augusto Chinellato (Campinas State, U. )., Jiri Chudoba (Prague, INFN, Marco Cilmo (Naples U., Roger W Clay (Adelaide, U. )., INFN, Giuseppe Cocciolo (Salento U., INFN, Roberta Colalillo (Naples U., Alan Coleman (Penn State, U. )., INFN, Laura Collica (Milan U., INFN, Maria Rita Coluccia (Salento U., Ruben Conceição (LIP, Fernando Contreras (Pierre Auger, Observ. )., Mathew J Cooper (Adelaide, U. )., Alain Cordier (Orsay, LAL), Stephane Coutu (Penn State, U. )., Corbin Covault (Case Western Reserve, U. )., James Cronin (Chicago, U., EFI), Richard Dallier (Station Radioastronomy, Nancay &, SUBATECH, Nantes), Bruno Daniel (Campinas State, U. )., Buenos Aires, Sergio Dasso (Buenos Aires U., IAFE), Kai Daumiller (KIT, Bruce R Dawson (Adelaide, U. )., Rogerio, M de Almeida (Niteroi, Fluminense, U. )., Sijbrand J de Jong (Nijmegen, U., IMAPP &, NIKHEF, Amsterdam), Giuseppe De Mauro (Nijmegen, U., Joao de Mello Neto (Rio de Janeiro Federal, U. )., INFN, Ivan De Mitri (Salento U., Jaime de Oliveira (Niteroi, Vitor de Souza (Sao Paulo, U., Sao, Carlos), Luis del Peral (Alcala de Henares, U. )., Olivier Deligny (Orsay, Niraj Dhital (Michigan, Tech. U. )., Claudio Di Giulio (Rome, U., INFN, Armando Di Matteo (L'Aquila U., Aquila), Johana Chirinos Diaz (Michigan, Tech. U. )., Mary Lucia Díaz Castro (Campinas State, U. )., Francisco Diogo (LIP, Carola Dobrigkeit (Campinas State, U. )., Wendy Docters (Groningen, KVI), Juan Carlos D'Olivo (Mexico, U. )., Alexei Dorofeev (Colorado State, U. )., Qader Dorosti Hasankiadeh (KIT, Rita dos Anjos (Sao Paulo, U., Maria Teresa Dova (La Plata, U. )., Jan Ebr (Prague, Ralph Engel (KIT, Martin Erdmann (Aachen, Mona Erfani (Siegen, U. )., Fermilab), Carlos O Escobar (Campinas State U., Joao Espadanal (LIP, Alberto Etchegoyen, (U. Tech. Natl., Heino Falcke (Nijmegen, U., Amsterdam &, ASTRON, Dwingeloo), Ke Fang (Chicago, U., Glennys Farrar (New York, U. )., Anderson Fauth (Campinas State, U. )., Norberto Fazzini (Fermilab), Andrew P Ferguson (Case Western Reserve, U. )., Brian Fick (Michigan, Tech. U. )., Juan Manuel Figueira, Alberto, Filevich, Andrej Filipčič (Stefan, Inst., Ljubljana &, Nova Gorica, U. )., Octavian Fratu (Bucharest, Martín Miguel Freire (IFIR, Rosario &, Rosario, U. )., Toshihiro Fujii (Chicago, U., Beatriz García, (Natl. Tech. U., San, Rafael), Diego Garcia-Gamez (Orsay, Diego Garcia-Pinto (Madrid, U. )., Florian Gate (SUBATECH, Hartmut Gemmeke (KIT, Karlsruhe, IPE), Alexandru Gherghel-Lascu (Bucharest, Piera Luisa Ghia (Paris, U., Ugo Giaccari (Rio de Janeiro Federal, U. )., INFN, Marco Giammarchi (Milan U., Maria, Giller, Dariusz Głas (Lodz, U. )., Christian Glaser (Aachen, Henry Glass (Fermilab), Geraldina, Golup, Mariano Gómez Berisso (Centro Atomico Bariloche &, Primo F Gómez Vitale (Pierre Auger, Observ. )., Nicolás, González, Ben Gookin (Colorado State, U. )., Jacob Gordon (Ohio State, U. )., Alessio Gorgi (IFSI, Peter Gorham (Hawaii, U. )., Philippe Gouffon (Sao Paulo, U. )., Nathan Griffith (Ohio State, U. )., Aurelio Grillo (Gran Sasso), Trent D Grubb (Adelaide, U. )., INFN, Fausto Guarino (Naples U., Germano Guedes (UEFS, Feira de Santana), Matías Rolf Hampel, Patricia Hansen (La Plata, U. )., Diego Harari (Centro Atomico Bariloche &, Thomas A Harrison (Adelaide, U. )., Sebastian Hartmann (Aachen, John Harton (Colorado State, U. )., Andreas Haungs (KIT, Thomas Hebbeker (Aachen, Dieter Heck (KIT, Philipp Heimann (Siegen, U. )., Alexander, E Herve (KIT, Gary C Hill (Adelaide, U. )., Carlos Hojvat (Fermilab), Nicholas Hollon (Chicago, U., Ewa Holt (KIT, Piotr Homola (Wuppertal, U. )., Jörg Hörandel (Nijmegen, U., Pavel Horvath (Palacky, U. )., Miroslav Hrabovský (Prague, Ins, t. Phys. &, Palacky U. )., Daniel Huber (KIT, Tim Huege (KIT, INFN, Antonio Insolia (Catania U., Paula Gina Isar (Bucharest, Ingolf Jandt (Wuppertal, U. )., Stefan Jansen (Nijmegen, U., Cecilia Jarne (La Plata, U. )., Jeffrey, A Johnsen (Colorado School of Mines), Mariela, Josebachuili, Alex Kääpä (Wuppertal, U. )., Olga Kambeitz (KIT, Karl Heinz Kampert (Wuppertal, U. )., Peter Kasper (Fermilab), Igor Katkov (KIT, Bianca Keilhauer (KIT, Ernesto Kemp (Campinas State, U. )., Roger Kieckhafer (Michigan, Tech. U. )., Hans Klages (KIT, Matthias Kleifges (KIT, Jonny Kleinfeller (Pierre Auger, Observ. )., Raphael Krause (Aachen, Nicole Krohm (Wuppertal, U. )., Daniel Kuempel (Aachen, Gasper Kukec Mezek (Nova Gorica, U. )., Norbert Kunka (KIT, Alaa Metwaly Kuotb Awad (KIT, Danielle LaHurd (Case Western Reserve, U. )., Luca Latronico (IFSI, Robert Lauer (New Mexico, U. )., Markus Lauscher (Aachen, Pascal Lautridou (SUBATECH, Sandra Le Coz, Didier Lebrun (LPSC, Paul Lebrun (Fermilab), Marcelo Augusto Leigui de Oliveira (ABC Federal, U. )., Antoine Letessier-Selvon (Paris, U., Isabelle Lhenry-Yvon (Orsay, Katrin Link (KIT, Luis Lopes (LIP, Rebeca López (Puebla, U., Ins, t. Fis. )., Aida López Casado (Santiago de Compostela, U. )., Karim Louedec (LPSC, Agustin, Lucero, Max Malacari (Adelaide, U. )., INFN, Manuela Mallamaci (Milan U., Jennifer Maller (SUBATECH, Dusan Mandat (Prague, Paul Mantsch (Fermilab), Analisa Mariazzi (La Plata, U. )., Vincent Marin (SUBATECH, CAFPE, Ioana Mariş (Granada U., Giovanni, Marsella, INFN, Daniele Martello (Salento U., Humberto Martinez (CINVESTAV, Oscar Martínez Bravo (Puebla, U., Diane Martraire (Orsay, Jimmy Masías Meza (Buenos Aires, U. )., Hermann-Josef Mathes (KIT, Sebastian Mathys (Wuppertal, U. )., James Matthews (Louisiana State, U. )., John Matthews (New Mexico, U. )., Giorgio Matthiae (Rome, U., Daniela Maurizio (Rio de Janeiro, CBPF), Eric Mayotte (Colorado School of Mines), Peter Mazur (Fermilab), Carlos Medina (Colorado School of Mines), Gustavo Medina-Tanco (Mexico, U. )., Rebecca Meissner (Aachen, Victor Mello (Rio de Janeiro Federal, U. )., Diego, Melo, Alexander Menshikov (KIT, Stefano Messina (Groningen, Maria Isabel Micheletti (IFIR, Lukas Middendorf (Aachen, Ignacio A Minaya (Madrid, U. )., INFN, Lino Miramonti (Milan U., Bogdan Mitrica (Bucharest, CAFPE, Laura Molina-Bueno (Granada U., Silvia Mollerach (Centro Atomico Bariloche &, François Montanet (LPSC, Carlo Morello (IFSI, Miguel Mostafá (Penn State, U. )., Celio A Moura (ABC Federal, U. )., Marcio Aparecido Muller (Campinas State, U. )., Gero Müller (Aachen, Sarah Müller (KIT, CAFPE, Sergio Navas (Granada U., Petr Necesal (Prague, Lukas Nellen (Mexico, U. )., Anna Nelles (Nijmegen, U., Jens Neuser (Wuppertal, U. )., Phong H Nguyen (Adelaide, U. )., Mihai Niculescu-Oglinzanu (Bucharest, Marcus Niechciol (Siegen, U. )., Lukas Niemietz (Wuppertal, U. )., Tim Niggemann (Aachen, Dave Nitz (Michigan, Tech. U. )., Dalibor, Nosek, Vladimir Novotny (Charles, U. )., Lyberis Nožka (Palacky, U. )., Luis Núñez (Cantabria, U., Livingstone Ochilo (Siegen, U. )., Foteini Oikonomou (Penn State, U. )., Angela Olinto (Chicago, U., Noelia Pacheco (Alcala de Henares, U. )., Daniel Pakk Selmi-Dei (Campinas State, U. )., Miroslav Palatka (Prague, Juan Pallotta (LIDAR CITEFA), Philipp Papenbreer (Wuppertal, U. )., Gonzalo Parente (Santiago de Compostela, U. )., Alejandra Parra (Puebla, U., Thomas Paul (Lehman, Coll. &, Northeastern U. )., Miroslav Pech (Prague, Jan Pękala (Cracow, Rodrigo Pelayo (Ulisted, MX), Iuri Pepe (Bahia, U. )., INFN, Lorenzo Perrone (Salento U., Emily Petermann (Nebraska, U. )., Christine Peters (Aachen, INFN, Sergio Petrera (L'Aquila U., Yevgeniy Petrov (Colorado State, U. )., Jamyang Phuntsok (Penn State, U. )., Ricardo Piegaia (Buenos Aires, U. )., Tanguy Pierog (KIT, Pablo Pieroni (Buenos Aires, U. )., Mário Pimenta (LIP, INFN, Valerio Pirronello (Catania U., Manuel, Platino, Matthias Plum (Aachen, Alessio Porcelli (KIT, Czeslaw Porowski (Cracow, Raul Ribeiro Prado (Sao Paulo, U., Paolo Privitera (Chicago, U., Michael Prouza (Prague, Eduardo, J Quel (LIDAR CITEFA), Sven Querchfeld (Wuppertal, U. )., Sean Quinn (Case Western Reserve, U. )., Julian Rautenberg (Wuppertal, U. )., Olivier Ravel (SUBATECH, Diego, Ravignani, Darius Reinert (Aachen, Benoît Revenu (SUBATECH, Jan Ridky (Prague, Markus Risse (Siegen, U. )., Pablo Ristori (LIDAR CITEFA), INFN, Vincenzo Rizi (L'Aquila U., Washington Rodrigues de Carvalho (Santiago de Compostela, U. )., Jorge Rubén Rodriguez Rojo (Pierre Auger, Observ. )., Maria Dolores Rodríguez-Frías (Alcala de Henares, U. )., Dmytro Rogozin (KIT, Jaime Rosado (Madrid, U. )., Markus Roth (KIT, Esteban Roulet (Centro Atomico Bariloche &, Adrian Rovero (Buenos Aires, Steven J Saffi (Adelaide, U. )., Alexandra Saftoiu (Bucharest, Humberto Salazar (Puebla, U., Ahmed Saleh (Nova Gorica, U. )., Francisco Salesa Greus (Penn State, U. )., Gaetano Salina (Rome, U., Jose Sanabria Gomez (Cantabria, U., Federico, Sánchez, CAFPE, Patricia Sanchez-Lucas (Granada U., Edivaldo Moura Santos (Sao Paulo, U. )., Eva Santos (Campinas State, U. )., Fred Sarazin (Colorado School of Mines), Biswaijt Sarkar (Wuppertal, U. )., Raul Sarmento (LIP, Christian Sarmiento-Cano (Cantabria, U., Ricardo, Sato, Carlos Scarso (Pierre Auger, Observ. )., Markus Schauer (Wuppertal, U. )., INFN, Viviana Scherini (Salento U., Harald, Schieler, David Schmidt (KIT, Olaf Scholten (Groningen, Harm Schoorlemmer (Hawaii, U. )., Petr Schovánek (Prague, Frank, G Schröder, Alexander Schulz (KIT, Johannes Schulz (Nijmegen, U., Johannes Schumacher (Aachen, Sergio Sciutto (La Plata, U. )., Alberto Segreto (IASF, Palermo), Mariangela Settimo (Paris, U., Amir Shadkam (Louisiana State, U. )., Ronald, C Shellard (Rio de Janeiro, Guenter Sigl (Hamburg, U., Octavian Sima (Bucharest, U. )., Andrzej Śmiałkowski (Lodz, U. )., Radomir Šmída (KIT, Gregory Snow (Nebraska, U. )., Paul Sommers (Penn State, U. )., Sebastian Sonntag (Siegen, U. )., J Sorokin (Adelaide, U. )., Ruben Squartini (Pierre Auger, Observ. )., Yogendra N Srivastava (Northeastern, U. )., Denis Stanca (Bucharest, Samo Stanič (Nova Gorica, U. )., James Stapleton (Ohio State, U. )., Jaroslaw Stasielak (Cracow, Maurice Stephan (Aachen, Anne Stutz (LPSC, Federico Suarez, (U. Tech. 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Cosmic ray showers ,Astronomy ,Ciencias Físicas ,ULTRA HIGH ENERGY COSMIC RAYS ,Astrophysics ,01 natural sciences ,purl.org/becyt/ford/1 [https] ,ultra-high energy cosmic rays, extensive air showers, radio energy estimation ,CODALEMA ,Observatory ,Radio detection ,Physics ,High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) ,Detector ,Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,ComputingMethodologies_DOCUMENTANDTEXTPROCESSING ,Física nuclear ,Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,CIENCIAS NATURALES Y EXACTAS ,EXTENSIVE AIR-SHOWERS, MONTE-CARLO SIMULATIONS, EMISSION ,[PHYS.ASTR.HE]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE] ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,EXTENSIVE AIR-SHOWERS, MONTE-CARLO SIMULATIONS, EMISSION, CODALEMA, COREAS, LOFAR ,AIR SHOWERS ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Cosmic ray ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,EXTENSIVE AIR-SHOWERS ,RADIO EMISSION ,0103 physical sciences ,High Energy Physics ,010306 general physics ,Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ,Cosmic rays ,Pierre Auger Observatory ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Radiant energy ,Física ,LOFAR ,purl.org/becyt/ford/1.3 [https] ,ASTROFÍSICA ,Computational physics ,Astronomía ,COREAS ,Earth's magnetic field ,Air shower ,Experimental High Energy Physics ,EMISSION ,MONTE-CARLO SIMULATIONS - Abstract
The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) is part of the Pierre Auger Observatory and is used to detect the radio emission of cosmic-ray air showers. These observations are compared to the data of the surface detector stations of the Observatory, which provide well-calibrated information on the cosmic-ray energies and arrival directions. The response of the radio stations in the 30-80 MHz regime has been thoroughly calibrated to enable the reconstruction of the incoming electric field. For the latter, the energy deposit per area is determined from the radio pulses at each observer position and is interpolated using a two-dimensional function that takes into account signal asymmetries due to interference between the geomagnetic and charge-excess emission components. The spatial integral over the signal distribution gives a direct measurement of the energy transferred from the primary cosmic ray into radio emission in the AERA frequency range. We measure 15.8 MeV of radiation energy for a 1 EeV air shower arriving perpendicularly to the geomagnetic field. This radiation energy - corrected for geometrical effects - is used as a cosmic-ray energy estimator. Performing an absolute energy calibration against the surface-detector information, we observe that this radio-energy estimator scales quadratically with the cosmic-ray energy as expected for coherent emission. We find an energy resolution of the radio reconstruction of 22% for the data set and 17% for a high-quality subset containing only events with at least five radio stations with signal., La lista completa de autores que integran el documento puede consultarse en el archivo, Instituto de Física La Plata
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19. Monte Carlo study of the corrections to the Σ-asymmetry of the reaction
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V.B. Shostak, J.D.T. Arruda-Neto, Washington Rodrigues de Carvalho, A. Margarian, and V. P. Likhachev
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Physics ,Hybrid Monte Carlo ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Scattering ,Monte Carlo method ,Dynamic Monte Carlo method ,Monte Carlo method for photon transport ,Neutron ,Monte Carlo method in statistical physics ,Statistical physics ,Instrumentation ,Molecular physics ,(n-p) reaction - Abstract
We present the results of a Monte Carlo study for the influence of the geometrical experiment characteristics on the extracted values of Σ-asymmetry for the reaction d ( γ → , n ) p , induced by low energy linearly polarized photons. The Monte Carlo calculations take into account the effects of the reaction kinematics, secondary scattering of the neutrons in the target material and all relevant geometrical parameters of the beam, target and detection system.
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20. Searches for Large-Scale Anisotropy in the Arrival Directions of Cosmic Rays Detected above Energy of $10^{19}$ eV at the Pierre Auger Observatory and the Telescope Array
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Telescope, Array, Pierre Auger Collaborations (Alexander Aab, Pedro, Abreu, Marco, Aglietta, Eun Joo Ahn, Imen Al Samarai, Ivone, Albuquerque, Ingomar, Allekotte, Jeff, Allen, Patrick, Allison, Alejandro, Almela, Jesus Alvarez Castillo, Jaime Alvarez Muñiz, Rafael Alves Batista, Michelangelo, Ambrosio, Amin, Aminaei, Luis, Anchordoqui, Sofia, Andringa, Carla, Aramo, Victor Manuel Aranda, Fernando, Arqueros, Hernán Gonzalo Asorey, Pedro, Assis, Julien, Aublin, Maximo, Ave, Michel, Avenier, Gualberto, Avila, Nafiun, Awal, Alina Mihaela Badescu, Barber, Kerri B., Julia, Bäuml, Colin, Baus, Jim, Beatty, Karl Heinz Becker, Bellido, Jose A., Corinne, Berat, Mario Edoardo Bertania, Xavier, Bertou, Peter, Biermann, Pierre, Billoir, Blaess, Simon G., Miguel, Blanco, Carla, Bleve, Hans, Blümer, Martina, Boháčová, Denise, Boncioli, Carla, Bonifazi, Raffaella, Bonino, Nataliia, Borodai, Jeffrey, Brack, Iliana, Brancus, Ariel, Bridgeman, Pedro, Brogueira, Brown, William C., Peter, Buchholz, Antonio, Bueno, Stijn, Buitink, Buscemi, Mario, Caballero Mora, Karen S., Barbara, Caccianiga, Lorenzo, Caccianiga, Marina, Candusso, Laurentiu, Caramete, Caruso, Rossella, Antonella, Castellina, Gabriella, Cataldi, Lorenzo, Cazon, Rosanna, Cester, Chavez, Alan G., Andrea, Chiavassa, Jose Augusto Chinellato, Jiri, Chudoba, Marco, Cilmo, Clay, Roger W., Giuseppe, Cocciolo, Roberta, Colalillo, Alan, Coleman, Laura, Collica, Maria Rita Coluccia, Ruben, Conceição, Fernando, Contreras, Cooper, Mathew J., Alain, Cordier, Stephane, Coutu, Corbin, Covault, James, Cronin, Alex, Curutiu, Richard, Dallier, Bruno, Daniel, Sergio, Dasso, Kai, Daumiller, Dawson, Bruce R., de Almeida, Rogerio M., Manlio De Domenico, de Jong, Sijbrand J., Joao de Mello Neto, Ivan De Mitri, Jaime de Oliveira, Vitor de Souza, Luis del Peral, Olivier, Deligny, Hans, Dembinski, Niraj, Dhital, Claudio Di Giulio, Armando Di Matteo, Johana Chirinos Diaz, Mary Lucia Díaz Castro, Francisco, Diogo, Carola, Dobrigkeit, Wendy, Docters, Juan Carlos D'Olivo, Alexei, Dorofeev, Qader Dorosti Hasankiadeh, Maria Teresa Dova, Jan, Ebr, Ralph, Engel, Martin, Erdmann, Mona, Erfani, Escobar, Carlos O., Joao, Espadanal, Alberto, Etchegoyen, Pedro Facal San Luis, Heino, Falcke, Fang, Ke, Glennys, Farrar, Anderson, Fauth, Norberto, Fazzini, Ferguson, Andrew P., Mateus, Fernandes, Brian, Fick, Juan Manuel Figueira, Alberto, Filevich, Andrej, Filipčič, Brendan, Fox, Octavian, Fratu, Uwe, Fröhlich, Benjamin, Fuchs, Toshihiro, Fujii, Romain, Gaior, Beatriz, García, Sayri Tupac Garcia Roca, Diego Garcia Gamez, Diego Garcia Pinto, Gianpaolo, Garilli, Alberto Gascon Bravo, Florian, Gate, Hartmut, Gemmeke, Piera Luisa Ghia, Ugo, Giaccari, Marco, Giammarchi, Maria, Giller, Christian, Glaser, Henry, Glass, Mariano Gómez Berisso, Gómez Vitale, Primo F., Patrícia, Gonçalves, Gonzalez, Javier G., Nicolás, González, Ben, Gookin, Jacob, Gordon, Alessio, Gorgi, Peter, Gorham, Philippe, Gouffon, Stefan, Grebe, Nathan, Griffith, Aurelio, Grillo, Grubb, Trent D., Fausto, Guarino, Germano, Guedes, Matías Rolf Hampel, Patricia, Hansen, Diego, Harari, Harrison, Thomas A., Sebastian, Hartmann, John, Harton, Andreas, Haungs, Thomas, Hebbeker, Dieter, Heck, Philipp, Heimann, Herve, Alexander E., Hill, Gary C., Carlos, Hojvat, Nicholas, Hollon, Ewa, Holt, Piotr, Homola, Jörg, Hörandel, Pavel, Horvath, Miroslav, Hrabovský, Daniel, Huber, Tim, Huege, Antonio, Insolia, Paula Gina Isar, Ingolf, Jandt, Stefan, Jansen, Cecilia, Jarne, Mariela, Josebachuili, Alex, Kääpä, Olga, Kambeitz, Karl Heinz Kampert, Peter, Kasper, Igor, Katkov, Balazs, Kégl, Bianca, Keilhauer, Azadeh, Keivani, Ernesto, Kemp, Roger, Kieckhafer, Hans, Klages, Matthias, Kleifges, Jonny, Kleinfeller, Raphael, Krause, Nicole, Krohm, Oliver, Krömer, Daniel Kruppke Hansen, Daniel, Kuempel, Norbert, Kunka, Danielle, Lahurd, Luca, Latronico, Robert, Lauer, Markus, Lauscher, Pascal, Lautridou, Sandra Le Coz, Milton, Leão, Didier, Lebrun, Paul, Lebrun, Marcelo Augusto Leigui de Oliveira, Antoine Letessier Selvon, Isabelle Lhenry Yvon, Katrin, Link, Rebeca, López, Angeles Lopez Agüera, Karim, Louedec, Julio Lozano Bahilo, Lu, Lu, Agustin, Lucero, Marianne, Ludwig, Max, Malacari, Simone, Maldera, Manuela, Mallamaci, Jennifer, Maller, Dusan, Mandat, Paul, Mantsch, Analisa, Mariazzi, Vincent, Marin, Ioana, Mariş, Giovanni, Marsella, Daniele, Martello, Lilian, Martin, Humberto, Martinez, Oscar Martínez Bravo, Diane, Martraire, Jimmy Masías Meza, Hermann Josef Mathes, Sebastian, Mathys, James, Matthews, John, Matthews, Giorgio, Matthiae, Detlef, Maurel, Daniela, Maurizio, Eric, Mayotte, Peter, Mazur, Carlos, Medina, Gustavo Medina Tanco, Rebecca, Meissner, Maximilien, Melissas, Diego, Melo, Alexander, Menshikov, Stefano, Messina, Rishi, Meyhandan, Saša, Mićanović, Maria Isabel Micheletti, Lukas, Middendorf, Minaya, Ignacio A., Lino, Miramonti, Bogdan, Mitrica, Laura Molina Bueno, Silvia, Mollerach, Maria, Monasor, Delphine Monnier Ragaigne, François, Montanet, Carlo, Morello, Miguel, Mostafá, Moura, Celio A., Marcio Aparecido Muller, Gero, Müller, Sarah, Müller, Moritz, Münchmeyer, Roberto, Mussa, Gianni, Navarra, Sergio, Navas, Petr, Necesal, Lukas, Nellen, Anna, Nelles, Jens, Neuser, Nguyen, Phong H., Marcus, Niechciol, Lukas, Niemietz, Tim, Niggemann, Dave, Nitz, Dalibor, Nosek, Vladimir, Novotny, Lyberis, Nožka, Livingstone, Ochilo, Angela, Olinto, Micael, Oliveira, Noelia, Pacheco, Daniel Pakk Selmi Dei, Miroslav, Palatka, Juan, Pallotta, Nunzia, Palmieri, Philipp, Papenbreer, Gonzalo, Parente, Alejandra, Parra, Thomas, Paul, Miroslav, Pech, Jan, Pękala, Rodrigo, Pelayo, Iuri, Pepe, Lorenzo, Perrone, Emily, Petermann, Christine, Peters, Sergio, Petrera, Yevgeniy, Petrov, Jamyang, Phuntsok, Ricardo, Piegaia, Tanguy, Pierog, Pablo, Pieroni, Mário, Pimenta, Valerio, Pirronello, Manuel, Platino, Matthias, Plum, Alessio, Porcelli, Czeslaw, Porowski, Raul Ribeiro Prado, Paolo, Privitera, Michael, Prouza, Victor, Purrello, Quel, Eduardo J., Sven, Querchfeld, Sean, Quinn, Julian, Rautenberg, Olivier, Ravel, Diego, Ravignani, Benoît, Revenu, Jan, Ridky, Simone, Riggi, Markus, Risse, Pablo, Ristori, Vincenzo, Rizi, Washington Rodrigues de Carvalho, Iago Rodriguez Cabo, Gonzalo Rodriguez Fernandez, Jorge Rubén Rodriguez Rojo, Maria Dolores Rodríguez Frías, Dmytro, Rogozin, Germán, Ros, Jaime, Rosado, Tomas, Rossler, Markus, Roth, Esteban, Roulet, Adrian, Rovero, Saffi, Steven J., Alexandra, Saftoiu, Francesco, Salamida, Humberto, Salazar, Ahmed, Saleh, Francisco Salesa Greus, Gaetano, Salina, Federico, Sánchez, Patricia Sanchez Lucas, Santo, Catarina E., Edivaldo Moura Santos, Eva, Santos, Fred, Sarazin, Biswaijt, Sarkar, Raul, Sarmento, Ricardo, Sato, Nils, Scharf, Viviana, Scherini, Harald, Schieler, Peter, Schiffer, David, Schmidt, Olaf, Scholten, Harm, Schoorlemmer, Petr, Schovánek, Alexander, Schulz, Johannes, Schulz, Johannes, Schumacher, Sergio, Sciutto, Alberto, Segreto, Mariangela, Settimo, Amir, Shadkam, Shellard, Ronald C., Iván, Sidelnik, Guenter, Sigl, Octavian, Sima, Andrzej, Śmiałkowski, Radomir, Šmída, Gregory, Snow, Paul, Sommers, Sorokin, J., Ruben, Squartini, Srivastava, Yogendra N., Samo, Stanič, James, Stapleton, Jaroslaw, Stasielak, Maurice, Stephan, Anne, Stutz, Federico, Suarez, Tiina, Suomijärvi, Daniel Supanitsky, A., Michael, Sutherland, John, Swain, Zbigniew, Szadkowski, Marek, Szuba, Oscar Alejandro Taborda, Alex, Tapia, Mathieu, Tartare, Andreas, Tepe, Vanessa Menezes Theodoro, Charles, Timmermans, Todero Peixoto, Carlos J., Gabriel, Toma, Lenka, Tomankova, Bernardo, Tomé, Aurelio, Tonachini, Guillermo Torralba Elipe, Diego Torres Machado, Petr, Travnicek, Enrica, Trovato, Matias, Tueros, Ralf, Ulrich, Michael, Unger, Martin, Urban, Valdés Galicia, Jose F., Ines, Valiño, Laura, Valore, Guus van Aar, Patrick van Bodegom, van den Berg, Ad M., Sjoert van Velzen, Arjen van Vliet, Enrique, Varela, Bernardo Vargas Cárdenas, Gary, Varner, Vázquez, Jose R., Ricardo, Vázquez, Darko, Veberič, Valerio, Verzi, Jakub, Vicha, Mariela, Videla, Luis, Villaseñor, Brian, Vlcek, Serguei, Vorobiov, Hernan, Wahlberg, Oscar, Wainberg, David, Walz, Alan, Watson, Marc, Weber, Klaus, Weidenhaupt, Andreas, Weindl, Felix, Werner, Allan, Widom, Lawrence, Wiencke, Barbara, Wilczyńska, Henryk, Wilczyński, Martin, Will, Christopher, Williams, Tobias, Winchen, David, Wittkowski, Brian, Wundheiler, Sarka, Wykes, Tokonatsu, Yamamoto, Tolga, Yapici, Guofeng, Yuan, Alexey, Yushkov, Bruno, Zamorano, Enrique, Zas, Danilo, Zavrtanik, Marko, Zavrtanik, Ingyin, Zaw, Arnulfo, Zepeda, Jing, Zhou, Yue, Zhu, Marcelo Zimbres Silva, Michael, Ziolkowski, Francesca, Zuccarello, Rasha, Abbasi, Michihiko, Abe, Tareq Abu Zayyad, Monica, Allen, Robyn, Anderson, Ryuji, Azuma, Elliott, Barcikowski, Belz, John W., Bergman, Douglas R., Samuel Adam Blake, Robert, Cady, Min Jung Chae, Byung Gu Cheon, Junsei, Chiba, Michiyuki, Chikawa, Woo Ram Cho, Masaki, Fukushima, Takashi, Goto, William, Hanlon, Yoshio, Hayashi, Naoaki, Hayashida, Kinya, Hibino, Ken, Honda, Daisuke, Ikeda, Naoya, Inoue, Takaaki, Ishii, Rie, Ishimori, Hideo Ito (Utah, U., Riken, Dmitri, Ivanov, Jui, Charles C. 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N., Srivastava, S., Stani?, J., Stapleton, J., Stasielak, M., Stephan, A., Stutz, F., Suarez, T., Suomij?rvi, A. D., Supanitsky, M. S., Sutherland, J., Swain, Z., Szadkowski, M., Szuba, O. A., Taborda, A., Tapia, M., Tartare, V. M., Theodoro, C., Timmerman, C. J., Todero Peixoto, G., Toma, L., Tomankova, B., Tom?, A., Tonachini, G., Torralba Elipe, D., Torres Machado, P., Travnicek, E., Trovato, M., Tuero, R., Ulrich, M., Unger, M., Urban, Galicia, J. F. Vald?s., I., Vali?o, Valore, Laura, G., van Aar, A. M., van den Berg, S., van Velzen, A., van Vliet, E., Varela, B., Vargas C?rdena, G., Varner, J. R., V?zquez, R. A., V?zquez, D., Veberi?, V., Verzi, J., Vicha, M., Videla, L., Villase?or, B., Vlcek, S., Vorobiov, H., Wahlberg, O., Wainberg, D., Walz, A. A., Watson, M., Weber, K., Weidenhaupt, A., Weindl, F., Werner, A., Widom, L., Wiencke, B., Wilczy?ska, H., Wilczy?ski, M., Will, C., William, T., Winchen, D., Wittkowski, B., Wundheiler, S., Wyke, T., Yamamoto, T., Yapici, P., Younk, G., Yuan, A., Yushkov, B., Zamorano, E., Za, D., Zavrtanik, M., Zavrtanik, I., Zaw, A., Zepeda, J., Zhou, Y., Zhu, M., Zimbres Silva, M., Ziolkowski, R. U., Abbasi, M., Abe, T., Abu Zayyad, M., Allen, R., Anderson, R., Azuma, E., Barcikowski, J. W., Belz, D. R., Bergman, S. A., Blake, R., Cady, M. J., Chae, B. G., Cheon, J., Chiba, M., Chikawa, W. R., Cho, T., Fujii, M., Fukushima, T., Goto, W., Hanlon, Y., Hayashi, N., Hayashida, K., Hibino, K., Honda, D., Ikeda, N., Inoue, T., Ishii, R., Ishimori, H., Ito, D., Ivanov, C. C. H., Jui, K., Kadota, F., Kakimoto, O., Kalashev, K., Kasahara, H., Kawai, S., Kawakami, S., Kawana, K., Kawata, E., Kido, H. B., Kim, J. H., Kim, S., Kitamura, Y., Kitamura, V., Kuzmin, Y. J., Kwon, J., Lan, S. I., Lim, J. P., Lundquist, K., Machida, K., Marten, T., Matsuda, T., Matsuyama, J. N., Matthew, M., Minamino, K., Mukai, I., Myer, K., Nagasawa, S., Nagataki, T., Nakamura, T., Nonaka, A., Nozato, S., Ogio, J., Ogura, M., Ohnishi, H., Ohoka, K., Oki, T., Okuda, M., Ono, A., Oshima, S., Ozawa, I. H., Park, M. S., Pshirkov, D. C., Rodriguez, G., Rubtsov, D., Ryu, H., Sagawa, N., Sakurai, A. L., Sampson, L. M., Scott, P. D., Shah, F., Shibata, T., Shibata, H., Shimodaira, B. K., Shin, J. D., Smith, P., Sokolsky, R. W., Springer, B. T., Stoke, S. R., Stratton, T. A., Stroman, T., Suzawa, M., Takamura, M., Takeda, R., Takeishi, A., Taketa, M., Takita, Y., Tameda, H., Tanaka, K., Tanaka, M., Tanaka, S. B., Thoma, G. B., Thomson, P., Tinyakov, I., Tkachev, H., Tokuno, T., Tomida, S., Troitsky, Y., Tsunesada, K., Tsutsumi, Y., Uchihori, S., Udo, F., Urban, G., Vasiloff, T., Wong, R., Yamane, H., Yamaoka, K., Yamazaki, J., Yang, K., Yashiro, Y., Yoneda, S., Yoshida, H., Yoshii, R., Zollinger, Z., Zundel, I. A., Samarai, I. F., M., J. A., Castillo, J., Alvarez Muñiz, R. A., Batista, C., Aramo, J., Bäuml, Bleve, Carla, H., Blümer, M., Boháčová, M., Buscemi, M., Cilmo, Cocciolo, Giuseppe, R., Colalillo, Coluccia, MARIA RITA, R., Conceição, R. M., De, M. D., Domenico, S. J., De, J. R., T., DE MITRI, Ivan, J. d., Oliveira, V. d., Souza, L. d., Peral, C. D., Giulio, A. D., Matteo, M. L., Díaz, Q. D., Hasankiadeh, P. F., San, A., Filipčič, U., Fröhlich, B., García, S. T., Garcia, A. G., Bravo, M. G., Berisso, P. F., Gómez, P., Gonçalve, N., González, F., Guarino, J. R., Hörandel, M., Hrabovský, A., Kääpä, B., Kégl, O., Krömer, G. L., Rosa, S. L., Coz, M. S., A., M. A., Leigui, R., López, A. L., Agüera, J. L., Bahilo, I. C., Mariş, Marsella, Giovanni, Martello, Daniele, O. M., Bravo, J. J., Masía, J. A., J., S., Mićanović, D. M., Ragaigne, M., Mostafá, G., Müller, M., Münchmeyer, L., Nožka, D. P., Selmi Dei, J., Pękala, Perrone, Lorenzo, W. R., De, I. R., Cabo, G. R., Fernandez, J. R., Rojo, M. D., Rodríguez Fría, F. S., Greu, F., Sánchez, Scherini, Viviana, P., Schovánek, A., Śmiałkowski, R., Šmída, S., Stanič, T., Suomijärvi, C. J., Todero, B., Tomé, G. T., Elipe, D. T., Machado, J. F., Valdé, I., Valiño, L., Valore, G. v., Aar, A. M., Van, S. v., Velzen, A. v., Vliet, B. V., Cárdena, J. R., Vázquez, R. A., Vázquez, D., Veberič, L., Villaseñor, B., Wilczyńska, H., Wilczyński, M. Z., Silva, T. P., Auger, C. C., H., T. T., Array, A. Aab, P. Abreu, M. Aglietta, E. J. Ahn, I. A. Samarai, I. F. M., I. Allekotte, J. Allen, P. Allison, A. Almela, J. A. Castillo, J. Alvarez-Muñiz, R. A. Batista, M. Ambrosio, A. Aminaei, L. Anchordoqui, S. Andringa, C. Aramo, F. Arquero, H. Asorey, P. Assi, J. 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Diaz, M. L. Díaz, F. Diogo, C. Dobrigkeit, W. Docter, J. C. D'Olivo, A. Dorofeev, Q. D. Hasankiadeh, M. T. Dova, J. Ebr, R. Engel, M. Erdmann, M. Erfani, C. O. Escobar, J. Espadanal, A. Etchegoyen, P. F. San, H. Falcke, K. Fang, G. Farrar, A. C. Fauth, N. Fazzini, A. P. Ferguson, M. Fernande, B. Fick, J. M. Figueira, A. Filevich, A. Filipčič, B. D. Fox, O. Fratu, U. Fröhlich, B. Fuch, T. Fuji, R. Gaior, B. García, S. T. Garcia, D. Garcia-Gamez, D. Garcia-Pinto, G. Garilli, A. G. Bravo, F. Gate, H. Gemmeke, P. L. Ghia, U. Giaccari, M. Giammarchi, M. Giller, C. Glaser, H. Gla, M. G. Berisso, P. F. Gómez, P. Gonçalve, J. G. Gonzalez, N. González, B. Gookin, A. Gorgi, P. Gorham, P. Gouffon, S. Grebe, N. Griffith, A. F. Grillo, T. D. Grubb, Y. Guardincerri, F. Guarino, G. P. Guede, M. R. Hampel, P. Hansen, D. Harari, T. A. Harrison, S. Hartmann, J. L. Harton, A. Haung, T. Hebbeker, D. Heck, P. Heimann, A. E. Herve, G. C. Hill, C. Hojvat, N. Hollon, E. Holt, P. Homola, J. R. Hörandel, P. Horvath, M. Hrabovský, D. Huber, T. Huege, A. Insolia, P. G. Isar, K. Islo, I. Jandt, S. Jansen, C. Jarne, M. Josebachuili, A. Kääpä, O. Kambeitz, K. H. Kampert, P. Kasper, I. Katkov, B. Kégl, B. Keilhauer, A. Keivani, E. Kemp, R. M. Kieckhafer, H. O. Klage, M. Kleifge, J. Kleinfeller, R. Krause, N. Krohm, O. Krömer, D. Kruppke-Hansen, D. Kuempel, N. Kunka, G. L. Rosa, D. LaHurd, L. Latronico, R. Lauer, M. Lauscher, P. Lautridou, S. L. Coz, M. S. A., D. Lebrun, P. Lebrun, M. A. Leigui, A. Letessier-Selvon, I. Lhenry-Yvon, K. Link, R. López, A. L. Agüera, K. Louedec, J. L. Bahilo, L. Lu, A. Lucero, M. Ludwig, M. C. Maccarone, M. Malacari, S. Maldera, M. Mallamaci, J. Maller, D. Mandat, P. Mantsch, A. G. Mariazzi, V. Marin, I. C. Mariş, G. Marsella, D. Martello, L. Martin, H. Martinez, O. M. Bravo, D. Martraire, J. J. Masía, H. J. Mathe, S. Mathy, J. A. J., J. Matthew, G. Matthiae, D. Maurel, D. Maurizio, E. Mayotte, P. O. Mazur, C. Medina, G. Medina-Tanco, M. Melissa, D. Melo, E. Menichetti, A. Menshikov, S. Messina, R. Meyhandan, S. Mićanović, M. I. Micheletti, L. Middendorf, I. A. Minaya, L. Miramonti, B. Mitrica, L. Molina-Bueno, S. Mollerach, M. Monasor, D. M. Ragaigne, F. Montanet, C. Morello, M. Mostafá, C. A. Moura, M. A. Muller, G. Müller, M. Münchmeyer, R. Mussa, G. Navarra, S. Nava, P. Necesal, L. Nellen, A. Nelle, J. Neuser, M. Niechciol, L. Niemietz, T. Niggemann, D. Nitz, D. Nosek, V. Novotny, L. Nožka, L. Ochilo, A. Olinto, M. Oliveira, N. Pacheco, D. P. Selmi-Dei, M. Palatka, J. Pallotta, N. Palmieri, P. Papenbreer, G. Parente, A. Parra, T. Paul, M. Pech, J. Pękala, R. Pelayo, I. M. Pepe, L. Perrone, R. Pesce, E. Petermann, C. Peter, S. Petrera, A. Petrolini, Y. Petrov, J. Phuntsok, R. Piegaia, T. Pierog, P. Pieroni, M. Pimenta, V. Pirronello, M. Platino, M. Plum, A. Porcelli, C. Porowski, R. R. Prado, P. Privitera, M. Prouza, V. Purrello, E. J. Quel, S. Querchfeld, S. Quinn, J. Rautenberg, O. Ravel, D. Ravignani, B. Revenu, J. Ridky, S. Riggi, M. Risse, P. Ristori, V. Rizi, J. Robert, W. R. de, I. R. Cabo, G. R. Fernandez, J. R. Rojo, M. D. Rodríguez-Fría, G. Ro, J. Rosado, T. Rossler, M. Roth, E. Roulet, A. C. Rovero, S. J. Saffi, A. Saftoiu, F. Salamida, H. Salazar, A. Saleh, F. S. Greu, G. Salina, F. Sánchez, P. Sanchez-Luca, C. E. Santo, E. Santo, E. M. Santo, F. Sarazin, B. Sarkar, R. Sarmento, R. Sato, N. Scharf, V. Scherini, H. Schieler, P. Schiffer, O. Scholten, H. Schoorlemmer, P. Schovánek, A. Schulz, J. Schulz, J. Schumacher, S. J. Sciutto, A. Segreto, M. Settimo, A. Shadkam, R. C. Shellard, I. Sidelnik, G. Sigl, O. Sima, A. Śmiałkowski, R. Šmída, G. R. Snow, P. Sommer, J. Sorokin, R. Squartini, Y. N. Srivastava, S. Stanič, J. Stapleton, J. Stasielak, M. Stephan, A. Stutz, F. Suarez, T. Suomijärvi, A. D. Supanitsky, M. S. Sutherland, J. Swain, Z. Szadkowski, M. Szuba, O. A. Taborda, A. Tapia, M. Tartare, V. M. Theodoro, C. Timmerman, C. J. Todero, G. Toma, L. Tomankova, B. Tomé, A. Tonachini, G. T. Elipe, D. T. Machado, P. Travnicek, E. Trovato, M. Tuero, R. Ulrich, M. Unger, M. Urban, J. F. Valdé, I. Valiño, L. Valore, G. v. Aar, A. M. van, S. v. Velzen, A. v. Vliet, E. Varela, B. V. Cárdena, G. Varner, J. R. Vázquez, R. A. Vázquez, D. Veberič, V. Verzi, J. Vicha, M. Videla, L. Villaseñor, B. Vlcek, S. Vorobiov, H. Wahlberg, O. Wainberg, D. Walz, A. A. Watson, M. Weber, K. Weidenhaupt, A. Weindl, F. Werner, A. Widom, L. Wiencke, B. Wilczyńska, H. Wilczyński, M. Will, C. William, T. Winchen, D. Wittkowski, B. Wundheiler, S. Wyke, T. Yamamoto, T. Yapici, P. Younk, G. Yuan, A. Yushkov, B. Zamorano, E. Za, D. Zavrtanik, M. Zavrtanik, I. Zaw, A. Zepeda, J. Zhou, Y. Zhu, M. Z. Silva, M. Ziolkowski, T. P. Auger, R. U. Abbasi, M. Abe, T. Abu-Zayyad, M. Allen, R. Anderson, R. Azuma, E. Barcikowski, J. W. Belz, D. R. Bergman, S. A. Blake, R. Cady, M. J. Chae, B. G. Cheon, J. Chiba, M. Chikawa, W. R. Cho, T. Fujii, M. Fukushima, T. Goto, W. Hanlon, Y. Hayashi, N. Hayashida, K. Hibino, K. Honda, D. Ikeda, N. Inoue, T. Ishii, R. Ishimori, H. Ito, D. Ivanov, C. C. H., K. Kadota, F. Kakimoto, O. Kalashev, K. Kasahara, H. Kawai, S. Kawakami, S. Kawana, K. Kawata, E. Kido, H. B. Kim, J. H. Kim, S. Kitamura, Y. Kitamura, V. Kuzmin, Y. J. Kwon, J. Lan, S. I. Lim, J. P. Lundquist, K. Machida, K. Marten, T. Matsuda, T. Matsuyama, J. N. Matthew, M. Minamino, K. Mukai, I. Myer, K. Nagasawa, S. Nagataki, T. Nakamura, T. Nonaka, A. Nozato, S. Ogio, J. Ogura, M. Ohnishi, H. Ohoka, K. Oki, T. Okuda, M. Ono, A. Oshima, S. Ozawa, I. H. Park, M. S. Pshirkov, D. C. Rodriguez, G. Rubtsov, D. Ryu, H. Sagawa, N. Sakurai, A. L. Sampson, L. M. Scott, P. D. Shah, F. Shibata, T. Shibata, H. Shimodaira, B. K. Shin, J. D. Smith, P. Sokolsky, R. W. Springer, B. T. Stoke, S. R. Stratton, T. A. Stroman, T. Suzawa, M. Takamura, M. Takeda, R. Takeishi, A. Taketa, M. Takita, Y. Tameda, H. Tanaka, K. Tanaka, M. Tanaka, S. B. Thoma, G. B. Thomson, P. Tinyakov, I. Tkachev, H. Tokuno, T. Tomida, S. Troitsky, Y. Tsunesada, K. Tsutsumi, Y. Uchihori, S. Udo, F. Urban, G. Vasiloff, T. Wong, R. Yamane, H. Yamaoka, K. Yamazaki, J. Yang, K. Yashiro, Y. Yoneda, S. Yoshida, H. Yoshii, R. Zollinger, Z. Zundel, T. T. Array, and Research unit Astroparticle Physics
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Ciencias Físicas ,Astronomy ,Rays ,Astrophysics ,Astroparticle physics ,Cosmic rays ,01 natural sciences ,law.invention ,Pierre ,law ,Anisotropy ,Telescope ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics ,High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) ,Physics ,[PHYS]Physics [physics] ,Energy ,[SDU.ASTR.HE]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE] ,Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,astroparticle physic ,Radiación cósmica ,Auger ,Cosmic ,Arrival ,ComputingMethodologies_DOCUMENTANDTEXTPROCESSING ,Física nuclear ,Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,CIENCIAS NATURALES Y EXACTAS ,High ,[PHYS.ASTR.HE]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE] ,[PHYS.ASTR.IM]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM] ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Cosmic ray ,SURFACE DETECTOR ,ICECUBE ,AIR-SHOWER ARRAY ,Directions ,cosmic rays ,0103 physical sciences ,Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ,Ciencias Exactas ,Pierre Auger Observatory ,SPECTRUM ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Array ,Spectral density ,Spherical harmonics ,Física ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,ASTROFÍSICA ,Ultra ,[SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM] ,Astronomía ,Dipole ,RESOLUTION ,Space and Planetary Science ,Experimental High Energy Physics ,Quadrupole ,Observatory ,[PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph] - Abstract
Spherical harmonic moments are well-suited for capturing anisotropy at any scale in the flux of cosmic rays. An unambiguous measurement of the full set of spherical harmonic coefficients requires full-sky coverage. This can be achieved by combining data from observatories located in both the northern and southern hemispheres. To this end, a joint analysis using data recorded at the Telescope Array and the Pierre Auger Observatory above 1019 eV is presented in this work. The resulting multipolar expansion of the flux of cosmic rays allows us to perform a series of anisotropy searches, and in particular to report on the angular power spectrum of cosmic rays above 1019 eV. No significant deviation from isotropic expectations is found throughout the analyses performed. Upper limits on the amplitudes of the dipole and quadrupole moments are derived as a function of the direction in the sky, varying between 7% and 13% for the dipole and between 7% and 10% for a symmetric quadrupole., Facultad de Ciencias Exactas
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21. Ultra high frequency geomagnetic radiation from extensive air showers
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Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz, Washington Rodrigues de Carvalho, Enrique Zas, Matias Tueros, and Andres Romero-Wolf
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Ground level ,Physics ,Earth's magnetic field ,Ultra high frequency ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Bremsstrahlung ,Cosmic ray ,Astrophysics ,Ultrahigh energy ,Radiation ,Cherenkov radiation - Abstract
Using the ZHAireS Monte Carlo code, we show that the Fourier-spectrum of the radio emission of inclined air showers can have a sizable intensity up to the GHz frequency range. At these frequencies only a significantly reduced volume of the shower around the axis contributes coherently to the signal observed on the ground, which is mainly due to the geomagnetic and charge excess mechanisms. At ground level, the maximum emission at high frequencies is concentrated in a ring-like elliptical region defined by the intersection with the ground of a Cherenkov cone with its vertex at shower maximum. The frequency-spectrum of inclined showers, when observed at positions close to the ring-like maximum emission region, is in broad agreement with the pulses detected by the ANITA experiment, making the interpretation that they are due to ultrahigh energy cosmic ray atmospheric showers consistent with our simulations. These results are also relevant for ground-based radio experiments aiming at detecting molecular bremsstrahlung radiation in the GHz range - an entirelly different emission mechanism which is not included in ZHAireS simulations - since they present an important background for such experiments.
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22. Calculations of electric fields for radio detection of Ultra-High Energy particles
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Washington Rodrigues de Carvalho, Daniel García-Fernández, Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz, Andres Romero-Wolf, and Enrique Zas
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Physics ,High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Detector ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Cosmic ray ,Charged particle ,Computational physics ,Classical mechanics ,Electric field ,Neutrino ,Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Cherenkov radiation ,Energy (signal processing) ,Electromagnetic pulse - Abstract
The detection of electromagnetic pulses from high energy showers is used as a means to search for Ultra-High Energy cosmic ray and neutrino interactions. An approximate formula has been obtained to numerically evaluate the radio pulse emitted by a charged particle that instantaneously accelerates, moves at constant speed along a straight track and halts again instantaneously. The approximate solution is applied to the particle track after dividing it in smaller subintervals. The resulting algorithm (often referred to as the ZHS algorithm) is also the basis for most of the simulations of the electric field produced in high energy showers in dense media. In this work, the electromagnetic pulses as predicted with the ZHS algorithm are compared to those obtained with an exact solution of the electric field produced by a charged particle track. The precise conditions that must apply for the algorithm to be valid are discussed and its accuracy is addressed. This comparison is also made for electromagnetic showers in dense media. The ZHS algorithm is shown to describe Cherenkov radiation and to be valid for most situations of interest concerning detectors searching for Ultra-High Energy neutrinos. The results of this work are also relevant for the simulation of pulses emitted from air showers., Comment: 12 pages, 7 figures
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23. Detection of Exotic Massive Hadrons in Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray Telescopes
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Washington Rodrigues de Carvalho and Ivone F. M. Albuquerque
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Pierre Auger Observatory ,Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Photon ,Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) ,Proton ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Hadron ,Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Cosmic ray ,Observable ,Astrophysics ,High Energy Physics - Experiment ,High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) ,High Energy Physics - Phenomenology ,High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) ,Ultrahigh energy ,Nuclear Experiment ,Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics - Abstract
We investigate the detection of exotic massive strongly interacting hadrons (uhecrons) in ultra high energy cosmic ray telescopes. The conclusion is that experiments such as the Pierre Auger Observatory have the potential to detect these particles. It is shown that uhecron showers have clear distinctive features when compared to proton and nuclear showers. The simulation of uhecron air showers, and its detection and reconstruction by fluorescence telescopes is described. We determine basic cuts in observables that will separate uhecrons from the cosmic ray bulk, assuming this is composed by protons. If these are composed by heavier nucleus the separation will be much improved. We also discuss photon induced showers. The complementarity between uhecron detection in accelerator experiments is discussed., 9 page 9 figures
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24. Effects of the Energy Error Distribution of Fluorescence Telescopes on the UHECR energy spectrum
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Vitor de Souza, Washington Rodrigues de Carvalho, and Ivone F. M. Albuquerque
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Physics ,Observational error ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Monte Carlo method ,Astrophysics (astro-ph) ,Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,Cosmic ray ,Astrophysics ,High Energy Physics - Experiment ,Auger ,High Energy Physics - Phenomenology ,High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) ,High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) ,Log-normal distribution ,Cutoff ,Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray ,Energy (signal processing) - Abstract
The measurement of the ultra high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) spectrum is strongly affected by uncertainties on the reconstructed energy. The determination of the presence or absence of the GZK cutoff and its position in the energy spectrum depends not only on high statistics but also on the shape of the energy error distribution. Here we determine the energy error distribution for fluorescence telescopes, based on a Monte Carlo simulation. The HiRes and Auger fluorescence telescopes are simulated in detail. We analyze the UHECR spectrum convolved with this energy error distribution. We compare this spectrum with one convolved with a lognormal error distribution as well as with a Gaussian error distribution. We show that the energy error distribution for fluorescence detectors can not be represented by these known distributions. We conclude that the convolved energy spectrum will be smeared but not enough to affect the GZK cutoff detection. This conclusion stands for both HiRes and Auger fluorescence telescopes. This result differs from the effect of the energy error distribution obtained with ground detectors and reinforces the importance of the fluorescence energy measurement. We also investigate the effect of possible fluorescence yield measurement errors in the energy spectrum., Comment: 24 pages, 11 figures
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25. Residual nucleus excitation energy in (e, e'p): reaction
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V. P. Likhachev, A. C. S. Lima, J. D. T. Arruda-Neto, S. A. Pashchuk, T. E. Rodrigues, Hugo R. Schelin, Hélio Dias, Mahir S. Hussein, Washington Rodrigues de Carvalho, M. T. F. da Cruz, S B Duarte, J. Mesa, L. F. R. Macedo, G. Silva, and O A P Tavares
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Physics ,Proton ,Nuclear Theory ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Residual ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Cascade ,medicine ,Atomic physics ,Proton emission ,Nuclear Experiment ,Nucleus ,Excitation ,Energy (signal processing) - Abstract
The propagation of the struck proton through the nuclear medium is studied in the semi-classical multicolli-sional internuclear cascade approach. The probability of formation of various residual nucleus configurations and the corresponding excitation energies were obtained as a function of the energy omega transferred to the proton by the knockout.
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26. Quasi Free 238U (e,e'f)-Cross Section in Macroscopic-Microscopic Approach
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Airton Deppman, B. V. Carlson, Luiz Carlos Chamon, J. Mesa, Mahir S. Hussein, M. T. F. da Cruz, J. D. T. Arruda-Neto, V. P. Likhachev, Washington Rodrigues de Carvalho, and Hélio Dias
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Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Fissility ,Nuclear Theory ,Plane wave ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Impulse (physics) ,Residual ,Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Excited state ,medicine ,Neutron ,Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) ,Atomic physics ,Wave function ,Nuclear Experiment ,Nucleus - Abstract
We present the result of a theoretical study of inclusive quasi free electrofission of $^{238}$U. The off-shell $ $cross sections for the quasi free reaction stage have been calculated within the Plane Wave Impulse Approximation (PWIA), using a Macroscopic -Microscopic description of the proton and neutron single particle momentum distributions. Electron wave function distortion corrections were included using the effective momentum approximation, and the Final State Interaction (FSI) effects were calculated using an optical potential. The fissility for the proton single hole excited states of the residual nucleus $^{237}$Pa was calculated both without and with contributions of the pre-equilibrium emission of the particles. The fissility for $^{237,238}U$ residual nuclei was calculated within the compound nucleus model. The $(e,e^{\prime}f)-$cross sections thus obtained were compared with available experimental data., 26 pages, 7 figures
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27. Upgrading the OVRO-LWA for improved cosmic ray detection capabilities
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Gregg Hallinan, Kathryn Plant, James W. Lamb, Jonathon Kocz, Larry D'Addario, David P. Woody, Michael Eastwood, Anna Nelles, Andres Romero-Wolf, Washington Rodrigues de Carvalho, Konstantin Belov, Marin M. Anderson, and Ryan M. Monroe
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Physics ,Signal processing ,business.industry ,Firmware ,Bandwidth (signal processing) ,Cosmic ray ,computer.software_genre ,law.invention ,Upgrade ,Optics ,law ,Dipole antenna ,business ,Field-programmable gate array ,computer ,Digital signal processing - Abstract
The Owens Valley Long Wavelength Array has made self-triggered radio detections of cosmic-ray air showers (Monroe et al. 2019 submitted, see Romero-Wolf et al. proceedings PoS(ICRC2019)405) using 256 irregularly-spaced dual-polarization dipole antennas with ~60 MHz bandwidth centered around 55 MHz and maximum antenna separations of 1.5 km. Over the next two years, an upgrade to 352 antennas up to 2.6 km apart and new signal processing infrastructure will expand the capabilities of the array, including its sensitivity to cosmic ray air showers. In addition to the benefit of a larger area, wider antenna separations will improve the sensitivity to inclined events, thus increasing the detection rate of higher-energy cosmic rays. Furthermore, an observing mode with hierarchical beam-forming (grouping subsets of dipoles in-phase) will increase the detection rate of lower-energy cosmic rays. Detecting air showers requires response to ten-nanosecond-timescale signals, coincidenced across the array, and thus requires novel FPGA firmware. This poster will focus on the preliminary design of the new digital signal processing system.
28. Operations of the Pierre Auger Observatory
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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
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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
29. Radio detection of cosmic-ray air showers with the OVRO-LWA: status and future plans
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Michael Eastwood, Washington Rodrigues de Carvalho, Ryan M. Monroe, Larry D'Addario, Kathryn Plant, Gregg Hallinan, Marin M. Anderson, David P. Woody, Jonathon Kocz, Andres Romero-Wolf, Anna Nelles, and Konstantin Belov
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Physics ,Core (optical fiber) ,Long wavelength ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Flux ,Owens Valley Radio Observatory ,Cosmic ray ,Astrophysics ,Radio frequency ,Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray ,Radio detection - Abstract
We present the successful radio frequency (30 - 80 MHz) self-triggered detection and identification of 10 high energy cosmic rays with Caltech's Owens Valley Radio Observatory Long Wavelength Array (OVRO-LWA). The core of the OVRO-LWA consists of 256 dual-polarization antennas that are approximately evenly spaced in a 200 m diameter disk with several outliers at longer distances. Based on this success we present future plans for an array covering a 2.5 km diameter area for measuring the flux and composition of cosmic rays in the $3\times10^{16}$ eV - $10^{18}$ eV energy band.
30. Comprehensive estimate of the sensitivity of ANITA to tau neutrinos
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Austin Cummings, Abdulrahman Kauther, Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz, Joe Crowley, Claire Burch, Washington Rodrigues de Carvalho, Enrique Zas, Andres Romero-Wolf, Harm Schoorlemmer, and Stephanie Wissel
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Physics ,Particle physics ,Air shower ,Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Sensitivity (control systems) ,Neutrino ,Physics::Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics ,Lepton ,Standard Model - Abstract
Two anomalous events have been reported by the ANITA collaboration that are observationally consistent with air showers from a particle emerging from the Antarctic ice. One possible interpretation of these events is that they are due to tau neutrinos interacting in the Earth, resulting in an air shower initiated by a tau lepton decay. We present a comprehensive study of the sensitivity of ANITA to tau neutrinos, using the expected Standard Model cross-sections and tau lepton energy losses, varied ice thicknesses, and radio emission simulation of upgoing tau showers with ZHAireS.
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