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most citedDesign Concepts for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

902 citations

102 papers

astro-ph.HE2025

The Scintillator Surface Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

Data collected so far by the Pierre Auger Observatory have enabled major advances in ultra-high energy cosmic ray physics and demonstrated that improved determination of masses of…

astro-ph.HE2025

Measuring the muon content of inclined air showers using AERA and the water-Cherenkov detectors of the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +360

We present a novel approach for assessing the muon content of air showers with large zenith angles on a combined analysis of their radio emission and particle footprint. We use the…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

Scaler rates from the Pierre Auger Observatory: a new proxy of solar activity

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, I. Bizzarri, C. Dionese +1

The modulation of low-energy galactic cosmic rays reflects interplanetary magnetic field variations and can provide useful information on solar activity. An array of ground-surface…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 5 cited

A search for the anomalous events detected by ANITA using the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +374

A dedicated search for upward-going air showers at zenith angles exceeding and energies EeV has been performed using the Fluorescence Detector of the Pierre Aug…

cs.HC2025★ 24 cited

Controlling AI Agent Participation in Group Conversations: A Human-Centered Approach

Stephanie Houde, Kristina Brimijoin, Michael Muller +6

Conversational AI agents are commonly applied within single-user, turn-taking scenarios. The interaction mechanics of these scenarios are trivial: when the user enters a message, t…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Unraveling quantum phase estimation: exploring the impact of multi-photon interference on the quantum Fisher information

Annameng Ma, Agustina G. Magnoni, Miguel A. Larotonda +1

Quantum interference is known to become extinct with distinguishing information, as illustrated by the ubiquitous double-slit experiment or the two-photon HOM effect. In the former…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 14 cited

Measurement of the Depth of Maximum of Air-Shower Profiles with energies between and eV using the Surface Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory and Deep Learning

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +364

We report an investigation of the mass composition of cosmic rays with energies from 3 to 100 EeV (1 EeV= eV) using the distributions of the depth of shower maximum $X_\ma…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 25 cited

Inference of the Mass Composition of Cosmic Rays with energies from to eV using the Pierre Auger Observatory and Deep Learning

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +364

We present measurements of the atmospheric depth of the shower maximum , inferred for the first time on an event-by-event level using the Surface Detector of the Pi…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 15 cited

Impact of the Magnetic Horizon on the Interpretation of the Pierre Auger Observatory Spectrum and Composition Data

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +364

The flux of ultra-high energy cosmic rays reaching Earth above the ankle energy (5 EeV) can be described as a mixture of nuclei injected by extragalactic sources with very hard spe…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 27 cited

Testing Hadronic-Model Predictions of Depth of Maximum of Air-Shower Profiles and Ground-Particle Signals using Hybrid Data of the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +368

We test the predictions of hadronic interaction models regarding the depth of maximum of air-shower profiles, , and ground-particle signals in water-Cherenkov detectors at…

hep-ph2023★ 6 cited

Constraints on metastable superheavy dark matter coupled to sterile neutrinos with the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +368

Dark matter particles could be superheavy, provided their lifetime is much longer than the age of the universe. Using the sensitivity of the Pierre Auger Observatory to ultra-high…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 23 cited

Radio Measurements of the Depth of Air-Shower Maximum at the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +372

The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA), part of the Pierre Auger Observatory, is currently the largest array of radio antenna stations deployed for the detection of cosmic rays,…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 19 cited

Demonstrating Agreement between Radio and Fluorescence Measurements of the Depth of Maximum of Extensive Air Showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +372

We show, for the first time, radio measurements of the depth of shower maximum () of air showers induced by cosmic rays that are compared to measurements of the estab…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 4 cited

The Pierre Auger Observatory Open Data

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +358

The Pierre Auger Collaboration has embraced the concept of open access to their research data since its foundation, with the aim of giving access to the widest possible community.…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 6 cited

Search for UHE Photons from Gravitational Wave Sources with the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +368

A search for time-directional coincidences of ultra-high-energy (UHE) photons above 10 EeV with gravitational wave (GW) events from the LIGO/Virgo runs O1 to O3 is conducted with t…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 33 cited

Constraining models for the origin of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays with a novel combined analysis of arrival directions, spectrum, and composition data measured at the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +371

The combined fit of the measured energy spectrum and shower maximum depth distributions of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays is known to constrain the parameters of astrophysical model…

quant-ph2023★ 4 cited

Simultaneous quantum estimation of phase and indistinguishability in a two photon interferometer

Laura T. Knoll, Gustavo M. Bosyk

With the rapid development of quantum technologies in recent years, the need for high sensitivity measuring techniques has become a key issue. In particular, optical sensors based…

quant-ph2022★ 5 cited

Mode structure reconstruction by detected and undetected light

Laura T. Knoll, Giulia Petrini, Fabrizio Piacentini +5

We introduce a novel technique for the reconstruction of multimode optical fields, based on simultaneously exploiting both the generalized Glauber's -order correlation func…

quant-ph2022★ 1 cited

Sensing microscopic noise events by frequent quantum measurements

Salvatore Virzì, Laura T. Knoll, Alessio Avella +8

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a general method allowing us to unravel microscopic noise events that affect a continuous quantum variable. Such unraveling is achieved by…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 66 cited

Constraining the sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays across and above the ankle with the spectrum and composition data measured at the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +365

In this work we present the interpretation of the energy spectrum and mass composition data as measured by the Pierre Auger Collaboration above eV. We use an ast…

quant-ph2022★ 4 cited

Testing randomness of series generated in Bell's experiment

Myriam Nonaka, Mónica Agüero, Marcelo Kovalsky +1

The generation of series of random numbers is an important and difficult problem. Even the very definition of random is difficult. Appropriate measurements on entangled states have…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 86 cited

Arrival Directions of Cosmic Rays above 32 EeV from Phase One of the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, P. Abreu, M. Aglietta +372

A promising energy range to look for angular correlation between cosmic rays of extragalactic origin and their sources is at the highest energies, above few tens of EeV ($1\:{\rm E…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 44 cited

A search for photons with energies above eV using hybrid data from the low-energy extensions of the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, P. Abreu, M. Aglietta +373

Ultra-high-energy photons with energies exceeding eV offer a wealth of connections to different aspects of cosmic-ray astrophysics as well as to gamma-ray and neutrino as…

physics.comp-ph2022★ 2 cited

A 3D acoustic propagation model for shallow waters based on an indirect Boundary Element Method

Edmundo F. Lavia, Juan D. Gonzalez, Silvia Blanc

The purpose of this work is twofold: (a) To present the theoretical formulation of a 3D acoustic propagation model based on a Boundary Element Method (BEM), which uses a half-space…