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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 22 cited

Limits to gauge coupling in the dark sector set by the non-observation of instanton-induced decay of Super-Heavy Dark Matter in the Pierre Auger Observatory data

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, P. Abreu, M. Aglietta +374

Instantons, which are non-perturbative solutions to Yang-Mills equations, provide a signal for the occurrence of quantum tunneling between distinct classes of vacua. They can give…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 32 cited

Testing effects of Lorentz invariance violation in the propagation of astroparticles with the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, P. Abreu, M. Aglietta +374

Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) is often described by dispersion relations of the form with delta different based on particle type , with…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 24 cited

Search for Spatial Correlations of Neutrinos with Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays

The ANTARES collaboration, A. Albert, S. Alves +1042

For several decades, the origin of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) has been an unsolved question of high-energy astrophysics. One approach for solving this puzzle is to corr…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 17 cited

The UHECR dipole and quadrupole in the latest data from the original Auger and TA surface detectors

Peter Tinyakov, Luis Anchordoqui, Teresa Bister +13

The sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays are still unknown, but assuming standard physics, they are expected to lie within a few hundred megaparsecs from us. Indeed, over cosmo…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 22 cited

UHECR arrival directions in the latest data from the original Auger and TA surface detectors and nearby galaxies

Armando di Matteo, Luis Anchordoqui, Teresa Bister +13

The distribution of ultra-high-energy cosmic-ray arrival directions appears to be nearly isotropic except for a dipole moment of order per cent. None…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 114 cited

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

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, P. Abreu, M. Aglietta +374

We present a measurement of the cosmic-ray spectrum above 100\,PeV using the part of the surface detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory that has a spacing of 750~m. An inflection…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 164 cited

Features of the energy spectrum of cosmic rays above eV using the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +380

We report a measurement of the energy spectrum of cosmic rays above eV based on events. New results are presented: at about eV…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 213 cited

Measurement of the cosmic-ray energy spectrum above eV using the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +380

We report a measurement of the energy spectrum of cosmic rays for energies above eV based on 215,030 events recorded with zenith angles below . A k…