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An end-to-end experimental pipeline for automated track identification for paleo-detectors
Claudio Galelli, Alessandro Testi, Lorenzo Caccianiga
Paleo-detectors aim to exploit the damage tracks left in natural minerals by cosmic messengers over geological times to reconstruct past fluxes of energetic particles. For cosmic r…
Investigating past high-energy fluxes with paleo-detectors
Claudio Galelli
Paleo-detectors provide a unique avenue to reconstruct the multi-million-year history of cosmic-ray (CR) flux, preserving signatures of transient high-energy events such as nearby…
A volcanic chronosequence as a time-resolved paleo-detector array to study the cosmic-ray flux in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene
Claudio Galelli, Lorenzo Caccianiga, Lorenzo Apollonio +2
We present a phenomenological study demonstrating the feasibility of using olivine xenoliths from the Chaîne des Puys as a time-resolved paleo-detector array to probe the cosmic-ra…
gammapy_SyLC: A Package for Simulating and Fitting Variability in High-Energy Light Curves
Claudio Galelli
Characterizing the temporal variability of astrophysical sources is key to understanding the underlying physical processes driving their emissions. This work introduces a gammapy_S…
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…
Sedimentary rocks from Mediterranean drought in the Messinian age as a probe of the past cosmic ray flux
Lorenzo Caccianiga, Claudio Galelli, Lorenzo Apollonio +3
We propose the use of natural minerals as detectors to study the past flux of cosmic rays. This novel application of the \textit{paleo-detector} technique requires a specific appro…
Galactic transient sources with the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory
Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory Consortium
A wide variety of Galactic sources show transient emission at soft and hard X-ray energies: low- and high-mass X-ray binaries containing compact objects, isolated neutron stars exh…
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…
AugerPrime Surface Detector Electronics
The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +368
Operating since 2004, the Pierre Auger Observatory has led to major advances in our understanding of the ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. The latest findings have revealed new insigh…
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,…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
A Catalog of the Highest-Energy Cosmic Rays Recorded During Phase I of Operation of the Pierre Auger Observatory
The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +376
A catalog containing details of the highest-energy cosmic rays recorded through the detection of extensive air-showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory is presented with the aim of…
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…
Searches for Ultra-High-Energy Photons at the Pierre Auger Observatory
The Pierre Auger Collaboration, P. Abreu, M. Aglietta +362
The Pierre Auger Observatory, being the largest air-shower experiment in the world, offers an unprecedented exposure to neutral particles at the highest energies. Since the start o…
Search for photons above 10 eV with the surface detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory
The Pierre Auger Collaboration, P. Abreu, M. Aglietta +365
We use the surface detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory to search for air showers initiated by photons with an energy above eV. Photons in the zenith angle range from…
Cosmological implications of photon-flux upper limits at ultra-high energies in scenarios of Planckian-interacting massive particles for dark matter
The Pierre Auger Collaboration, P. Abreu, M. Aglietta +374
Using the data of the Pierre Auger Observatory, we report on a search for signatures that would be suggestive of super-heavy particles decaying in the Galactic halo. From the lack…
Investigating Hadronic Interactions at Ultra-High Energies with the Pierre Auger Observatory
Isabel Goos, :, P. Abreu +374
The development of an extensive air shower depends not only on the nature of the primary ultra-high-energy cosmic ray but also on the properties of the hadronic interactions. For e…
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…
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…
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…
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…