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most citedFirst Observation of the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin Suppression

739 citations · 1.7k across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

astro-ph2008★ 50 cited

An upper limit on the electron-neutrino flux from the HiRes detector

R. U. Abbasi, T. Abu-Zayyad, M. Allen +64

Air-fluorescence detectors such as the High Resolution Fly's Eye (HiRes) detector are very sensitive to upward-going, Earth-skimming ultrahigh energy electron-neutrino-induced show…

astro-ph2007★ 739 cited

First Observation of the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin Suppression

HiRes Collaboration

The High Resolution Fly's Eye (HiRes) experiment has observed the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin suppression (called the GZK cutoff) with a statistical significance of five standard devia…

astro-ph2007★ 1 cited

Alternative Methods to Finding Patterns in HiRes Stereo Data

R. Abbasi

In this paper Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays UHECRs data observed by the HiRes fluorescence detector in stereo mode is analyzed to search for events in the sky with an arrival direc…

astro-ph2006★ 11 cited

Studies of systematic uncertainties in the estimation of the monocular aperture of the HiRes experiment

HiRes Collaboration

We have studied several sources of systematic uncertainty in calculating the aperture of the High Resolution Fly's Eye experiment (HiRes) in monocular mode, primarily as they affec…

astro-ph2006★ 5 cited

A Likelihood Method for Measuring the Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Ray Composition

HiRes Collaboration

Air fluorescence detectors traditionally determine the dominant chemical composit ion of the ultrahigh energy cosmic ray flux by comparing the averaged slant depth of the shower ma…

astro-ph2006★ 16 cited

A Measurement of Time-Averaged Aerosol Optical Depth using Air-Showers Observed in Stereo by HiRes

s Eye Collaboration

Air fluorescence measurements of cosmic ray energy must be corrected for attenuation of the atmosphere. In this paper we show that the air-showers themselves can yield a measuremen…

astro-ph2005★ 9 cited

Search for Point-Like Sources of Cosmic Rays with Energies above 10^18.5 eV in the HiRes-I Monocular Data-Set

s Eye Collaboration

We report the results of a search for point-like deviations from isotropy in the arrival directions of ultra-high energy cosmic rays in the northern hemisphere. In the monocular da…

astro-ph2005★ 87 cited

Search for Cross-Correlations of Ultra--High-Energy Cosmic Rays with BL Lacertae Objects

s Eye Collaboration

Data taken in stereo mode by the High Resolution Fly's Eye (HiRes) air fluorescence experiment are analyzed to search for correlations between the arrival directions of ultra--high…

astro-ph2005★ 37 cited

Measurement of Pressure Dependent Fluorescence Yield of Air: Calibration Factor for UHECR Detectors

The Fuorescence in Air from Showers, Collaboration

In a test experiment at the Final Focus Test Beam of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, the fluorescence yield of 28.5 GeV electrons in air and nitrogen was measured. The meas…

astro-ph2004★ 198 cited

A Study of the Composition of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays Using the High Resolution Fly's Eye

s Eye Collaboration

The composition of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) is measured with the High Resolution Fly's Eye cosmic ray observatory (HiRes) data using the Xmax technique. Data were coll…

astro-ph2004★ 87 cited

Study of Small-Scale Anisotropy of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays Observed in Stereo by HiRes

s Eye Collaboration

The High Resolution Fly's Eye (HiRes) experiment is an air fluorescence detector which, operating in stereo mode, has a typical angular resolution of 0.6 degrees and is sensitive t…

astro-ph2002★ 122 cited

Monocular Measurement of the Spectrum of UHE Cosmic Rays by the FADC Detector of the HiRes Experiment

s Eye Collaboration

We have measured the spectrum of UHE cosmic rays using the Flash ADC (FADC) detector (called HiRes-II) of the High Resolution Fly's Eye experiment running in monocular mode. We des…

astro-ph2002★ 276 cited

Measurement of the Flux of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays from Monocular Observations by the High Resolution Fly's Eye Experiment

s Eye Collaboration

We have measured the cosmic ray spectrum above 10^17.2 eV using the two air fluorescence detectors of the High Resolution Fly's Eye observatory operating in monocular mode. We desc…

astro-ph2000★ 52 cited

A Measurement of the Average Longitudinal Development Profile of Cosmic Ray Air Showers Between 10^{17}eV and 10^{18}eV

T. Abu-Zayyad et. al

The average extensive air shower longitudinal development profile as a function of shower age in the energy range from 10 to 10eV is measured using data from the hybr…