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Observation of the Moon and Sun shadows with cosmic rays at an average energy of eV
The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +346
Interactions of cosmic rays with the Moon and the Sun produce deficits in their arrival-direction distributions relative to an isotropic flux. Such shadows have been observed previ…
Search for UHE neutrinos from GRBs with the Pierre Auger Observatory
Yago Lema-Capeans
We report on the search for ultra-high-energy neutrinos from the prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) using Surface Detector (SD) data from Phase I of the Pierre Auger Observ…
New full-sky studies of the distribution of ultra-high-energy cosmic-ray arrival directions
A. Gálvez Ureña, L. Anchordoqui, M. Bianciotto +17
Ground-based full-sky studies of the angular distribution of arrival directions of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays require combining data from different observatories, such as the Pi…
Study of solar activity with AERA at the Pierre Auger Observatory
R. M. de Almeida
Solar activity events release vast amounts of energy, including radio waves, X-rays, ultraviolet radiation, and energetic particles, which interact with the ionosphere of the Earth…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
Results from the KASCADE-Grande Data Analysis
D. Kang, W. D. Apel, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez +45
KASCADE-Grande and its original array of KASCADE were dedicated to measure individual air showers of cosmic rays with great detail in the primary energy range of 100 TeV up to 1 Ee…
Probing the evolution of the EAS muon content in the atmosphere with KASCADE-Grande
Grande Collaboration, W. D. Apel, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez +47
The evolution of the muon content of very high energy air showers (EAS) in the atmosphere is investigated with data of the KASCADE-Grande observatory. For this purpose, the muon at…
KASCADE-Grande Limits on the Isotropic Diffuse Gamma-Ray Flux between 100 TeV and 1 EeV
Grande Collaboration, W. D. Apel, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez +48
KASCADE and KASCADE-Grande were multi-detector installations to measure individual air showers of cosmic rays at ultra-high energy. Based on data sets measured by KASCADE and KASCA…
Interferometric Radio Measurements of Air Showers with LOPES: Final Results (ICRC 2017)
Frank G. Schröder, Katrin Link
LOPES was the radio extension of the KASCADE-Grande particle-detector array consisting of up to 30 antennas measuring the radio emission of cosmic-ray air showers between 40 and 80…
Improved absolute calibration of LOPES measurements and its impact on the comparison with REAS 3.11 and CoREAS simulations
W. D. Apel, J. C. Arteaga-Velazquez, L. Bähren +55
LOPES was a digital antenna array detecting the radio emission of cosmic-ray air showers. The calibration of the absolute amplitude scale of the measurements was done using an exte…
Energy spectra of KASCADE-Grande based on shower size measurements and different hadronic interaction models
D. Kang, W. D. Apel, J. C. Arteaga-Velazquez +54
KASCADE-Grande is dedicated for investigations of cosmic-ray air showers in the primary energy range from 10 PeV to 1 EeV. The multi-detector system allows us to reconstruct charge…
Comparing LOPES measurements of air-shower radio emission with REAS 3.11 and CoREAS simulations
W. D. Apel, J. C. Arteaga, L. Bähren +52
Cosmic ray air showers emit radio pulses at MHz frequencies, which can be measured with radio antenna arrays - like LOPES at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. To im…
KASCADE-Grande measurements of energy spectra for elemental groups of cosmic rays
D. Fuhrmann, W. D. Apel, J. C. Arteaga-Velazquez +54
The KASCADE-Grande experiment, located at KIT-Karlsruhe, Germany, consists of a large scintillator array for measurements of charged particles, N_ch, and of an array of shielded sc…
High-energy cosmic rays measured with KASCADE-Grande
A. Haungs, W. D. Apel, J. C. Arteaga-Velazquez +54
The detection of high-energy cosmic rays above a few hundred TeV is realized by the observation of extensive air-showers. By using the multi-detector setup of KASCADE-Grande, energ…
KASCADE-Grande measurements of energy spectra for elemental groups of cosmic rays
Grande Collaboration, W. D. Apel, J. C. Arteaga-Velàzquez +55
The KASCADE-Grande air shower experiment [W. Apel, et al. (KASCADE-Grande collaboration), Nucl. Instrum. Methods A 620 (2010) 202] consists of, among others, a large scintillator a…
Ankle-like Feature in the Energy Spectrum of Light Elements of Cosmic Rays Observed with KASCADE-Grande
W. D. Apel, J. C. Arteaga-Velàzquez, K. Bekk +54
Recent results of the KASCADE-Grande experiment provided evidence for a mild knee-like structure in the all-particle spectrum of cosmic rays at $E = 10^{16.92 \pm 0.10} \, \mathrm{…