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most citedThe all-particle spectrum of primary cosmic rays in the wide energy range from 10^14 eV to 10^17 eV observed with the Tibet-III air-shower array

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astro-ph.HE2026

Search for Ultra-Relativistic Magnetic Monopoles with LHAASO-KM2A

Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian, Y. X. Bai +335

Ultra-relativistic magnetic monopoles traversing the atmosphere are expected to initiate extensive air showers characterized by a muon deficit and a compact lateral profile. Using…

astro-ph.HE2026

LHAASO-WCDA observed a 5 days TeV-delayed flaring event in blazar 1ES 1959+650

Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian, Y. X. Bai +339

We report a day-scale hard lag between GeV and TeV -ray emission from the HBL 1ES~1959+650 in early 2024. Since the LHAASO-WCDA real-time monitoring system began operation in la…

astro-ph.HE2026

Extreme PeV accelerator associated with GRS 1915+105

Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian, Y. X. Bai +322

Microquasars, binary systems featuring relativistic jets, have emerged as sources for particle acceleration beyond PeV energies. We present a study of the broadband -ray emissio…

astro-ph.HE2025

LHAASO Detection of Ultra-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emission toward the Giant Molecular Clouds

Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian, Y. X. Bai +310

The -ray from Giant molecular clouds (GMCs) is regarded as the most ideal tool to perform in-situ measurement of cosmic ray (CR) density and spectra in our Galaxy. We report the…

astro-ph.HE2025

Energy calibration of LHAASO-KM2A using the cosmic ray Moon shadow

Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian, Y. X. Bai +323

We present a precise measurement of the westward, rigidity-dependent shift of the Moon's shadow using three and a half years of cosmic-ray data collected by the Kilometer Square Ar…

astro-ph.HE2025

All-sky search for individual Primordial Black Hole bursts with LHAASO

Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian, Y. X. Bai +311

Primordial Black Holes~(PBHs) are hypothetical black holes with a wide range of masses that formed in the early universe. As a result, they may play an important cosmological role…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 8 cited

Evidence for particle acceleration approaching PeV energies in the W51 complex

The LHAASO Collaboration, Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian +284

The -ray emission from the W51 complex is widely acknowledged to be attributed to the interaction between the cosmic rays (CRs) accelerated by the shock of supernova remnant (SN…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 85 cited

An Ultrahigh-energy -ray Bubble Powered by a Super PeVatron

The LHAASO Collaboration, Z. Cao, F. Aharonian +277

We report the detection of a -ray bubble spanning at least 100 in ultra high energy (UHE) up to a few PeV in the direction of the star-forming region Cygnus X, implyi…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 40 cited

Constraints on heavy decaying dark matter from 570 days of LHAASO observations

The LHAASO Collaboration, Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian +276

The Kilometer Square Array~(KM2A) of the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) aims at surveying the northern gamma-ray sky at energies above 10 TeV with unprecedente…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 191 cited

Peta-electron volt gamma-ray emission from the Crab Nebula

The LHAASO Collaboration, Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian +269

The Crab pulsar and the surrounding nebula powered by the pulsar's rotational energy through the formation and termination of a relativistic electron-positron wind is a bright sour…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 34 cited

Discovery of a new -ray source LHAASO J0341+5258 with emission up to 200TeV

The LHAASO Collaboration, Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian +267

We report the discovery of a new unidentified extended -ray source in the Galactic plane named LHAASO J0341+5258 with a pre-trial significance of 8.2 standard deviations above 2…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 5 cited

Exploring Lorentz Invariance Violation from Ultra-high-energy Gamma Rays Observed by LHAASO

Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian, Q. An +268

Recently the LHAASO Collaboration published the detection of 12 ultra-high-energy gamma-ray sources above 100 TeV, with the highest energy photon reaching 1.4 PeV. The first detect…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 51 cited

Discovery of the Ultra-high energy gamma-ray source LHAASO J2108+5157

The LHAASO collaboration, Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian +267

We report the discovery of a UHE gamma-ray source, LHAASO J2108+5157, by analyzing the LHAASO-KM2A data of 308.33 live days. Significant excess of gamma-ray induced showers is obse…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 135 cited

Extended Very-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emission Surrounding PSR J0622 + 3749 Observed by LHAASO-KM2A

The LHAASO collabration, Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian +310

We report the discovery of an extended very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray source around the location of the middle-aged (207.8 kyr) pulsar PSR J0622+3749 with the Large High Altitude…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 95 cited

The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) Science Book (2021 Edition)

Zhen Cao, D. della Volpe, Siming Liu +87

Since the science white paper of the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) published on arXiv in 2019 [e-Print: 1905.02773 (astro-ph.HE)], LHAASO has completed the tr…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 63 cited

4.5 years multi-wavelength observations of Mrk 421 during the ARGO-YBJ and Fermi common operation time

B. Bartoli, P. Bernardini, X. J. Bi +68

We report on the extensive multi-wavelength observations of the blazar Markarian 421 (Mrk 421) covering radio to gamma-rays, during the 4.5 year period of ARGO-YBJ and Fermi common…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 127 cited

The Knee of the Cosmic Hydrogen and Helium Spectrum below 1 PeV Measured by ARGO-YBJ and a Cherenkov Telescope of LHAASO

B. Bartoli, P. Bernardini, X. J. Bi +93

The measurement of cosmic ray energy spectra, in particular for individual species, is an essential approach in finding their origin. Locating the "knees" of the spectra is an impo…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 99 cited

Identification of the TeV Gamma-ray Source ARGO J2031+4157 with the Cygnus Cocoon

YBJ Collaboration, B. Bartoli, P. Bernardini +80

The extended TeV gamma-ray source ARGO J2031+4157 (or MGRO J2031+41) is positionally consistent with the Cygnus Cocoon discovered by -LAT at GeV energies in the Cygnus super…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 84 cited

TeV gamma-ray survey of the Northern sky using the ARGO-YBJ detector

YBJ Collaboration, B. Bartoli, P. Bernardini +94

The ARGO-YBJ detector is an extensive air shower array that has been used to monitor the northern -ray sky at energies above 0.3 TeV from 2007 November to 2013 January. In this…

astro-ph.HE2013

Medium scale anisotropy in the TeV cosmic ray flux observed by ARGO-YBJ

YBJ Collaboration

Measuring the anisotropy of the arrival direction distribution of cosmic rays provides important information on the propagation mechanisms and the identification of their sources.…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 30 cited

Measurement of the cosmic ray antiproton/proton flux ratio at TeV energies with the ARGO-YBJ detector

YBJ Collaboration

Cosmic ray antiprotons provide an important probe to study the cosmic ray propagation in the interstellar space and to investigate the existence of dark matter. Acting the Earth-Mo…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 57 cited

Observation of TeV gamma rays from the Cygnus region with the ARGO-YBJ experiment

B. Bartoli, P. Bernardini, X. J. Bi +100

We report the observation of TeV gamma-rays from the Cygnus region using the ARGO-YBJ data collected from 2007 November to 2011 August. Several TeV sources are located in this regi…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 75 cited

Long-term monitoring of the TeV emission from Mrk 421 with the ARGO-YBJ experiment

YBJ Collaboration, B. Bartoli, P. Bernardini +105

ARGO-YBJ is an air shower detector array with a fully covered layer of resistive plate chambers. It is operated with a high duty cycle and a large field of view. It continuously mo…

astro-ph.HE2010

Highlights from the ARGO-YBJ experiment

G. Di Sciascio

The ARGO-YBJ experiment is a multipurpose detector exploiting the full coverage approach at very high altitude. The apparatus, in stable data taking since November 2007 with an ene…