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most citedMeasurement of the Radiation Energy in the Radio Signal of Extensive Air Showers as a Universal Estimator of Cosmic-Ray Energy

140 citations · 272 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

Search for ultra-high energy neutrons from Galactic sources with the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +357

Deflections in the propagation of charged ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) caused by magnetic fields make the identification of their sources challenging. On the other hand,…

hep-ex2026

Water Cherenkov Detectors in Precision Agriculture: A Novel Approach for High-Resolution Soil Moisture Monitoring

Christian Sarmiento-Cano, Jaime Betancour, Alejandro Núñez Selin +4

Water Cherenkov Detectors (WCDs), traditionally employed in cosmic-ray detection, are repurposed here for precision soil moisture monitoring using cosmic-ray neutron sensing. This…

physics.ins-det2026

Two-Stage Gamma-Neutron Source Classification in Water Cherenkov Detectors: Energy Threshold Screening and Machine Learning Pulse Analysis

Alejandro Núñez-Selin, Iván Sidelnik, Christian Sarmiento-Cano +2

Water Cherenkov detectors offer a robust and economical solution for real-time radiation monitoring by detecting Cherenkov light from charged particles moving faster than light in…

cs.DC2026

Driving Computational Efficiency in Large-Scale Platforms using HPC Technologies

Alexander Martinez Mendez, Antonio J. Rubio-Montero, Carlos J. Barrios H. +3

The Latin American Giant Observatory (LAGO) project utilizes extensive High-Performance Computing (HPC) resources for complex astroparticle physics simulations, making resource eff…

astro-ph.IM2025

Long-term calibration and validation of stability of the Auger Engineering Radio Array using the diffuse Galactic radio emission

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +356

The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) measures radio emission from high-energy extensive air showers. Consisting of 153 autonomous radio-detector stations spread over \,km$^…

physics.space-ph2025★ 1 cited

Quasi-constant time gap in multiple rings of elves

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +359

We present evidence that the time delay between the multiple rings of elves is not caused by the ground reflection of the electromagnetic pulse produced by intracloud lightning. To…

physics.ins-det2025

Enhanced water Cherenkov detector for soil moisture detection

J. Betancourt, C. Sarmiento-Cano, I. Sidelnik +4

This work evaluates the ability of a water Cherenkov detector to measure thermal neutrons and explores its application to soil-moisture monitoring. We study a NaCl-doped detector a…

astro-ph.HE2025

The Pierre Auger Observatory: Contributions to the 39th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2025)

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +352

The Pierre Auger Observatory, located in La Pampa Amarilla, Argentina, has been continuously acquiring data since 2004. It comprises a surface detector array covering 3,000 km…

astro-ph.HE2025

The Energy Spectrum of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays across Declinations to as measured at the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +360

The energy spectrum of cosmic rays above 2.5 EeV has been measured across the declination range using data from events accrued at…

physics.ins-det2025★ 2 cited

Muon Imaging of Hydrotreatment Reactors

Rafael Armando Martínez-Rivero, Christian Sarmiento-Cano, Diego Catillo-Morales +4

This study presents the design and simulation-based validation of a muon imaging system tailored for potential applications in industrial hydrotreatment units. The system is built…

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.HE2025★ 6 cited

Search for a diffuse flux of photons with energies above tens of PeV at the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +359

Diffuse photons of energy above 0.1 PeV, produced through the interactions between cosmic rays and either interstellar matter or background radiation fields, are powerful tracers o…

gr-qc2024

Relativisitic non-pascalian fluid as a density contribution

Justo Ospino, Daniel Suárez-Urango, Laura M. Becerra +2

Understanding the role of pressure anisotropy and dissipation is crucial for modelling compact objects' internal structure and observable properties. In this work, we reinterpret l…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 19 cited

Large-scale cosmic ray anisotropies with 19 years of data from the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +355

Results are presented for the measurement of large-scale anisotropies in the arrival directions of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays detected at the Pierre Auger Observatory during 19…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 5 cited

The distribution of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays along the supergalactic plane measured at the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +364

Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays are known to be mainly of extragalactic origin, and their propagation is limited by energy losses, so their arrival directions are expected to correla…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 2 cited

Search for photons above 10 eV by simultaneously measuring the atmospheric depth and the muon content of air showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +364

The Pierre Auger Observatory is the most sensitive instrument to detect photons with energies above eV. It measures extensive air showers generated by ultra high energy c…

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★ 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…

hep-ph2023★ 6 cited

Constraints on metastable superheavy dark matter coupled to sterile neutrinos with the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +368

Dark matter particles could be superheavy, provided their lifetime is much longer than the age of the universe. Using the sensitivity of the Pierre Auger Observatory to ultra-high…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 30 cited

Deep-Learning based Reconstruction of the Shower Maximum using the Water-Cherenkov Detectors of the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +370

The atmospheric depth of the air shower maximum is an observable commonly used for the determination of the nuclear mass composition of ultra-high energy cosmic…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 140 cited

Measurement of the Radiation Energy in the Radio Signal of Extensive Air Showers as a Universal Estimator of Cosmic-Ray Energy

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, Alexander Aab, Pedro Abreu +447

We measure the energy emitted by extensive air showers in the form of radio emission in the frequency range from 30 to 80 MHz. Exploiting the accurate energy scale of the Pierre Au…