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Abdul Halim</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Abreu%2C+P">P. Abreu</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aglietta%2C+M">M. Aglietta</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Allekotte%2C+I">I. Allekotte</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Cheminant%2C+K+A">K. Almeida Cheminant</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Almela%2C+A">A. Almela</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aloisio%2C+R">R. Aloisio</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Alvarez-Mu%C3%B1iz%2C+J">J. Alvarez-Mu帽iz</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Yebra%2C+J+A">J. Ammerman Yebra</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anastasi%2C+G+A">G. A. Anastasi</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anchordoqui%2C+L">L. Anchordoqui</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andrada%2C+B">B. Andrada</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andringa%2C+S">S. Andringa</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Apollonio%2C+L">L. Apollonio</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aramo%2C+C">C. Aramo</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Ferreira%2C+P+R+A">P. R. Ara煤jo Ferreira</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Arnone%2C+E">E. Arnone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Vel%C3%A1zquez%2C+J+C+A">J. C. Arteaga Vel谩zquez</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Assis%2C+P">P. Assis</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avila%2C+G">G. Avila</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avocone%2C+E">E. Avocone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Bakalova%2C+A">A. Bakalova</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Barbato%2C+F">F. Barbato</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Mocellin%2C+A+B">A. Bartz Mocellin</a> , et al. (352 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2502.04513v1-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> A dedicated search for upward-going air showers at zenith angles exceeding $110^\circ$ and energies $E>0.1$ EeV has been performed using the Fluorescence Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory. The search is motivated by two "anomalous" radio pulses observed by the ANITA flights I and III which appear inconsistent with the Standard Model of particle physics. Using simulations of both regular cos… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2502.04513v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2502.04513v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2502.04513v1-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> A dedicated search for upward-going air showers at zenith angles exceeding $110^\circ$ and energies $E>0.1$ EeV has been performed using the Fluorescence Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory. The search is motivated by two "anomalous" radio pulses observed by the ANITA flights I and III which appear inconsistent with the Standard Model of particle physics. Using simulations of both regular cosmic ray showers and upward-going events, a selection procedure has been defined to separate potential upward-going candidate events and the corresponding exposure has been calculated in the energy range [0.1-33] EeV. One event has been found in the search period between 1 Jan 2004 and 31 Dec 2018, consistent with an expected background of $0.27 \pm 0.12$ events from mis-reconstructed cosmic ray showers. This translates to an upper bound on the integral flux of $(7.2 \pm 0.2) \times 10^{-21}$ cm$^{-2}$ sr$^{-1}$ y$^{-1}$ and $(3.6 \pm 0.2) \times 10^{-20}$ cm$^{-2}$ sr$^{-1}$ y$^{-1}$ for an $E^{-1}$ and $E^{-2}$ spectrum, respectively. An upward-going flux of showers normalized to the ANITA observations is shown to predict over 34 events for an $E^{-3}$ spectrum and over 8.1 events for a conservative $E^{-5}$ spectrum, in strong disagreement with the interpretation of the anomalous events as upward-going showers. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2502.04513v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2502.04513v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 6 February, 2025; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> February 2025. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">10+5 Pages of Manuscript plus Supplemental Material, 3+8 figures, Accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters</span> </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.02381">arXiv:2502.02381</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.02381">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/2502.02381">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena">astro-ph.HE</span> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Search for a diffuse flux of photons with energies above tens of PeV at the Pierre Auger Observatory </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=The+Pierre+Auger+Collaboration"> The Pierre Auger Collaboration</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Halim%2C+A+A">A. Abdul Halim</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Abreu%2C+P">P. Abreu</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aglietta%2C+M">M. Aglietta</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Allekotte%2C+I">I. Allekotte</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Cheminant%2C+K+A">K. Almeida Cheminant</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Almela%2C+A">A. Almela</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aloisio%2C+R">R. Aloisio</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Alvarez-Mu%C3%B1iz%2C+J">J. Alvarez-Mu帽iz</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Ambrosone%2C+A">A. Ambrosone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Yebra%2C+J+A">J. Ammerman Yebra</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anastasi%2C+G+A">G. A. Anastasi</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anchordoqui%2C+L">L. Anchordoqui</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andrada%2C+B">B. Andrada</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Dourado%2C+L+A">L. Andrade Dourado</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andringa%2C+S">S. Andringa</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Apollonio%2C+L">L. Apollonio</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aramo%2C+C">C. Aramo</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Arnone%2C+E">E. Arnone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Vel%C3%A1zquez%2C+J+C+A">J. C. Arteaga Vel谩zquez</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Assis%2C+P">P. Assis</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avila%2C+G">G. Avila</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avocone%2C+E">E. Avocone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Bakalova%2C+A">A. Bakalova</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Barbato%2C+F">F. Barbato</a> , et al. (337 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2502.02381v1-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> 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 of the distribution of cosmic rays in the Galaxy. Furthermore, the measurement of a diffuse photon flux would be an important probe to test models of super-heavy dark matter decaying into gamma-rays. In this work, we sear… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2502.02381v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2502.02381v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2502.02381v1-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> 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 of the distribution of cosmic rays in the Galaxy. Furthermore, the measurement of a diffuse photon flux would be an important probe to test models of super-heavy dark matter decaying into gamma-rays. In this work, we search for a diffuse photon flux in the energy range between 50 PeV and 200 PeV using data from the Pierre Auger Observatory. For the first time, we combine the air-shower measurements from a 2 km$^2$ surface array consisting of 19 water-Cherenkov surface detectors, spaced at 433 m, with the muon measurements from an array of buried scintillators placed in the same area. Using 15 months of data, collected while the array was still under construction, we derive upper limits to the integral photon flux ranging from 13.3 to 13.8 km$^{-2}$ sr$^{-1}$ yr$^{-1}$ above tens of PeV. We extend the Pierre Auger Observatory photon search program towards lower energies, covering more than three decades of cosmic-ray energy. This work lays the foundation for future diffuse photon searches: with the data from the next 10 years of operation of the Observatory, this limit is expected to improve by a factor of $\sim$20. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2502.02381v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2502.02381v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 4 February, 2025; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> February 2025. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">Submitted to JCAP</span> </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.05292">arXiv:2408.05292</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2408.05292">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/2408.05292">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena">astro-ph.HE</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad843b">10.3847/1538-4357/ad843b <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Large-scale cosmic ray anisotropies with 19 years of data from the Pierre Auger Observatory </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=The+Pierre+Auger+Collaboration"> The Pierre Auger Collaboration</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Halim%2C+A+A">A. Abdul Halim</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Abreu%2C+P">P. Abreu</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aglietta%2C+M">M. Aglietta</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Allekotte%2C+I">I. Allekotte</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Cheminant%2C+K+A">K. Almeida Cheminant</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Almela%2C+A">A. Almela</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aloisio%2C+R">R. Aloisio</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Alvarez-Mu%C3%B1iz%2C+J">J. Alvarez-Mu帽iz</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Ambrosone%2C+A">A. Ambrosone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Yebra%2C+J+A">J. Ammerman Yebra</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anastasi%2C+G+A">G. A. Anastasi</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anchordoqui%2C+L">L. Anchordoqui</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andrada%2C+B">B. Andrada</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Dourado%2C+L+A">L. Andrade Dourado</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andringa%2C+S">S. Andringa</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Apollonio%2C+L">L. Apollonio</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aramo%2C+C">C. Aramo</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Ferreira%2C+P+R+A">P. R. Ara煤jo Ferreira</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Arnone%2C+E">E. Arnone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Vel%C3%A1zquez%2C+J+C+A">J. C. Arteaga Vel谩zquez</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Assis%2C+P">P. Assis</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avila%2C+G">G. Avila</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avocone%2C+E">E. Avocone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Bakalova%2C+A">A. Bakalova</a> , et al. (333 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2408.05292v3-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> 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 years of operation, prior to AugerPrime, the upgrade of the Observatory. The 3D dipole amplitude and direction are reconstructed above $4\,$EeV in four energy bins. Besides the established dipolar anisotropy in right asc… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2408.05292v3-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2408.05292v3-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2408.05292v3-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> 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 years of operation, prior to AugerPrime, the upgrade of the Observatory. The 3D dipole amplitude and direction are reconstructed above $4\,$EeV in four energy bins. Besides the established dipolar anisotropy in right ascension above $8\,$EeV, the Fourier amplitude of the $8$ to $16\,$EeV energy bin is now also above the $5蟽$ discovery level. No time variation of the dipole moment above $8\,$EeV is found, setting an upper limit to the rate of change of such variations of $0.3\%$ per year at the $95\%$ confidence level. Additionally, the results for the angular power spectrum are shown, demonstrating no other statistically significant multipoles. The results for the equatorial dipole component down to $0.03\,$EeV are presented, using for the first time a data set obtained with a trigger that has been optimized for lower energies. Finally, model predictions are discussed and compared with observations, based on two source emission scenarios obtained in the combined fit of spectrum and composition above $0.6\,$EeV. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2408.05292v3-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2408.05292v3-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 23 January, 2025; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">v1</span> submitted 9 August, 2024; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> August 2024. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">Minor typo in table 4 corrected</span> </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Journal ref:</span> ApJ 976(2024)48 </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.06874">arXiv:2407.06874</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.06874">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/2407.06874">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena">astro-ph.HE</span> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> The flux of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays along the supergalactic plane measured at the Pierre Auger Observatory </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=The+Pierre+Auger+Collaboration"> The Pierre Auger Collaboration</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Halim%2C+A+A">A. Abdul Halim</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Abreu%2C+P">P. Abreu</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aglietta%2C+M">M. Aglietta</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Allekotte%2C+I">I. Allekotte</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Cheminant%2C+K+A">K. Almeida Cheminant</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Almela%2C+A">A. Almela</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aloisio%2C+R">R. Aloisio</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Alvarez-Mu%C3%B1iz%2C+J">J. Alvarez-Mu帽iz</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Yebra%2C+J+A">J. Ammerman Yebra</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anastasi%2C+G+A">G. A. Anastasi</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anchordoqui%2C+L">L. Anchordoqui</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andrada%2C+B">B. Andrada</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Dourado%2C+L+A">L. Andrade Dourado</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andringa%2C+S">S. Andringa</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Apollonio%2C+L">L. Apollonio</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aramo%2C+C">C. Aramo</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Ferreira%2C+P+R+A">P. R. Ara煤jo Ferreira</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Arnone%2C+E">E. Arnone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Vel%C3%A1zquez%2C+J+C+A">J. C. Arteaga Vel谩zquez</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Assis%2C+P">P. Assis</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avila%2C+G">G. Avila</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avocone%2C+E">E. Avocone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Bakalova%2C+A">A. Bakalova</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Barbato%2C+F">F. Barbato</a> , et al. (342 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2407.06874v1-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> 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 correlate with the large-scale structure of the local Universe. In this work, we investigate the possible presence of intermediate-scale excesses in the flux of the most energetic cosmic rays from the direction of the supergala… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2407.06874v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2407.06874v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2407.06874v1-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> 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 correlate with the large-scale structure of the local Universe. In this work, we investigate the possible presence of intermediate-scale excesses in the flux of the most energetic cosmic rays from the direction of the supergalactic plane region using events with energies above 20 EeV recorded with the surface detector array of the Pierre Auger Observatory up to 31 December 2022, with a total exposure of 135,000 km^2 sr yr. The strongest indication for an excess that we find, with a post-trial significance of 3.1蟽, is in the Centaurus region, as in our previous reports, and it extends down to lower energies than previously studied. We do not find any strong hints of excesses from any other region of the supergalactic plane at the same angular scale. In particular, our results do not confirm the reports by the Telescope Array collaboration of excesses from two regions in the Northern Hemisphere at the edge of the field of view of the Pierre Auger Observatory. With a comparable exposure, our results in those regions are in good agreement with the expectations from an isotropic distribution. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2407.06874v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2407.06874v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 9 July, 2024; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> July 2024. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">submitted to ApJ</span> </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.07439">arXiv:2406.07439</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.07439">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/2406.07439">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena">astro-ph.HE</span> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Search for photons above 10$^{18}$ eV by simultaneously measuring the atmospheric depth and the muon content of air showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=The+Pierre+Auger+Collaboration"> The Pierre Auger Collaboration</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Halim%2C+A+A">A. Abdul Halim</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Abreu%2C+P">P. Abreu</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aglietta%2C+M">M. Aglietta</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Allekotte%2C+I">I. Allekotte</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Cheminant%2C+K+A">K. Almeida Cheminant</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Almela%2C+A">A. Almela</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aloisio%2C+R">R. Aloisio</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Alvarez-Mu%C3%B1iz%2C+J">J. Alvarez-Mu帽iz</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Yebra%2C+J+A">J. Ammerman Yebra</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anastasi%2C+G+A">G. A. Anastasi</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anchordoqui%2C+L">L. Anchordoqui</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andrada%2C+B">B. Andrada</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Dourado%2C+L+A">L. Andrade Dourado</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andringa%2C+S">S. Andringa</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Apollonio%2C+L">L. Apollonio</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aramo%2C+C">C. Aramo</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Ferreira%2C+P+R+A">P. R. Ara煤jo Ferreira</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Arnone%2C+E">E. Arnone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Vel%C3%A1zquez%2C+J+C+A">J. C. Arteaga Vel谩zquez</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Assis%2C+P">P. Assis</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avila%2C+G">G. Avila</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avocone%2C+E">E. Avocone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Bakalova%2C+A">A. Bakalova</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Barbato%2C+F">F. Barbato</a> , et al. (342 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2406.07439v1-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> The Pierre Auger Observatory is the most sensitive instrument to detect photons with energies above $10^{17}$ eV. It measures extensive air showers generated by ultra high energy cosmic rays using a hybrid technique that exploits the combination of a fluorescence detector with a ground array of particle detectors. The signatures of a photon-induced air shower are a larger atmospheric depth of the… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2406.07439v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2406.07439v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2406.07439v1-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> The Pierre Auger Observatory is the most sensitive instrument to detect photons with energies above $10^{17}$ eV. It measures extensive air showers generated by ultra high energy cosmic rays using a hybrid technique that exploits the combination of a fluorescence detector with a ground array of particle detectors. The signatures of a photon-induced air shower are a larger atmospheric depth of the shower maximum ($X_{max}$) and a steeper lateral distribution function, along with a lower number of muons with respect to the bulk of hadron-induced cascades. In this work, a new analysis technique in the energy interval between 1 and 30 EeV (1 EeV = $10^{18}$ eV) has been developed by combining the fluorescence detector-based measurement of $X_{max}$ with the specific features of the surface detector signal through a parameter related to the air shower muon content, derived from the universality of the air shower development. No evidence of a statistically significant signal due to photon primaries was found using data collected in about 12 years of operation. Thus, upper bounds to the integral photon flux have been set using a detailed calculation of the detector exposure, in combination with a data-driven background estimation. The derived 95% confidence level upper limits are 0.0403, 0.01113, 0.0035, 0.0023, and 0.0021 km$^{-2}$ sr$^{-1}$ yr$^{-1}$ above 1, 2, 3, 5, and 10 EeV, respectively, leading to the most stringent upper limits on the photon flux in the EeV range. Compared with past results, the upper limits were improved by about 40% for the lowest energy threshold and by a factor 3 above 3 EeV, where no candidates were found and the expected background is negligible. The presented limits can be used to probe the assumptions on chemical composition of ultra-high energy cosmic rays and allow for the constraint of the mass and lifetime phase space of super-heavy dark matter particles. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2406.07439v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2406.07439v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 11 June, 2024; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> June 2024. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">19 pages, 22 figures</span> </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.06319">arXiv:2406.06319</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.06319">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/2406.06319">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena">astro-ph.HE</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics">astro-ph.IM</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.111.022003">10.1103/PhysRevD.111.022003 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Measurement of the Depth of Maximum of Air-Shower Profiles with energies between $\mathbf{10^{18.5}}$ and $\mathbf{10^{20}}$ eV using the Surface Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory and Deep Learning </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=The+Pierre+Auger+Collaboration"> The Pierre Auger Collaboration</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Halim%2C+A+A">A. Abdul Halim</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Abreu%2C+P">P. Abreu</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aglietta%2C+M">M. Aglietta</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Allekotte%2C+I">I. Allekotte</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Cheminant%2C+K+A">K. Almeida Cheminant</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Almela%2C+A">A. Almela</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aloisio%2C+R">R. Aloisio</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Alvarez-Mu%C3%B1iz%2C+J">J. Alvarez-Mu帽iz</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Yebra%2C+J+A">J. Ammerman Yebra</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anastasi%2C+G+A">G. A. Anastasi</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anchordoqui%2C+L">L. Anchordoqui</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andrada%2C+B">B. Andrada</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Dourado%2C+L+A">L. Andrade Dourado</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andringa%2C+S">S. Andringa</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Apollonio%2C+L">L. Apollonio</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aramo%2C+C">C. Aramo</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Ferreira%2C+P+R+A">P. R. Ara煤jo Ferreira</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Arnone%2C+E">E. Arnone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Vel%C3%A1zquez%2C+J+C+A">J. C. Arteaga Vel谩zquez</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Assis%2C+P">P. Assis</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avila%2C+G">G. Avila</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avocone%2C+E">E. Avocone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Bakalova%2C+A">A. Bakalova</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Barbato%2C+F">F. Barbato</a> , et al. (342 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2406.06319v3-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> We report an investigation of the mass composition of cosmic rays with energies from 3 to 100 EeV (1 EeV=$10^{18}$ eV) using the distributions of the depth of shower maximum $X_\mathrm{max}$. The analysis relies on ${\sim}50,000$ events recorded by the Surface Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory and a deep-learning-based reconstruction algorithm. Above energies of 5 EeV, the data set offers a… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2406.06319v3-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2406.06319v3-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2406.06319v3-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> We report an investigation of the mass composition of cosmic rays with energies from 3 to 100 EeV (1 EeV=$10^{18}$ eV) using the distributions of the depth of shower maximum $X_\mathrm{max}$. The analysis relies on ${\sim}50,000$ events recorded by the Surface Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory and a deep-learning-based reconstruction algorithm. Above energies of 5 EeV, the data set offers a 10-fold increase in statistics with respect to fluorescence measurements at the Observatory. After cross-calibration using the Fluorescence Detector, this enables the first measurement of the evolution of the mean and the standard deviation of the $X_\mathrm{max}$ distributions up to 100 EeV. Our findings are threefold: (1.) The evolution of the mean logarithmic mass towards a heavier composition with increasing energy can be confirmed and is extended to 100 EeV. (2.) The evolution of the fluctuations of $X_\mathrm{max}$ towards a heavier and purer composition with increasing energy can be confirmed with high statistics. We report a rather heavy composition and small fluctuations in $X_\mathrm{max}$ at the highest energies. (3.) We find indications for a characteristic structure beyond a constant change in the mean logarithmic mass, featuring three breaks that are observed in proximity to the ankle, instep, and suppression features in the energy spectrum. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2406.06319v3-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2406.06319v3-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 6 February, 2025; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">v1</span> submitted 10 June, 2024; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> June 2024. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">Version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D, 29 pages, 19 figures, 5 tables</span> </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Journal ref:</span> Phys. Rev. D 111, 022003 (2025) </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.06315">arXiv:2406.06315</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.06315">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/2406.06315">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena">astro-ph.HE</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics">astro-ph.IM</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.021001">10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.021001 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Inference of the Mass Composition of Cosmic Rays with energies from $\mathbf{10^{18.5}}$ to $\mathbf{10^{20}}$ eV using the Pierre Auger Observatory and Deep Learning </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=The+Pierre+Auger+Collaboration"> The Pierre Auger Collaboration</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Halim%2C+A+A">A. Abdul Halim</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Abreu%2C+P">P. Abreu</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aglietta%2C+M">M. Aglietta</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Allekotte%2C+I">I. Allekotte</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Cheminant%2C+K+A">K. Almeida Cheminant</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Almela%2C+A">A. Almela</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aloisio%2C+R">R. Aloisio</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Alvarez-Mu%C3%B1iz%2C+J">J. Alvarez-Mu帽iz</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Yebra%2C+J+A">J. Ammerman Yebra</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anastasi%2C+G+A">G. A. Anastasi</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anchordoqui%2C+L">L. Anchordoqui</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andrada%2C+B">B. Andrada</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Dourado%2C+L+A">L. Andrade Dourado</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andringa%2C+S">S. Andringa</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Apollonio%2C+L">L. Apollonio</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aramo%2C+C">C. Aramo</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Ferreira%2C+P+R+A">P. R. Ara煤jo Ferreira</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Arnone%2C+E">E. Arnone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Vel%C3%A1zquez%2C+J+C+A">J. C. Arteaga Vel谩zquez</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Assis%2C+P">P. Assis</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avila%2C+G">G. Avila</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avocone%2C+E">E. Avocone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Bakalova%2C+A">A. Bakalova</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Barbato%2C+F">F. Barbato</a> , et al. (342 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2406.06315v3-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> We present measurements of the atmospheric depth of the shower maximum $X_\mathrm{max}$, inferred for the first time on an event-by-event level using the Surface Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory. Using deep learning, we were able to extend measurements of the $X_\mathrm{max}$ distributions up to energies of 100 EeV ($10^{20}$ eV), not yet revealed by current measurements, providing new ins… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2406.06315v3-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2406.06315v3-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2406.06315v3-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> We present measurements of the atmospheric depth of the shower maximum $X_\mathrm{max}$, inferred for the first time on an event-by-event level using the Surface Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory. Using deep learning, we were able to extend measurements of the $X_\mathrm{max}$ distributions up to energies of 100 EeV ($10^{20}$ eV), not yet revealed by current measurements, providing new insights into the mass composition of cosmic rays at extreme energies. Gaining a 10-fold increase in statistics compared to the Fluorescence Detector data, we find evidence that the rate of change of the average $X_\mathrm{max}$ with the logarithm of energy features three breaks at $6.5\pm0.6~(\mathrm{stat})\pm1~(\mathrm{sys})$ EeV, $11\pm 2~(\mathrm{stat})\pm1~(\mathrm{sys})$ EeV, and $31\pm5~(\mathrm{stat})\pm3~(\mathrm{sys})$ EeV, in the vicinity to the three prominent features (ankle, instep, suppression) of the cosmic-ray flux. The energy evolution of the mean and standard deviation of the measured $X_\mathrm{max}$ distributions indicates that the mass composition becomes increasingly heavier and purer, thus being incompatible with a large fraction of light nuclei between 50 EeV and 100 EeV. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2406.06315v3-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2406.06315v3-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 6 February, 2025; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">v1</span> submitted 10 June, 2024; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> June 2024. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">Version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett., 9 pages, 3 figures, 1 table</span> </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Journal ref:</span> Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 021001 (2025) </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03533">arXiv:2404.03533</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.03533">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/2404.03533">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena">astro-ph.HE</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2024/07/094">10.1088/1475-7516/2024/07/094 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Impact of the Magnetic Horizon on the Interpretation of the Pierre Auger Observatory Spectrum and Composition Data </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=The+Pierre+Auger+Collaboration"> The Pierre Auger Collaboration</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Halim%2C+A+A">A. Abdul Halim</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Abreu%2C+P">P. Abreu</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aglietta%2C+M">M. Aglietta</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Allekotte%2C+I">I. Allekotte</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Cheminant%2C+K+A">K. Almeida Cheminant</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Almela%2C+A">A. Almela</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aloisio%2C+R">R. Aloisio</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Alvarez-Mu%C3%B1iz%2C+J">J. Alvarez-Mu帽iz</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Yebra%2C+J+A">J. Ammerman Yebra</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anastasi%2C+G+A">G. A. Anastasi</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anchordoqui%2C+L">L. Anchordoqui</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andrada%2C+B">B. Andrada</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andringa%2C+S">S. Andringa</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Apollonio%2C+L">L. Apollonio</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aramo%2C+C">C. Aramo</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Ferreira%2C+P+R+A">P. R. Ara煤jo Ferreira</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Arnone%2C+E">E. Arnone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Vel%C3%A1zquez%2C+J+C+A">J. C. Arteaga Vel谩zquez</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Assis%2C+P">P. Assis</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avila%2C+G">G. Avila</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avocone%2C+E">E. Avocone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Bakalova%2C+A">A. Bakalova</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Barbato%2C+F">F. Barbato</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Mocellin%2C+A+B">A. Bartz Mocellin</a> , et al. (342 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2404.03533v2-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> 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 spectra and a low rigidity cutoff. Extragalactic magnetic fields existing between the Earth and the closest sources can affect the observed CR spectrum by reducing the flux of low-rigidity particles reaching Earth. We perfo… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2404.03533v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2404.03533v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2404.03533v2-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> 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 spectra and a low rigidity cutoff. Extragalactic magnetic fields existing between the Earth and the closest sources can affect the observed CR spectrum by reducing the flux of low-rigidity particles reaching Earth. We perform a combined fit of the spectrum and distributions of depth of shower maximum measured with the Pierre Auger Observatory including the effect of this magnetic horizon in the propagation of UHECRs in the intergalactic space. We find that, within a specific range of the various experimental and phenomenological systematics, the magnetic horizon effect can be relevant for turbulent magnetic field strengths in the local neighbourhood of order $B_{\rm rms}\simeq (50-100)\,{\rm nG}\,(20\rm{Mpc}/{d_{\rm s})( 100\,\rm{kpc}/L_{\rm coh}})^{1/2}$, with $d_{\rm s}$ the typical intersource separation and $L_{\rm coh}$ the magnetic field coherence length. When this is the case, the inferred slope of the source spectrum becomes softer and can be closer to the expectations of diffusive shock acceleration, i.e., $\propto E^{-2}$. An additional cosmic-ray population with higher source density and softer spectra, presumably also extragalactic and dominating the cosmic-ray flux at EeV energies, is also required to reproduce the overall spectrum and composition results for all energies down to 0.6~EeV. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2404.03533v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2404.03533v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 1 August, 2024; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">v1</span> submitted 4 April, 2024; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> April 2024. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">Matches published version</span> </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Journal ref:</span> JCAP07(2024)094 </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10740">arXiv:2401.10740</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.10740">pdf</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena">astro-ph.HE</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.109.102001">10.1103/PhysRevD.109.102001 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Testing Hadronic-Model Predictions of Depth of Maximum of Air-Shower Profiles and Ground-Particle Signals using Hybrid Data of the Pierre Auger Observatory </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=The+Pierre+Auger+Collaboration"> The Pierre Auger Collaboration</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Halim%2C+A+A">A. Abdul Halim</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Abreu%2C+P">P. Abreu</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aglietta%2C+M">M. Aglietta</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Allekotte%2C+I">I. Allekotte</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Cheminant%2C+K+A">K. Almeida Cheminant</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Almela%2C+A">A. Almela</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aloisio%2C+R">R. Aloisio</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Alvarez-Mu%C3%B1iz%2C+J">J. Alvarez-Mu帽iz</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Yebra%2C+J+A">J. Ammerman Yebra</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anastasi%2C+G+A">G. A. Anastasi</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anchordoqui%2C+L">L. Anchordoqui</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andrada%2C+B">B. Andrada</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andringa%2C+S">S. Andringa</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Apollonio%2C+L">L. Apollonio</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aramo%2C+C">C. Aramo</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Ferreira%2C+P+R+A">P. R. Ara煤jo Ferreira</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Arnone%2C+E">E. Arnone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Vel%C3%A1zquez%2C+J+C+A">J. C. Arteaga Vel谩zquez</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Assis%2C+P">P. Assis</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avila%2C+G">G. Avila</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avocone%2C+E">E. Avocone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Bakalova%2C+A">A. Bakalova</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Barbato%2C+F">F. Barbato</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Mocellin%2C+A+B">A. Bartz Mocellin</a> , et al. (346 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2401.10740v3-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> We test the predictions of hadronic interaction models regarding the depth of maximum of air-shower profiles, $X_{max}$, and ground-particle signals in water-Cherenkov detectors at 1000 m from the shower core, $S(1000)$, using the data from the fluorescence and surface detectors of the Pierre Auger Observatory. The test consists in fitting the measured two-dimensional ($S(1000)$, $X_{max}$) distri… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2401.10740v3-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2401.10740v3-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2401.10740v3-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> We test the predictions of hadronic interaction models regarding the depth of maximum of air-shower profiles, $X_{max}$, and ground-particle signals in water-Cherenkov detectors at 1000 m from the shower core, $S(1000)$, using the data from the fluorescence and surface detectors of the Pierre Auger Observatory. The test consists in fitting the measured two-dimensional ($S(1000)$, $X_{max}$) distributions using templates for simulated air showers produced with hadronic interaction models EPOS-LHC, QGSJet II-04, Sibyll 2.3d and leaving the scales of predicted $X_{max}$ and the signals from hadronic component at ground as free fit parameters. The method relies on the assumption that the mass composition remains the same at all zenith angles, while the longitudinal shower development and attenuation of ground signal depend on the mass composition in a correlated way. The analysis was applied to 2239 events detected by both the fluorescence and surface detectors of the Pierre Auger Observatory with energies between $10^{18.5}$ to $10^{19.0}$ eV and zenith angles below $60^\circ$. We found, that within the assumptions of the method, the best description of the data is achieved if the predictions of the hadronic interaction models are shifted to deeper $X_{max}$ values and larger hadronic signals at all zenith angles. Given the magnitude of the shifts and the data sample size, the statistical significance of the improvement of data description using the modifications considered in the paper is larger than $5蟽$ even for any linear combination of experimental systematic uncertainties. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2401.10740v3-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2401.10740v3-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 3 May, 2024; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">v1</span> submitted 19 January, 2024; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> January 2024. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">Published version</span> </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Journal ref:</span> Phys. Rev. D 109 (2024) 102001 </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.14541">arXiv:2311.14541</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.14541">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/2311.14541">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Physics - Phenomenology">hep-ph</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena">astro-ph.HE</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.109.L081101">10.1103/PhysRevD.109.L081101 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Constraints on metastable superheavy dark matter coupled to sterile neutrinos with the Pierre Auger Observatory </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=The+Pierre+Auger+Collaboration"> The Pierre Auger Collaboration</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Halim%2C+A+A">A. Abdul Halim</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Abreu%2C+P">P. Abreu</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aglietta%2C+M">M. Aglietta</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Allekotte%2C+I">I. Allekotte</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Cheminant%2C+K+A">K. Almeida Cheminant</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Almela%2C+A">A. Almela</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aloisio%2C+R">R. Aloisio</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Alvarez-Mu%C3%B1iz%2C+J">J. Alvarez-Mu帽iz</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Yebra%2C+J+A">J. Ammerman Yebra</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anastasi%2C+G+A">G. A. Anastasi</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anchordoqui%2C+L">L. Anchordoqui</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andrada%2C+B">B. Andrada</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andringa%2C+S">S. Andringa</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Apollonio%2C+L">L. Apollonio</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aramo%2C+C">C. Aramo</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Ferreira%2C+P+R+A">P. R. Ara煤jo Ferreira</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Arnone%2C+E">E. Arnone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Vel%C3%A1zquez%2C+J+C+A">J. C. Arteaga Vel谩zquez</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Assis%2C+P">P. Assis</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avila%2C+G">G. Avila</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avocone%2C+E">E. Avocone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Bakalova%2C+A">A. Bakalova</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Barbato%2C+F">F. Barbato</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Mocellin%2C+A+B">A. Bartz Mocellin</a> , et al. (346 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2311.14541v2-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> 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 energy neutrinos and photons, we constrain a specific extension of the Standard Model of particle physics that meets the lifetime requirement for a superheavy particle by coupling it to a sector of ultra-light sterile ne… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2311.14541v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2311.14541v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2311.14541v2-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> 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 energy neutrinos and photons, we constrain a specific extension of the Standard Model of particle physics that meets the lifetime requirement for a superheavy particle by coupling it to a sector of ultra-light sterile neutrinos. Our results show that, for a typical dark coupling constant of 0.1, the mixing angle $胃_m$ between active and sterile neutrinos must satisfy, roughly, $胃_m \lesssim 1.5\times 10^{-6}(M_X/10^9~\mathrm{GeV})^{-2}$ for a mass $M_X$ of the dark-matter particle between $10^8$ and $10^{11}~$GeV. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2311.14541v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2311.14541v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 14 March, 2024; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">v1</span> submitted 24 November, 2023; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> November 2023. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">Version accepted for publication in PRD Letters, including Supplemental Material</span> </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Journal ref:</span> Phys. Rev. D 109 L081101 (2024) </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.19966">arXiv:2310.19966</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.19966">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/2310.19966">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena">astro-ph.HE</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics">astro-ph.IM</span> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Radio Measurements of the Depth of Air-Shower Maximum at the Pierre Auger Observatory </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=The+Pierre+Auger+Collaboration"> The Pierre Auger Collaboration</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Halim%2C+A+A">A. Abdul Halim</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Abreu%2C+P">P. Abreu</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aglietta%2C+M">M. Aglietta</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Allekotte%2C+I">I. Allekotte</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Cheminant%2C+K+A">K. Almeida Cheminant</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Almela%2C+A">A. Almela</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aloisio%2C+R">R. Aloisio</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Alvarez-Mu%C3%B1iz%2C+J">J. Alvarez-Mu帽iz</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Yebra%2C+J+A">J. Ammerman Yebra</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anastasi%2C+G+A">G. A. Anastasi</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anchordoqui%2C+L">L. Anchordoqui</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andrada%2C+B">B. Andrada</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andringa%2C+S">S. Andringa</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anukriti"> Anukriti</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Apollonio%2C+L">L. Apollonio</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aramo%2C+C">C. Aramo</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Ferreira%2C+P+R+A">P. R. Ara煤jo Ferreira</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Arnone%2C+E">E. Arnone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Vel%C3%A1zquez%2C+J+C+A">J. C. Arteaga Vel谩zquez</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Assis%2C+P">P. Assis</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avila%2C+G">G. Avila</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avocone%2C+E">E. Avocone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Bakalova%2C+A">A. Bakalova</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Barbato%2C+F">F. Barbato</a> , et al. (350 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2310.19966v1-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> 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, spanning an area of $17$ km$^2$ with 153 radio stations. It detects the radio emission of extensive air showers produced by cosmic rays in the $30-80$ MHz band. Here, we report the AERA measurements of the depth of the s… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2310.19966v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2310.19966v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2310.19966v1-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> 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, spanning an area of $17$ km$^2$ with 153 radio stations. It detects the radio emission of extensive air showers produced by cosmic rays in the $30-80$ MHz band. Here, we report the AERA measurements of the depth of the shower maximum ($X_\text{max}$), a probe for mass composition, at cosmic-ray energies between $10^{17.5}$ to $10^{18.8}$ eV, which show agreement with earlier measurements with the fluorescence technique at the Pierre Auger Observatory. We show advancements in the method for radio $X_\text{max}$ reconstruction by comparison to dedicated sets of CORSIKA/CoREAS air-shower simulations, including steps of reconstruction-bias identification and correction, which is of particular importance for irregular or sparse radio arrays. Using the largest set of radio air-shower measurements to date, we show the radio $X_\text{max}$ resolution as a function of energy, reaching a resolution better than $15$ g cm$^{-2}$ at the highest energies, demonstrating that radio $X_\text{max}$ measurements are competitive with the established high-precision fluorescence technique. In addition, we developed a procedure for performing an extensive data-driven study of systematic uncertainties, including the effects of acceptance bias, reconstruction bias, and the investigation of possible residual biases. These results have been cross-checked with air showers measured independently with both the radio and fluorescence techniques, a setup unique to the Pierre Auger Observatory. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2310.19966v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2310.19966v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 30 October, 2023; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> October 2023. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">Submitted to Phys. Rev. D</span> </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.19963">arXiv:2310.19963</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.19963">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/2310.19963">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena">astro-ph.HE</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics">astro-ph.IM</span> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Demonstrating Agreement between Radio and Fluorescence Measurements of the Depth of Maximum of Extensive Air Showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=The+Pierre+Auger+Collaboration"> The Pierre Auger Collaboration</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Halim%2C+A+A">A. Abdul Halim</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Abreu%2C+P">P. Abreu</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aglietta%2C+M">M. Aglietta</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Allekotte%2C+I">I. Allekotte</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Cheminant%2C+K+A">K. Almeida Cheminant</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Almela%2C+A">A. Almela</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aloisio%2C+R">R. Aloisio</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Alvarez-Mu%C3%B1iz%2C+J">J. Alvarez-Mu帽iz</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Yebra%2C+J+A">J. Ammerman Yebra</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anastasi%2C+G+A">G. A. Anastasi</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anchordoqui%2C+L">L. Anchordoqui</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andrada%2C+B">B. Andrada</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andringa%2C+S">S. Andringa</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anukriti"> Anukriti</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Apollonio%2C+L">L. Apollonio</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aramo%2C+C">C. Aramo</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Ferreira%2C+P+R+A">P. R. Ara煤jo Ferreira</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Arnone%2C+E">E. Arnone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Vel%C3%A1zquez%2C+J+C+A">J. C. Arteaga Vel谩zquez</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Assis%2C+P">P. Assis</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avila%2C+G">G. Avila</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avocone%2C+E">E. Avocone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Bakalova%2C+A">A. Bakalova</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Barbato%2C+F">F. Barbato</a> , et al. (350 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2310.19963v1-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> We show, for the first time, radio measurements of the depth of shower maximum ($X_\text{max}$) of air showers induced by cosmic rays that are compared to measurements of the established fluorescence method at the same location. Using measurements at the Pierre Auger Observatory we show full compatibility between our radio and the previously published fluorescence data set, and between a subset of… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2310.19963v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2310.19963v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2310.19963v1-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> We show, for the first time, radio measurements of the depth of shower maximum ($X_\text{max}$) of air showers induced by cosmic rays that are compared to measurements of the established fluorescence method at the same location. Using measurements at the Pierre Auger Observatory we show full compatibility between our radio and the previously published fluorescence data set, and between a subset of air showers observed simultaneously with both radio and fluorescence techniques, a measurement setup unique to the Pierre Auger Observatory. Furthermore, we show radio $X_\text{max}$ resolution as a function of energy and demonstrate the ability to make competitive high-resolution $X_\text{max}$ measurements with even a sparse radio array. With this, we show that the radio technique is capable of cosmic-ray mass composition studies, both at Auger and at other experiments. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2310.19963v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2310.19963v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 30 October, 2023; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> October 2023. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett</span> </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.08616">arXiv:2310.08616</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.08616">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/2310.08616">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics">astro-ph.IM</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics">physics.ao-ph</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Optics">physics.optics</span> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Ground observations of a space laser for the assessment of its in-orbit performance </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=The+Pierre+Auger+Collaboration"> The Pierre Auger Collaboration</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Lux%2C+O">O. Lux</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Krisch%2C+I">I. Krisch</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Reitebuch%2C+O">O. Reitebuch</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Huber%2C+D">D. Huber</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Wernham%2C+D">D. Wernham</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Parrinello%2C+T">T. Parrinello</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=%3A"> :</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Halim%2C+A+A">A. Abdul Halim</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Abreu%2C+P">P. Abreu</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aglietta%2C+M">M. Aglietta</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Allekotte%2C+I">I. Allekotte</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Cheminant%2C+K+A">K. Almeida Cheminant</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Almela%2C+A">A. Almela</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aloisio%2C+R">R. Aloisio</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Alvarez-Mu%C3%B1iz%2C+J">J. Alvarez-Mu帽iz</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Yebra%2C+J+A">J. Ammerman Yebra</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anastasi%2C+G+A">G. A. Anastasi</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anchordoqui%2C+L">L. Anchordoqui</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andrada%2C+B">B. Andrada</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andringa%2C+S">S. Andringa</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anukriti"> Anukriti</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Apollonio%2C+L">L. Apollonio</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aramo%2C+C">C. Aramo</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Ferreira%2C+P+R+A">P. R. Ara煤jo Ferreira</a> , et al. (358 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2310.08616v1-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> The wind mission Aeolus of the European Space Agency was a groundbreaking achievement for Earth observation. Between 2018 and 2023, the space-borne lidar instrument ALADIN onboard the Aeolus satellite measured atmospheric wind profiles with global coverage which contributed to improving the accuracy of numerical weather prediction. The precision of the wind observations, however, declined over the… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2310.08616v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2310.08616v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2310.08616v1-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> The wind mission Aeolus of the European Space Agency was a groundbreaking achievement for Earth observation. Between 2018 and 2023, the space-borne lidar instrument ALADIN onboard the Aeolus satellite measured atmospheric wind profiles with global coverage which contributed to improving the accuracy of numerical weather prediction. The precision of the wind observations, however, declined over the course of the mission due to a progressive loss of the atmospheric backscatter signal. The analysis of the root cause was supported by the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina whose fluorescence detector registered the ultraviolet laser pulses emitted from the instrument in space, thereby offering an estimation of the laser energy at the exit of the instrument for several days in 2019, 2020 and 2021. The reconstruction of the laser beam not only allowed for an independent assessment of the Aeolus performance, but also helped to improve the accuracy in the determination of the laser beam's ground track on single pulse level. The results presented in this paper set a precedent for the monitoring of space lasers by ground-based telescopes and open new possibilities for the calibration of cosmic-ray observatories. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2310.08616v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2310.08616v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 12 October, 2023; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> October 2023. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">10 pages, 10 figures</span> </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.16294">arXiv:2309.16294</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.16294">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/2309.16294">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena">astro-ph.HE</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics">astro-ph.IM</span> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> The Pierre Auger Observatory Open Data </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=The+Pierre+Auger+Collaboration"> The Pierre Auger Collaboration</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Halim%2C+A+A">A. Abdul Halim</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Abreu%2C+P">P. Abreu</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aglietta%2C+M">M. Aglietta</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Allekotte%2C+I">I. Allekotte</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Cheminant%2C+K+A">K. Almeida Cheminant</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Almela%2C+A">A. Almela</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aloisio%2C+R">R. Aloisio</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Alvarez-Mu%C3%B1iz%2C+J">J. Alvarez-Mu帽iz</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Yebra%2C+J+A">J. Ammerman Yebra</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anastasi%2C+G+A">G. A. Anastasi</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anchordoqui%2C+L">L. Anchordoqui</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andrada%2C+B">B. Andrada</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Dourado%2C+L+A">L. Andrade Dourado</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andringa%2C+S">S. Andringa</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Apollonio%2C+L">L. Apollonio</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aramo%2C+C">C. Aramo</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Ferreira%2C+P+R+A">P. R. Ara煤jo Ferreira</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Arnone%2C+E">E. Arnone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Vel%C3%A1zquez%2C+J+C+A">J. C. Arteaga Vel谩zquez</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Assis%2C+P">P. Assis</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avila%2C+G">G. Avila</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avocone%2C+E">E. Avocone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Bakalova%2C+A">A. Bakalova</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Barbato%2C+F">F. Barbato</a> , et al. (336 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2309.16294v3-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> 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. A gradual process of release began as early as 2007 when 1% of the cosmic-ray data was made public, along with 100% of the space-weather information. In February 2021, a portal was released containing 10% of cosmic-ray d… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2309.16294v3-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2309.16294v3-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2309.16294v3-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> 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. A gradual process of release began as early as 2007 when 1% of the cosmic-ray data was made public, along with 100% of the space-weather information. In February 2021, a portal was released containing 10% of cosmic-ray data collected from 2004 to 2018, during Phase I of the Observatory. The Portal included detailed documentation about the detection and reconstruction procedures, analysis codes that can be easily used and modified and, additionally, visualization tools. Since then the Portal has been updated and extended. In 2023, a catalog of the 100 highest-energy cosmic-ray events examined in depth has been included. A specific section dedicated to educational use has been developed with the expectation that these data will be explored by a wide and diverse community including professional and citizen-scientists, and used for educational and outreach initiatives. This paper describes the context, the spirit and the technical implementation of the release of data by the largest cosmic-ray detector ever built, and anticipates its future developments. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2309.16294v3-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2309.16294v3-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 7 November, 2024; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">v1</span> submitted 28 September, 2023; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> September 2023. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">27 pages, 8 figures</span> </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.06235">arXiv:2309.06235</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.06235">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/2309.06235">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena">astro-ph.HE</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics">astro-ph.IM</span> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> AugerPrime Surface Detector Electronics </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=The+Pierre+Auger+Collaboration"> The Pierre Auger Collaboration</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Halim%2C+A+A">A. Abdul Halim</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Abreu%2C+P">P. Abreu</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aglietta%2C+M">M. Aglietta</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Allekotte%2C+I">I. Allekotte</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Cheminant%2C+K+A">K. Almeida Cheminant</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Almela%2C+A">A. Almela</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aloisio%2C+R">R. Aloisio</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Alvarez-Mu%C3%B1iz%2C+J">J. Alvarez-Mu帽iz</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Yebra%2C+J+A">J. Ammerman Yebra</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anastasi%2C+G+A">G. A. Anastasi</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anchordoqui%2C+L">L. Anchordoqui</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andrada%2C+B">B. Andrada</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andringa%2C+S">S. Andringa</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anukriti"> Anukriti</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aramo%2C+C">C. Aramo</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Ferreira%2C+P+R+A">P. R. Ara煤jo Ferreira</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Arnone%2C+E">E. Arnone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Vel%C3%A1zquez%2C+J+C+A">J. C. Arteaga Vel谩zquez</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Assis%2C+P">P. Assis</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avila%2C+G">G. Avila</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avocone%2C+E">E. Avocone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Badescu%2C+A+M">A. M. Badescu</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Bakalova%2C+A">A. Bakalova</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Barbato%2C+F">F. Barbato</a> , et al. (346 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2309.06235v3-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> 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 insights that led to the upgrade of the Observatory, with the primary goal of obtaining information on the primary mass of the most energetic cosmic rays on a shower-by-shower basis. In the framework of the upgrade, called Aug… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2309.06235v3-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2309.06235v3-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2309.06235v3-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> 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 insights that led to the upgrade of the Observatory, with the primary goal of obtaining information on the primary mass of the most energetic cosmic rays on a shower-by-shower basis. In the framework of the upgrade, called AugerPrime, the 1660 water-Cherenkov detectors of the surface array are equipped with plastic scintillators and radio antennas, allowing us to enhance the composition sensitivity. To accommodate new detectors and to increase experimental capabilities, the electronics is also upgraded. This includes better timing with up-to-date GPS receivers, higher sampling frequency, increased dynamic range, and more powerful local processing of the data. In this paper, the design characteristics of the new electronics and the enhanced dynamic range will be described. The manufacturing and test processes will be outlined and the test results will be discussed. The calibration of the SD detector and various performance parameters obtained from the analysis of the first commissioning data will also be presented. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2309.06235v3-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2309.06235v3-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 8 October, 2023; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">v1</span> submitted 12 September, 2023; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> September 2023. </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.10839">arXiv:2307.10839</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.10839">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/2307.10839">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena">astro-ph.HE</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology">gr-qc</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acc862">10.3847/1538-4357/acc862 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Search for UHE Photons from Gravitational Wave Sources with the Pierre Auger Observatory </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=The+Pierre+Auger+Collaboration"> The Pierre Auger Collaboration</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Halim%2C+A+A">A. Abdul Halim</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Abreu%2C+P">P. Abreu</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aglietta%2C+M">M. Aglietta</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Allekotte%2C+I">I. Allekotte</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Cheminant%2C+K+A">K. Almeida Cheminant</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Almela%2C+A">A. Almela</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Alvarez-Mu%C3%B1iz%2C+J">J. Alvarez-Mu帽iz</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Yebra%2C+J+A">J. Ammerman Yebra</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anastasi%2C+G+A">G. A. Anastasi</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anchordoqui%2C+L">L. Anchordoqui</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andrada%2C+B">B. Andrada</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andringa%2C+S">S. Andringa</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aramo%2C+C">C. Aramo</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Ferreira%2C+P+R+A">P. R. Ara煤jo Ferreira</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Arnone%2C+E">E. Arnone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Vel%C3%A1zquez%2C+J+C+A">J. C. Arteaga Vel谩zquez</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Asorey%2C+H">H. Asorey</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Assis%2C+P">P. Assis</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avila%2C+G">G. Avila</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avocone%2C+E">E. Avocone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Badescu%2C+A+M">A. M. Badescu</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Bakalova%2C+A">A. Bakalova</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Balaceanu%2C+A">A. Balaceanu</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Barbato%2C+F">F. Barbato</a> , et al. (346 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2307.10839v1-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> 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 the Pierre Auger Observatory. Due to the distinctive properties of photon interactions and to the background expected from hadronic showers, a subset of the most interesting GW events is selected based on their localizati… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2307.10839v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2307.10839v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2307.10839v1-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> 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 the Pierre Auger Observatory. Due to the distinctive properties of photon interactions and to the background expected from hadronic showers, a subset of the most interesting GW events is selected based on their localization quality and distance. Time periods of 1000 s around and 1 day after the GW events are analyzed. No coincidences are observed. Upper limits on the UHE photon fluence from a GW event are derived that are typically at $\sim$7 MeV cm$^{-2}$ (time period 1000~s) and $\sim$35 MeV cm$^{-2}$ (time period 1 day). Due to the proximity of the binary neutron star merger GW170817, the energy of the source transferred into UHE photons above 40 EeV is constrained to be less than 20% of its total gravitational wave energy. These are the first limits on UHE photons from GW sources. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2307.10839v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2307.10839v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 20 July, 2023; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> July 2023. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">15 pages</span> </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Journal ref:</span> ApJ 952 (2023) 91 </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.16693">arXiv:2305.16693</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.16693">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/2305.16693">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena">astro-ph.HE</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2024/01/022">10.1088/1475-7516/2024/01/022 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> 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 </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=The+Pierre+Auger+Collaboration"> The Pierre Auger Collaboration</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Halim%2C+A+A">A. Abdul Halim</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Abreu%2C+P">P. Abreu</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aglietta%2C+M">M. Aglietta</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Allekotte%2C+I">I. Allekotte</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Cheminant%2C+K+A">K. Almeida Cheminant</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Almela%2C+A">A. Almela</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aloisio%2C+R">R. Aloisio</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Alvarez-Mu%C3%B1iz%2C+J">J. Alvarez-Mu帽iz</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Yebra%2C+J+A">J. Ammerman Yebra</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anastasi%2C+G+A">G. A. Anastasi</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anchordoqui%2C+L">L. Anchordoqui</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andrada%2C+B">B. Andrada</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andringa%2C+S">S. Andringa</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aramo%2C+C">C. Aramo</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Ferreira%2C+P+R+A">P. R. Ara煤jo Ferreira</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Arnone%2C+E">E. Arnone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Vel%C3%A1zquez%2C+J+C+A">J. C. Arteaga Vel谩zquez</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Asorey%2C+H">H. Asorey</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Assis%2C+P">P. Assis</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avila%2C+G">G. Avila</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avocone%2C+E">E. Avocone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Badescu%2C+A+M">A. M. Badescu</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Bakalova%2C+A">A. Bakalova</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Balaceanu%2C+A">A. Balaceanu</a> , et al. (349 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2305.16693v2-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> 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 models with homogeneous source distributions. Studies of the distribution of the cosmic-ray arrival directions show a better agreement with models in which a fraction of the flux is non-isotropic and associated with the nearb… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2305.16693v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2305.16693v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2305.16693v2-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> 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 models with homogeneous source distributions. Studies of the distribution of the cosmic-ray arrival directions show a better agreement with models in which a fraction of the flux is non-isotropic and associated with the nearby radio galaxy Centaurus A or with catalogs such as that of starburst galaxies. Here, we present a novel combination of both analyses by a simultaneous fit of arrival directions, energy spectrum, and composition data measured at the Pierre Auger Observatory. We find that a model containing a flux contribution from the starburst galaxy catalog of around 20% at 40 EeV with a magnetic field blurring of around $20^\circ$ for a rigidity of 10 EV provides a fair simultaneous description of all three observables. The starburst galaxy model is favored with a significance of $4.5蟽$ (considering experimental systematic effects) compared to a reference model with only homogeneously distributed background sources. By investigating a scenario with Centaurus A as a single source in combination with the homogeneous background, we confirm that this region of the sky provides the dominant contribution to the observed anisotropy signal. Models containing a catalog of jetted active galactic nuclei whose flux scales with the $纬$-ray emission are, however, disfavored as they cannot adequately describe the measured arrival directions. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2305.16693v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2305.16693v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 14 January, 2024; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">v1</span> submitted 26 May, 2023; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> May 2023. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Journal ref:</span> JCAP01(2024)022 </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.16020">arXiv:2211.16020</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.16020">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/2211.16020">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena">astro-ph.HE</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics">astro-ph.IM</span> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> A Catalog of the Highest-Energy Cosmic Rays Recorded During Phase I of Operation of the Pierre Auger Observatory </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=The+Pierre+Auger+Collaboration"> The Pierre Auger Collaboration</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Halim%2C+A+A">A. Abdul Halim</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Abreu%2C+P">P. Abreu</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aglietta%2C+M">M. Aglietta</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Allekotte%2C+I">I. Allekotte</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Allison%2C+P">P. Allison</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Cheminant%2C+K+A">K. Almeida Cheminant</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Almela%2C+A">A. Almela</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Alvarez-Mu%C3%B1iz%2C+J">J. Alvarez-Mu帽iz</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Yebra%2C+J+A">J. Ammerman Yebra</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anastasi%2C+G+A">G. A. Anastasi</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anchordoqui%2C+L">L. Anchordoqui</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andrada%2C+B">B. Andrada</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andringa%2C+S">S. Andringa</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aramo%2C+C">C. Aramo</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Ferreira%2C+P+R+A">P. R. Ara煤jo Ferreira</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Arnone%2C+E">E. Arnone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Vel%C3%A1zquez%2C+J+C+A">J. C. Arteaga Vel谩zquez</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Asorey%2C+H">H. Asorey</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Assis%2C+P">P. Assis</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Ave%2C+M">M. Ave</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avila%2C+G">G. Avila</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avocone%2C+E">E. Avocone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Badescu%2C+A+M">A. M. Badescu</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Bakalova%2C+A">A. Bakalova</a> , et al. (354 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2211.16020v1-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> 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 opening the data to detailed examination. Descriptions of the 100 showers created by the highest-energy particles recorded between 1 January 2004 and 31 December 2020 are given for cosmic rays that have energies in the r… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2211.16020v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2211.16020v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2211.16020v1-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> 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 opening the data to detailed examination. Descriptions of the 100 showers created by the highest-energy particles recorded between 1 January 2004 and 31 December 2020 are given for cosmic rays that have energies in the range 78 EeV to 166 EeV. Details are also given of a further nine very-energetic events that have been used in the calibration procedure adopted to determine the energy of each primary. A sky plot of the arrival directions of the most energetic particles is shown. No interpretations of the data are offered. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2211.16020v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2211.16020v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 29 November, 2022; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> November 2022. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">Article accepted for publication in ApJS</span> </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.02857">arXiv:2211.02857</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.02857">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/2211.02857">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena">astro-ph.HE</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2023/05/024">10.1088/1475-7516/2023/05/024 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> 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 </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=The+Pierre+Auger+Collaboration"> The Pierre Auger Collaboration</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Halim%2C+A+A">A. Abdul Halim</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Abreu%2C+P">P. Abreu</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aglietta%2C+M">M. Aglietta</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Allekotte%2C+I">I. Allekotte</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Cheminant%2C+K+A">K. Almeida Cheminant</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Almela%2C+A">A. Almela</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Alvarez-Mu%C3%B1iz%2C+J">J. Alvarez-Mu帽iz</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Yebra%2C+J+A">J. Ammerman Yebra</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anastasi%2C+G+A">G. A. Anastasi</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anchordoqui%2C+L">L. Anchordoqui</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andrada%2C+B">B. Andrada</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andringa%2C+S">S. Andringa</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aramo%2C+C">C. Aramo</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Ferreira%2C+P+R+A">P. R. Ara煤jo Ferreira</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Arnone%2C+E">E. Arnone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Vel%C3%A1zquez%2C+J+C+A">J. C. Arteaga Vel谩zquez</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Asorey%2C+H">H. Asorey</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Assis%2C+P">P. Assis</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avila%2C+G">G. Avila</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avocone%2C+E">E. Avocone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Badescu%2C+A+M">A. M. Badescu</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Bakalova%2C+A">A. Bakalova</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Balaceanu%2C+A">A. Balaceanu</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Barbato%2C+F">F. Barbato</a> , et al. (343 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2211.02857v2-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> In this work we present the interpretation of the energy spectrum and mass composition data as measured by the Pierre Auger Collaboration above $6 \times 10^{17}$ eV. We use an astrophysical model with two extragalactic source populations to model the hardening of the cosmic-ray flux at around $5\times 10^{18}$ eV (the so-called "ankle" feature) as a transition between these two components. We fin… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2211.02857v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2211.02857v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2211.02857v2-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> In this work we present the interpretation of the energy spectrum and mass composition data as measured by the Pierre Auger Collaboration above $6 \times 10^{17}$ eV. We use an astrophysical model with two extragalactic source populations to model the hardening of the cosmic-ray flux at around $5\times 10^{18}$ eV (the so-called "ankle" feature) as a transition between these two components. We find our data to be well reproduced if sources above the ankle emit a mixed composition with a hard spectrum and a low rigidity cutoff. The component below the ankle is required to have a very soft spectrum and a mix of protons and intermediate-mass nuclei. The origin of this intermediate-mass component is not well constrained and it could originate from either Galactic or extragalactic sources. To the aim of evaluating our capability to constrain astrophysical models, we discuss the impact on the fit results of the main experimental systematic uncertainties and of the assumptions about quantities affecting the air shower development as well as the propagation and redshift distribution of injected ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2211.02857v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2211.02857v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 17 April, 2023; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">v1</span> submitted 5 November, 2022; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> November 2022. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">Submitted to JCAP</span> </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Journal ref:</span> JCAP05(2023)024 </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.12959">arXiv:2210.12959</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.12959">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/2210.12959">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena">astro-ph.HE</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.3390/universe8110579">10.3390/universe8110579 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Searches for Ultra-High-Energy Photons at the Pierre Auger Observatory </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=The+Pierre+Auger+Collaboration"> The Pierre Auger Collaboration</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Abreu%2C+P">P. Abreu</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aglietta%2C+M">M. Aglietta</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Allekotte%2C+I">I. Allekotte</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Cheminant%2C+K+A">K. Almeida Cheminant</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Almela%2C+A">A. Almela</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Alvarez-Mu%C3%B1iz%2C+J">J. Alvarez-Mu帽iz</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Yebra%2C+J+A">J. Ammerman Yebra</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anastasi%2C+G+A">G. A. Anastasi</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anchordoqui%2C+L">L. Anchordoqui</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andrada%2C+B">B. Andrada</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andringa%2C+S">S. Andringa</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aramo%2C+C">C. Aramo</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Ferreira%2C+P+R+A">P. R. Ara煤jo Ferreira</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Arnone%2C+E">E. Arnone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Vel%C3%A1zquez%2C+J+C+A">J. C. Arteaga Vel谩zquez</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Asorey%2C+H">H. Asorey</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Assis%2C+P">P. Assis</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avila%2C+G">G. Avila</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avocone%2C+E">E. Avocone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Badescu%2C+A+M">A. M. Badescu</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Bakalova%2C+A">A. Bakalova</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Balaceanu%2C+A">A. Balaceanu</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Barbato%2C+F">F. Barbato</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Bellido%2C+J+A">J. A. Bellido</a> , et al. (340 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2210.12959v1-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> 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 of data taking more than 18 years ago, various searches for ultra-high-energy (UHE, $E\gtrsim10^{17}\,\text{eV}$) photons have been performed: either for a diffuse flux of UHE photons, for point sources of UHE photons or… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2210.12959v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2210.12959v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2210.12959v1-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> 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 of data taking more than 18 years ago, various searches for ultra-high-energy (UHE, $E\gtrsim10^{17}\,\text{eV}$) photons have been performed: either for a diffuse flux of UHE photons, for point sources of UHE photons or for UHE photons associated with transient events like gravitational wave events. In the present paper, we summarize these searches and review the current results obtained using the wealth of data collected by the Pierre Auger Observatory. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2210.12959v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2210.12959v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 24 October, 2022; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> October 2022. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">Review article accepted for publication in Universe (special issue on ultra-high energy photons)</span> </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Report number:</span> FERMILAB-PUB-22-810-AD-PPD-SCD-TD </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Journal ref:</span> Universe 8 (2022) 579 </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.05926">arXiv:2209.05926</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.05926">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/2209.05926">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena">astro-ph.HE</span> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Search for photons above 10$^{19}$ eV with the surface detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=The+Pierre+Auger+Collaboration"> The Pierre Auger Collaboration</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Abreu%2C+P">P. Abreu</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aglietta%2C+M">M. Aglietta</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Allekotte%2C+I">I. Allekotte</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Cheminant%2C+K+A">K. Almeida Cheminant</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Almela%2C+A">A. Almela</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Alvarez-Mu%C3%B1iz%2C+J">J. Alvarez-Mu帽iz</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Yebra%2C+J+A">J. Ammerman Yebra</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anastasi%2C+G+A">G. A. Anastasi</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anchordoqui%2C+L">L. Anchordoqui</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andrada%2C+B">B. Andrada</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andringa%2C+S">S. Andringa</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aramo%2C+C">C. Aramo</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Ferreira%2C+P+R+A">P. R. Ara煤jo Ferreira</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Arnone%2C+E">E. Arnone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Vel%C3%A1zquez%2C+J+C+A">J. C. Arteaga Vel谩zquez</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Asorey%2C+H">H. Asorey</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Assis%2C+P">P. Assis</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avila%2C+G">G. Avila</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avocone%2C+E">E. Avocone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Badescu%2C+A+M">A. M. Badescu</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Bakalova%2C+A">A. Bakalova</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Balaceanu%2C+A">A. Balaceanu</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Barbato%2C+F">F. Barbato</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Bellido%2C+J+A">J. A. Bellido</a> , et al. (343 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2209.05926v3-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> We use the surface detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory to search for air showers initiated by photons with an energy above $10^{19}$ eV. Photons in the zenith angle range from 30$^\circ$ to 60$^\circ$ can be identified in the overwhelming background of showers initiated by charged cosmic rays through the broader time structure of the signals induced in the water-Cherenkov detectors of the arr… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2209.05926v3-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2209.05926v3-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2209.05926v3-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> We use the surface detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory to search for air showers initiated by photons with an energy above $10^{19}$ eV. Photons in the zenith angle range from 30$^\circ$ to 60$^\circ$ can be identified in the overwhelming background of showers initiated by charged cosmic rays through the broader time structure of the signals induced in the water-Cherenkov detectors of the array and the steeper lateral distribution of shower particles reaching ground. Applying the search method to data collected between January 2004 and June 2020, upper limits at 95\% CL are set to an $E^{-2}$ diffuse flux of ultra-high energy photons above $10^{19}$ eV, $2{\times}10^{19}$ eV and $4{\times}10^{19}$ eV amounting to $2.11{\times}10^{-3}$, $3.12{\times}10^{-4}$ and $1.72{\times}10^{-4}$ km$^{-2}$ sr$^{-1}$ yr$^{-1}$, respectively. While the sensitivity of the present search around $2 \times 10^{19}$ eV approaches expectations of cosmogenic photon fluxes in the case of a pure-proton composition, it is one order of magnitude above those from more realistic mixed-composition models. The inferred limits have also implications for the search of super-heavy dark matter that are discussed and illustrated. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2209.05926v3-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2209.05926v3-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 4 April, 2023; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">v1</span> submitted 13 September, 2022; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> September 2022. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">21 pages, 8 figures</span> </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.02353">arXiv:2208.02353</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.02353">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/2208.02353">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena">astro-ph.HE</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics">astro-ph.CO</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Physics - Phenomenology">hep-ph</span> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Cosmological implications of photon-flux upper limits at ultra-high energies in scenarios of Planckian-interacting massive particles for dark matter </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=The+Pierre+Auger+Collaboration"> The Pierre Auger Collaboration</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Abreu%2C+P">P. Abreu</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aglietta%2C+M">M. Aglietta</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Albury%2C+J+M">J. M. Albury</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Allekotte%2C+I">I. Allekotte</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Cheminant%2C+K+A">K. Almeida Cheminant</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Almela%2C+A">A. Almela</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Alvarez-Mu%C3%B1iz%2C+J">J. Alvarez-Mu帽iz</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Batista%2C+R+A">R. Alves Batista</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Yebra%2C+J+A">J. Ammerman Yebra</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anastasi%2C+G+A">G. A. Anastasi</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anchordoqui%2C+L">L. Anchordoqui</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andrada%2C+B">B. Andrada</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andringa%2C+S">S. Andringa</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aramo%2C+C">C. Aramo</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Ferreira%2C+P+R+A">P. R. Ara煤jo Ferreira</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Arnone%2C+E">E. Arnone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Vel%C3%A1zquez%2C+J+C+A">J. C. Arteaga Vel谩zquez</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Asorey%2C+H">H. Asorey</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Assis%2C+P">P. Assis</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avila%2C+G">G. Avila</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avocone%2C+E">E. Avocone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Badescu%2C+A+M">A. M. Badescu</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Bakalova%2C+A">A. Bakalova</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Balaceanu%2C+A">A. Balaceanu</a> , et al. (352 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2208.02353v2-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> 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 of signal, we present upper limits for different energy thresholds above ${\gtrsim}10^8$\,GeV on the secondary by-product fluxes expected from the decay of the particles. Assuming that the energy density of these super-h… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2208.02353v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2208.02353v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2208.02353v2-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> 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 of signal, we present upper limits for different energy thresholds above ${\gtrsim}10^8$\,GeV on the secondary by-product fluxes expected from the decay of the particles. Assuming that the energy density of these super-heavy particles matches that of dark matter observed today, we translate the upper bounds on the particle fluxes into tight constraints on the couplings governing the decay process as a function of the particle mass. Instantons, which are non-perturbative solutions to Yang-Mills equations, can give rise to decay channels otherwise forbidden and transform stable particles into meta-stable ones. Assuming such instanton-induced decay processes, we derive a bound on the reduced coupling constant of gauge interactions in the dark sector: $伪_X \lesssim 0.09$, for $10^{9} \lesssim M_X/\text{GeV} < 10^{19}$. Conversely, we obtain that, for instance, a reduced coupling constant $伪_X = 0.09$ excludes masses $M_X \gtrsim 3\times 10^{13}~$GeV. In the context of dark matter production from gravitational interactions alone during the reheating epoch, we derive constraints on the parameter space that involves, in addition to $M_X$ and $伪_X$, the Hubble rate at the end of inflation, the reheating efficiency, and the non-minimal coupling of the Higgs with curvature. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2208.02353v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2208.02353v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 15 December, 2022; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">v1</span> submitted 3 August, 2022; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> August 2022. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">15 pages, 8 figures, Accompanying paper of arXiv:2203.08854, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D</span> </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Journal ref:</span> Phys.Rev.D 107 (2023) 4, 042002 </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.13492">arXiv:2206.13492</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.13492">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/2206.13492">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena">astro-ph.HE</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics">astro-ph.CO</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac7d4e">10.3847/1538-4357/ac7d4e <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Arrival Directions of Cosmic Rays above 32 EeV from Phase One of the Pierre Auger Observatory </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=The+Pierre+Auger+Collaboration"> The Pierre Auger Collaboration</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Abreu%2C+P">P. Abreu</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aglietta%2C+M">M. Aglietta</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Albury%2C+J+M">J. M. Albury</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Allekotte%2C+I">I. Allekotte</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Cheminant%2C+K+A">K. Almeida Cheminant</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Almela%2C+A">A. Almela</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Alvarez-Mu%C3%B1iz%2C+J">J. Alvarez-Mu帽iz</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Batista%2C+R+A">R. Alves Batista</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Yebra%2C+J+A">J. Ammerman Yebra</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anastasi%2C+G+A">G. A. Anastasi</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anchordoqui%2C+L">L. Anchordoqui</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andrada%2C+B">B. Andrada</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andringa%2C+S">S. Andringa</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aramo%2C+C">C. Aramo</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Ferreira%2C+P+R+A">P. R. Ara煤jo Ferreira</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Arnone%2C+E">E. Arnone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Vel%C3%A1zquez%2C+J+C+A">J. C. Arteaga Vel谩zquez</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Asorey%2C+H">H. Asorey</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Assis%2C+P">P. Assis</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avila%2C+G">G. Avila</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avocone%2C+E">E. Avocone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Badescu%2C+A+M">A. M. Badescu</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Bakalova%2C+A">A. Bakalova</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Balaceanu%2C+A">A. Balaceanu</a> , et al. (350 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2206.13492v2-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> A promising energy range to look for angular correlation between cosmic rays of extragalactic origin and their sources is at the highest energies, above few tens of EeV ($1\:{\rm EeV}\equiv 10^{18}\:$eV). Despite the flux of these particles being extremely low, the area of ${\sim}\:3{,}000 \: \text{km}^2$ covered at the Pierre Auger Observatory, and the 17-year data-taking period of the Phase 1 of… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2206.13492v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2206.13492v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2206.13492v2-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> A promising energy range to look for angular correlation between cosmic rays of extragalactic origin and their sources is at the highest energies, above few tens of EeV ($1\:{\rm EeV}\equiv 10^{18}\:$eV). Despite the flux of these particles being extremely low, the area of ${\sim}\:3{,}000 \: \text{km}^2$ covered at the Pierre Auger Observatory, and the 17-year data-taking period of the Phase 1 of its operations, have enabled us to measure the arrival directions of more than 2,600 ultra-high energy cosmic rays above $32\:\text{EeV}$. We publish this data set, the largest available at such energies from an integrated exposure of $122{,}000 \: \text{km}^2\:\text{sr}\:\text{yr}$, and search it for anisotropies over the $3.4蟺$ steradians covered with the Observatory. Evidence for a deviation in excess of isotropy at intermediate angular scale, with ${\sim}\:15^\circ$ Gaussian spread or ${\sim}\:25^\circ$ top-hat radius, is obtained at the $4\:蟽$ significance level for cosmic-ray energies above ${\sim}\:40\:\text{EeV}$. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2206.13492v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2206.13492v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 5 September, 2022; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">v1</span> submitted 27 June, 2022; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> June 2022. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">Published version, 33 pages, 10 figures. Dataset and analysis software available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6504276</span> </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Report number:</span> FERMILAB-PUB-22-491-AD-PPD-SCD-TD </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Journal ref:</span> ApJ 935 170 (2022) </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.10938">arXiv:2206.10938</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.10938">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/2206.10938">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena">astro-ph.HE</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Physics - Phenomenology">hep-ph</span> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Investigating Hadronic Interactions at Ultra-High Energies with the Pierre Auger Observatory </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Goos%2C+I">Isabel Goos</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=%3A"> :</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Abreu%2C+P">P. Abreu</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aglietta%2C+M">M. Aglietta</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Albury%2C+J+M">J. M. Albury</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Allekotte%2C+I">I. Allekotte</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Cheminant%2C+K+A">K. Almeida Cheminant</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Almela%2C+A">A. Almela</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Alvarez-Mu%C3%B1iz%2C+J">J. Alvarez-Mu帽iz</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Batista%2C+R+A">R. Alves Batista</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Yebra%2C+J+A">J. Ammerman Yebra</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anastasi%2C+G+A">G. A. Anastasi</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anchordoqui%2C+L">L. Anchordoqui</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andrada%2C+B">B. Andrada</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andringa%2C+S">S. Andringa</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aramo%2C+C">C. Aramo</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Ferreira%2C+P+R+A">P. R. Ara煤jo Ferreira</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Arnone%2C+E">E. Arnone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Vel%C3%A1zquez%2C+J+C+A">J. C. Arteaga Vel谩zquez</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Asorey%2C+H">H. Asorey</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Assis%2C+P">P. Assis</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avila%2C+G">G. Avila</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avocone%2C+E">E. Avocone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Badescu%2C+A+M">A. M. Badescu</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Bakalova%2C+A">A. Bakalova</a> , et al. (352 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2206.10938v1-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> 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 energies above those achievable in human-made accelerators, hadronic interactions are only accessible through the studies of extensive air showers, which can be measured at the Pierre Auger Observatory. With its hybrid de… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2206.10938v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2206.10938v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2206.10938v1-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> 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 energies above those achievable in human-made accelerators, hadronic interactions are only accessible through the studies of extensive air showers, which can be measured at the Pierre Auger Observatory. With its hybrid detector design, the Pierre Auger Observatory measures both the longitudinal development of showers in the atmosphere and the lateral distribution of particles that arrive at the ground. This way, observables that are sensitive to hadronic interactions at ultra-high energies can be obtained. While the hadronic interaction cross-section can be assessed from the longitudinal profiles, the number of muons and their fluctuations measured with the ground detectors are linked to other physical properties. In addition to these direct studies, we discuss here how measurements of the atmospheric depth of the maximum of air-shower profiles and the characteristics of the muon signal at the ground can be used to test the self-consistency of the post-LHC hadronic models. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2206.10938v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2206.10938v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 22 June, 2022; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> June 2022. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">Proceedings of VHEPU 56th Rencontres de Moriond 2022</span> </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.14864">arXiv:2205.14864</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.14864">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/2205.14864">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena">astro-ph.HE</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac7393">10.3847/1538-4357/ac7393 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> A search for photons with energies above $2{\times}10^{17}$ eV using hybrid data from the low-energy extensions of the Pierre Auger Observatory </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=The+Pierre+Auger+Collaboration"> The Pierre Auger Collaboration</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Abreu%2C+P">P. Abreu</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aglietta%2C+M">M. Aglietta</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Albury%2C+J+M">J. M. Albury</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Allekotte%2C+I">I. Allekotte</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Cheminant%2C+K+A">K. Almeida Cheminant</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Almela%2C+A">A. Almela</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Alvarez-Mu%C3%B1iz%2C+J">J. Alvarez-Mu帽iz</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Batista%2C+R+A">R. Alves Batista</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Yebra%2C+J+A">J. Ammerman Yebra</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anastasi%2C+G+A">G. A. Anastasi</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anchordoqui%2C+L">L. Anchordoqui</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andrada%2C+B">B. Andrada</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andringa%2C+S">S. Andringa</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aramo%2C+C">C. Aramo</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Ferreira%2C+P+R+A">P. R. Ara煤jo Ferreira</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Arnone%2C+E">E. Arnone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Vel%C3%A1zquez%2C+J+C+A">J. C. Arteaga Vel谩zquez</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Asorey%2C+H">H. Asorey</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Assis%2C+P">P. Assis</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avila%2C+G">G. Avila</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avocone%2C+E">E. Avocone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Badescu%2C+A+M">A. M. Badescu</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Bakalova%2C+A">A. Bakalova</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Balaceanu%2C+A">A. Balaceanu</a> , et al. (351 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2205.14864v1-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> Ultra-high-energy photons with energies exceeding $10^{17}$ eV offer a wealth of connections to different aspects of cosmic-ray astrophysics as well as to gamma-ray and neutrino astronomy. The recent observations of photons with energies in the $10^{15}$ eV range further motivate searches for even higher-energy photons. In this paper, we present a search for photons with energies exceeding… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2205.14864v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2205.14864v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2205.14864v1-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> Ultra-high-energy photons with energies exceeding $10^{17}$ eV offer a wealth of connections to different aspects of cosmic-ray astrophysics as well as to gamma-ray and neutrino astronomy. The recent observations of photons with energies in the $10^{15}$ eV range further motivate searches for even higher-energy photons. In this paper, we present a search for photons with energies exceeding $2{\times}10^{17}$ eV using about 5.5 years of hybrid data from the low-energy extensions of the Pierre Auger Observatory. The upper limits on the integral photon flux derived here are the most stringent ones to date in the energy region between $10^{17}$ and $10^{18}$ eV. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2205.14864v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2205.14864v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 30 May, 2022; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> May 2022. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">Accepted for publication in ApJ</span> </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Report number:</span> FERMILAB-PUB-22-441-AD-PPD-SCD-TD </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Journal ref:</span> ApJ 933 (2022) 125 </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.08854">arXiv:2203.08854</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.08854">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/2203.08854">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena">astro-ph.HE</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics">astro-ph.CO</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Physics - Phenomenology">hep-ph</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.061001">10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.061001 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> 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 </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=The+Pierre+Auger+Collaboration"> The Pierre Auger Collaboration</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Abreu%2C+P">P. Abreu</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aglietta%2C+M">M. Aglietta</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Albury%2C+J+M">J. M. Albury</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Allekotte%2C+I">I. Allekotte</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Cheminant%2C+K+A">K. Almeida Cheminant</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Almela%2C+A">A. Almela</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Alvarez-Mu%C3%B1iz%2C+J">J. Alvarez-Mu帽iz</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Batista%2C+R+A">R. Alves Batista</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Yebra%2C+J+A">J. Ammerman Yebra</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anastasi%2C+G+A">G. A. Anastasi</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Anchordoqui%2C+L">L. Anchordoqui</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andrada%2C+B">B. Andrada</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Andringa%2C+S">S. Andringa</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Aramo%2C+C">C. Aramo</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Ferreira%2C+P+R+A">P. R. Ara煤jo Ferreira</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Arnone%2C+E">E. Arnone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Vel%C3%A1zquez%2C+J+C+A">J. C. Arteaga Vel谩zquez</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Asorey%2C+H">H. Asorey</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Assis%2C+P">P. Assis</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avila%2C+G">G. Avila</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Avocone%2C+E">E. Avocone</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Badescu%2C+A+M">A. M. Badescu</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Bakalova%2C+A">A. Bakalova</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Balaceanu%2C+A">A. Balaceanu</a> , et al. (352 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2203.08854v3-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> 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 rise to decays of particles otherwise forbidden. Using data collected at the Pierre Auger Observatory, we search for signatures of such instanton-induced processes that would be suggestive of super-heavy particles decayi… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2203.08854v3-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2203.08854v3-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2203.08854v3-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> 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 rise to decays of particles otherwise forbidden. Using data collected at the Pierre Auger Observatory, we search for signatures of such instanton-induced processes that would be suggestive of super-heavy particles decaying in the Galactic halo. These particles could have been produced during the post-inflationary epoch and match the relic abundance of dark matter inferred today. The non-observation of the signatures searched for allows us to derive a bound on the reduced coupling constant of gauge interactions in the dark sector: $伪_X \lesssim 0.09$, for $10^{9} \lesssim M_X/{\rm GeV} < 10^{19}$. Conversely, we obtain that, for instance, a reduced coupling constant $伪_X = 0.09$ excludes masses $M_X \gtrsim 3\times 10^{13}~$GeV. In the context of dark matter production from gravitational interactions alone, we illustrate how these bounds are complementary to those obtained on the Hubble rate at the end of inflation from the non-observation of tensor modes in the cosmological microwave background. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2203.08854v3-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2203.08854v3-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 15 December, 2022; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">v1</span> submitted 16 March, 2022; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> March 2022. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">9 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett</span> </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Journal ref:</span> Phys.Rev.Lett. 130 (2023) 6, 061001 </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.02892">arXiv:2010.02892</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.02892">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/2010.02892">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics">astro-ph.IM</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena">astro-ph.HE</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Physics - Experiment">hep-ex</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Detectors">physics.ins-det</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/16/08/P08035">10.1088/1748-0221/16/08/P08035 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> The Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations (PUEO): A White Paper </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Abarr%2C+Q">Q. Abarr</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Allison%2C+P">P. Allison</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Yebra%2C+J+A">J. Ammerman Yebra</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Alvarez-Mu%C3%B1iz%2C+J">J. Alvarez-Mu帽iz</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Beatty%2C+J+J">J. J. Beatty</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Besson%2C+D+Z">D. Z. Besson</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Chen%2C+P">P. Chen</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Chen%2C+Y">Y. Chen</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Clem%2C+J+M">J. M. Clem</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Connolly%2C+A">A. Connolly</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Cremonesi%2C+L">L. Cremonesi</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Deaconu%2C+C">C. Deaconu</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Flaherty%2C+J">J. Flaherty</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Frikken%2C+D">D. Frikken</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Gorham%2C+P+W">P. W. Gorham</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Hast%2C+C">C. Hast</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Hornhuber%2C+C">C. Hornhuber</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Huang%2C+J+J">J. J. Huang</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Hughes%2C+K">K. Hughes</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Hynous%2C+A">A. Hynous</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Ku%2C+Y">Y. Ku</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Kuo%2C+C+-">C. -Y. Kuo</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Liu%2C+T+C">T. C. Liu</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Martin%2C+Z">Z. Martin</a>, <a href="/search/astro-ph?searchtype=author&query=Miki%2C+C">C. Miki</a> , et al. (25 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2010.02892v3-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> The Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations (PUEO) long-duration balloon experiment is designed to have world-leading sensitivity to ultrahigh-energy neutrinos at energies above 1 EeV. Probing this energy region is essential for understanding the extreme-energy universe at all distance scales. PUEO leverages experience from and supersedes the successful Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANI… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2010.02892v3-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2010.02892v3-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2010.02892v3-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> The Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations (PUEO) long-duration balloon experiment is designed to have world-leading sensitivity to ultrahigh-energy neutrinos at energies above 1 EeV. Probing this energy region is essential for understanding the extreme-energy universe at all distance scales. PUEO leverages experience from and supersedes the successful Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) program, with an improved design that drastically improves sensitivity by more than an order of magnitude at energies below 30 EeV. PUEO will either make the first significant detection of or set the best limits on ultrahigh-energy neutrino fluxes. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2010.02892v3-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2010.02892v3-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 20 September, 2021; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">v1</span> submitted 6 October, 2020; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> October 2020. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">40 pages, 17 figures. 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