Report of the working group on the composition of ultra high energy cosmic rays

R Abbasi, J Bellido, J Belz, V de Souza… - … Symposium for Ultra …, 2016 - journals.jps.jp
For the first time a proper comparison of the average depth of shower maximum (X max)
published by the Pierre Auger and Telescope Array Observatories is presented. The X max …

Measurement of the forward η meson production rate in pp collisions at = 13 TeV with the LHCf-Arm2 detector

O Adriani, E Berti, P Betti, L Bonechi, M Bongi… - Journal of High Energy …, 2023 - Springer
A bstract The forward η mesons production has been observed by the Large Hadron
Collider forward (LHCf) experiment in proton-proton collision at\(\sqrt {s}\)= 13 TeV. This …

Implications of gamma-ray observations on proton models of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays

AD Supanitsky - Physical Review D, 2016 - APS
The origin of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays (UHECR) is still unknown. However, great
progress has been achieved in past years due to the good quality and large statistics in …

Selected topics in cosmic ray physics

R Aloisio, P Blasi, I De Mitri, S Petrera - Multiple Messengers and …, 2018 - Springer
The search for the origin of cosmic rays is as active as ever, mainly driven by new insights
provided by recent pieces of observation. Much effort is being channelled in putting the so …

Baryon loading efficiency and particle acceleration efficiency of relativistic jets: cases for low luminosity BL Lacs

Y Inoue, YT Tanaka - The Astrophysical Journal, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Relativistic jets launched by supermassive black holes, so-called active galactic nuclei
(AGNs), are known as the most energetic particle accelerators in the universe. However, the …

Estimation of the air shower depth of the maximum development by the relative fraction of muons and the composition of cosmic rays in the energy region by …

SP Knurenko, IS Petrov - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
The paper presents joint analysis of the characteristics of the electron-photon and
Cherenkov components, and muons with a threshold ϵ thr≥ 1 GeV and zenith angles less …

Detection of ultra-high energy cosmic ray showers with a single-pixel fluorescence telescope

T Fujii, M Malacari, M Bertaina, M Casolino… - Astroparticle …, 2016 - Elsevier
We present a concept for large-area, low-cost detection of ultra-high energy cosmic rays
(UHECRs) with a Fluorescence detector Array of Single-pixel Telescopes (FAST) …

Monte Carlo Bayesian search for the plausible source of the Telescope Array hotspot

HN He, A Kusenko, S Nagataki, BB Zhang, RZ Yang… - Physical Review D, 2016 - APS
The Telescope Array (TA) collaboration has reported a hotspot of 19 ultrahigh-energy
cosmic rays (UHECRs). Using a universal model with one source and energy-dependent …

Past, present, and future of UHECR observations

BR Dawson, M Fukushima… - Progress of Theoretical …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Great advances have been made in the study of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) in
the past 2 decades. These include the discovery of the spectral cut-off near eV and complex …

Testing the agreement between the distributions measured by the Pierre Auger and Telescope Array Observatories

V de Souza, Pierre Auger Collaboration - 35th International Cosmic …, 2018 - pos.sissa.it
The Auger-TA composition working group reports on a comparison of $ X_\mathrm {max} $
distributions measured by the Pierre Auger and Telescope Array Observatories. The shapes …