Muons in air showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory: Mean number in highly inclined events

A Aab, P Abreu, M Aglietta, EJ Ahn, I Al Samarai… - Physical Review D, 2015 - APS
We present the first hybrid measurement of the average muon number in air showers at
ultrahigh energies, initiated by cosmic rays with zenith angles between 62° and 80°. The …

Searches for anisotropies in the arrival directions of the highest energy cosmic rays detected by the Pierre Auger Observatory

A Aab, P Abreu, M Aglietta, EJ Ahn… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
SEARCHES FOR ANISOTROPIES IN THE ARRIVAL DIRECTIONS OF THE HIGHEST
ENERGY COSMIC RAYS DETECTED BY THE PIERRE AUGER OBSERVATORY …

Improved limit to the diffuse flux of ultrahigh energy neutrinos from the Pierre Auger Observatory

A Aab, P Abreu, M Aglietta, EJ Ahn, I Al Samarai… - Physical Review D, 2015 - APS
Neutrinos in the cosmic ray flux with energies near 1 EeV and above are detectable with the
Surface Detector array (SD) of the Pierre Auger Observatory. We report here on searches …

Origin of the ankle in the ultrahigh energy cosmic ray spectrum, and of the extragalactic protons below it

M Unger, GR Farrar, LA Anchordoqui - Physical Review D, 2015 - APS
The sharp change in slope of the ultrahigh energy cosmic ray (UHECR) spectrum around 1
0 18.6 eV (the ankle), combined with evidence of a light but extragalactic component near …

A new version of the event generator Sibyll

F Riehn, R Engel, A Fedynitch, TK Gaisser… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2015 - arxiv.org
The event generator Sibyll can be used for the simulation of hadronic multiparticle
production up to the highest cosmic ray energies. It is optimized for providing an economic …

A complete model of the cosmic ray spectrum and composition across the Galactic to extragalactic transition

N Globus, D Allard, E Parizot - Physical Review D, 2015 - APS
We present a complete phenomenological model accounting for the evolution of the cosmic
ray spectrum and composition with energy, based on the available data over the entire …

Effects of uncertainties in simulations of extragalactic UHECR propagation, using CRPropa and SimProp

RA Batista, D Boncioli, A di Matteo… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The results of simulations of extragalactic propagation of ultra-high energy cosmic rays
(UHECRs) have intrinsic uncertainties due to poorly known physical quantities and …

“Espresso” acceleration of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays

D Caprioli - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We propose that ultra-high-energy (UHE) cosmic rays (CRs) above 10 18 eV are produced
in relativistic jets of powerful active galactic nuclei via an original mechanism, which we dub" …

Indications of negative evolution for the sources of the highest energy cosmic rays

AM Taylor, M Ahlers, D Hooper - Physical Review D, 2015 - APS
Using recent measurements of the spectrum and chemical composition of the highest
energy cosmic rays, we consider the sources of these particles. We find that these data …

Measurement of the proton-air cross section with Telescope Array's Middle Drum detector and surface array in hybrid mode

RU Abbasi, M Abe, T Abu-Zayyad, M Allen, R Azuma… - Physical Review D, 2015 - APS
In this work we are reporting on the measurement of the proton-air inelastic cross section σ p-
air inel using the Telescope Array detector. Based on the measurement of the σ p-air inel …