P
P. Bernardini
Researcher at University of Salento
Publications - 198
Citations - 8735
P. Bernardini is an academic researcher from University of Salento. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cosmic ray & Neutrino. The author has an hindex of 44, co-authored 169 publications receiving 7552 citations. Previous affiliations of P. Bernardini include Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare.
Papers
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Correlation of the highest-energy cosmic rays with nearby extragalactic objects.
J. Abraham,P. Abreu,Marco Aglietta,C. Aguirre,D. Allard,I. Allekotte,J. Allen,Patrick Allison,C. Alvarez,Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz,M. Ambrosio,Luis A. Anchordoqui,Luis A. Anchordoqui,Sofia Andringa,A. Anzalone,Carla Aramo,Stefano Argiro,K. Arisaka,E. Armengaud,F. Arneodo,F. Arqueros,T. Asch,Hernán Gonzalo Asorey,Pedro Assis,B. S. Atulugama,Julien Aublin,M. Ave,G. Avila,T. Bäcker,Daniel Omar Badagnani,A. F. Barbosa,D. Barnhill,S. L.C. Barroso,Pablo M. Bauleo,J. J. Beatty,Tristan Beau,B. R. Becker,K.-H. Becker,Jose A. Bellido,Segev BenZvi,Corinne Berat,T. Bergmann,P. Bernardini,Xavier Bertou,Peter L. Biermann,Pierre Billoir,O. Blanch-Bigas,Francisco J. Blanco,P. Blasi,C. Bleve,H. Blümer,Martina Bohacova,Carla Bonifazi,R. Bonino,M. Boratav,Jeffrey Brack,Pedro Brogueira,W. C. Brown,Peter Buchholz,Antonio Bueno,N. Busca,Karen S. Caballero-Mora,Bei Cai,D. V. Camin,Rossella Caruso,Wagner Carvalho,Antonella Castellina,Onofrio A. Catalano,G. Cataldi,L. Cazon-Boado,R. Cester,J. Chauvin,A. Chiavassa,Jose Chinellato,A. Chou,A. Chou,J. Chye,P. Clark,Roger W Clay,E. Colombo,Rúben Conceição,B.M. Connolly,Fernando Contreras,J. Coppens,A. Cordier,U. Cotti,S. Coutu,Corbin Covault,A. Creusot,J. W. Cronin,S. Dagoret-Campagne,Kai Daumiller,Bruce R. Dawson,R. M. de Almeida,C. De Donato,S. J. De Jong,G. De La Vega,W. J. M. de Mello Junior,J. R. T. de Mello Neto,I. De Mitri,V. de Souza,L. del Peral,Olivier Deligny,A. Della Selva,C. Delle Fratte,H. Dembinski,C. Di Giulio,J. C. Diaz,Carola Dobrigkeit,Juan Carlos D'Olivo,D. Dornic,A. Dorofeev,J. C. dos Anjos,M. T. Dova,D. D'Urso,Michael DuVernois,Ralph Engel,Luis N. Epele,Martin Erdmann,Carlos Escobar,A. Etchegoyen,P. Facal San Luis,Heino Falcke,G. Farrar,A. C. Fauth,N. Fazzini,A. Fernandez,Francesc Ferrer,S. Ferry,Brian Fick,Alberto Filevich,A. Filipčič,Ivor Fleck,R. Fonte,C. E. Fracchiolla,W. Fulgione,B. García,D. García Gámez,D. Garcia-Pinto,X. Garrido,Heiko Geenen,Graciela B. Gelmini,H. Gemmeke,P. L. Ghia,M. Giller,Henry Glass,M. S. Gold,G. Golup,F. Gomez Albarracin,M. Gómez Berisso,R. Gómez Herrero,Paulo J. S. Gonçalves,M. Gonçalves do Amaral,Daniel Gonzalez,J. G. Gonzalez,M. González,Dariusz Gora,Dariusz Gora,A. Gorgi,P. Gouffon,V. Grassi,A. A. Grillo,C. Grunfeld,Y. Guardincerri,F. Guarino,G. P. Guedes,J. Gutiérrez,J. D. Hague,Jean Christophe Hamilton,Peter Hansen,D. Harari,S. Harmsma,J. L. Harton,J. L. Harton,A. Haungs,T. Hauschildt,M. D. Healy,Thomas Hebbeker,D. Heck,C. Hojvat,V. C. Holmes,Piotr Homola,Jörg R. Hörandel,A. Horneffer,M. Horvat,M. Hrabovsky,Tim Huege,Marco Iarlori,A. Insolia,F. Ionita,A. Italiano,M. Kaducak,Karl-Heinz Kampert,B. Keilhauer,E. Kemp,R. M. Kieckhafer,H.O. Klages,M. Kleifges,J. Kleinfeller,R. Knapik,J. Knapp,D. H. Koang,Andreas Kopmann,A. Krieger,O. Krömer,Daniel Kümpel,N. Kunka,Alexander Kusenko,G. La Rosa,C. Lachaud,B. L. Lago,D. Lebrun,P. Le Brun,John K. Lee,M. A. Leigui de Oliveira,A. Letessier-Selvon,Matthias Leuthold,I. Lhenry-Yvon,R. López,A. Lopez Agüera,J. Lozano Bahilo,Maria Concetta Maccarone,C. Macolino,S. Maldera,Magdalena Malek,G. Mancarella,M. E. Mancenido,Dusan Mandat,P. Mantsch,A. G. Mariazzi,Ioana Codrina Maris,D. Martello,José Eduardo Martinez,O. Martínez Bravo,H. J. Mathes,John Matthews,John Matthews,J. A.J. Matthews,G. Matthiae,D. Maurizio,P.O. Mazur,Thomas McCauley,M. Mcewen,R. R. McNeil,M. C. Medina,G. Medina-Tanco,A. Meli,D. Melo,E. Menichetti,A. Menschikov,C. Meurer,R. Meyhandan,M. I. Micheletti,Gennaro Miele,Warner A. Miller,Silvia Mollerach,M. Monasor,M. Monasor,D. Monnier Ragaigne,François Montanet,B. Morales,C. Morello,E. Moreno,Juan Moreno,Christopher Morris,Miguel Mostafa,Marcio Aparecido Muller,R. Mussa,G. Navarra,J. L. Navarro,S. Sánchez Navas,L. Nellen,Catherine Newman-Holmes,D. Newton,D. Newton,T. Nguyen Thi,N. Nierstenhöfer,D. Nitz,D. Nosek,L. Nozka,J. Oehlschläger,T. Ohnuki,Angela V. Olinto,V. M. Olmos-Gilbaja,M.E. Ortiz,S. Ostapchenko,L. Otero,D. Pakk Selmi-Dei,M. Palatka,Johanna A. Pallotta,G. Parente,E. Parizot,S. Parlati,Sergio Pastor,M. Patel,T. Paul,Vasiliki Pavlidou,K. Payet,Miroslav Pech,J. Pçkala,Rodrigo Pelayo,Iuri Muniz Pepe,L. Perrone,S. Petrera,P. Petrinca,Y. Petrov,DiepPham Ngoc,DongPham Ngoc,T. N. Pham Thi,A. Pichel,R. Piegaia,T. Pierog,M. Pimenta,T. Pinto,V. Pirronello,Ofelia Pisanti,M. Platino,J. Pochon,T. A. Porter,Paolo Privitera,Michael Prouza,E. J. Quel,J. Rautenberg,S. Reucroft,B. Revenu,F. A. S. Rezende,J. Rídky,S. Riggi,Markus Risse,Colas Rivière,Vincenzo Rizi,M. Roberts,C. Robledo,G. Rodriguez,D. Rodríguez Frías,J. Rodríguez Martino,J. Rodriguez Rojo,I. Rodriguez-Cabo,German Ros,German Ros,Jaime Rosado,Markus Roth,B. Rouillé-d'Orfeuil,Esteban Roulet,A. C. Rovero,F. Salamida,Humberto Ibarguen Salazar,G. Salina,F. Sánchez,Marcos Santander,C. E. Santo,E. M. Santos,F. Sarazin,Subir Sarkar,R. Sato,V. Scherini,H. Schieler,Fabian Schmidt,T. Schmidt,Olaf Scholten,Petr Schovanek,F. Schüssler,S. J. Sciutto,Mario Scuderi,A. Segreto,D.V. Semikoz,Mariangela Settimo,R. C. Shellard,Iván Sidelnik,Beatriz B. Siffert,Günter Sigl,N. Smetniansky De Grande,A. Smialkowski,Radomir Smida,A. G. K. Smith,B. E. Smith,Gregory R Snow,Pierre Sokolsky,Paul Sommers,J. Sorokin,H. M. Spinka,H. M. Spinka,R. Squartini,E. Strazzeri,A. Stutz,Federico Suarez,T. Suomijärvi,A. D. Supanitsky,M. S. Sutherland,J. D. Swain,Z. Szadkowski,J. Takahashi,A. Tamashiro,A. Tamburro,O. Tascau,R. Tcaciuc,D. Thomas,R. Ticona,Javier Tiffenberg,Charles Timmermans,W. Tkaczyk,C. J. Todero Peixoto,B. Tome,A. Tonachini,D. Torresi,Petr Travnicek,A. K. Tripathi,G. Tristram,D. Tscherniakhovski,Matias Tueros,V. Tunnicliffe,Ralf Ulrich,M. Unger,M. Urban,J. F. Valdés Galicia,I. Valiño,L. Valore,A.M. van den Berg,V. Van Elewyck,R. A. Vázquez,Darko Veberič,Alejandro Luis Veiga,Antonio Velarde,Tonia M. Venters,V. Verzi,M. Videla,L. Villaseñor,Serguei Vorobiov,L. Voyvodic,Hernan Wahlberg,O. Wainberg,T. Waldenmaier,P. Walker,D. Warner,Alan Watson,S. Westerhoff,G. Wieczorek,L. R. Wiencke,B. Wilczynska,H. Wilczyński,C. Wileman,M. G. Winnick,H. Wu,B. Wundheiler,J. Xu,T. Yamamoto,P. Younk,Enrique Zas,D. Zavrtanik,M. Zavrtanik,A. Zech,A. Zepeda,M. Ziolkowski +452 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate that there is a correlation between the arrival directions of cosmic rays with energy above 6 x 10{sup 19} eV and the positions of active galactic nuclei lying within 75 Mpc.
Journal ArticleDOI
Observation of the suppression of the flux of cosmic rays above 4x10(19) eV
J. Abraham,P. Abreu,Marco Aglietta,C. Aguirre,D. Allard,I. Allekotte,J. Allen,Patrick Allison,Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz,M. Ambrosio,Luis A. Anchordoqui,Luis A. Anchordoqui,Sofia Andringa,A. Anzalone,Carla Aramo,Stefano Argiro,K. Arisaka,E. Armengaud,F. Arneodo,F. Arqueros,T. Asch,Hernán Gonzalo Asorey,Pedro Assis,B. S. Atulugama,Julien Aublin,Julien Aublin,M. Ave,Gualberto Avila,T. Bäcker,Daniel Omar Badagnani,Daniel Omar Badagnani,A. F. Barbosa,D. Barnhill,S. L. C. Barroso,B. M. Baughman,P. Bauleo,J. J. Beatty,Tristan Beau,B. R. Becker,K.-H. Becker,Jose A. Bellido,Segev BenZvi,Corinne Berat,T. Bergmann,P. Bernardini,Xavier Bertou,Peter L. Biermann,Pierre Billoir,Pierre Billoir,O. Blanch-Bigas,O. Blanch-Bigas,Francisco J. Blanco,P. Blasi,C. Bleve,H. Blu Mer,Martina Bohacova,Carla Bonifazi,Carla Bonifazi,R. Bonino,Jeffrey Brack,P. Brogueira,W. C. Brown,Peter Buchholz,Antonio Bueno,R. E. Burton,N. G. Busca,Karen S. Caballero-Mora,Bei Cai,D. V. Camin,L. Caramete,Rossella Caruso,Rossella Caruso,Wagner Carvalho,Antonella Castellina,Antonella Castellina,Onofrio A. Catalano,G. Cataldi,Lorenzo Cazon,R. Cester,J. Chauvin,A. Chiavassa,Jose Chinellato,A. Chou,A. Chou,Jiri Chudoba,J. Chye,P. Clark,Roger W Clay,E. Colombo,Rúben Conceição,B. Connolly,Fernando Contreras,J. Coppens,A. Cordier,U. Cotti,S. Coutu,Corbin Covault,A. Creusot,A. Criss,J. W. Cronin,A. Curutiu,S. Dagoret-Campagne,Kai Daumiller,Bruce R. Dawson,R. M. de Almeida,C. De Donato,S. J. De Jong,G. De La Vega,W. J. M. de Mello Junior,J. R. T. de Mello Neto,J. R. T. de Mello Neto,I. De Mitri,V. de Souza,L. del Peral,Olivier Deligny,A. Della Selva,C. Delle Fratte,H. Dembinski,C. Di Giulio,J. C. Diaz,Pham Ngoc Diep,Carola Dobrigkeit,Juan Carlos D'Olivo,P. N. Dong,D. Dornic,A. Dorofeev,J. C. dos Anjos,Maria-Teresa Dova,Maria-Teresa Dova,D. D'Urso,I. Dutan,Michael DuVernois,Ralph Engel,Luis N. Epele,Luis N. Epele,Carlos Escobar,A. Etchegoyen,P. Facal San Luis,Heino Falcke,Heino Falcke,G. Farrar,A. C. Fauth,N. Fazzini,Francesc Ferrer,A. Ferrero,Brian Fick,Alberto Filevich,A. Filipcic,Ivor Fleck,C. E. Fracchiolla,W. Fulgione,B. García,D. García Gámez,D. Garcia-Pinto,X. Garrido,Heiko Geenen,Graciela B. Gelmini,H. Gemmeke,P. L. Ghia,P. L. Ghia,Maria Giller,H. Glass,M. Gold,Geraldina Golup,F. Gomez Albarracin,F. Gomez Albarracin,M. Gómez Berisso,Paulo J. S. Gonçalves,M. Gonçalves do Amaral,Daniel Gonzalez,J. G. Gonzalez,M. Gonzalez,Dariusz Gora,A. Gorgi,P. Gouffon,V. Grassi,Alexander Grillo,C. Grunfeld,C. Grunfeld,Y. Guardincerri,F. Guarino,G. P. Guedes,J. Gutiérrez,J. D. Hague,V. Halenka,J. C. Hamilton,Peter Hansen,Peter Hansen,Diego Harari,S. Harmsma,J. L. Harton,J. L. Harton,A. Haungs,T. Hauschildt,M. D. Healy,Thomas Hebbeker,G. Hebrero,D. Heck,C. Hojvat,V. C. Holmes,Piotr Homola,Jörg R. Hörandel,A. Horneffer,Miroslav Hrabovsky,T. Huege,M. Hussain,M. Iarlori,A. Insolia,A. Insolia,F. Ionita,A. Italiano,A. Italiano,M. Kaducak,K. H. Kampert,T. Karova,P. H. Kasper,Balázs Kégl,B. Keilhauer,E. Kemp,R. M. Kieckhafer,H.O. Klages,M. Kleifges,J. Kleinfeller,R. Knapik,J. Knapp,D. H. Koang,A. Krieger,O. Kroemer,Daniel Kuempel,N. Kunka,Alexander Kusenko,G. La Rosa,C. Lachaud,B. L. Lago,D. Lebrun,P. Lebrun,John K. Lee,M. A. Leigui de Oliveira,A. Letessier-Selvon,A. Letessier-Selvon,Matthias Leuthold,I. Lhenry-Yvon,R. López,A. Lopez Agüera,J. Lozano Bahilo,A. Lucero,R. Luna García,M. C. Maccarone,C. Macolino,S. Maldera,G. Mancarella,M. E. Mancenido,M. E. Mancenido,Dusan Mandat,P. Mantsch,A. G. Mariazzi,A. G. Mariazzi,Ioana Codrina Maris,H. R. Marquez Falcon,D. Martello,José Eduardo Martinez,O. Martínez Bravo,H. J. Mathes,J. Matthews,J. A.J. Matthews,G. Matthiae,D. Maurizio,P.O. Mazur,Thomas McCauley,M. Mcewen,R. R. McNeil,M. C. Medina,G. Medina-Tanco,D. Melo,E. Menichetti,A. Menschikov,C. Meurer,R. Meyhandan,M. I. Micheletti,Gennaro Miele,Warner A. Miller,Silvia Mollerach,M. Monasor,D. Monnier Ragaigne,François Montanet,B. Morales,C. Morello,Juan Moreno,Christopher Morris,Miguel Mostafa,Marcio Aparecido Muller,R. Mussa,G. Navarra,J. L. Navarro,S. Navas,P. Necesal,L. Nellen,Catherine Newman-Holmes,D. Newton,P. T. Nhung,N. Nierstenhoefer,D. Nitz,D. Nosek,Libor Nozka,J. Oehlschlaeger,T. Ohnuki,Angela V. Olinto,V. M. Olmos-Gilbaja,M.E. Ortiz,Fabrizio Ortolani,S. Ostapchenko,L. Otero,N. Pacheco,D. Pakk Selmi-Dei,M. Palatka,J. Pallotta,G. Parente,E. Parizot,S. Parlati,Sergio Pastor,M. Patel,T. Paul,Vasiliki Pavlidou,K. Payet,Miroslav Pech,J. Pekala,Rodrigo Pelayo,Iuri Muniz Pepe,L. Perrone,R. Pesce,R. Pesce,S. Petrera,P. Petrinca,Y. Petrov,A. Pichel,R. Piegaia,T. Pierog,M. Pimenta,T. Pinto,V. Pirronello,Ofelia Pisanti,M. Platino,J. Pochon,Paolo Privitera,Paolo Privitera,M. Prouza,E. J. Quel,J. Rautenberg,A. Redondo,S. Reucroft,B. Revenu,F. A. S. Rezende,J. Ridky,S. Riggi,Markus Risse,Colas Rivière,Vincenzo Rizi,M. Roberts,C. Robledo,G. Rodriguez,J. Rodriguez Martino,J. Rodriguez Martino,J. Rodriguez Rojo,I. Rodriguez-Cabo,M. D. Rodríguez-Frías,German Ros,German Ros,Jaime Rosado,Markus Roth,B. Rouillé-d'Orfeuil,Esteban Roulet,A. C. Rovero,F. Salamida,Humberto Ibarguen Salazar,G. Salina,F. Sánchez,Marcos Santander,C. E. Santo,E. M. Santos,F. Sarazin,Subir Sarkar,R. Sato,V. Scherini,H. Schieler,A. Schmidt,Fabian Schmidt,T. Schmidt,Olaf Scholten,Petr Schovanek,F. Schroeder,S. Schulte,F. Schuessler,S. J. Sciutto,S. J. Sciutto,Mario Scuderi,Mario Scuderi,A. Segreto,D. V. Semikoz,Mariangela Settimo,R. C. Shellard,Iván Sidelnik,Beatriz B. Siffert,Günter Sigl,N. Smetniansky De Grande,A. Smialkowski,Radomir Smida,A. G. K. Smith,B. E. Smith,Gregory R Snow,Pierre Sokolsky,Paul Sommers,J. Sorokin,H. M. Spinka,R. Squartini,E. Strazzeri,A. Stutz,Federico Suarez,T. Suomijaervi,A. D. Supanitsky,M. S. Sutherland,J. D. Swain,Z. Szadkowski,Jun Takahashi,A. Tamashiro,A. Tamburro,T. Tarutina,T. Tarutina,O. Tascau,R. Tcaciuc,N. T. Thao,D. Thomas,R. Ticona,Javier Tiffenberg,Charles Timmermans,W. Tkaczyk,C. J. Todero Peixoto,B. Tome,A. Tonachini,I. Torres,Petr Travnicek,A. K. Tripathi,G. Tristram,D. Tscherniakhovski,V. Tuci,Matias Tueros,Matias Tueros,V. Tunnicliffe,Ralf Ulrich,M. Unger,Michael Urban,J. F. Valdés Galicia,I. Valiño,L. Valore,van den Ad M Berg,V. Van Elewyck,R. A. Vázquez,Darko Veberič,Alejandro Luis Veiga,Antonio Velarde,Tonia M. Venters,V. Verzi,M. Videla,L. Villaseñor,Serguei Vorobiov,L. Voyvodic,Hernan Wahlberg,Hernan Wahlberg,P. Wahrlich,O. Wainberg,P. Walker,D. Warner,Alan Watson,S. Westerhoff,G. Wieczorek,L. R. Wiencke,B. Wilczynska,H. Wilczyński,C. Wileman,M. G. Winnick,H. Wu,B. Wundheiler,T. Yamamoto,P. Younk,Enrique Zas,D. Zavrtanik,M. Zavrtanik,I. Zaw,Arnulfo Zepeda,M. Ziolkowski +488 more
TL;DR: The energy spectrum of cosmic rays above 2.5 x 10;{18} eV, derived from 20,000 events recorded at the Pierre Auger Observatory, is described and the hypothesis of a single power law is rejected with a significance greater than 6 standard deviations.
Posted Content
Light Sterile Neutrinos: A White Paper
Kevork N. Abazajian,M. A. Acero,Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla,Alexis A. Aguilar-Arevalo,Carl H. Albright,Stefan Antusch,Carlos Arguelles,A. B. Balantekin,Gabriela Barenboim,Vernon Barger,P. Bernardini,Fedor Bezrukov,Ole Eggers Bjælde,S. A. Bogacz,Nathaniel Bowden,Alexey Boyarsky,A. Bravar,D. Bravo Berguño,S. J. Brice,A. Bross,B. Caccianiga,F. Cavanna,E. J. Chun,B. T. Cleveland,Antoine Collin,P. Coloma,Janet Conrad,M. Cribier,A. Cucoanes,Juan Carlos D'Olivo,Sudeep Das,A. de Gouvea,A. V. Derbin,Ranjan Dharmapalan,J. S. Díaz,X. J. Ding,Z. Djurcic,Andrea Donini,D. Duchesneau,H. Ejiri,S. R. Elliott,D. J. Ernst,A. Esmaili,J. J. Evans,Enrique Fernandez-Martinez,Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano,B. T. Fleming,Joseph A. Formaggio,D. Franco,J. Gaffiot,R. Gandhi,Y. Gao,G. T. Garvey,V. N. Gavrin,Pomita Ghoshal,D. Gibin,Carlo Giunti,Sergei Gninenko,V. V. Gorbachev,Dmitry Gorbunov,R. Guenette,A. Guglielmi,Francis Halzen,Jan Hamann,Steen Hannestad,Wick Haxton,K. M. Heeger,Reyco Henning,Porfidio Hernández,Patrick Huber,W. Huelsnitz,An. Ianni,T. V. Ibragimova,Y. Karadzhov,G. Karagiorgi,G. Keefer,Y. D. Kim,Joachim Kopp,V.N. Kornoukhov,Alexander Kusenko,P. Kyberd,Paul Langacker,T. Lasserre,Marco Laveder,Audrey Letourneau,David Lhuillier,Yufeng Li,Manfred Lindner,J. M. Link,B. L. Littlejohn,Paolo Lombardi,Kenneth Long,Jacobo Lopez-Pavon,W. C. Louis,Livia Ludhova,Joseph Lykken,Pedro A. N. Machado,Michele Maltoni,W. A. Mann,D. Marfatia,C. Mariani,V. A. Matveev,Nick E. Mavromatos,Alessandro Melchiorri,Davide Meloni,O. Mena,G. Mention,Alexander Merle,E. Meroni,M. Mezzetto,G. B. Mills,Djordje Minic,Lino Miramonti,D. Mohapatra,Rabindra N. Mohapatra,C. Montanari,Y. Mori,Th. A. Mueller,Hans P. Mumm,V. N. Muratova,Ann E. Nelson,Jeffrey S. Nico,Etam Noah,J. A. Nowak,O. Yu. Smirnov,M. Obolensky,Sandip Pakvasa,O. Palamara,Marco Pallavicini,Silvia Pascoli,L. Patrizii,Z. Pavlovic,Orlando L. G. Peres,H. Pessard,F. Pietropaolo,Michael Pitt,Milorad Popovic,Josef Pradler,Gioacchino Ranucci,H. Ray,Soebur Razzaque,B. Rebel,R. G. H. Robertson,Werner Rodejohann,S. D. Rountree,C. Rubbia,Oleg Ruchayskiy,Paola Sala,Kate Scholberg,Thomas Schwetz-Mangold,M. H. Shaevitz,Mikhail Shaposhnikov,R. Shrock,S. Simone,M. D. Skorokhvatov,M. Sorel,A. Sousa,David N. Spergel,J. Spitz,Luca Stanco,I. Stancu,A. Suzuki,Tatsu Takeuchi,Irene Tamborra,J. Tang,G. Testera,X. C. Tian,A. Tonazzo,C. Tunnell,R. G. Van de Water,Licia Verde,E. P. Veretenkin,C. Vignoli,M. Vivier,R. B. Vogelaar,M. O. Wascko,J. F. Wilkerson,Walter Winter,Yvonne Y. Y. Wong,Tsutomu T. Yanagida,Osamu Yasuda,M. Yeh,F. Yermia,Z. Yokley,G. P. Zeller,Liang Zhan,He Zhang +186 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors address the hypothesis of light sterile neutrinos based on recent anomalies observed in neutrino experiments and the latest astrophysical data, and propose a white paper addressing this hypothesis.
Journal ArticleDOI
Direct detection of a break in the teraelectronvolt cosmic-ray spectrum of electrons and positrons
G. Ambrosi,Q. An,R. Asfandiyarov,P. Azzarello,P. Bernardini,B. Bertucci,M. S. Cai,Jin Chang,Donghong Chen,H. S. Chen,Jialong Chen,Wangli Chen,M. Y. Cui,T. S. Cui,A. D'Amone,A. De Benedittis,I. De Mitri,M. Di Santo,J.N. Dong,Tie-Kuang Dong,Y. F. Dong,Z. X. Dong,Giacinto Donvito,D. Droz,Kai-Kai Duan,Jinglai Duan,M. Duranti,D. D'Urso,R. R. Fan,Yi-Zhong Fan,Fang Fang,C. Q. Feng,Luzhao Feng,P. Fusco,V. Gallo,F. J. Gan,Min Gao,Shan-Shan Gao,F. Gargano,S. Garrappa,K. Gong,Y. Z. Gong,Dong Ya Guo,Jun-jun Guo,Y. M. Hu,Guangshun Huang,Y. Y. Huang,Maria Ionica,Dan Jiang,Wei Jiang,Xian-Min Jin,Jie Kong,Shi-Jun Lei,S.X. Li,X. X. Li,W. Li,Y. Li,Y. F. Liang,YM Liang,N. H. Liao,H. Liu,Jie Liu,S. B. Liu,Wei Liu,Yujuan Liu,F. Loparco,Michael Ma,Peng-Xiong Ma,S. Y. Ma,Tianxiao Ma,X.Q. Ma,X. Y. Ma,G. Marsella,M. N. Mazziotta,D. Mo,Niu Xiaoyang,X. Y. Peng,W. X. Peng,R. Qiao,J. N. Rao,M. M. Salinas,G. Z. Shang,W. H. Shen,Z.-Q. Shen,Z. T. Shen,Ju-Xian Song,H. Su,Meng Su,Zhi-Yu Sun,A. Surdo,X. J. Teng,X.B. Tian,Andrii Tykhonov,Valerio Vagelli,S. Vitillo,Chi Wang,Huaguang Wang,Haiqiong Wang,J. Z. Wang,L. G. Wang,Qian Wang,S. Wang,Xixian Wang,X. L. Wang,Y. F. Wang,Yaping Wang,Yu-Sa Wang,S. C. Wen,Zheng Wang,D. M. Wei,J. J. Wei,Y. F. Wei,Di Wu,Jinfei Wu,Lihui Wu,Shumei Wu,Xin Wu,K. Xi,Z. Q. Xia,Y.L. Xin,H. T. Xu,Z. Xu,Z. Z. Xu,G. F. Xue,Yang Haibo,Peidong Yang,Yifan Yang,Zhongjie Yang,Huijun Yao,Y. H. Yu,Qiuju Yuan,Chuan Yue,J. J. Zang,Chao Zhang,D.L. Zhang,Fengtao Zhang,Jie Zhang,Jindan Zhang,Jindong Zhang,Laiyu Zhang,Pengchao Zhang,Shengxia Zhang,W. Zhang,Y. Zhang,Y. J. Zhang,Yun-Zhi Zhang,Yugang Zhang,Yaohui Zhang,Zhihua Zhang,Zhoubin Zhang,Hong Yun Zhao,Huan Zhao,Xin-Fu Zhao,Chengrui Zhou,Yali Zhou,Xi Zhu,Yu-Xuan Zhu,Stephan Zimmer +157 more
TL;DR: The direct detection of a spectral break at about 0.9 teraelectronvolts confirms the evidence found by previous indirect measurements, clarifies the behaviour of the CRE spectrum at energies above 1 terAElectronvolt and sheds light on the physical origin of the sub-teraelectronsvolt CREs.
Journal ArticleDOI
The Fluorescence Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory
J. Abraham,P. Abreu,Marco Aglietta,C. Aguirre,Eun-Joo Ahn,D. Allard,Ingomar Allekotte,J. Allen,Patrick Allison,J. Alvarez-Muiz,M. Ambrosio,Luis A. Anchordoqui,Sofia Andringa,A. Anzalone,C. Aramo,Ernesto Arganda,S. Argir,K. Arisaka,F. Arneodo,F. Arqueros,T. Asch,Hernán Asorey,Pedro Assis,Julien Aublin,M. Ave,Gualberto Avila,A. Bacher,T. Bcker,Daniel Omar Badagnani,K. B. Barber,A. F. Barbosa,H. J. M. Barbosa,N. Barenthien,S. L.C. Barroso,B. M. Baughman,P. Bauleo,J. J. Beatty,Tristan Beau,B. R. Becker,K. H. Becker,A. Belltoile,Jose A. Bellido,Jose A. Bellido,Segev BenZvi,Corinne Berat,P. Bernardini,Xavier Bertou,Peter L. Biermann,Pierre Billoir,O. Blanch-Bigas,Francisco J. Blanco,C. Bleve,H. Blmer,M. Bohov,M. Bohov,E. Bollmann,H. Bolz,Carla Bonifazi,R. Bonino,Nataliia Borodai,F. Bracci,Jeffrey Brack,Pedro Brogueira,W. C. Brown,R. Bruijn,Peter Buchholz,Antonio Bueno,R. E. Burton,Nicolás G. Busca,Karen S. Caballero-Mora,D. V. Camin,L. Caramete,Rossella Caruso,Wagner Carvalho,Antonella Castellina,Jesús Alberto Martínez Castro,Osvaldo Catalano,Lorenzo Cazon,R. Cester,J. Chauvin,A. Chiavassa,Jose Chinellato,A. Chou,A. Chou,Jiri Chudoba,J. Chye,P. Clark,Roger W Clay,E. Colombo,R. Conceio,B. Connolly,Fernando Contreras,J. Coppens,A. Cordero,A. Cordier,U. Cotti,S. Coutu,Corbin Covault,A. Creusot,A. Criss,J. W. Cronin,J. Cuautle,A. Curutiu,S. Dagoret-Campagne,Richard Dallier,F. Daudo,Kai Daumiller,Bruce R. Dawson,R. M. de Almeida,M. De Domenico,C. De Donato,S. J. De Jong,G. De La Vega,W. J. M. de Mello Junior,J. R. T. de Mello Neto,I. De Mitri,V. de Souza,K. D. de Vries,G. Decerprit,L. del Peral,Olivier Deligny,A. Della Selva,C. Delle Fratte,H. Dembinski,C. Di Giulio,J. S. Díaz,Pham Ngoc Diep,Carola Dobrigkeit,Juan Carlos D'Olivo,P. N. Dong,D. Dornic,A. Dorofeev,J. C. dos Anjos,Maria-Teresa Dova,D. D'Urso,I. Dutan,Michael DuVernois,Ralph Engel,Martin Erdmann,Carlos Escobar,A. Etchegoyen,P. Facal San Luis,P. Facal San Luis,Heino Falcke,Heino Falcke,Glennys R. Farrar,A. C. Fauth,N. Fazzini,Francesc Ferrer,A. Ferrero,Brian Fick,Alberto Filevich,A. Filipi,Ivor Fleck,S. Fliescher,R. Fonte,C. E. Fracchiolla,E. D. Fraenkel,W. Fulgione,R. F. Gamarra,S. Gambetta,B. Garca,D. Garca Gmez,D. Garcia-Pinto,X. Garrido,Heiko Geenen,Graciela B. Gelmini,H. Gemmeke,Piera Luisa Ghia,U. Giaccari,K. Gibbs,M. Giller,J. Gitto,H. Glass,Lisa M. Goggin,M. Gold,G. Golup,F. Gomez Albarracin,M. Gmez Berisso,P.F. Gómez Vitale,P. Gonalves,M. Gonalves Do Amaral,Daniel Gonzalez,J. G. Gonzalez,J. G. Gonzalez,D. Gra,D. Gra,A. Gorgi,P. Gouffon,E. Grashorn,V. Grassi,S. Grebe,M. Grigat,Alexander Grillo,J. Grygar,Y. Guardincerri,N. Guardone,C. Guerard,Fausto Guarino,R. Gumbsheimer,Germano Guedes,J. Gutirrez,J. D. Hague,V. Halenka,Peter Hansen,D. Harari,S. Harmsma,S. Hartmann,John L. Harton,A. Haungs,M. D. Healy,Thomas Hebbeker,G. Hebrero,Dieter Heck,C. Hojvat,V. C. Holmes,Piotr Homola,G. Hofman,J. R. Hrandel,A. Horneffer,M. Horvat,M. Hrabovsk,H. Hucker,Tim Huege,M. Hussain,Marco Iarlori,Antonio Insolia,F. Ionita,A. Italiano,S. Jiraskova,M. Kaducak,Karl-Heinz Kampert,T. Karova,P. H. Kasper,B. Kgl,B. Keilhauer,Ernesto Kemp,H. Kern,R. M. Kieckhafer,H.O. Klages,M. Kleifges,J. Kleinfeller,R. Knapik,J. Knapp,D. H. Koang,Andreas Kopmann,A. Krieger,O. Krmer,D. Kruppke-Hansen,Daniel Kuempel,N. Kunka,Alexander Kusenko,G. La Rosa,C. Lachaud,B. L. Lago,Pascal Lautridou,M. S.A.B. Leo,D. Lebrun,P. Lebrun,John G. Lee,M. A. Leigui de Oliveira,A. Lemiere,A. Letessier-Selvon,Matthias Leuthold,I. Lhenry-Yvon,R. Lpez,A. Lopez Agëra,K. Louedec,J. Lozano Bahilo,A. Lucero,H. Lyberis,M. C. Maccarone,C. Macolino,S. Maldera,Magdalena Malek,Dusan Mandat,Paul M. Mantsch,F. Marchetto,A. G. Mariazzi,Ioana Codrina Maris,H. R. Marquez Falcon,D. Martello,O. Martineau,O. Martnez Bravo,Hermann-Josef Mathes,John Matthews,John Matthews,J. A.J. Matthews,G. Matthiae,D. Maurizio,Peter Mazur,M. McEwen,R. R. McNeil,G. Medina-Tanco,M. Melissas,D. Melo,E. Menichetti,A. Menshikov,R. Meyhandan,M. I. Micheletti,Gennaro Miele,Warner A. Miller,Lino Miramonti,Silvia Mollerach,M. Monasor,D. Monnier Ragaigne,François Montanet,B. Morales,C. Morello,Juan Moreno,Christopher Morris,M. Mostaf,C. A. Moura,M. Mucchi,S. Mueller,Marcio Aparecido Muller,R. Mussa,G. Navarra,J. L. Navarro,S. Navas,P. Necesal,Lukas Nellen,F. Nerling,Catherine Newman-Holmes,D. Newton,P. T. Nhung,D. Nicotra,N. Nierstenhoefer,D. Nitz,D. Nosek,L. Noka,M. Nyklicek,J. Oehlschlger,Angela V. Olinto,Pietro Oliva,V. M. Olmos-Gilbaja,M.E. Ortiz,Fabrizio Ortolani,B. Oßwald,N. Pacheco,D. Pakk Selmi-Dei,M. Palatka,J. Pallotta,G. Parente,E. Parizot,S. Parlati,Sergio Pastor,M. Patel,T. Paul,Vasiliki Pavlidou,K. Payet,Miroslav Pech,J. Pȩkala,I. M. Pepe,L. Perrone,R. Pesce,E. Petermann,Sergio Petrera,P. Petrinca,Alessandro Petrolini,Y. Petrov,J. Petrovic,C. Pfendner,A. Pichel,Ricardo Piegaia,T. Pierog,M. Pimenta,T. Pinto,Valerio Pirronello,Ofelia Pisanti,M. Platino,J. Pochon,V. H. Ponce,M. Pontz,J. Pouryamout,L. Prado,Paolo Privitera,M. Prouza,E. J. Quel,G. Raia,J. Rautenberg,Olivier Ravel,D. Ravignani,A. Redondo,H. C. Reis,S. Reucroft,B. Revenu,F. A. S. Rezende,Jan Ridky,S. Riggi,Markus Risse,C. Rivire,Vincenzo Rizi,C. Robledo,M. Roberts,G. Rodriguez,J. Rodriguez Martino,J. Rodriguez Rojo,I. Rodriguez-Cabo,M. D. Rodrguez-Fras,German Ros,German Ros,Jaime Rosado,T. Rossler,Markus Roth,B. Rouill-D'Orfeuil,Esteban Roulet,A. C. Rovero,F. Salamida,Humberto Ibarguen Salazar,Gaetano Salina,F. Snchez,Marcos Santander,C. E. Santo,E. M. Santos,Fred Sarazin,Subir Sarkar,R. Sato,N. Scharf,V. Scherini,H. Schieler,P. Schiffer,G. Schleif,Alexander Schmidt,Fabian Schmidt,T. Schmidt,Olaf Scholten,H. Schoorlemmer,J. Schovancova,P. Schovnek,F. Schroeder,S. Schulte,F. Schssler,D. Schuster,Sergio Sciutto,Mario Scuderi,A. Segreto,D.V. Semikoz,G. Sequieros,Mariangela Settimo,R. C. Shellard,Iván Sidelnik,Beatriz B. Siffert,A. Smiakowski,R. Mda,A. G. K. Smith,B. E. Smith,Gregory R Snow,Paul Sommers,J. Sorokin,H. M. Spinka,H. M. Spinka,R. Squartini,E. Strazzeri,A. Stutz,F. Suarez,T. Suomijrvi,A. D. Supanitsky,M. S. Sutherland,J. D. Swain,Z. Szadkowski,A. Tamashiro,A. Tamburro,T. Tarutina,O. Tacu,R. Tcaciuc,Denis Tcherniakhovski,N. T. Thao,D. Thomas,R. Ticona,Javier Tiffenberg,C. J.W.P. Timmermans,W. Tkaczyk,C. J. Todero Peixoto,B. Tom,A. Tonachini,I. Torres,P.P. Trapani,Petr Travnicek,D. B. Tridapalli,G. Tristram,E. Trovato,V. Tuci,Matias Tueros,E. Tusi,Ralf Ulrich,M. Unger,Michael Urban,J. F. Valds Galicia,I. Valio,L. Valore,A.M. van den Berg,J. R. Vzquez,R. A. Vzquez,D. Veberi,Antonio Velarde,Tonia M. Venters,V. Verzi,M. Videla,L. Villaseor,G. Vitali,Serguei Vorobiov,L. Voyvodic,Hernan Wahlberg,P. Wahrlich,O. Wainberg,D. Warner,S. Westerhoff,B. J. Whelan,N.R. Wild,C. H. Wiebusch,G. Wieczorek,L. R. Wiencke,B. Wilczyska,H. Wilczyski,C. Wileman,M. G. Winnick,G. Wrner,H. Wu,B. Wundheiler,T. Yamamoto,P. W. Younk,G. Yuan,Alexey Yushkov,Enrique Zas,Danilo Zavrtanik,M. Zavrtanik,I. Zaw,Arnulfo Zepeda,M. Ziolkowski +529 more
TL;DR: The Pierre Auger Observatory is a hybrid detector for ultra-high energy cosmic rays as discussed by the authors, which combines a surface array to measure secondary particles at ground level together with a fluorescence detector to measure the development of air showers in the atmosphere above the array.