| Title: |
Socioeconomic Impact of the Pierre Auger Observatory |
| Authors: |
Pierre Auger Collaboration; Abdul Halim, Adila; Abreu, Pedro; Aglietta, Marco; Allekotte, Ingomar; Almeida Cheminant, Kevin; Almela, Alejandro; Aloisio, Roberto; Alvarez-Muñiz, Jaime; Ambrosone, Antonio; Ammerman Yebra, Juan; Anastasi, Gioacchino Alex; Anchordoqui, Luis A.; Andrada, Belén; Andrade Dourado, Luciana; Andringa, Sofia; Apollonio, Lorenzo; Aramo, Carla; Arnone, Enrico; Arteaga Velazquez, Juan Carlos; Assis, Pedro; Avila, Gualberto; Avocone, Emanuele; Bakalova, Alena; Barbato, Felicia; Bartz Mocellin, Adriel; Bellido, Jose A.; Berat, Corinne; Bertaina, Mario E.; Bianciotto, Marta; Biermann, Peter L.; Binet, Virginia; Bismark, Kathrin; Bister, Teresa; Biteau, Jonathan; Blazek, Jiri; Blümer, Johannes; Bohacova, Martina; Boncioli, Denise; Bonifazi, Carla; Bonneau Arbeletche, Luan; Borodai, Nataliia; Brack, Jeffrey; Brichetto Orchera, P. Gabriel; Briechle, Florian Lukas; Bueno, Antonio; Buitink, Stijn; Buscemi, Mario; Büsken, Max; Bwembya, Anthony; Caballero-Mora, Karen S.; Cabana-Freire, Sergio; Caccianiga, Lorenzo; Campuzano, Federico; Caraça-Valente, Jorge; Caruso, Rossella; Castellina, Antonella; Catalani, Fernando; Cataldi, Gabriella; Cazon, Lorenzo; Cerda, Marcos; Čermáková, Berenika; Cermenati, Alessandro; Chinellato, Jose Augusto; Chudoba, Jiří; Chytka, Ladislav; Clay, Roger W.; Cobos Cerutti, Agustín; Colalillo, Roberta; Conceição, Rúben; Consolati, Giovanni; Conte, Matteo; Convenga, Fabio; Correia dos Santos, Diego; Costa, Pedro J.; Covault, Corbin; Cristinziani, Markus; Cruz Sanchez, Carlo Salvattore; Dasso, Sergio; Daumiller, Kai; Dawson, Bruce R.; de Almeida, Rogerio M.; de Boone, Eric-Teunis; de Errico, Beatriz; de Jesús, Joaquín; de Jong, Sijbrand J.; de Mello Neto, João; De Mitri, Ivan; de Oliveira, Jaime; de Oliveira Franco, Danelise; de Palma, Francesco; de Souza, Vitor; De Vito, Emanuele; Del Popolo, Antonino; Deligny, Olivier; Denner, Nikolas; Deval, Luca; di Matteo, Armando; Dobrigkeit, Carola; D'Olivo, Juan Carlos; Domingues Mendes, Luis Miguel; Dorosti, Qader; dos Anjos, Joao; dos Anjos, Rita Cassia; Ebr, Jan; Ellwanger, Fiona H.; Engel, Ralph; Epicoco, Italo; Erdmann, Martin; Etchegoyen, Alberto; Evoli, Carmelo; Falcke, Heino; Farrar, Glennys R.; Fauth, Anderson; Fehler, Tim; Feldbusch, Fridtjof; Fernandes, Alexandra; Fernandez, Mateo; Fick, Brian; Figueira, Juan Manuel; Filip, Paul; Filipcic, Andrej; Fitoussi, Thomas; Flaggs, Benjamin; Fodran, Tomáš; Franco, Antonio; Freitas, Milton; Fujii, Toshihiro; Fuster, Alan; Galea, Cristina; Garcia, Beatriz; Gaudu, Chloé; Ghia, Piera Luisa; GIACCARI, Ugo; Gobbi, Fabian; Gollan, Fernando; Golup, Geraldina; Gómez Berisso, Mariano; Gómez Vitale, Primo F.; Gongora, Juan Pablo; Gonzalez, Juan Manuel; Gonzalez, Nicolas Martin; Gora, Dariusz; Gorgi, Alessio; Gottowik, Marvin; Guarino, Fausto; Guedes, Germano; Gülzow, Lukas; Hahn, Steffen; Hamal, Petr; Hampel, Matías Rolf; Hansen, Patricia María; Harvey, Violet M.; Haungs, Andreas; Hebbeker, Thomas; Hojvat, Carlos; Hörandel, Jörg; Horvath, Pavel; Hrabovsky, Miroslav; Huege, Tim; Insolia, Antonio; Isar, Paula Gina; Ismaiel, Mohamed; Janecek, Petr; Jilek, Vlastimil; Kampert, Karl-Heinz; Keilhauer, Bianca; Khakurdikar, Abha; Kizakke Covilakam, Varada Varma; Klages, Hans; Kleifges, Matthias; Köhler, Jelena; Krieger, Frederik; Kubatova, Margita; Kunka, Norbert; Lago, Bruno L.; Langner, Niklas; Leal, Nicolas; Leigui de Oliveira, Marcelo Augusto; Lema-Capeans, Yago; Letessier-Selvon, Antoine; Lhenry-Yvon, Isabelle; LOPES, Luis; Lundquist, Jon Paul; Mallamaci, Manuela; Mandat, Dusan; Mantsch, Paul; Mariani, Federico Maria; Mariazzi, Analisa; Maris, Ioana Codrina; Marsella, Giovanni; Martello, Daniele; Martinelli, Sara; Martins, Miguel A.; Mathes, Hermann-Josef; Matthews, James; Matthiae, Giorgio; Mayotte, Eric William; Mayotte, Sonja; Mazur, Peter; Medina-Tanco, Gustavo; Meinert, Janning; Melo, Diego; Menshikov, Alexander; Merx, Carmen; Michal, Stanislav; Micheletti, Maria Isabel; Miramonti, Lino; Mogarkar, Megha; Mollerach, Silvia; Montanet, François; Morejon, Leonel; Mulrey, Katharine; Mussa, Roberto; Namasaka, Wilson M.; Negi, Shefali; Nellen, Lukas; Nguyen, Khoa; Nicora, Gabriela; Niechciol, Marcus; Nitz, Dave; Nosek, Dalibor; Novikov, Alexander; Novotný, Vladimír; Nozka, Libor; Nucita, Achille; Nunez, Luis A.; Ochoa, José; Oliveira, Cainã; Östman, Leo; Palatka, Miroslav; Pallotta, Juan; Panja, Shayoni; Parente, Gonzalo; Paulsen, Therese; Pawlowsky, Jannis; Pech, Miroslav; Pękala, Jan; Pelayo, Rodrigo; Pelgrims, Vincent; Pereira, Luiz Augusto; Pereira Martins, Edyvania Emily; Pérez Bertolli, Carmina; Perrone, Lorenzo; Petrera, Sergio; Petrucci, Camilla; Pierog, Tanguy; Pimenta, Mário; Platino, Manuel; Pont, Bjarni; Pourmohammad Shahvar, Mohsen; Privitera, Paolo; Priyadarshi, Chaitanya; Prouza, Michael; Pytel, Krzysztof; Querchfeld, Sven; Rautenberg, Julian; Ravignani, Diego; Reginatto Akim, João Vitor; Reuzki, Alex; Ridky, Jan; Riehn, Felix; Risse, Markus; Rizi, Vincenzo; Rodriguez, Ezequiel; Rodriguez Fernandez, Gonzalo; Rodriguez Rojo, Jorge Rubén; Rossoni, Simone; Roth, Markus; Roulet, Esteban; Rovero, Adrian; Saftoiu, Alexandra; Saharan, Mohit; Salamida, Francesco; Salazar, Humberto Ibarguen; Salina, Gaetano; Sampathkumar, Pranav; San Martin, Nicolas; Sanabria Gomez, Jose; Sánchez, Federico Andrés; Santos, Edivaldo Moura; Santos, Eva; Sarazin, Fred; Sarmento, Raul; Sato, Ricardo; Savina, Pierpaolo; Scherini, Viviana; Schieler, Harald; Schimassek, Martin; Schimp, Michael; Schmidt, David; Scholten, Olaf; Schoorlemmer, Harm; Schovanek, Petr; Schröder, Frank G.; Schulte, Josina; Schulz, Tobias; Sciutto, Sergio J.; Scornavacche, Marina; Sedoski, Adrian; Segreto, Alberto; Sehgal, Srijan; Shivashankara, Shima Ujjani; Sigl, Guenter; Simkova, Katarína; Simon, Frank; Smida, Radomir; Sommers, Paul; Squartini, Ruben; Stadelmaier, Maximilian; Stanič, Samo; Stasielak, Jaroslaw; Stassi, Patrick; Strähnz, Simon; Straub, Maximilian; Suomijarvi, Tiina; Supanitsky, A. Daniel; Svozilikova, Zuzana; Syrokvas, Karolina; Szadkowski, Zbigniew; Tairli, Fedor; Tambone, Matteo; Tapia, Alex; Taricco, Carla; Timmermans, Charles; Tkachenko, Olena; Tobiska, Petr; Todero Peixoto, Carlos J.; Tomé, Bernardo; Travaini, Andres; Travnicek, Petr; Tueros, Matias Jorge; Unger, Michael; Uzeiroska, Rukije; Vaclavek, Lukáš; Vacula, Martin; Vaiman, Igor; Valdés Galicia, Jose F.; Valore, Laura; van Dillen, Pim; Varela, Enrique; Vašíčková, Veronika; Vásquez-Ramírez, Adriana; Veberic, Darko; Vergara Quispe, Indira D.; Verpoest, Stef; Verzi, Valerio; Vicha, Jakub; Vink, Jacco; Vorobiov, Serguei; Vuta, Jhansi Bhavani; Watanabe, Clara Keiko Oliveira; Watson, Alan; Weindl, Andreas; Weitz, Melanie; Wiencke, Lawrence; Wilczyński, Henryk; Wundheiler, Brian; Yue, Baobiao; Yushkov, Alexey; Zas, Enrique; Zavrtanik, Danilo; Zavrtanik, Marko; Calvo, Alejandra |
| Publisher Information: |
Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati |
| Publication Year: |
2025 |
| Collection: |
KITopen (Karlsruhe Institute of Technologie) |
| Subject Terms: |
ddc:530; Physics; info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/530 |
| Description: |
The Pierre Auger Observatory has been operating in Malargüe, Province of Mendoza, western Argentina, for over two decades, significantly advancing our understanding of cosmic rays. Beyond its scientific mission, the installation and operation of the Observatory has had profound social, economic, educational and cultural impact on the local community, the region and worldwide. More than 90% of the Observatory’s annual operational budget is invested in the region, benefiting sectors such as tourism, hospitality, gastronomy, and local commerce. Additionally, the presence of international visitors and collaborations has fostered a rich cultural exchange. Malargüe has emerged as a destination for scientific tourism, with the Observatory as a major attraction, having welcomed over 178,000 visitors since its inauguration and boosting the development of the region. This article explores the broad direct and indirect benefits of the Auger Observatory and the key lessons learned from this endeavor. A new International Agreement signed in 2024 ensures the continuity of the project for at least another decade, until 2035, reaffirming its scientific, economic, and social relevance. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper; conference object |
| File Description: |
application/pdf |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000190547; https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000190547/174884839; https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000190547 |
| DOI: |
10.5445/IR/1000190547 |
| Availability: |
https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000190547; https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000190547/174884839; https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000190547 |
| Rights: |
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.de ; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.BCFE5BB9 |
| Database: |
BASE |