| Title: |
Exploring the Ultra-High-Energy Universe: Highlights from 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 Edoardo; 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; 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 |
| Source: |
ISSN: 1824-8039. |
| 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 is the world’s largest facility dedicated to studying ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). Located in Argentina, it spans 3,000 square kilometers and utilizes a hybrid detection system comprising over 1,600 Water-Cherenkov detectors and fluorescence telescopes. Since its inception in 2004, the Observatory has provided groundbreaking insights into the energy spectrum, mass composition, and arrival direction anisotropies of cosmic rays. Phase-I data analysis, covering the years 2004-2022, has revealed critical features such as large-scale anisotropies and spectral features such as the instep and the suppression of flux at the highest energies, thus advancing our understanding of the origin and propagation of UHECRs. The hybrid detection approach has enabled precise measurements of air showers and muon content, offering constraints on hadronic interaction models. Furthermore, searches for neutral particles have been performed, contributing to multi-messenger astrophysics. The ongoing AugerPrime upgrade aims to refine mass composition studies by integrating scintillator detectors, improved electronics, underground muon detectors, and radio antennas, enhancing sensitivity to primary cosmic-ray properties. We present the key scientific achievements from Phase I and discuss the transformative potential of AugerPrime in addressing fundamental questions about the origin of UHECRs. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper; conference object |
| File Description: |
application/pdf |
| Language: |
English |
| ISSN: |
1824-8039 |
| Relation: |
Proceedings of Science (PoC); info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/1824-8039; https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000190556; https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000190556/174889712; https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000190556 |
| DOI: |
10.5445/IR/1000190556 |
| Availability: |
https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000190556; https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000190556/174889712; https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000190556 |
| Rights: |
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.de ; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.D2E25A6E |
| Database: |
BASE |