| Title: |
Characterizing the neutron component of extensive air showers with the Surface-Scintillator Detectors of AugerPrime |
| 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 |
| 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: |
Neutrons are the only neutral hadrons that remain stable over the timescale of an air-shower development. Their energy is lost only through hadronic interactions and quasi-elastic scattering, which results in their high abundance at the ground. The signals from the electromagnetic and muonic components in scintillation detectors typically span only a few microseconds. In contrast, the neutrons can cause delayed pulses in scintillation detectors up to and beyond several milliseconds after the passage of the shower front. Selection of an appropriate time window allows us to isolate and characterize the neutron component of air showers, which may provide a new, direct method to probe hadronic interactions during the shower development. We report the measurement of a neutron component at ultra-high energies using the Surface-Scintillator Detectors (SSD) from the AugerPrime upgrade of the Pierre Auger Observatory. We provide a first look at the pulse-amplitude spectrum together with our measured rate and lateral distribution of the neutron component. |
| 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/1000190562; https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000190562/174891280; https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000190562 |
| DOI: |
10.5445/IR/1000190562 |
| Availability: |
https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000190562; https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000190562/174891280; https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000190562 |
| Rights: |
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.de ; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.FEA2CDB4 |
| Database: |
BASE |