Extensive air showers, originating from ultra-high energy cosmic rays, have been successfully measured through the use of arrays of water-Cherenkov detectors (WCDs). Sophisticated analyses exploiting WCD data have made it possible to demonstrate that shower simulations, based on different hadronic-interaction models, cannot reproduce the observed number of muons at the ground. The accurate knowledge of the WCD response to muons is paramount in establishing the exact level of this discrepancy. In this work, we report on a study of the response of a WCD of the Pierre Auger Observatory to atmospheric muons performed with a hodoscope made of resistive plate chambers (RPCs), enabling us to select and reconstruct nearly 600 thousand single muon t...
The hybrid design of the Pierre Auger Observatory allows for the measurement of the properties of ex...
With the knowledge and statistical power of over a decade and a half of measurements, the Auger Coll...
Cosmic rays arriving at Earth collide with the upper parts of the atmosphere, thereby inducing exten...
Extensive air showers, originating from ultra-high energy cosmic rays, have been successfully measur...
The Pierre Auger Observatory operates a hybrid detector composed of a Fluorescence Detector and a Su...
Several methods developed within the Pierre Auger Collaboration for the estimation of the muonic com...
Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECR) are particles of uncertain origin and composition, with energ...
To be published in the ProceedingsInternational audienceThe ground array of the Pierre Auger Observa...
Extensive air showers are complex objects, resulting of billions of particle reactions initiated by ...
The hybrid design of the Pierre Auger Observatory allows for the measurement of the properties of ex...
With the knowledge and statistical power of over a decade and a half of measurements, the Auger Coll...
Cosmic rays arriving at Earth collide with the upper parts of the atmosphere, thereby inducing exten...
Extensive air showers, originating from ultra-high energy cosmic rays, have been successfully measur...
The Pierre Auger Observatory operates a hybrid detector composed of a Fluorescence Detector and a Su...
Several methods developed within the Pierre Auger Collaboration for the estimation of the muonic com...
Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECR) are particles of uncertain origin and composition, with energ...
To be published in the ProceedingsInternational audienceThe ground array of the Pierre Auger Observa...
Extensive air showers are complex objects, resulting of billions of particle reactions initiated by ...
The hybrid design of the Pierre Auger Observatory allows for the measurement of the properties of ex...
With the knowledge and statistical power of over a decade and a half of measurements, the Auger Coll...
Cosmic rays arriving at Earth collide with the upper parts of the atmosphere, thereby inducing exten...