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Reconstruction of inclined air showers detected with the pierre Auger Observatory

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dc.contributor.authorArqueros Martínez, Fernando
dc.contributor.authorBlanco Ramos, Francisco
dc.contributor.authorGarcía Pinto, Diego
dc.contributor.authorMinaya Flores, Ignacio Andrés
dc.contributor.authorOrtiz Ramis, Montserrat
dc.contributor.authorRosado Vélez, Jaime
dc.contributor.authorVázquez Peñas, José Ramón
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-19T14:55:19Z
dc.date.available2023-06-19T14:55:19Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description© IOP Publising LTD 2014. Autoría conjunta: Pierre Auger Collaboration. Artículo firmado por mas de 400 autores. We are very grateful to the following agencies and organizations for financial support: Comision Nacional de Energia Atomica, Fundacion Antorchas, Gobierno De La Provincia de Mendoza, Municipalidad de Malargue, NDM Holdings and Valle Las Lenas, in gratitude for their continuing cooperation over land access, Argentina; the Australian Research Council; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq), Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (FINEP), Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ), Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) Grants # 2010/07359-6, # 1999/05404-3, Ministerio de Ciencia e Tecnologia (MCT), Brazil; MSMT-CR LG13007, 7AMB14AR005, CZ.1.05/2.1.00/03.0058 and the Czech Science Foundation grant 14-17501S, Czech Republic; Centre de Calcul IN2P3/CNRS, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Conseil Regional Ile-de-France, Departement Physique Nucleaire et Corpusculaire (PNC-IN2P3/CNRS), Departement Sciences de l'Univers (SDU-INSU/CNRS), France; Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Finanzministerium Baden-Wurttemberg, Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (HGF), Ministerium fur Wissenschaft und Forschung, Nordrhein Westfalen, Ministerium fur Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita e della Ricerca (MIUR), Gran Sasso Center for Astroparticle Physics (CFA), CETEMPS Center of Excellence, Italy; Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACYT), Mexico; Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap, Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO), Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie (FOM), Netherlands; National Centre for Research and Development, Grant Nos. ERA-NET-ASPERA/01/11 and ERA-NET-ASPERA/02/11, National Science Centre, Grant Nos. 2013/08/M/ST9/00322, 2013/08/M/ST9/00728 and 2013/10/M/ST9/00062, Poland; Portuguese national funds and FEDER funds within COMPETE - Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade through Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia, Portugal; Romanian Authority for Scientific Research ANCS, CNDI-UEFISCDI partnership projects nr.20/2012 and nr.194/2012, project nr.1/ASPERA2/2012 ERA-NET, PN-II-RU-PD-2011-3-0145-17, and PN-II-RU-PD-2011-3-0062, the Minister of National Education, Programme for research - Space Technology and Advanced Research - STAR, project number 83/2013, Romania; Slovenian Research Agency, Slovenia; Comunidad de Madrid, FEDER funds, Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia, Xunta de Galicia, Spain; The Leverhulme Foundation, Science and Technology Facilities Council, United Kingdom; Department of Energy, Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359, DE-FR02-04ER41300, and DE-FG02-99ER41107, National Science Foundation, Grant No. 0450696, The Grainger Foundation, U.S.A.; NAFOSTED, Vietnam; Marie Curie-IRSES/EPLANET, European Particle Physics Latin American Network, European Union 7th Framework Program, Grant No. PIRSES-2009-GA-246806; and UNESCO.
dc.description.abstractWe describe the method devised to reconstruct inclined cosmic-ray air showers with zenith angles greater than 60 degrees detected with the surface array of the Pierre Auger Observatory. The measured signals at the ground level are fitted to muon density distributions predicted with atmospheric cascade models to obtain the relative shower size as an overall normalization parameter. The method is evaluated using simulated showers to test its performance. The energy of the cosmic rays is calibrated using a sub-sample of events reconstructed with both the fluorescence and surface array techniques. The reconstruction method described here provides the basis of complementary analyses including an independent measurement of the energy spectrum of ultra-high energy cosmic rays using very inclined events collected by the Pierre Auger Observatory.
dc.description.departmentDepto. de Estructura de la Materia, Física Térmica y Electrónica
dc.description.facultyFac. de Ciencias Físicas
dc.description.refereedTRUE
dc.description.sponsorshipUnión Europea. FP7
dc.description.sponsorshipCzech Republic
dc.description.sponsorshipCentre de Calcul
dc.description.sponsorshipCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
dc.description.sponsorshipConseil Regional Ile-de-France
dc.description.sponsorshipDepartement Physique Nucleaire et Corpusculaire
dc.description.sponsorshipDepartement Sciences de l'Univers (SDU-INSU/CNRS)
dc.description.sponsorshipInstitut Lagrange de Paris, France
dc.description.sponsorshipBundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
dc.description.sponsorshipDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
dc.description.sponsorshipFinanzministerium Baden-Wurttemberg
dc.description.sponsorshipHelmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (HGF)
dc.description.sponsorshipMinisterium fur Wissenschaft und Forschung, Nordrhein Westfalen
dc.description.sponsorshipIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
dc.description.sponsorshipMinistero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita e della Ricerca (MIUR)
dc.description.sponsorshipMinisterium fur Wissenschaft Forschung und Kunst Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
dc.description.sponsorshipGran Sasso Center for Astroparticle Physics (CFA)
dc.description.sponsorshipCETEMPS Center of Excellence, Italy
dc.description.sponsorshipMinisterie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap, Netherlands
dc.description.sponsorshipNederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO)
dc.description.sponsorshipStichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie (FOM), Netherlands
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Centre for Research and Development, Poland
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Science Centre, Poland
dc.description.sponsorshipPortuguese national funds and FEDER funds within COMPETE - Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade through Fundaçào para a Ciència e a Tecnologia, Portuga
dc.description.sponsorshipRomanian Authority for Scientific Research ANCS
dc.description.sponsorshipCNDI-UEFISCDI
dc.description.sponsorshipMinister of National Education
dc.description.sponsorshipProgramme for research - Space Technology and Advanced Research - STAR, Romania
dc.description.sponsorshipComunidad de Madrid, FEDER funds
dc.description.sponsorshipMinisterio de Educación y Ciencia, Spain
dc.description.sponsorshipXunta de Galicia, Spain
dc.description.sponsorshipLeverhulme Foundation
dc.description.sponsorshipScience and Technology Facilities Council, United Kingdom
dc.description.sponsorshipDepartment of Energy
dc.description.sponsorshipCzech Science Foundation
dc.description.sponsorshipEuropean Union 7th Framework Program
dc.description.sponsorshipUNESCO
dc.description.statuspub
dc.eprint.idhttps://eprints.ucm.es/id/eprint/31370
dc.identifier.doi10.1088/1475-7516/2014/08/019
dc.identifier.issn1475-7516
dc.identifier.officialurlhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2014/08/019
dc.identifier.relatedurlhttp://iopscience.iop.org
dc.identifier.relatedurlhttp://arxiv.org/abs/1407.3214
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/34784
dc.issue.number8
dc.journal.titleJournal of cosmology and astroparticle physics
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherIOP Publising LTD
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dc.subject.cdu539.1
dc.subject.keywordHigh energy neutrinos
dc.subject.keywordCosmic-ray cascades
dc.subject.keywordFluorescence
dc.subject.keywordProfile
dc.subject.keywordArray
dc.subject.keywordModel
dc.subject.keywordSimulation.
dc.subject.ucmFísica nuclear
dc.subject.unesco2207 Física Atómica y Nuclear
dc.titleReconstruction of inclined air showers detected with the pierre Auger Observatory
dc.typejournal article
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