%0 Journal Article
%A Arganda, E.
%A Arqueros Martínez, Fernando
%A Blanco Ramos, Francisco
%A García Pinto, Diego
%A Minaya Flores, Ignacio Andrés
%A Ortiz Ramis, Montserrat
%A Rosado Vélez, Jaime
%A Vázquez Peñas, José Ramón
%T A search for point sources of EeV neutrons
%D 2012
%@ 0004-637X
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/44720
%X A thorough search of the sky exposed at the Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory reveals no statistically significant excess of events in any small solid angle that would be indicative of a flux of neutral particles from a discrete source. The search covers from -90 degrees to +15 degrees in declination using four different energy ranges above 1 EeV (10(18) eV). The method used in this search is more sensitive to neutrons than to photons. The upper limit on a neutron flux is derived for a dense grid of directions for each of the four energy ranges. These results constrain scenarios for the production of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays in the Galaxy.
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