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The HOPPET NNLO parton evolution package

ScienceWise Publishing (2008)

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Juan Rojo, Gavin Salam
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Upper limit on the cosmic-ray photon flux above 1019 eV using the surface detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory

Astroparticle Physics 29:4 (2008) 243-256

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J Abraham, P Abreu, M Aglietta, C Aguirre, D Allard, I Allekotte, J Allen, P Allison, J Alvarez-Muñiz, M Ambrosio, L Anchordoqui, S Andringa, A Anzalone, C Aramo, S Argirò, K Arisaka, E Armengaud, F Arneodo, F Arqueros, T Asch, H Asorey, P Assis, BS Atulugama, J Aublin, M Ave, G Avila, T Bäcker, D Badagnani, AF Barbosa, D Barnhill, SLC Barroso, P Bauleo, JJ Beatty, T Beau, BR Becker, KH Becker, JA Bellido, S BenZvi, C Berat, T Bergmann, P Bernardini, X Bertou, PL Biermann, P Billoir, O Blanch-Bigas, F Blanco, P Blasi, C Bleve, H Blümer, M Boháčová, C Bonifazi, R Bonino, M Boratav, J Brack, P Brogueira, WC Brown, P Buchholz, A Bueno, RE Burton, NG Busca, KS Caballero-Mora, B Cai, DV Camin, L Caramete, R Caruso, W Carvalho, A Castellina, O Catalano, G Cataldi, L Cazon, R Cester, J Chauvin, A Chiavassa, JA Chinellato, A Chou, J Chye, PDJ Clark, RW Clay, E Colombo, R Conceição, B Connolly, F Contreras, J Coppens, A Cordier, U Cotti, S Coutu, CE Covault, A Creusot, A Criss, J Cronin, A Curutiu, S Dagoret-Campagne, K Daumiller, BR Dawson, RM de Almeida, C De Donato, SJ de Jong, G De La Vega, WJM de Mello Junior, JRT de Mello Neto

Abstract:

A method is developed to search for air showers initiated by photons using data recorded by the surface detector of the Auger Observatory. The approach is based on observables sensitive to the longitudinal shower development, the signal risetime and the curvature of the shower front. Applying this method to the data, upper limits on the flux of photons of 3.8 × 10- 3, 2.5 × 10- 3, and 2.2 × 10- 3 km- 2 sr- 1 yr- 1 above 1019 eV, 2 × 1019 eV, and 4 × 1019 eV are derived, with corresponding limits on the fraction of photons being 2.0%, 5.1%, and 31% (all limits at 95% c.l.). These photon limits disfavor certain exotic models of sources of cosmic rays. The results also show that the approach adopted by the Auger Observatory to calibrate the shower energy is not strongly biased by a contamination from photons. © 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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IceCube contributions to the XIV International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions (ISVHECRI 2006) Weihai, China - August 15-22

NUCL PHYS B-PROC SUP 175 (2008) 407-408

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A Achterberg, M Ackermann, J Adams, J Ahrens, K Andeen, DW Atlee, JN Bahcall, X Bai, B Baret, SW Barwick, R Bay, K Beattie, T Becka, JK Becker, KH Becker, P Berghaus, D Berley, E Bernardini, D Bertrand, DZ Besson, E Blaufuss, DJ Boersma, C Bohm, J Bolmont, S Boser, O Botner, A Bouchta, J Braun, C Burgess, T Burgess, T Castermans, D Chirkin, B Christy, J Clem, DF Cowen, MV D'Agostino, A Davour, CT Day, C De Clercq, L Demirors, F Descamps, P Desiati, T DeYoung, JC Diaz-Velez, J Dreyer, JP Dumm, MR Duvoort, WR Edwards, R Ehrlich, J Eisch, RW Ellsworth, PA Evenson, O Fadiran, AR Fazely, T Feser, K Filimonov, BD Fox, TK Gaisser, J Gallagher, R Ganugapati, H Geenen, L Gerhardt, A Goldschmidt, JA Goodman, R Gozzini, S Grullon, A Gross, RM Gunasingha, M Gurtner, A Hallgren, F Halzen, K Han, K Hanson, D Hardtke, R Hardtke, T Harenberg, JE Hart, T Hauschildt, D Hays, J Heise, K Helbing, M Hellwig, P Herquet, GC Hill, J Hodges, KD Hoffman, B Hommez, K Hoshina, D Hubert, B Hughey, PO Hulth, K Hultqvist, S Hundertmark, JP Hulss, A Ishihara, J Jacobsen, GS Japaridze, H Johansson, A Jones, JM Joseph, KH Kampert, A Karle, H Kawai, JL Kelley, M Kestel, N Kitamura, SR Klein, S Klepser, G Kohnen, H Kolanoski, L Kopke, M Krasberg, K Kuehn, H Landsman, H Leich, D Leier, M Leuthold, I Liubarsky, J Lundberg, J Lunemann, J Madsen, K Mase, HS Matis, T McCauley, CP McParland, A Meli, T Messarius, P Meszaros, H Miyamoto, A Mokhtarani, T Montaruli, A Morey, R Morse, SM Movit, K Munich, R Nahnhauer, JW Nam, P Niessen, DR Nygren, H Ogelman, A Olivas, S Patton, C Pena-Garay, CP de los Heros, A Piegsa, D Pieloth, AC Pohl, R Porrata, J Pretz, PB Price, GT Przybylski, K Rawlins, S Razzaque, E Resconi, W Rhode, M Ribordy, A Rizzo, S Robbins, P Roth, C Rott, D Rutledge, D Ryckbosch, HG Sander, S Sarkar, S Schlenstedt, T Schmidt, D Schneider, D Seckel, SH Seo, S Seunarine, A Silvestri, AJ Smith, M Solarz, C Song, JE Sopher, GM Spiczak, C Spiering, M Stamatikos, T Stanev, P Steffen, T Stezelberger, RG Stokstad, MC Stoufer, S Stoyanov, EA Strahler, T Straszheim, KH Sulanke, GW Sullivan, TJ Sumner, I Taboada, O Tarasova, A Tepe, L Thollander, S Tilav, M Tluczykont, PA Toale, D Turcan, N van Eijndhoven, J Vandenbroucke, A Van Overloop, B Veigt, W Wagner, C Walck, H Waldmann, M Walter, YR Wang, C Wendt, CH Wiebusch, G Wikstrom, DR Williams, R Wischnewski, H Wissing, K Woschnagg, XW Xu, G Yodh, S Yoshida, JD Zornoza
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Pileup subtraction using jet areas

Physics Letters B Elsevier 659:1-2 (2008) 119-126

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Matteo Cacciari, Gavin P Salam
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An abundance of heterotic vacua

JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS (2008) ARTN 027

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Maxime Gabella, Yang-Hui He, Andre Lukas
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