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A Study of the Effect of Molecular and Aerosol Conditions in the Atmosphere on Air Fluorescence Measurements at the Pierre Auger Observatory

ArXiv 1002.0366 (2010)

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The air fluorescence detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory is designed to perform calorimetric measurements of extensive air showers created by cosmic rays of above 10^18 eV. To correct these measurements for the effects introduced by atmospheric fluctuations, the Observatory contains a group of monitoring instruments to record atmospheric conditions across the detector site, an area exceeding 3,000 km^2. The atmospheric data are used extensively in the reconstruction of air showers, and are particularly important for the correct determination of shower energies and the depths of shower maxima. This paper contains a summary of the molecular and aerosol conditions measured at the Pierre Auger Observatory since the start of regular operations in 2004, and includes a discussion of the impact of these measurements on air shower reconstructions. Between 10^18 and 10^20 eV, the systematic uncertainties due to all atmospheric effects increase from 4% to 8% in measurements of shower energy, and 4 g/cm^2 to 8 g/cm^2 in measurements of the shower maximum.
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Phenomenology of event shapes at hadron colliders

(2010)

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Andrea Banfi, Gavin P Salam, Giulia Zanderighi
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Erratum to "Atmospheric effects on extensive air showers observed with the surface detector of the Pierre Auger observatory" [Astroparticle Physics 32(2) (2009), 89-99] (DOI:10.1016/j.astropartphys.2009.06.004)

Astroparticle Physics 33:1 (2010) 65-67

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J Abraham, P Abreu, M Aglietta, C Aguirre, EJ Ahn, D Allard, I Allekotte, J Allen, P Allison, J Alvarez-Muñiz, M Ambrosio, L Anchordoqui, S Andringa, A Anzalone, C Aramo, E Arganda, S Argirò, K Arisaka, F Arneodo, F Arqueros, T Asch, H Asorey, P Assis, J Aublin, M Ave, G Avila, T Bäcker, D Badagnani, KB Barber, AF Barbosa, SLC Barroso, B Baughman, P Bauleo, JJ Beatty, T Beau, BR Becker, KH Becker, A Bellétoile, JA Bellido, S BenZvi, C Berat, P Bernardini, X Bertou, PL Biermann, P Billoir, O Blanch-Bigas, F Blanco, C Bleve, H Blümer, M Boháčová, C Bonifazi, R Bonino, N Borodai, J Brack, P Brogueira, WC Brown, R Bruijn, P Buchholz, A Bueno, RE Burton, NG Busca, KS Caballero-Mora, L Caramete, R Caruso, W Carvalho, A Castellina, O Catalano, L Cazon, R Cester, J Chauvin, A Chiavassa, JA Chinellato, A Chou, J Chudoba, J Chye, 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, R Dallier, K Daumiller, BR Dawson, RM de Almeida, M De Domenico, C De Donato, SJ de Jong, G De La Vega, WJM de Mello, JRT de Mello Neto
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Erratum: Search for high-energy Muon neutrinos from the "naked-eye" GRB080319b with the icecube neutrino telescope (The Astrophysical Journal (2009) 701 (1721))

Astrophysical Journal 708:1 (2010) 911-912

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R Abbasi, Y Abdou, M Ackermann, J Adams, M Ahlers, K Andeen, J Auffenberg, X Bai, M Baker, SW Barwick, R Bay, JLB Alba, K Beattie, S Bechet, JK Becker, KH Becker, ML Benabderrahmane, J Berdermann, P Berghaus, D Berley, E Bernardini, D Bertrand, DZ Besson, M Bissok, E Blaufuss, DJ Boersma, C Bohm, J Bolmont, S Böser, O Botner, L Bradley, J Braun, D Breder, T Burgess, T Castermans, D Chirkin, B Christy, J Clem, S Cohen, DF Cowen, MV D'Agostino, M Danninger, CT Day, C De Clercq, L Demirörs, O Depaepe, F Descamps, P Desiati, G De Vries-Uiterweerd, T Deyoung, JC Diaz-Velez, J Dreyer, JP Dumm, MR Duvoort, WR Edwards, R Ehrlich, J Eisch, RW Ellsworth, O Engdegrd, S Euler, PA Evenson, O Fadiran, AR Fazely, T Feusels, K Filimonov, C Finley, MM Foerster, BD Fox, A Franckowiak, R Franke, TK Gaisser, J Gallagher, R Ganugapati, L Gerhardt, L Gladstone, A Goldschmidt, JA Goodman, R Gozzini, D Grant, T Griesel, A Gro, S Grullon, RM Gunasingha, M Gurtner, C Ha, A Hallgren, F Halzen, K Han, K Hanson, Y Hasegawa, J Heise, K Helbing, P Herquet, S Hickford, GC Hill, KD Hoffman, K Hoshina, D Hubert, W Huelsnitz, JP Hül
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Exploring positive monad bundles and a new heterotic standard model

Journal of High Energy Physics 2010:2 (2010)

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LB Anderson, J Gray, YH He, A Lukas

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A complete analysis of all heterotic Calabi-Yau compactifications based on positive two-term monad bundles over favourable complete intersection Calabi-Yau threefolds is performed. We show that the original data set of about 7000 models contains 91 standard-like models which we describe in detail. A closer analysis of Wilson-line breaking for these models reveals that none of them gives rise to precisely the matter field content of the standard model. We conclude that the entire set of positive two-term monads on complete intersection Calabi-Yau manifolds is ruled out on phenomenological grounds. We also take a first step in analyzing the larger class of non-positive monads. In particular, we construct a supersymmetric heterotic standard model within this class. This model has the standard model gauge group and an additional U(1) B-L symmetry, precisely three families of quarks and leptons, one pair of Higgs doublets and no anti-families or exotics of any kind. © 2010 SISSA.
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