A study of the composition of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays using the High-Resolution Fly's Eye

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 622, Issue 2 I, 2005, Pages 910-926

  Abbasi, R U ^a   Abu Zayyad, T ^a   Archbold, G ^a,b   Atkins, R ^a   Bellido, J ^c   Belov, K ^a   Belz, J W ^d   Benzvi, S ^e   Bergman, D R ^f   Boyer, J ^e   Burt, G W ^a   Cao, Z ^a   Clay, R ^c   Connolly, B M ^e   Dawson, B ^c   Deng, W ^a   Fedorova, Y ^a   Findlay, J ^a   Finley, C B ^e   Hanlon, W F ^a   Hughes, G A ^f   Huntemeyer, P ^a   Jui, C C H ^a   Kim, K ^a   Kirn, M A ^d   Knapp, B ^e   Loh, E C ^a   Maetas, M M ^a   Martens, K ^a   Martin, G ^g   Manago, N ^h   Mannel, E J ^e   Matthews, J A J ^g   Matthews, J N ^a   O'Neill, A ^e   Perera, L ^f   Reil, K ^a   Riehle, R ^a   Roberts, M D ^g   Sasaki, M ^h   Seman, M ^e   Schnetzer, S R ^f   Simpson, K ^c   Smith, J D ^a   Snow, R ^a   Sokolsky, P ^a   Song, C ^e   Springer, R W ^a   Stokes, B T ^a   Thomas, J R ^a   Thomas, S B ^a   Thomson, G B ^f   Westerhoff, S ^e   Wiencke, L R ^a   Zech, A ^f   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^e Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^f RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acceleration of particles; Cosmic rays; Large scale structure of universe

Indexed keywords

EID: 19944361842     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/427931     Document Type: Article

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