Upper limit on the photon fraction in highest-energy cosmic rays from AGASA data

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 17, 2005, Pages

  Risse, M ^a,b   Homola, P ^a   Engel, R ^b   Gora D ^a   Heck, D ^b   Pekala, J ^a   Wilczynska B ^a   Wilczynski H ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY CONSTRAINS; HIGHEST-ENERGY SHOWERS; PHOTON FRACTION;

DATA ACQUISITION; ENERGY ABSORPTION; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; PHOTONS;

COSMIC RAYS;

EID: 28844451218     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.171102     Document Type: Article

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