First observation of the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin suppression

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Abbasi, R U ^a   Abu Zayyad, T ^a   Allen, M ^a   Amman, J F ^b   Archbold, G ^a   Belov, K ^a   Belz, J W ^a   Ben Zvi, S Y ^c   Bergman, D R ^d   Blake, S A ^a   Brusova, O A ^a   Burt, G W ^a   Cannon, C ^a   Cao, Z ^a   Connolly, B C ^c   Deng, W ^a   Fedorova, Y ^a   Finley, C B ^c   Gray, R C ^a   Hanlon, W F ^a   Hoffman, C M ^b   Holzscheiter, M H ^b   Hughes, G ^d   Huntemeyer P ^a   Jones, B F ^a   Jui, C C H ^a   Kim, K ^a   Kirn, M A ^e   Loh, E C ^a   Maestas, M M ^a   Manago, N ^f   Marek, L J ^b   Martens, K ^a   Matthews, J A J ^g   Matthews, J N ^a   Moore, S A ^a   O'Neill, A ^c   Painter, C A ^b   Perera, L ^d   Reil, K ^a   Riehle, R ^a   Roberts, M ^g   Rodriguez, D ^a   Sasaki, N ^f   Schnetzer, S R ^d   Scott, L M ^d   Sinnis, G ^b   Smith, J D ^a   Sokolsky, P ^a   Song, C ^c   Springer, R W ^a   Stokes, B T ^a   Thomas, S B ^a   Thomas, J R ^a   Thomson, G B ^d   Tupa, D ^b   Westerhoff, S ^c   Wiencke, L R ^a   Zhang, X ^c   Zech, A ^d   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAYS; DATA ACQUISITION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

GREISEN-ZATSEPIN-KUZMIN SUPPRESSION; STANDARD DEVIATIONS;

OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

EID: 40849124204     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.101101     Document Type: Article

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