Indications of proton-dominated cosmic-ray composition above 1.6 EeV

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 16, 2010, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^e MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (China)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR SHOWERS; ELONGATION RATES; ENERGY SPECTRA; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-ENERGY HADRONIC INTERACTIONS; PROTONIC;

COSMIC RAYS; SPECTROSCOPY;

COSMOLOGY;

EID: 77951125726     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.161101     Document Type: Article

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