English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Global: Zendy Plus annual

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Insights

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Global: Zendy Tools annual

Global: Zendy Free Plan

Global: Zendy Tools monthly

Global: Zendy Plus monthly

The hybrid Pierre Auger Observatory, consisting of fluorescence detector with 24 telescopes and of surface detector with more than 1600 water Cherenkov stations, has been collecting high quality data since January 2004. In this contribution we present namely current results of studies of ultra-high energy cosmic ray composition and related results concerning the energy spectrum of these particles. The depth of maximum of air showers determined using fluorescence telescopes and the magnitude of the fluctuations of this maximum depth are reported as functions of energy. The results are compared with predictions of several hadronic interaction models. Then the other mass sensitive parameters from the measurements of the surface detector are briefly discussed. Finally, we also mention the new limits on the flux of ultra-high energy photons and of diffuse ultra-high energy neutrinos, and we investigate the impact of these limits on top-down models of cosmic ray origin.

Studies of the ultra-high energy cosmic ray composition at the Pierre Auger Observatory