The Pierre Auger Collaboration

P. Abreu⁷², M. Aglietta⁵⁵, E.J. Ahn⁸⁸, D. Allard³¹, I. Allekotte¹, J. Allen⁹¹, J. Alvarez Castillo⁶⁵, J. Alvarez-Muñiz⁷⁹, M. Ambrosio⁴⁸, A. Aminaei⁶⁶, L. Anchordoqui¹⁰⁴, S. Andringa⁷², T. Antičić²⁵, A. Anzalone⁵⁴, C. Aramo⁴⁸, E. Arganda⁷⁶, F. Arqueros⁷⁶, H. Asorey¹, P. Assis⁷², J. Aublin³³, M. Ave^{37, 96}, M. Avenier³⁴, G. Avila¹⁰, T. Bäcker⁴³, D. Badagnani⁶, M. Balzer³⁸, K.B. Barber¹¹, A.F. Barbosa¹⁴, R. Bardenet³², S.L.C. Barroso²⁰, B. Baughman⁹³, J.J. Beatty⁹³, B.R. Becker¹⁰¹, K.H. Becker³⁶, A. Bellétoile³⁴, J.A. Bellido¹¹, S. BenZvi¹⁰³, C. Berat³⁴, T. Bergmann³⁸, X. Bertou¹, P.L. Biermann⁴⁰, P. Billoir³³, F. Blanco⁷⁶, M. Blanco⁷⁷, C. Bleve³⁶, H. Blümer^{39, 37}, M. Boháčová^{96, 27}, D. Boncioli⁴⁹, C. Bonifazi^{23, 33}, R. Bonino⁵⁵, N. Borodai⁷⁰, J. Brack⁸⁶, P. Brogueira⁷², W.C. Brown⁸⁷, R. Bruijn⁸², P. Buchholz⁴³, A. Bueno⁷⁸, R.E. Burton⁸⁴, N.G. Busca³¹, K.S. Caballero-Mora³⁹, L. Caramete⁴⁰, R. Caruso⁵⁰, A. Castellina⁵⁵, O. Catalano⁵⁴, G. Cataldi⁴⁷, L. Cazon⁷², R. Cester⁵¹, J. Chauvin³⁴, A. Chiavassa⁵⁵, J.A. Chinellato¹⁸, A. Chou^{88, 91}, J. Chudoba²⁷, R.W. Clay¹¹, E. Colombo², M.R. Coluccia⁴⁷, R. Conceição⁷², F. Contreras⁹, H. Cook⁸², M.J. Cooper¹¹, J. Coppens^{66, 68}, A. Cordier³², U. Cotti⁶⁴, S. Coutu⁹⁴, C.E. Covault⁸⁴, A. Creusot⁷⁴, A. Criss⁹⁴, J. Cronin⁹⁶, A. Curutiu⁴⁰, S. Dagoret-Campagne³², R. Dallier³⁵, S. Dasso^{7, 4}, K. Daumiller³⁷, B.R. Dawson¹¹, R.M. de Almeida^{18, 23}, M. De Domenico⁵⁰, C. De Donato^{65, 46}, S.J. de Jong⁶⁶, G. De La Vega⁸, W.J.M. de Mello Junior¹⁸, J.R.T. de Mello Neto²³, I. De Mitri⁴⁷, V. de Souza¹⁶, K.D. de Vries⁶⁷, G. Decerprit³¹, L. del Peral⁷⁷, O. Deligny³⁰, A. Della Selva⁴⁸, H. Dembinski³⁷, A. Denkiewicz², C. Di Giulio⁴⁹, J.C. Diaz⁹⁰, M.L. Díaz Castro¹⁵, P.N. Diep¹⁰⁵, C. Dobrigkeit ¹⁸, J.C. D'Olivo⁶⁵, P.N. Dong^{105, 30}, A. Dorofeev⁸⁶, J.C. dos Anjos¹⁴, M.T. Dova⁶, D. D'Urso⁴⁸, I. Dutan⁴⁰, J. Ebr²⁷, R. Engel³⁷, M. Erdmann⁴¹, C.O. Escobar¹⁸, A. Etchegoyen², P. Facal San Luis⁹⁶, H. Falcke^{66, 69}, G. Farrar⁹¹, A.C. Fauth¹⁸, N. Fazzini⁸⁸, A.P. Ferguson⁸⁴, A. Ferrero², B. Fick⁹⁰, A. Filevich², A. Filipčič^{73, 74}, I. Fleck⁴³, S. Fliescher⁴¹, C.E. Fracchiolla⁸⁶, E.D. Fraenkel⁶⁷, U. Fröhlich⁴³, B. Fuchs¹⁴, W. Fulgione⁵⁵, R.F. Gamarra², S. Gambetta⁴⁴, B. García⁸, D. García Gámez⁷⁸, D. Garcia-Pinto⁷⁶, A. Gascon⁷⁸, H. Gemmeke³⁸, K. Gesterling¹⁰¹, P.L. Ghia^{30, 55}, U. Giaccari⁴⁷, M. Giller⁷¹, H. Glass⁸⁸, M.S. Gold¹⁰¹, G. Golup¹, F. Gomez Albarracin⁶, M. Gómez Berisso¹, P. Gonçalves⁷², D. Gonzalez³⁹, J.G. Gonzalez³⁹, B. Gookin⁸⁶, D. Góra^39,
70, A. Gorgi⁵⁵, P. Gouffon¹⁷, S.R. Gozzini⁸², E. Grashorn⁹³, S. Grebe⁶⁶, M. Grigat⁴¹, A.F. Grillo⁵⁶, Y. Guardincerri⁴, F. Guarino⁴⁸, G.P. Guedes¹⁹, J.D. Hague¹⁰¹, P. Hansen⁶, D. Harari¹, S. Harmsma^{67, 68}, J.L. Harton⁸⁶, A. Haungs³⁷, T. Hebbeker⁴¹, D. Heck³⁷, A.E. Herve¹¹, C. Hojvat⁸⁸, V.C. Holmes¹¹, P. Homola⁷⁰, J.R. Hörandel⁶⁶, A. Horneffer⁶⁶, M. Hrabovský^{28, 27}, T. Huege³⁷, A. Insolia⁵⁰, F. Ionita⁹⁶, A. Italiano⁵⁰, S. Jiraskova⁶⁶, K. Kadija²⁵, K.H. Kampert³⁶, P. Karhan²⁶, T. Karova²⁷, P. Kasper⁸⁸, B. Kégl³², B. Keilhauer³⁷, A. Keivani⁸⁹, J.L. Kelley⁶⁶, E. Kemp¹⁸, R.M. Kieckhafer⁹⁰, H.O. Klages³⁷, M. Kleifges³⁸, J. Kleinfeller³⁷, J. Knapp⁸², D.-H. Koang³⁴, K. Kotera⁹⁶, N. Krohm³⁶, O. Krömer³⁸, D. Kruppke-Hansen³⁶, F. Kuehn⁸⁸, D. Kuempel³⁶, J.K. Kulbartz⁴², N. Kunka³⁸, G. La Rosa⁵⁴, C. Lachaud³¹, P. Lautridou³⁵, M.S.A.B. Leão²², D. Lebrun³⁴, P. Lebrun⁸⁸, M.A. Leigui de Oliveira²², A. Lemiere³⁰, A. Letessier-Selvon³³, I. Lhenry-Yvon³⁰, K. Link³⁹, R. López⁶¹, A. Lopez Agüera⁷⁹, K. Louedec³², J. Lozano Bahilo⁷⁸, A. Lucero^{2, 55}, M. Ludwig³⁹, H. Lyberis³⁰, M.C. Maccarone⁵⁴, C. Macolino³³, S. Maldera⁵⁵, D. Mandat²⁷, P. Mantsch⁸⁸, A.G. Mariazzi⁶, V. Marin³⁵, I.C. Maris³³, H.R. Marquez Falcon⁶⁴, G. Marsella⁵², D. Martello⁴⁷, L. Martin³⁵, O. Martínez Bravo⁶¹, H.J. Mathes³⁷, J. Matthews^{89, 95}, J.A.J. Matthews¹⁰¹, G. Matthiae⁴⁹, D. Maurizio⁵¹, P.O. Mazur⁸⁸, G. Medina-Tanco⁶⁵, M. Melissas³⁹, D. Melo⁵¹, E. Menichetti⁵¹, A. Menshikov³⁸, C. Meurer⁴¹, S. Mičanović²⁵, M.I. Micheletti², W. Miller¹⁰¹, L. Miramonti⁴⁶, S. Mollerach¹, M. Monasor⁹⁶, D. Monnier Ragaigne³², F. Montanet³⁴, B. Morales⁶⁵, C. Morello⁵⁵, E. Moreno⁶¹, J.C. Moreno⁶, C. Morris⁹³, M. Mostafá⁸⁶, S. Mueller³⁷, M.A. Muller¹⁸, G. Müller⁴¹, M. Münchmeyer³³, R. Mussa⁵¹, G. Navarra^55
‡, J.L. Navarro⁷⁸, S. Navas⁷⁸, P. Necesal²⁷, L. Nellen⁶⁵, P.T. Nhung¹⁰⁵, N. Nierstenhoefer³⁶, D. Nitz⁹⁰, D. Nosek²⁶, L. Nožka²⁷, M. Nyklicek²⁷, J. Oehlschläger³⁷, A. Olinto⁹⁶, P. Oliva³⁶, V.M. Olmos-Gilbaja⁷⁹, M. Ortiz⁷⁶, N. Pacheco⁷⁷, D. Pakk Selmi-Dei¹⁸, M. Palatka²⁷, J. Pallotta³, N. Palmieri³⁹, G. Parente⁷⁹, E. Parizot³¹, A. Parra⁷⁹, J. Parrisius³⁹, R.D. Parsons⁸², S. Pastor⁷⁵, T. Paul⁹², V. Pavlidou^{96 c}, K. Payet³⁴, M. Pech²⁷, J. Pękala⁷⁰, R. Pelayo⁷⁹, I.M. Pepe²¹, L. Perrone⁵², R. Pesce⁴⁴, E. Petermann¹⁰⁰, S. Petrera⁴⁵, P. Petrinca⁴⁹, A. Petrolini⁴⁴, Y. Petrov⁸⁶, J. Petrovic⁶⁸, C. Pfendner¹⁰³, N. Phan¹⁰¹, R. Piegaia⁴, T. Pierog³⁷, P. Pieroni⁴, M. Pimenta⁷², V. Pirronello⁵⁰, M. Platino², V.H. Ponce¹, M. Pontz⁴³, P. Privitera⁹⁶, M. Prouza²⁷, E.J. Quel³, J. Rautenberg³⁶, O. Ravel³⁵, D. Ravignani², B. Revenu³⁵, J. Ridky²⁷, S. Riggi⁵⁰, M. Risse⁴³, P. Ristori³, H. Rivera⁴⁶, C. Rivière³⁴, V. Rizi⁴⁵, C. Robledo⁶¹, G. Rodriguez⁷⁹, J. Rodriguez Martino^{9, 50}, J. Rodriguez Rojo⁹, I. Rodriguez-Cabo⁷⁹, M.D. Rodríguez-Frías⁷⁷, G. Ros⁷⁷, J. Rosado⁷⁶, T. Rossler²⁸, M. Roth³⁷, B. Rouillé-d'Orfeuil⁹⁶, E. Roulet¹, A.C. Rovero⁷, F. Salamida^37,
45, H. Salazar⁶¹, G. Salina⁴⁹, F. Sánchez², M. Santander⁹, C.E. Santo⁷², E. Santos⁷², E.M. Santos²³, F. Sarazin⁸⁵, S. Sarkar⁸⁰, R. Sato⁹, N. Scharf⁴¹, V. Scherini⁴⁶, H. Schieler³⁷, P. Schiffer⁴¹, A. Schmidt³⁸, F. Schmidt⁹⁶, T. Schmidt³⁹, O. Scholten⁶⁷, H. Schoorlemmer⁶⁶, J. Schovancova²⁷, P. Schovánek²⁷, F. Schroeder³⁷, S. Schulte⁴¹, D. Schuster⁸⁵, S.J. Sciutto⁶, M. Scuderi⁵⁰, A. Segreto⁵⁴, D. Semikoz³¹, M. Settimo^{43, 47}, A. Shadkam⁸⁹, R.C. Shellard^{14, 15}, I. Sidelnik², G. Sigl⁴², A. Śmiałkowski⁷¹, R. Šmída^{37, 27}, G.R. Snow¹⁰⁰, P. Sommers⁹⁴, J. Sorokin¹¹, H. Spinka^83,
88, R. Squartini⁹, J. Stapleton⁹³, J. Stasielak⁷⁰, M. Stephan⁴¹, E. Strazzeri⁵⁴, A. Stutz³⁴, F. Suarez², T. Suomijärvi³⁰, A.D. Supanitsky⁶⁵, T. Šuša²⁵, M.S. Sutherland⁹³, J. Swain⁹², Z. Szadkowski^{36, 71}, A. Tamashiro⁷, A. Tapia², T. Tarutina⁶, O. Taşcău³⁶, R. Tcaciuc⁴³, D. Tcherniakhovski³⁸, D. Tegolo^{50, 59}, N.T. Thao¹⁰⁵, D. Thomas⁸⁶, J. Tiffenberg⁴, C. Timmermans^68,
66, D.K. Tiwari⁶⁴, W. Tkaczyk⁷¹, C.J. Todero Peixoto²², B. Tomé⁷², A. Tonachini⁵¹, P. Travnicek²⁷, D.B. Tridapalli¹⁷, G. Tristram³¹, E. Trovato⁵⁰, M. Tueros⁶, R. Ulrich^94,
37, M. Unger³⁷, M. Urban³², J.F. Valdés Galicia⁶⁵, I. Valiño^{79, 37}, L. Valore⁴⁸, A.M. van den Berg⁶⁷, B. Vargas Cárdenas⁶⁵, J.R. Vázquez⁷⁶, R.A. Vázquez⁷⁹, D. Veberič^{74, 73}, T. Venters⁹⁶, V. Verzi⁴⁹, M. Videla⁸, L. Villaseñor⁶⁴, H. Wahlberg⁶, P. Wahrlich¹¹, O. Wainberg², D. Warner⁸⁶, A.A. Watson⁸², M. Weber³⁸, K. Weidenhaupt⁴¹, A. Weindl³⁷, S. Westerhoff¹⁰³, B.J. Whelan¹¹, G. Wieczorek⁷¹, L. Wiencke⁸⁵, B. Wilczyńska⁷⁰, H. Wilczyński⁷⁰, M. Will³⁷, C. Williams⁹⁶, T. Winchen⁴¹, L. Winders¹⁰⁴, M.G. Winnick¹¹, M. Wommer³⁷, B. Wundheiler², T. Yamamoto^96
a, P. Younk^{43, 86}, G. Yuan⁸⁹, A. Yushkov⁴⁸, B. Zamorano⁷⁸, E. Zas⁷⁹, D. Zavrtanik^74,
73, M. Zavrtanik^{73, 74}, I. Zaw⁹¹, A. Zepeda⁶², M. Ziolkowski⁴³

(1) Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro (CNEA-UNCuyo-CONICET), San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina

(2) Centro Atómico Constituyentes (Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica/CONICET/UTN-FRBA), Buenos

Aires, Argentina

(3) Centro de Investigaciones en Láseres y Aplicaciones, CITEFA and CONICET, Argentina

(4) Departamento de Física, FCEyN, Universidad de Buenos Aires y CONICET, Argentina

(6) IFLP, Universidad Nacional de La Plata and CONICET, La Plata, Argentina

(7) Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio (CONICET-UBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina

(8) National Technological University, Faculty Mendoza (CONICET/CNEA), Mendoza, Argentina

(9) Pierre Auger Southern Observatory, Malargüe, Argentina

(10) Pierre Auger Southern Observatory and Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Malargüe, Argentina

(11) University of Adelaide, Adelaide, S.A., Australia

(14) Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

(15) Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

(16) Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Física, São Carlos, SP, Brazil

(17) Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Física, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

(18) Universidade Estadual de Campinas, IFGW, Campinas, SP, Brazil

(19) Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Brazil

(20) Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia, Vitoria da Conquista, BA, Brazil

(21) Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, BA, Brazil

(22) Universidade Federal do ABC, Santo André, SP, Brazil

(23) Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Física, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

(25) Rudjer Bošković Institute, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

(26) Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics, Prague, Czech Republic

(27) Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic

(28) Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic

(30) Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris 11, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France

(31) Laboratoire AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC), Université Paris 7, CNRS-IN2P3, Paris, France

(32) Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), Université Paris 11, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France

(33) Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies (LPNHE), Universités Paris 6 et Paris 7, CNRS-

IN2P3, Paris, France

(34) Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Joseph Fourier, INPG, CNRS-

IN2P3, Grenoble, France

(35) SUBATECH, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France

(36) Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany

(37) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - Campus North - Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany

(38) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - Campus North - Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik, Karlsruhe, Germany

(39) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - Campus South - Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik (IEKP), Karlsruhe, Germany

(40) Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany

(41) RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Aachen, Germany

(42) Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

(43) Universität Siegen, Siegen, Germany

(44) Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and INFN, Genova, Italy

(45) Università dell'Aquila and INFN, L'Aquila, Italy

(46) Università di Milano and Sezione INFN, Milan, Italy

(47) Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università del Salento and Sezione INFN, Lecce, Italy

(48) Università di Napoli "Federico II" and Sezione INFN, Napoli, Italy

(49) Università di Roma II “Tor Vergata” and Sezione INFN, Roma, Italy

(50) Università di Catania and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy

(51) Università di Torino and Sezione INFN, Torino, Italy

(52) Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Innovazione dell'Università del Salento and Sezione INFN, Lecce, Italy

(54) Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Palermo (INAF), Palermo, Italy

(55) Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario (INAF), Università di Torino and Sezione INFN, Torino, Italy

(56) INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy

(59) Università di Palermo and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy

(61) Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico

(62) Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN (CINVESTAV), México, D.F., Mexico

(64) Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo, Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico

(65) Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico, D.F., Mexico

(66) IMAPP, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands

(67) Kernfysisch Versneller Instituut, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands

(68) NIKHEF, Amsterdam, Netherlands

(69) ASTRON, Dwingeloo, Netherlands

(70) Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Krakow, Poland

(71) University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland

(72) LIP and Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal

(73) J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

(74) Laboratory for Astroparticle Physics, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia

(75) Instituto de Física Corpuscular, CSIC-Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain

(76) Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

(77) Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), Spain

(78) Universidad de Granada & C.A.F.P.E., Granada, Spain

(79) Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain

(80) Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

(82) School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, United Kingdom

(83) Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA

(84) Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA

(85) Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, USA

(86) Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA

(87) Colorado State University, Pueblo, CO, USA

(88) Fermilab, Batavia, IL, USA

(89) Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA

(90) Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA

(91) New York University, New York, NY, USA

(92) Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA

(93) Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

(94) Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA

(95) Southern University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA

(96) University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi Institute, Chicago, IL, USA

(100) University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, USA

(101) University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA

(103) University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

(104) University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA

(105) Institute for Nuclear Science and Technology (INST), Hanoi, Vietnam

(‡) Deceased

(a) at Konan University, Kobe, Japan

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