The highest energy cosmic rays remain elusive and mysterious, and their study requires extraordinary efforts.
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The Pierre Auger Observatory has detected more muons from cosmic-ray showers than predicted by the most up-to-date particle-physics models.
Interesting article in the October 2016 issue of the American bi-weekly magazine ScienceNews.
On Sep. 15, 2016 six Surface Scintillator Detector (SSD) stations were deployed with a single trip to the engineering array site.
Maxwell’s unified description of electric and magnetic phenomena is one of the greatest achievements of 19th century physics.
On the occasion of the celebration of Jim Cronin’s life on September 30, 2016 came up the idea to gather individual recollections and stories about Jim and the Auger Observatory over the years.