Cosmic rays are energetic particles, mostly atomic nuclei, raining down upon the Earth from the depths of the cosmos.
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Medal of Science and Technology "Luis Rivera Terrazas" for Humberto Salazar Ibarguen.
The planned upgrade of the Pierre Auger Observatory, AugerPrime, is featured as the cover story in the June 2016 issue of the CERN Courier, an international journal of high-energy physics whose readership spans the globe.
One of the biggest challenges in cosmic-ray physics is to accurately pin down the absolute energy of a measured cosmic ray.
Billions of subatomic particles can be created in cosmic-ray induced air showers.
The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) measures radio properties of cosmic-ray induced air showers within the Pierre Auger Observatory.
