Scientific Highlights

One of the most pressing mysteries in astroparticle physics is the composition and origin of cosmic rays at energies around 1 EeV = 10¹⁸ eV.

100 years after their prediction by Albert Einstein, Gravitational Waves (GW) were detected in 2015 by the LIGO detectors.

The highest energy cosmic rays remain elusive and mysterious, and their study requires extraordinary efforts.

Maxwell’s unified description of electric and magnetic phenomena is one of the greatest achievements of 19th century physics.

Cosmic rays are energetic particles, mostly atomic nuclei, raining down upon the Earth from the depths of the cosmos.

The Pierre Auger Collaboration measured a dipolar anisotropy in the arrival-direction distribution of the cosmic rays with energies in excess of 8x10¹⁸ eV, finding that the flux is about
6.5% larger than the average in one direction of the sky and it is correspondingly smaller in the opposite direction.