In astroparticle physics, an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray (UHECR) is a cosmic ray with an energy greater than 1 EeV (1018 electronvolts, approximately...
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Oh-My-God particle (category Cosmic rays)
The Oh-My-God particle was an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray detected on 15 October 1991 by the Fly's Eye camera in Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, United States...
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Cosmic rays or astroparticles are high-energy particles or clusters of particles (primarily represented by protons or atomic nuclei) that move through...
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The High Resolution Fly's Eye or HiRes detector was an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray observatory that operated in the West Desert of Utah from 1981 until...
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Ultra-high-energy gamma rays are gamma rays with photon energies higher than 100 TeV (0.1 PeV). They have a frequency higher than 2.42 × 1028 Hz and a...
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Greisen–Zatsepin–Kuzmin limit (redirect from Cosmic ray paradox)
that ultra-high energy cosmic rays are produced near our galaxy or that Lorentz covariance is violated in such a way that protons do not lose energy on...
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Galactic Center GeV excess Gamma-ray Burst Coordinates Network History of gamma-ray burst research Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray Astronomical literature generally...
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A cosmic-ray observatory is a scientific installation built to detect high-energy-particles coming from space called cosmic rays. This typically includes...
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Amaterasu particle (category Cosmic rays)
after the sun goddess in Japanese mythology, was an unexpected ultra-high-energy cosmic ray detected in 2021 and later identified in 2023, using the Telescope...
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Extragalactic cosmic rays are very-high-energy particles that flow into the Solar System from beyond the Milky Way galaxy. While at low energies, the majority...
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Chicago Air Shower Array (category Cosmic-ray experiments)
The Chicago Air Shower Array (CASA) was a significant ultra high high-energy astrophysics experiment operating in the 1990s. It consisted of a very large...
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Pierre Auger Observatory (redirect from Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory)
Observatory is an international cosmic ray observatory in Argentina designed to detect ultra-high-energy cosmic rays: sub-atomic particles traveling nearly...
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interacting massive particles have been proposed as a solution for the ultra-high-energy cosmic-ray problem and the absence of cooling flows in galactic clusters...
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particle physics for studying the origin of high-energy and ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (HECRs and UHECRs) at energies between 1015–1020.5 eV. Both the sites...
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the universe. Their slow decays may provide a source for the ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECR). John Ellis; Jorge L. Lopez; D.V. Nanopoulos (1990)...
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gamma rays as well, as the cosmic ray particles interact with nuclei or electrons to produce photons or neutral pions which in turn decay to ultra-high-energy...
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oligodendrocyte-myelin glycoprotein in humans OMG particle, an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray observed in 1991 Object Management Group, on computer industry...
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"vacuum rest frame"). They can be tested, at least partially, by ultra-high energy cosmic ray experiments like the Pierre Auger Observatory. The laws of physics...
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Supernova remnant (section Origin of cosmic rays)
the Cosmic Radiation". Physical Review. 75 (8): 1169–1174. Bibcode:1949PhRv...75.1169F. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.75.1169. "Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays". University...
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Telescope Array Project (category Cosmic-ray experiments)
showers induced by ultra-high-energy cosmic ray using a combination of ground array and air-fluorescence techniques. It is located in the high desert in Millard...
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particles to high and ultra-high energies. It is a proposed explanation for ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) and extreme-energy cosmic rays (EECRs) exceeding...
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Hires may refer to: High Resolution Fly's Eye, ultra-high-energy cosmic ray observatory High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer or High Resolution Echelle...
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to be long lived or stable and has been invoked to explain ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. Stable exotic baryons are also candidates for strongly interacting...
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thriller film originally titled God Particle Oh-My-God particle, an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray detected in 1991 over Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, US This disambiguation...
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Transient Antenna (ANITA) experiment has been designed to study ultra-high-energy (UHE) cosmic neutrinos by detecting the radio pulses emitted by their interactions...
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pulsar. Pulsars are one of the candidates for the source of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. (See also centrifugal mechanism of acceleration.) Pulsars’...
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Planck units (redirect from Planck energy)
PMID 32639827. S2CID 218870394. "HiRes – The High Resolution Fly's Eye Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray Observatory". www.cosmic-ray.org. Archived from the original on...
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pioneered in depth studies of the physics and astrophysics of ultra-high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) including the propagation and neutrino production of...
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universe. It is proposed that photinos are produced by sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. Photinos have a lepton number 0, baryon number 0, and spin...
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Akeno Giant Air Shower Array (category Cosmic-ray experiments)
array of particle detectors designed to study the origin of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. It was deployed from 1987 to 1991 and decommissioned in 2004...
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