Precise determination of muon shower content from shower universality property (2009)
Yushkov, A., Ambrosio, M., Aramo, C., Guarino, F., D'Urso, D., Valore, L.
It is shown, that highly accurate estimation of muon shower content can be performed on the basis of knowledge of only vertical depth of shower maximum and total signal in ground detector. The...
Yushkov, A., Ambrosio, M., Aramo, C., Guarino, F., D'Urso, D., Valore, L.
We study the possibility to reconstruct primary mass composition with the use of combinations of basic shower characteristics, measured in hybrid experiments, such as depth of shower maximum from...
The Fluorescence Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory (2009)
Abreu, P., Aglietta, M., Aguirre, C., Ahn, E. J., Allard, D., ...
The Pierre Auger Observatory is a hybrid detector for ultra-high energy cosmic rays. It combines a surface array to measure secondary particles at ground level together with a fluorescence detector...
Abreu, P., Aglietta, M., Aguirre, C., Ahn, E. J., Allard, D., ...
Studies of the correlations of ultra-high energy cosmic ray directions with extra-Galactic objects, of general anisotropy, of photons and neutrinos, and of other astrophysical effects, with the...
Operations of and Future Plans for the Pierre Auger Observatory (2009)
Abreu, P., Aglietta, M., Aguirre, C., Ahn, E. J., Allard, D., ...
Technical reports on operations and features of the Pierre Auger Observatory, including ongoing and planned enhancements and the status of the future northern hemisphere portion of the Observatory....
Calibration and Monitoring of the Pierre Auger Observatory (2009)
Abreu, P., Aglietta, M., Aguirre, C., Ahn, E. J., Allard, D., ...
Reports on the atmospheric monitoring, calibration, and other operating systems of the Pierre Auger Observatory. Contributions to the 31st International Cosmic Ray Conference, Lodz, Poland, July 2009.
The Cosmic Ray Energy Spectrum and Related Measurements with the Pierre Auger Observatory (2009)
Abreu, P., Aglietta, M., Aguirre, C., Ahn, E. J., Allard, D., ...
Studies of the cosmic ray energy spectrum at the highest energies with the Pierre Auger Observatory.
Studies of Cosmic Ray Composition and Air Shower Structure with the Pierre Auger Observatory (2009)
Abreu, P., Aglietta, M., Aguirre, C., Ahn, E. J., Allard, D., ...
Studies of the composition of the highest energy cosmic rays with the Pierre Auger Observatory, including examination of hadronic physics effects on the structure of extensive air showers....
The OPERA magnetic spectrometer (2004)
Ambrosio, M., Brugnera, R., Dusini, S., Dulach, B., Fanin, C., Felici, G., ...
The OPERA neutrino oscillation experiment foresees the construction of two magnetized iron spectrometers located after the lead-nuclear emulsion targets. The magnet is made up of two vertical walls...
The $N^{O}E$ Detector for a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment (2003)
De Cataldo, G, Favuzzi, C, Fusco, P, Giglietto, N, Loparco, F, Rainó, A, ...
Search for nucleon decays induced by GUT magnetic monopoles with the MACRO experiment (2002)
Battistoni, G., Mufson, S., Nicolò, D., Choudhary, B.C., Maaroufi, F., Lamanna, E., ...
The interaction of a Grand Unification Magnetic Monopole with a nucleon can lead to a barion-number violating process in which the nucleon decays into a lepton and one or more mesons (catalysis of...
Search for cosmic ray sources using muons detected by the MACRO experiment (2002)
The MACRO underground detector at Gran Sasso Laboratory recorded 60 million secondary cosmic ray muons from February 1989 until December 2000. Different techniques were used to analyze this sample in...
Neutrino astronomy with the MACRO detector (2000)
High energy gamma ray astronomy is now a well established field and several sources have been discovered in the region from a few GeV up to several TeV. If sources involving hadronic processes exist,...
An experimental study of the production of up-going charged particles in inelastic interactions of down-going underground muons is reported, using data obtained from the MACRO detector at the Gran...
The MACRO experiment at Gran Sasso (1993)
Giacomelli, G, Ambrosio, M, Antolini, R, Auriemma, G, Baker, R, Baldini, A, ...
First supermodule of the MACRO detector at Gran Sasso (1993)
Ahlen, S., Ambrosio, M., Antolini, R., Auriemma, G., Baldini, A., Barbarino, G. C., ...
In this paper the design, construction and performance of the lower part of the first supermodule of the MACRO detector is described.
Search for neutrino bursts from collapsing stars with the MACRO detector (1992)
Ahlen, S., Ambrosio, M., Antolini, R., Auriemma, G., Baker, R., Baldini, A., ...
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Improvements in the CR39 polymer for the macro experiment at the Gran Sasso Laboratory (1991)
Ahlen, S. P., Ambrosio, M., Auriemma, G., Babarino, C. G., Baldini, A., Barish, B. C., ...
We discuss the preparation of different samples of the CR39 polymer and a number of tests performed with high energy heavy ions. The quality and reproducibility of the manufactured CR39 is discussed...