Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1996-05-15
Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.48:488-490,1996
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
14 pages, no figures, Latex, to be published in Proc. of the 7th Int. Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes (Venice 27/2-1/3 1996)
Scientific paper
10.1016/0920-5632(96)00300-3
Over the last 30 years or so, a handful of events observed in ground-based cosmic ray detectors seem to have opened a new window in the field of high-energy astrophysics. These events have energies exceeding 5x10**19 eV (the region of the so-called Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin spectral cutoff); they seem to come from no known astrophysical source; their chemical composition is mostly unknown; no conventional accelerating mechanism is considered as being able to explain their production and propagation to earth. Only a dedicated detector can bring in the high-quality and statistically significant data needed to solve this long-lasting puzzle: this is the aim of the Auger Observatory project around which a world-wide collaboration is being mobilized.
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