Search for photons at the Pierre Auger Observatory

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2009-01-16

arxiv.org/abs/0901.2525v1

Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.190:223-227,2009

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

5 pages, 5 figures. Presented at CRIS 2008, Malfa, Italy

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2009.03.09

The Pierre Auger Observatory has a unique potential to search for ultra-high energy photons (above ~1 EeV). First experimental limits on photons were obtained during construction of the southern part of the Observatory. Remarkably, already these limits have proven useful to falsify proposals about the origin of cosmic rays, and to perform fundamental physics by constraining Lorentz violation. A final discovery of photons at the upper end of the electromagnetic spectrum is likely to impact various branches of physics and astronomy.

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