Observation of the GZK Cutoff by the HiRes Experiment
Astrophysics
2019-08-15 v1
Abstract
The High Resolution Fly's Eye (HiRes) experiment has observed the GZK cutoff. HiRes' measurement of the flux of cosmic rays shows a sharp suppression at an energy of 6 x 10^{19} eV, exactly the expected cutoff energy. We observe the ``ankle'' of the cosmic ray spectrum as well, at an energy of 4 x 10^{18} eV. We describe the experiment, data collection, analysis, and estimate the systematic uncertainties. The results are presented and the calculation of a five standard deviation observation of the GZK cutoff is described.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0609403,
title = {Observation of the GZK Cutoff by the HiRes Experiment},
author = {G. B. Thomson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0609403},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
15 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Proceedings of the Quarks'06 Conference