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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…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 G. B. Thomson

The High Resolution Fly's Eye (HiRes) experiment has observed the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin suppression (called the GZK cutoff) with a statistical significance of five standard deviations. HiRes' measurement of the flux of ultrahigh energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 HiRes Collaboration

We fit the HiRes ultra-high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) spectrum measurements with broken power laws in order to identify features. These fits find the previously observed feature known as the Ankle at 10**18.5 eV, as well as evidence for a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 D. R. Bergman

Final results from the High Resolution Fly's Eye (HiRes) on the observation of the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cutoff in the cosmic ray spectrum are presented. We observe a cutoff consistent with the GZK predictions with a five sigma…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 P. Sokolsky

The HiRes Collaboration has recently announced preliminary measurements of the energy spectrum of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR), as seen in monocular analyses from each of the two HiRes sites. This spectrum is consistent with the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 Douglas R. Bergman

We have measured the cosmic ray spectrum at energies above $10^{17}$ eV using the two air fluorescence detectors of the High Resolution Fly's Eye experiment operating in monocular mode. We describe the detector, PMT and atmospheric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 s Eye Collaboration

The status of the field of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays is summarized, from the point of view of the latest results of the High Resolution Fly's Eye (HiRes) Experiment. HiRes results are presented, and compared with those of the Akeno Giant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 P. Sokolsky , G. B. Thomson

The nature of the unknown sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays can be revealed through the detection of the GZK feature in the cosmic ray spectrum. The only two experiments that have probed this energy range, AGASA and HiRes, have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Angela V. Olinto , Daniel De Marco , Pasquale Blasi

We have measured the spectrum of UHE cosmic rays using the Flash ADC (FADC) detector (called HiRes-II) of the High Resolution Fly's Eye experiment running in monocular mode. We describe in detail the data analysis, development of the Monte…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 s Eye Collaboration

We conduct a review of experimental results on Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR's) including measurements of the features of the spectrum, the composition of the primary particle flux and the search for anisotropy in event arrival…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Douglas R Bergman , John W. Belz

The High Resolution Fly's Eye Experiment (HiRes) measures cosmic rays (CR) at the highest energies using the air fluorescence technique. As data taking on the Dugway Proving Grounds in Western Utah is finished, the HiRes data are relevant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 K. Martens

We have measured the spectrum of UHE cosmic rays in monocular mode using separately both detectors the High Resolution Fly's Eye experiment. We describe the two detectors and the basic methods of analysis, and we present our measured…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-07 Douglas R. Bergman

We have measured the energy spectrum of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) with the HiRes FADC detector (HiRes-2) in monocular mode. A detailed Monte Carlo simulation of the detector response to air showers has been used to calculate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Andreas Zech

The High Resolution Fly's Eye (HiRes) experiment is an air fluorescence detector which, operating in stereo mode, has a typical angular resolution of 0.6 degrees and is sensitive to cosmic rays with energies above 10^18 eV. HiRes is thus an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 s Eye Collaboration

The High Resolution Fly's Eye HiRes-I detector has now been in operation in monocular mode for over six years. During that time span, HiRes-I has accumulated a larger exposure to Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) above 10^19 eV than…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 Benjamin T. Stokes

The status of the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin (GZK) cutoff and pair-production dip in Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) is discussed.They are the features in the spectrum of protons propagating through CMB radiation in extragalactic space,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-04-21 V. Berezinsky

HiRes has made the first statistically significant observation of the Griessen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin suppression, by fitting the ultra high energy cosmic ray spectrum observed in monocular mode by the two HiRes detectors to a broken power law…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 D. R. Bergman

The energy spectra of ultra high energy cosmic rays reported by the AGASA, Fly's Eye, Haverah Park, HiRes, and Yakutsk experiments are all shown to be in agreement with each other for energies below 10^{20} eV (after small adjustments,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-28 John N. Bahcall , Eli Waxman

The high energy spectrum of cosmic rays presents three distinct traits, the second knee, the ankle, and the GZK cutoff and as such, a thorough understanding of cosmic rays encompasses the study of these three features. It is in the second…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 A. Etchegoyen
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