Sentences with phrase «auger physicists»

For example, TA physicists argue that — as most physicists expected — the highest energy rays are protons, whereas Auger physicists argue they may include heavier atomic nuclei.

Not exact matches

But the evidence for an overall imbalance of the directions of cosmic rays in this new study is stronger, surpassing the so - called five sigma threshold for statistical significance, says Antonio Bueno, an astroparticle physicist at the University of Granada in Spain and co-spokesperson for the 500 - member Auger team.

But analyzing such sparse data is tricky, says Karl - Heinz Kampert, a physicist at the University of Wuppertal in Germany and spokesman for the 500 - member Auger team.

So far, says Paul Mantsch, a physicist and project manager at Auger, the observatory has seen about 50 of these ultrahigh - energy cosmic rays.

After his prizewinning work, he eventually turned his research to cosmic rays and he was a founding father of the Pierre Auger Observatory, the world's largest cosmic - ray detector, which he conceptualized in 1992 with fellow physicist from the University of Leeds Alan Watson.

Results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) on the International Space Station (ISS) will be the focus of the three day «AMS Days at CERN» meeting, an occasion that brings together many of the world's leading theoretical physicists and principal investigators of some of the major experiments exploring the field of cosmic ray physics (IceCube, Pierre Auger Observatory, Fermi - LAT, H.E.S.S. and CTA, the Telescope Array, JEM - EUSO, and ISS - CREAM).