Journal articles
A Targeted Search for Point Sources of EeV Neutrons
A. Aab
Richard Dallier
1
Pascal Lautridou
1
J. Maller
1
V. Marin
1
Lilian Martin
1
O. Ravel
1
Benoît Revenu
1
M. Avenier
2
C. Berat
2
S. Le Coz
2
D. Lebrun
2
K. Louedec
2
F. Montanet
2
A. Stutz
2
M. Tartare
2
Imen Al Samarai
3
O. Deligny
3
I. Lhenry-Yvon
3
D. Martraire
3
F. Salamida
3
T. Suomijarvi
3
D. Garcia-Gamez
4
Balázs Kégl
4
D. Monnier Ragaigne
4
D. Veberic
4
A. Aab
Author
Richard Dallier 1
Author IdHAL : richard-dallier ORCID : https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9452-4849
Pascal Lautridou 1
Author IdHAL : pascal-lautridou
J. Maller 1
Author
V. Marin 1
Author
Lilian Martin 1
Author IdHAL : lilian-martin ORCID : https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9781-2632
O. Ravel 1
Author
Benoît Revenu 1
Author IdHAL : benoit-revenu ORCID : https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7629-4805
M. Avenier 2
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C. Berat 2
Author IdHAL : corinne-berat ORCID : https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8294-6294
S. Le Coz 2
Author
D. Lebrun 2
Author
Imen Al Samarai 3
Author IdHAL : imen-al-samarai
O. Deligny 3
Author
I. Lhenry-Yvon 3
Author
D. Martraire 3
Author
D. Monnier Ragaigne 4
Author
D. Veberic 4
Author
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- UN - Université de Nantes (1, quai de Tourville - BP 13522 - 44035 Nantes cedex 1 - France)
- IN2P3 - Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (France)
- CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR6457 (France)
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LPSC - Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (53 avenue des Martyrs - 38026 Grenoble Cedex - France)
- UJF - Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (BP 53 - 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9 - France)
- Grenoble INP - Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (46 avenue Félix Viallet 38031 Grenoble Cedex 1 - France)
- IN2P3 - Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (France)
- Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (France)
- CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR5821 (France)
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- CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR8608 (France)
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LAL - Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (Centre Scientifique d'Orsay B.P. 34 91898 ORSAY Cedex - France)
- UP11 - Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (Bâtiment 300 - 91405 Orsay cedex - France)
- IN2P3 - Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (France)
- CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR8607 (France)
Abstract : A flux of neutrons from an astrophysical source in the Galaxy can be detected in the Pierre Auger Observatory as an excess of cosmic-ray air showers arriving from the direction of the source. To avoid the statistical penalty for making many trials, classes of objects are tested in combinations as nine "target sets", in addition to the search for a neutron flux from the Galactic Center or from the Galactic Plane. Within a target set, each candidate source is weighted in proportion to its electromagnetic flux, its exposure to the Auger Observatory, and its flux attenuation factor due to neutron decay. These searches do not find evidence for a neutron flux from any class of candidate sources. Tabulated results give the combined p-value for each class, with and without the weights, and also the flux upper limit for the most significant candidate source within each class. These limits on fluxes of neutrons significantly constrain models of EeV proton emission from non-transient discrete sources in the Galaxy.
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- HAL Id : in2p3-01010553, version 1
- DOI : 10.1088/2041-8205/789/2/L34
- ARXIV : 1406.4038
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A. Aab, Richard Dallier, Pascal Lautridou, J. Maller, V. Marin, et al.. A Targeted Search for Point Sources of EeV Neutrons. The Astrophysical journal letters, Bristol : IOP Publishing, 2014, 789, pp.L34. ⟨10.1088/2041-8205/789/2/L34⟩. ⟨in2p3-01010553⟩
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