Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays

Presentations

• The Mass Composition of UHECR above 10^17.7 eV Inferred from Pierre Auger Observatory Fluorescence Detector Observations

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 1:15 PM – March 19, 2026, 1:27 PM

  Publication: Measurement and Interpretation of UHECR Mass Composition at the Pierre Auger Observatory, ICRC2025, PoS, https://doi.org/10.22323/1.501.0331
  
  Physical Review D publication in prep.

  Presenters

  • Nicolas San Martin

    • Colorado School of Mines

  Authors

  • Nicolas San Martin

    • Colorado School of Mines

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• Probing the energy and mass dependence of cosmic-ray anisotropy with graph neural networks in IceCube

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 1:27 PM – March 19, 2026, 1:39 PM

  Presenters

  • Ian Reistroffer

    • South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

  Authors

  • Ian Reistroffer

    • South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

  • Matthias Plum

    • South Dakota School of Mines & Technology

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• Auger@TA: Instrumentation, performance, and preliminary results of an in-situ cross-calibration

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 1:39 PM – March 19, 2026, 1:51 PM

  Presenters

  • Adriel Gustavo Bartz Mocellin

    • Colorado School of Mines

  Authors

  • Adriel Gustavo Bartz Mocellin

    • Colorado School of Mines

  • Eric Mayotte

    • Colorado School of Mines

  • Sonja Mayotte

    • Colorado School of Mines

  • Frederic Sarazin

    • Colorado School of Mines

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• Theoretical Sensitivity Limit of Cosmic Ray Mass Composition with Muon Bundle Energy Loss Parameterization in IceCube Detector.

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 1:51 PM – March 19, 2026, 2:03 PM

  Presenters

  • Amar Thakuri

    • South Dakota School of Mines & Technology

  Authors

  • Amar Thakuri

    • South Dakota School of Mines & Technology

  • Xinhua Bai

    • South Dakota School of Mines & Technology

  • Logan Molchany

    • South Dakota School of Mines & Technology

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• Simulating the Pierre Auger Observatory Fluorescence Detectors' Exposure to Tau-Neutrino-Induced Upward-Going Air Showers Using NuSpaceSim

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 2:03 PM – March 19, 2026, 2:15 PM

  Publication: arXiv:2502.08890

  Presenters

  • Jorge Caraça-Valente

    • Colorado School of Mines

  Authors

  • Jorge Caraça-Valente

    • Colorado School of Mines

  • Frederic Sarazin

    • Colorado School of Mines

  • Eric Mayotte

    • Colorado School of Mines

  • Sonja Mayotte

    • Colorado School of Mines

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• Commissioning, Testing and Latest Advancements toward the Cosmic Ray Energy Spectrum from IceAct at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory 

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 2:15 PM – March 19, 2026, 2:27 PM

  Publication: two planned papers are associated with this work

  Presenters

  • Karen Andeen

    • Marquette University

  Authors

  • Karen Andeen

    • Marquette University

  • Arun Vaidyanathan

    • Marquette University

  • Janeth Valverde

    • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

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