Artigo de Periódico
A search for point sources of eev neutrons
Fecha
2012Registro en:
0004-637X
v.760, n. 2
Autor
Pepe, Iuri Muniz
Abreu, P.
Aglietta, M.
Ahlers, M.
Ahn, E. J.
Albuquerque, Ivone Freire da Mota e
Allard, D.
Allekotte, I.
Allen, J.
Institución
Resumen
A thorough search of the sky exposed at the Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory reveals no statistically significant excess of events in any small solid angle that would be indicative of a flux of neutral particles from a discrete source. The search covers from –90° to +15° in declination using four different energy ranges above 1 EeV (1018 eV). The method used in this search is more sensitive to neutrons than to photons. The upper limit on a neutron flux is derived for a dense grid of directions for each of the four energy ranges. These results constrain scenarios for the production of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays in the Galaxy.