https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201612104008
Search for ultra high energy primary photons at the Pierre Auger Observatory
1 Universitä Federico II di Napoli, Italy
2 INFN, Sezione di Napoli, Italy
3 Observatorio Pierre Auger, Av. San Martín Norte 304, 5613 Malargüe, Argentina
a e-mail: colalillo@na.infn.it
Published online: 6 July 2016
The Pierre Auger Observatory, located in Argentina, provides an unprecedented integrated aperture in the search for primary photons with energy above 1017 eV over a large portion of the southern sky. Such photons can be detected in principle via the air showers they initiate at such energies, using the complement of Auger Observatory detectors. We discuss the results obtained in diffuse and directional searches for primary photons in the EeV energy range.
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