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Recent Results and New Puzzles from the Pierre Auger Observatory
Ralph Engel (KIT)
Seminar Room 3, 15:00
The Pierre Auger Observatory is currently the largest detector installation
for studying cosmic rays of ultra-high energy. As such the Auger Observatory
allows not only the measurement of flux, arrival direction distribution, and
elemental composition of cosmic rays but also the investigation of hadronic
interactions at c.m. energies up to 400 TeV. The analysis of the first data taken
with the Southern Observatory in Argentina has already lead to a number of
fundamental results and discoveries. After a brief introduction to the detection
principles applied in the Auger Observatory, the most important physics results
are reviewed and possible interpretations are discussed.
