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Detecting Cosmic Rays of the Highest Energies

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The highest energies are defined, at a given time, by our detector capabilities. Thus the highest energies will be the just measured or soon to be measured energies. To-day, the frontier in cosmic rays reaches 1020 eV. This represents a macroscopic energy, namely 16 J, transported by a microscopic object. For charged particles, the highest energy events seem to necessitate some New Physics, beyond the present understanding of astrophysics and particle physics.

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Vannucci, F. (2001). Detecting Cosmic Rays of the Highest Energies. In: Giacomelli, G., Spurio, M., Derkaoui, J.E. (eds) Cosmic Radiations: From Astronomy to Particle Physics. NATO Science Series, vol 42. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0634-7_25

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