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Article: Constraints on metastable superheavy dark matter coupled to sterile neutrinos with the Pierre Auger Observatory

By APHE Auger group et al. (Pierre Auger Collaboration) One intriguing aspect of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics is the absence of right-handed degrees of freedom to describe…

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Article: Arrival Directions of Cosmic Rays above 32 EeV from Phase One of the Pierre Auger Observatory

Flux map at energies above 40 EeV with a top-hat smoothing radius of 25° in Galactic coordinates. The supergalactic plane is shown as a gray line. The blank area is…

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Article: Limits to gauge coupling in the dark sector set by the non-observation of instanton-induced decay of Super-Heavy Dark Matter in the Pierre Auger Observatory data

Upper limits at 95\% C.L. on the effective coupling constant of a hidden gauge interaction as a function of the mass of a dark matter particle X decaying into quark/anti-quark…

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Article: Predicted diffuse flux of ultra-high energy photons in the galactic plane; its implications for the search for super-heavy dark matter

Upper limits on diffuse photon fluxes for several energy thresholds, and expected fluxes from UHECRs interactions with the gas distribution in the Galaxy (grey dashed and blue dashed-dotted lines), as…

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