The Pierre Auger Collaboration

A. Aab⁴², P. Abreu⁶⁴, M. Aglietta⁵³, E.J. Ahn⁸³, I. Al Samarai²⁹, I.F.M. Albuquerque¹⁷, I. Allekotte¹, J. Allen⁸⁷, P. Allison⁸⁹, A. Almela^{11, 8}, J. Alvarez Castillo⁵⁷, J. Alvarez-Muñiz⁷⁵, R. Alves Batista⁴¹, M. Ambrosio⁴⁴, A. Aminaei⁵⁸, L. Anchordoqui^{96, 82}, S. Andringa⁶⁴, C. Aramo⁴⁴, V.M. Aranda ⁷², F. Arqueros⁷², H. Asorey¹, P. Assis⁶⁴, J. Aublin³¹, M. Ave⁷⁵, M. Avenier³², G. Avila¹⁰, A.M. Badescu⁶⁸, K.B. Barber¹², J. Bäuml³⁶, C. Baus³⁶, J.J. Beatty⁸⁹, K.H. Becker³⁵, J.A. Bellido¹², C. Berat³², M.E. Bertania⁵³, X. Bertou¹, P.L. Biermann³⁹, P. Billoir³¹, M. Blanco³¹, C. Bleve³⁵, H. Blümer^{36, 37}, M. Boháčová²⁷, D. Boncioli⁵², C. Bonifazi²³, R. Bonino⁵³, N. Borodai⁶², J. Brack⁸⁰, I. Brancus⁶⁵, P. Brogueira⁶⁴, W.C. Brown⁸¹, P. Buchholz⁴², A. Bueno⁷⁴, S. Buitink⁵⁸, M. Buscemi⁴⁴, K.S. Caballero-Mora^{55, 75}, B. Caccianiga⁴³, L. Caccianiga³¹, M. Candusso⁴⁵, L. Caramete³⁹, R. Caruso⁴⁶, A. Castellina⁵³, G. Cataldi⁴⁸, L. Cazon⁶⁴, R. Cester⁴⁷, A.G. Chavez⁵⁶, A. Chiavassa⁵³, J.A. Chinellato¹⁸, J. Chudoba²⁷, M. Cilmo⁴⁴, R.W. Clay¹², G. Cocciolo⁴⁸, R. Colalillo⁴⁴, A. Coleman⁹⁰, L. Collica⁴³, M.R. Coluccia⁴⁸, R. Conceição⁶⁴, F. Contreras⁹, M.J. Cooper¹², A. Cordier³⁰, S. Coutu⁹⁰, C.E. Covault⁷⁸, J. Cronin⁹¹, A. Curutiu³⁹, R. Dallier^34,
33, B. Daniel¹⁸, S. Dasso^{5, 3}, K. Daumiller³⁷, B.R. Dawson¹², R.M. de Almeida²⁴, M. De Domenico⁴⁶, S.J. de Jong^{58, 60}, J.R.T. de Mello Neto²³, I. De Mitri⁴⁸, J. de Oliveira²⁴, V. de Souza¹⁶, L. del Peral⁷³, O. Deligny²⁹, H. Dembinski³⁷, N. Dhital⁸⁶, C. Di Giulio⁴⁵, A. Di Matteo⁴⁹, J.C. Diaz⁸⁶, M.L. Díaz Castro¹⁸, F. Diogo⁶⁴, C. Dobrigkeit ¹⁸, W. Docters⁵⁹, J.C. D'Olivo⁵⁷, A. Dorofeev⁸⁰, Q. Dorosti Hasankiadeh³⁷, M.T. Dova⁴, J. Ebr²⁷, R. Engel³⁷, M. Erdmann⁴⁰, M. Erfani⁴², C.O. Escobar^{83, 18}, J. Espadanal⁶⁴, A. Etchegoyen^8,
11, P. Facal San Luis⁹¹, H. Falcke^{58, 61, 60}, K. Fang⁹¹, G. Farrar⁸⁷, A.C. Fauth¹⁸, N. Fazzini⁸³, A.P. Ferguson⁷⁸, M. Fernandes²³, B. Fick⁸⁶, J.M. Figueira⁸, A. Filevich⁸, A. Filipčič^{69, 70}, B.D. Fox⁹², O. Fratu⁶⁸, U. Fröhlich⁴², B. Fuchs³⁶, T. Fuji⁹¹, R. Gaior³¹, B. García⁷, S.T. Garcia Roca⁷⁵, D. Garcia-Gamez³⁰, D. Garcia-Pinto⁷², G. Garilli⁴⁶, A. Gascon Bravo⁷⁴, F. Gate³⁴, H. Gemmeke³⁸, P.L. Ghia³¹, U. Giaccari²³, M. Giammarchi⁴³, M. Giller⁶³, C. Glaser⁴⁰, H. Glass⁸³, M. Gómez Berisso¹, P.F. Gómez Vitale¹⁰, P. Gonçalves⁶⁴, J.G. Gonzalez³⁶, N. González⁸, B. Gookin⁸⁰, J. Gordon⁸⁹, A. Gorgi⁵³, P. Gorham⁹², P. Gouffon¹⁷, S. Grebe^{58, 60}, N. Griffith⁸⁹, A.F. Grillo⁵², T.D. Grubb¹², Y. Guardincerri³, F. Guarino⁴⁴, G.P. Guedes¹⁹, M.R. Hampel⁸, P. Hansen⁴, D. Harari¹, T.A. Harrison¹², S. Hartmann⁴⁰, J.L. Harton⁸⁰, A. Haungs³⁷, T. Hebbeker⁴⁰, D. Heck³⁷, P. Heimann⁴², A.E. Herve³⁷, G.C. Hill¹², C. Hojvat⁸³, N. Hollon⁹¹, E. Holt³⁷, P. Homola^{42, 62}, J.R. Hörandel^{58, 60}, P. Horvath²⁸, M. Hrabovský^28,
27, D. Huber³⁶, T. Huege³⁷, A. Insolia⁴⁶, P.G. Isar⁶⁶, K. Islo⁹⁶, I. Jandt³⁵, S. Jansen^{58, 60}, C. Jarne⁴, M. Josebachuili⁸, A. Kääpä³⁵, O. Kambeitz³⁶, K.H. Kampert³⁵, P. Kasper⁸³, I. Katkov³⁶, B. Kégl³⁰, B. Keilhauer³⁷, A. Keivani⁸⁵, E. Kemp¹⁸, R.M. Kieckhafer⁸⁶, H.O. Klages³⁷, M. Kleifges³⁸, J. Kleinfeller⁹, R. Krause⁴⁰, N. Krohm³⁵, O. Krömer³⁸, D. Kruppke-Hansen³⁵, D. Kuempel⁴⁰, N. Kunka³⁸, D. LaHurd⁷⁸, L. Latronico⁵³, R. Lauer⁹⁴, M. Lauscher⁴⁰, P. Lautridou³⁴, S. Le Coz³², M.S.A.B. Leão¹⁴, D. Lebrun³², P. Lebrun⁸³, M.A. Leigui de Oliveira²², A. Letessier-Selvon³¹, I. Lhenry-Yvon²⁹, K. Link³⁶, R. López⁵⁴, A. Lopez Agüera⁷⁵, K. Louedec³², J. Lozano Bahilo⁷⁴, L. Lu^{35, 76}, A. Lucero⁸, M. Ludwig³⁶, M. Malacari¹², S. Maldera⁵³, M. Mallamaci⁴³, J. Maller³⁴, D. Mandat²⁷, P. Mantsch⁸³, A.G. Mariazzi⁴, V. Marin³⁴, I.C. Mariş⁷⁴, G. Marsella⁴⁸, D. Martello⁴⁸, L. Martin^34,
33, H. Martinez⁵⁵, O. Martínez Bravo⁵⁴, D. Martraire²⁹, J.J. Masías Meza³, H.J. Mathes³⁷, S. Mathys³⁵, A.J. Matthews⁹⁴, J. Matthews⁸⁵, G. Matthiae⁴⁵, D. Maurel³⁶, D. Maurizio¹³, E. Mayotte⁷⁹, P.O. Mazur⁸³, C. Medina⁷⁹, G. Medina-Tanco⁵⁷, M. Melissas³⁶, D. Melo⁸, A. Menshikov³⁸, S. Messina⁵⁹, R. Meyhandan⁹², S. Mićanović²⁵, M.I. Micheletti⁶, L. Middendorf⁴⁰, I.A. Minaya⁷², L. Miramonti⁴³, B. Mitrica⁶⁵, L. Molina-Bueno⁷⁴, S. Mollerach¹, M. Monasor⁹¹, D. Monnier Ragaigne³⁰, F. Montanet³², C. Morello⁵³, M. Mostafá⁹⁰, C.A. Moura²², M.A. Muller^18,
21, G. Müller⁴⁰, M. Münchmeyer³¹, R. Mussa⁴⁷, G. Navarra^{53 ‡}, S. Navas⁷⁴, P. Necesal²⁷, L. Nellen⁵⁷, A. Nelles^{58, 60}, J. Neuser³⁵, M. Niechciol⁴², L. Niemietz³⁵, T. Niggemann⁴⁰, D. Nitz⁸⁶, D. Nosek²⁶, V. Novotny²⁶, L. Nožka²⁸, L. Ochilo⁴², A. Olinto⁹¹, M. Oliveira⁶⁴, N. Pacheco⁷³, D. Pakk Selmi-Dei¹⁸, M. Palatka²⁷, J. Pallotta², N. Palmieri³⁶, P. Papenbreer³⁵, G. Parente⁷⁵, A. Parra⁷⁵, T. Paul^{96, 88}, M. Pech²⁷, J. Pękala⁶², R. Pelayo⁵⁴, I.M. Pepe²⁰, L. Perrone⁴⁸, E. Petermann⁹³, C. Peters⁴⁰, S. Petrera^{49, 50}, Y. Petrov⁸⁰, J. Phuntsok⁹⁰, R. Piegaia³, T. Pierog³⁷, P. Pieroni³, M. Pimenta⁶⁴, V. Pirronello⁴⁶, M. Platino⁸, M. Plum⁴⁰, A. Porcelli³⁷, C. Porowski⁶², R.R. Prado¹⁶, P. Privitera⁹¹, M. Prouza²⁷, V. Purrello¹, E.J. Quel², S. Querchfeld³⁵, S. Quinn⁷⁸, J. Rautenberg³⁵, O. Ravel³⁴, D. Ravignani⁸, B. Revenu³⁴, J. Ridky²⁷, S. Riggi^{51, 75}, M. Risse⁴², P. Ristori², V. Rizi⁴⁹, J. Roberts⁸⁷, W. Rodrigues de Carvalho⁷⁵, I. Rodriguez Cabo⁷⁵, G. Rodriguez Fernandez^{45, 75}, J. Rodriguez Rojo⁹, M.D. Rodríguez-Frías⁷³, G. Ros⁷³, J. Rosado⁷², T. Rossler²⁸, M. Roth³⁷, E. Roulet¹, A.C. Rovero⁵, S.J. Saffi¹², A. Saftoiu⁶⁵, F. Salamida²⁹, H. Salazar⁵⁴, A. Saleh⁷⁰, F. Salesa Greus⁹⁰, G. Salina⁴⁵, F. Sánchez⁸, P. Sanchez-Lucas⁷⁴, C.E. Santo⁶⁴, E. Santos¹⁸, E.M. Santos¹⁷, F. Sarazin⁷⁹, B. Sarkar³⁵, R. Sarmento⁶⁴, R. Sato⁹, N. Scharf⁴⁰, V. Scherini⁴⁸, H. Schieler³⁷, P. Schiffer⁴¹, O. Scholten⁵⁹, H. Schoorlemmer^{92, 58, 60}, P. Schovánek²⁷, A. Schulz³⁷, J. Schulz⁵⁸, J. Schumacher⁴⁰, S.J. Sciutto⁴, A. Segreto⁵¹, M. Settimo³¹, A. Shadkam⁸⁵, R.C. Shellard¹³, I. Sidelnik¹, G. Sigl⁴¹, O. Sima⁶⁷, A. Śmiałkowski⁶³, R. Šmída³⁷, G.R. Snow⁹³, P. Sommers⁹⁰, J. Sorokin¹², R. Squartini⁹, Y.N. Srivastava⁸⁸, S. Stanič⁷⁰, J. Stapleton⁸⁹, J. Stasielak⁶², M. Stephan⁴⁰, A. Stutz³², F. Suarez⁸, T. Suomijärvi²⁹, A.D. Supanitsky⁵, M.S. Sutherland⁸⁹, J. Swain⁸⁸, Z. Szadkowski⁶³, M. Szuba³⁷, O.A. Taborda¹, A. Tapia⁸, M. Tartare³², V.M. Theodoro¹⁸, C. Timmermans^{60, 58}, C.J. Todero Peixoto¹⁵, G. Toma⁶⁵, L. Tomankova³⁷, B. Tomé⁶⁴, A. Tonachini⁴⁷, G. Torralba Elipe⁷⁵, D. Torres Machado²³, P. Travnicek²⁷, E. Trovato⁴⁶, M. Tueros⁷⁵, R. Ulrich³⁷, M. Unger³⁷, M. Urban⁴⁰, J.F. Valdés Galicia⁵⁷, I. Valiño⁷⁵, L. Valore⁴⁴, G. van Aar⁵⁸, A.M. van den Berg⁵⁹, S. van Velzen⁵⁸, A. van Vliet⁴¹, E. Varela⁵⁴, B. Vargas Cárdenas⁵⁷, G. Varner⁹², J.R. Vázquez⁷², R.A. Vázquez⁷⁵, D. Veberič³⁰, V. Verzi⁴⁵, J. Vicha²⁷, M. Videla⁸, L. Villaseñor⁵⁶, B. Vlcek⁹⁶, S. Vorobiov⁷⁰, H. Wahlberg⁴, O. Wainberg^{8, 11}, D. Walz⁴⁰, A.A. Watson⁷⁶, M. Weber³⁸, K. Weidenhaupt⁴⁰, A. Weindl³⁷, F. Werner³⁶, A. Widom⁸⁸, L. Wiencke⁷⁹, B. Wilczyńska^{62 ‡}, H. Wilczyński⁶², M. Will³⁷, C. Williams⁹¹, T. Winchen³⁵, D. Wittkowski³⁵, B. Wundheiler⁸, S. Wykes⁵⁸, T. Yamamoto^91
a, T. Yapici⁸⁶, P. Younk⁸⁴, G. Yuan⁸⁵, A. Yushkov⁴², B. Zamorano⁷⁴, E. Zas⁷⁵, D. Zavrtanik^{70, 69}, M. Zavrtanik^{69, 70}, I. Zaw^87
c, A. Zepeda^{55 b}, J. Zhou⁹¹, Y. Zhu³⁸, M. Zimbres Silva¹⁸, M. Ziolkowski⁴², F. Zuccarello⁴⁶

(1) Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro (CNEA-UNCuyo-CONICET), San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina

(2) Centro de Investigaciones en Láseres y Aplicaciones, CITEDEF and CONICET, Argentina

(3) Departamento de Física, FCEyN, Universidad de Buenos Aires y CONICET, Argentina

(4) IFLP, Universidad Nacional de La Plata and CONICET, La Plata, Argentina

(5) Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio (CONICET-UBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina

(6) Instituto de Física de Rosario (IFIR) - CONICET/U.N.R. and Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y

Farmacéuticas U.N.R., Rosario, Argentina

(7) Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), and National

Technological University, Faculty Mendoza (CONICET/CNEA), Mendoza, Argentina

(8) Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Buenos Aires,

(9) Observatorio Pierre Auger, Malargüe, Argentina

(10) Observatorio Pierre Auger and Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Malargüe, Argentina

(11) Universidad Tecnológica Nacional - Facultad Regional Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

(12) University of Adelaide, Adelaide, S.A., Australia

(13) Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

(14) Faculdade Independente do Nordeste, Vitória da Conquista, Brazil

(15) Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Engenharia de Lorena, Lorena, SP, Brazil

(16) Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Física de São Carlos, São Carlos, SP, Brazil

(17) Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Física, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

(18) Universidade Estadual de Campinas, IFGW, Campinas, SP, Brazil

(19) Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Brazil

(20) Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, BA, Brazil

(21) Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, RS, Brazil

(22) Universidade Federal do ABC, Santo André, SP, Brazil

(23) Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Física, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

(24) Universidade Federal Fluminense, EEIMVR, Volta Redonda, RJ, Brazil

(25) Rudjer Bošković Institute, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

(26) Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics, Prague, Czech Republic

(27) Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic

(28) Palacky University, RCPTM, Olomouc, Czech Republic

(29) Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris 11, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France

(30) Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), Université Paris 11, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France

(31) Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies (LPNHE), Universités Paris 6 et Paris 7, CNRS-

IN2P3, Paris, France

(32) Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS/IN2P3, France

(33) Station de Radioastronomie de Nançay, Observatoire de Paris, CNRS/INSU, Nançay, France

(34) SUBATECH, École des Mines de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France

(35) Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany

(36) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - Campus South - Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik (IEKP), Karlsruhe,

Germany

(37) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - Campus North - Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany

(38) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - Campus North - Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik, Karlsruhe, Germany

(39) Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany

(40) RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Aachen, Germany

(41) Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

(42) Universität Siegen, Siegen, Germany

(43) Università di Milano and Sezione INFN, Milan, Italy

(44) Università di Napoli "Federico II" and Sezione INFN, Napoli, Italy

(45) Università di Roma II “Tor Vergata” and Sezione INFN, Roma, Italy

(46) Università di Catania and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy

(47) Università di Torino and Sezione INFN, Torino, Italy

(48) Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica "E. De Giorgi" dell'Università del Salento and Sezione INFN, Lecce,

(49) Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche e Chimiche dell'Università dell'Aquila and INFN, Italy

(50) Gran Sasso Science Institute (INFN), L'Aquila, Italy

(51) Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Palermo (INAF), Palermo, Italy

(52) INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy

(53) Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino (INAF), Università di Torino and Sezione INFN, Torino, Italy

(54) Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico

(55) Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN (CINVESTAV), México, D.F., Mexico

(56) Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo, Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico

(57) Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico, D.F., Mexico

(58) IMAPP, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

(59) KVI - Center for Advanced Radiation Technology, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands

(60) Nikhef, Science Park, Amsterdam, Netherlands

(61) ASTRON, Dwingeloo, Netherlands

(62) Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Krakow, Poland

(63) University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland

(64) Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas - LIP and Instituto Superior Técnico - IST,

Universidade de Lisboa - UL, Portugal

(65) 'Horia Hulubei' National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania

(66) Institute of Space Sciences, Bucharest, Romania

(67) University of Bucharest, Physics Department, Romania

(68) University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania

(69) Experimental Particle Physics Department, J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

(70) Laboratory for Astroparticle Physics, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia

(72) Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

(73) Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), Spain

(74) Universidad de Granada and C.A.F.P.E., Granada, Spain

(75) Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain

(76) School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, United Kingdom

(78) Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA

(79) Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, USA

(80) Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA

(81) Colorado State University, Pueblo, CO, USA

(82) Department of Physics and Astronomy, Lehman College, City University of New York, New York, USA

(83) Fermilab, Batavia, IL, USA

(84) Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA

(85) Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA

(86) Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA

(87) New York University, New York, NY, USA

(88) Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA

(89) Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

(90) Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA

(91) University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi Institute, Chicago, IL, USA

(92) University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA

(93) University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, USA

(94) University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA

(96) University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA

(‡) Deceased

(a) Now at Konan University

(b) Also at the Universidad Autonoma de Chiapas on leave of absence from Cinvestav

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