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O-5 - Auger recorded 215,030 events above 2.5x10^18 eV with flux extending beyond 10^20 eV

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The Pierre Auger surface-detector array recorded 215,030 air-shower events (zenith < 60 deg) above 2.5x10^18 eV over ~14 years, measuring a cosmic-ray flux that extends to and beyond 10^20 eV.
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S-5 - Measurement of the cosmic-ray energy spectrum using the Pierre Auger Observatory
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Abstract; dataset/exposure section

Raw empirical backbone of the cosmic-ray survival premise: particles at ~10^20 eV (fixed-target sqrt(s) ~ 400 TeV, far above the LHC’s 14 TeV) demonstrably exist and arrive at a measurable rate.

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