Refereed articles by individual group members

• Stochastic analysis of ultra-high energy cosmic ray interactions
  Leonel Morejon and Karl-Heinz Kampert
  A&A (2026) in press; arXiv:2509.21461
• Impact of coherent scattering on relic neutrinos boosted by cosmic rays
  Jiajie Zhang, Alexander Sandrock, Jiajun Liao, Baobiao Yue
  Phys. Rev.D 113 (2026) 4, 043028; arXiv:2505.04791
• Road map for the tuning of hadronic interaction models with accelerator-based and astroparticle data
  Johannes Albrecht, Julia Becker Tjus, Noah Behling, Jiri Blazek, Marcus Bleicher, Julian Boelhauve, Lorenzo Cazon, Ruben Conceição, Hans Dembinski, Luca Dietrich, Jan Ebr, Jan Ellbracht, Ralph Engel, Anatoli Fedynitch, Max Fieg, Maria Garzelli, Chloé Gaudu, Giacomo Graziani, Pascal Gutjahr, Andreas Haungs, Tim Huege, Karolin Hymon, Karl-Heinz Kampert, Leonora Kardum, Lars Kolk, Natalia Korneeva, Kevin Kröninger, Antonin Maire, Hiroaki Menjo, Leonel Morejon, Sergey Ostapchenko, Petja Paakkinen, Tanguy Pierog, Pavlo Plotko, Anton Prosekin, Lilly Pyras, Thomas Pöschl, Julian Rautenberg, Maximilian Reininghaus, Wolfgang Rhode, Felix Riehn, Markus Roth, Alexander Sandrock, Ina Sarcevic, Michael Schmelling, Günter Sigl, Torbjorn Sjöstrand, Dennis Soldin, Michael Unger, Marius Utheim, Jakub Vicha, Klaus Werner, Michael Windau, Valery Zhukov
  Nature Reviews Physics (2025); arXiv:2508.21796
• Photon-likeness of hadron showers and impact of Lorentz boosting
  Jannis Pawlowsky, Karl-Heinz Kampert, Julian Rautenberg
  Astrophys. J. 983 (2025) 12; arXiv:2407.18318
• Simulating radio emission from particle cascades with CORSIKA 8
  J.M. Alameddine, J. Albrecht, J. Ammerman-Yebra, L. Arrabito,A.A. Alves Jr., D. Baack, A. Coleman, H. Dembinski, D. Els.sser, R. Engel, A. Faure, A. Ferrari, C. Gaudu, C. Glaser, M. Gottowik, D. Heck, T. Huege, K.H. Kampert, N. Karastathis, L. Nellen, T. Pierog, R. Prechelt, M. Reininghaus, W. Rhode, F. Riehn, M. Sackel, P. Sampathkumar, A. Sandrock, J. Soedingrekso, R. Ulrich
  Astroparticle Physics 166 (2025) 103072
• Improvements in charged lepton and photon propagation for the software PROPOSAL 
  Jean-Marco Alameddine, Johannes Albrecht, Hans Dembinski, Pascal Gutjahr, Karl-Heinz Kampert, Wolfgang Rhode, Maximilian Sackel, Alexander Sandrock, Jan Soedingrekso
  Computer Physics Communications 302 (2024) 109243
• Modified Temperature-Redshift Relation and Ultra-high-energy Cosmic Ray Propagation
  Janning Meinert, Leonel Morejón, Alexander Sandrock, Björn Eichmann, Jonas Kreidelmeyer, Karl-Heinz Kampert; Astrophys. J. 967 (2024) 2, 154; arXiv:2309.08451
• Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays - The Intersection of the Cosmic and Energy Frontiers
  A. Coleman et al., White Paper submitted to the US Community Study on the Future of Particle Physics (Snowmass 2021); Astropart. Phys. 47 (2023) 102794; arXiv:2205.05845
• Simulation of deflection uncertainties on directional reconstructions of muons using PROPOSAL
  Pascal Gutjahr, Jean-Marco Alameddine, Alexander Sandrock, Jan Soedingrekso, Mirco Hünnefeld, and Wolfgang Rhode
  Eur.Phys.J.C 82 (2022) 12, 1143; arXiv:2208.11902
• Shadowing effects in the diffractive scattering of virtual photons on nuclei and its interference with the process of bremsstrahlung
  A. Sandrock, Eur.Phys.J.C 82 (2022) 12, 1157
• CRPropa 3.2 – an advanced framework for high-energy particle propagation in extragalactic and galactic spaces
  Rafael Alves Batista, Julia Becker Tjus, Julien Dörner, Andrej Dundovic, Björn Eichmann, Antonius Frie, Christoph Heiter, Mario R. Hoerbe, Karl-Heinz Kampert, Lukas Merten, Gero Müller, Patrick Reichherzer, Andrey Saveliev, Leander Schlegel, Günter Sigl, Arjen van Vliet, David Walz, Tobias Winchen
  JCAP 09 (2022) 035; arXiv:2208.00107
• Quantum gravity phenomenology at the dawn of the multi-messenger era – A review
  A. Addazi et al.,
  Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics 103948 (2022); arXiv:2111.05659
• The Muon Puzzle in cosmic-ray induced air showers and its connection to the Large Hadron Collider
  Johannes Albrecht, Lorenzo Cazon, Hans Dembinski, Anatoli Fedynitch, Karl-Heinz Kampert, Tanguy Pierog, Wolfgang Rhode, Dennis Soldin, Bernhard Spaan, Ralf Ulrich, and Michael Unger
  Astrophys. Space Sci. 367, 27 (2022) ; arXiv:2105.06148
• Hunting super-heavy dark matter with ultra-high energy photons
  Luis A. Anchordoqui, Corinne Bérat, Mario E. Bertaina, Antonella Castellina, Olivier Deligny, Ralph Engel, Glennys R. Farrar, Piera L. Ghia, Dan Hooper, Oleg Kalashev, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Marcus Niechciol, Angela V. Olinto, Philipp Papenbreer, Lorenzo Perrone, Julian Rautenberg, Andrés Romero-Wolf, Pierpaolo Savina, Tonia M. Venters
  Astropart. Phys. 132 (2021) 102614; arxiv:2105.12895
• Refractive displacement of the radio-emission footprint of inclined air showers simulated with CoREAS
  Felix Schlüter, Marvin Gottowik, Tim Huege, Julian Rautenberg
  The European Physical Journal C 80 (2020) 643; arXiv:2005.06775
• Open questions in cosmic-ray research at ultrahigh energies
  Rafael Alves Batista, Jonathan Biteau, Mauricio Bustamante, Klaus Dolag, Ralph Engel, Ke Fang, Karl-Heinz Kampert, Dmitriy Kostunin, Miguel Mostafa, Kohta Murase, Foteini Oikonomou, Angela V. Olinto, Mikhail I. Panasyuk, Guenter Sigl, Andrew Taylor, and Michael Unger
  Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 6:23 (2019): arXiv:arXiv:1903.06714
• Predictions for the flux of high-energy cosmogenic neutrinos and the influence of the extragalactic magnetic field
  David Wittkowski and Karl-Heinz Kampert
  Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 488 (2019) no.1, L119-L122; arXiv:1810.03769
• On the absolute energy scale of extensive air showers via radio emission: systematic uncertainty of underlying first-principle calculations
  MarvinGottowik, Christian Glaser, Tim Huege, Julian Rautenberg
  Astropart. Phys. 103 (2018) 87; arXiv:1712.07442
• Production and propagation of ultra-high energy photons using CRPropa 3
  Christopher Heiter, Daniel Kuempel, David Walz, Martin Erdmann
  Astropart. Phys. 102 (2018) 39, arXiv:1710.11406
• On the Anisotropy in the Arrival Directions of Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays
  David Wittkowski and Karl-Heinz Kampert
  ApJL 824 (2018) L3; arXiv:1710.05617
• Astrophysical interpretation of small-scale neutrino angular correlation searches with IceCube
  Martin Leuermann, Michael Schimp, Christopher H. Wiebusch
  Astropart. Phys. 83 (2016) 21
• CRPropa 3 – a Public Astrophysical Simulation Framework for Propagating Extraterrestrial Ultra-High Energy Particles
  Rafael Alves Batista, Andrej Dundovic, Martin Erdmann, Karl-Heinz Kampert, Daniel Kuempel, Gero Müller, Guenter Sigl, Arjen van Vliet, David Walz, Tobias Winchen
  JCAP 05 (2016) 038; arXiv:1603.07142
• First Experimental Characterization of Microwave Emission from Cosmic Ray Air Showers
  R. Smida, ..., D. Fuhrmann, K.-H. Kampert, S. Mathys, J. Rautenberg, et al.
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 221101 (2014)
• Asymmetry of the angular distribution of Cherenkov photons of extensive air showers induced by the geomagnetic field
  P. Homola, R. Engel, H. Wilczynski
  Astropart. Phys. 60 (2014) 47-53
• Cosmic rays from the ankle to the cutoff
  Karl-Heinz Kampert and Peter Tinyakov
  Comptes Rendus Physique 15 (2014) 318-328; arXiv:1405.0575
• CRPropa 2.0 - a Public Framework for Propagating High Energy Nuclei, Secondary Gamma Rays and Neutrinos
  Karl-Heinz Kampert, Jörg Kulbartz, Luca Maccione, Nils Nierstenhöfer, Peter Schiffer, Günter Sigl, Arjen René van Vliet
  Astropart. Phys. 42 (2013) 41-51; arXiv:1206.3132
• Das Pierre Auger Observatorium: Teilchenstrahlungen aus dem Kosmos
  Karl-Heinz Kampert
  VDI Ingenieur Forum 4/2012, 30-32
• A beginning investigation into the possible role of cosmic rays in the initiation of lightning discharges at the Pierre Auger Observatory
  W.C. Brown, J.R. Dywer, A. Huangs, P.R. Krehbiel, W. Rison, R.J. Thomas, H. Edens, L. Niemitz and J. Rautenberg
  EPJ Plus (2012) 127; 95
• Studies of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays look to the future
  Karl-Heinz Kampert, Masaki Fukushima
  CERN Courier 52/6 (2012) 22-25
• Extensive Air Showers and Ultra High-Energy Cosmic Rays: A Historical Review
  Karl-Heinz Kampert and Alan A. Watson
  The European Physical Journal H 37 (2012) 359-412; arXiv:1207.4827
• Radio galaxies of the local universe - All-sky catalog, luminosity functions, and clustering
  Sjoert van Velzen, Heino Falcke, Pim Schellart, Nils Nierstenhöfer, and Karl-Heinz Kampert
  A&A 544, A18 (2012); arXiv:1206.0031
• Measurements of the Cosmic Ray Composition with Air Shower Experiments
  Karl-Heinz Kampert and Michael Unger
  Astropart. Phys. 35 (2012) 660-678; arXiv:1201.0018
• Systematic uncertainties in air shower measurements from high-energy hadronic interaction models
  R.D. Parsons, C. Bleve, S.S. Ostapchenko, and J. Knapp,
  Astropart. Phys. 34 (2011) 832-839; arXiv:1102.4603
• FPGA Based Signal-Processing for Radio Detection of Cosmic Rays
  Adrian Schmidt, Hartmut Gemmeke, Andreas Haungs, Karl-Heinz Kampert, Christoph Ruehle, Zbigniew Szadkowski
  IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 58 (2011) 1621-1627
• A fast Embedded System for Radio Detection of Cosmic Rays
  H. Gemmeke, M. Scherer, M. Balzer, A. Herth, A. Menshikov, C. Rühle, A. Schmidt, K.-H. Becker, K.-H. Kampert, and A. Haungs, for the Pierre Auger Collaboration
  IEEE (2010) 722-729
• Auf der Suche nach den kosmischen Beschleunigern - Die höchstenergetischen Teilchen des Universums
  Karl-Heinz Kampert,
  OUTPUT Magazin I/2009, 6-10
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  Z. Szadkowski, T. Bäcker, K.-H. Becker, P. Buchholz, I. Fleck, K.-H. Kampert, I. Rammes, J. Rautenberg, O. Tascau
  Nucl. Instr. Meth. A 606 (2009) 439-445
• Puzzling hot spots in the cosmic ray sky
  K.-H. Kampert,
  Invited Viewpoint by the APS Journals, Physics 1, 37 (2008)
• Geometry reconstruction of fluorescence detetctors revisited
  D. Kuempel. K.-H. Kampert, M. Risse
  Astropart. Phys. 30 (2008) 167-174; arXiv:0806.4523
• Addendum: Ultrahigh-energy cosmic ray bounds on nonbirefringent modified Maxwell theory
  F.R. Klinkhamer, M. Risse
  Phys. Rev. D77 (2008) 117901: arXiv:0806.4351
• Ultrahigh-energy cosmic ray bounds on nonbirefringent modified Maxwell theory
  F.R. Klinkhamer, M. Risse
  Phys. Rev. D77 (2008) 016002: arXiv:0709.2502
• Search for ultra-high energy photons using air showers
  Markus Risse, Piotr Homola
  Mod. Phys. Lett. A 22 (2007) 749 - 766astro-ph/0702632
• Qualification tests of the 11000 photomultipliers for the Pierre Auger observatory fluorescence detectors
  K.-H. Becker, A. Behrmann, F. Bracci, C. Delle Fratte, P. Facal San Luis, Ch. Fontaine, H. Geenen, D. Guerin, S. Hartmann, K.-H. Kampert, P. Lavoute, G. Matthiae, P. Petrinca, P. Privitera, J. Rodriguez Martino, G. Salina, V. Scherini, V. Verzi, U. Weischer, Ch. Wiebusch
  Nucl. Instr. Meth. A576 (2007) 301-311
• 16-point discrete Fourier transform based on the Radix-2 FFT algorithm implemented into cyclone FGPA as the UHECR trigger for horizontal air showers in the Pierre Auger Observatory
  Z. Szadkowski
  Nucl. Instr. Meth. A560 (2006) 309-316
• Development of a new first level trigger for surface array in the Pierre Auger Observatory based on the Cyclone Altera FPGA
  Z. Szadkowski, K.-H. Becker, K.-H. Kampert
  Nucl. Instr. Meth. A545 (2005) 793-802
• The concept of an ACEX cost-effective first level surface detector trigger in the Pierre Auger Observatory
  Z. Szadkowski
  Nucl. Instr. Meth. A551 (2005) 477-486
• Earth-Skimming UHE tau neutrinos at the Fluorescence Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory
  C. Aramo, A. Insolia, A. Leonardi, G. Miele, L. Perrone, O. Pisanti, D.V. Semikoz
  Astroparticle Physics 23 (2005) 65; astro-ph/0407638