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    Gamma Ray Astronomy with Magnetized Zevatrons

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    Nearby sources of cosmic rays up to a ZeV(=10^21 eV) could be observed with a multi-messenger approach including secondary gamma-rays and neutrinos. If cosmic rays above ~10^18 eV are produced in magnetized environments such as galaxy clusters, the flux of secondary gamma-rays below ~1 TeV can be enhanced up to several orders of magnitudes compared to unmagnetized sources. A particular source of enhancement are synchrotron and cascade photons from e^+e^- pairs produced by protons from sources with relatively steep injection spectra proportional to E^-2.6. Such sources should be visible at the same time in ultra-high energy cosmic ray experiments and gamma-ray telescopes.Comment: 4 pages, 3 ps figure

    Methods for searching UHECR anisotropies with the Pierre Auger Observatory

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    The Pierre Auger Observatory, currently under construction, is a detector of Ultra-Hight Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR), which will allow to study the highest-energy particles with unprecedented statistics . The aim of this paper is to present methods wich are currently under development within the Auger Collaboration to study possible anisotropies of UHECR which are a major key to understand their origin

    Automated Safety Case Compilation for Product-based Argumentation

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    International audienceThe main goal of a safety case is to provide a seamless argumentation why the product developed is acceptably safe for the purpose it is intended to. It usually consists of different argumentations such as product-based and process-based in order to describe the means for avoiding systematic failures during development and controlling random failures during operation. The main challenge during the compilation of a safety case is to regroup and harmonize all the information available from the different development activities in order to provide evidence for the safety attribute of the product. The contribution of this paper is to provide a solution for compilation of a safety case based on automated extraction of information coming from existing work-products
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