Conveners
Indirect Measurements of High Energy Cosmic Rays
- Shigeru Yoshida (Chba University)
Indirect Measurements of High Energy Cosmic Rays
- Shigeru Yoshida (Chba University)
Alan Watson
(University of Leeds)
06/07/2016, 09:00
Measurements relevant to the arrival direction distribution, the energy spectrum and the mass composition of cosmic rays above 1 PeV will be reviewed. Interpretation of raw data is affected, to a greater or lesser extent, by our lack of knowledge of key parameters of hadronic interactions: the limitations will be emphasised. Work at the Auger Observatory leads to the view that there is a...
Martina Bohacova
(Institute of Physics, Prague)
06/07/2016, 09:50
The Pierre Auger Observatory, based in Mendoza province, Argentina,
represents the largest Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Ray observatory ever built. After twelve years of operation the exposure reached almost 60 000 km2 sr yr and the unprecedented quality data set spans three orders of magnitude in energy. The status and performance of the detectors and their enhancements will be described. The...
Mr
Benedikt Zimmermann
(Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))
06/07/2016, 10:20
The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) consists of 153 autonomous radio stations at the site of the Pierre Auger Observatory in Malargüe, Prov. of Mendoza, Argentina. With an area of 17 km^2 covered, AERA is the largest radio-detector worldwide for UHECR physics. The radio stations are sensitive in the 30 to 80 MHz band to the coherent radio signal emitted by the electromagnetic air shower...
Dr
Daisuke Ikeda
(Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo)
06/07/2016, 11:30
The Telescope Array (TA) experiment, located in Utah, US, is the largest ultra-high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) observatory in the northern hemisphere. TA observes the UHECR using the hybrid technique which consists of 507 surface detectors (SD) on a 1.2km grid covering about 700 km^2 area and three fluorescence detector (FD) stations surrounding the SD array. Specification of the detectors,...
Mr
Philippe Gorodetzky
(APC-Paris 7)
06/07/2016, 12:00
Jem-Euso is a project to set-up a large fiel of view UV telescope in space to detect HECR. The surface on ground is about 200 000 km^2. The air mass seen by the instrument makes it very good to detect high energy neutrinos. Very luminous atmospheric events will also be studied through special electronics.
The pathfinders are:
- Timmins balloon (CNES), launched in 2014, was able during the 5...
Mr
Philippe Gorodetzky
(APC-Paris 7)
06/07/2016, 12:20
The EUSO-SPB (Extreme Universe Space Observatory - Super Pressure Balloon) is a fluorescence telescope at a stratospheric balloon with the main goal of detecting UV- light from Extensive Air Showers for the first time from (near) space. For this purpose
it will employ a UV telescope consisting of three 1 m2 Fresnel lenses focusing light on 2304 channels of multi-anode photomultipliers. The...
