The Pierre Auger Observatory: Status, performance and perspectives

by Dr. María Teresa Dova (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)

Wednesday 18 Jun 2003, 17:00 → 18:00 Europe/Zurich

CERN

The Pierre Auger Observatory is a broadly based international effort to explore the upper-end of the cosmic ray spectrum. It will be the largest cosmic ray detector ever built, covering 3000 square kilometres in its full configuration, and the first experiment designed to work in a hybrid detection mode. It is currently under construction in Malargue, Argentina. Extensive air showers are detected by 1600 water Cherenkov detectors on a triangular grid of 1.5 km spacing, and by four fluorescence telescope stations at the perimeter of the array. The first data taken with a prototype of 32 surface stations and 2 fluorescence telescope have demonstrated a very good performance of the apparatus. The concept of the experiment as well as the current status will be described in this talk.

Organiser(s): E. Cortina-Gil
More information: http://dpnc.unige.ch/seminaire/annonce.html

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