The Pierre Auger project: An observatory for measuring extremely high-energy cosmic rays
- School of Environmental Sciences, Nova Gorica and J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana (Slovenia)
We present the scientific motivation and conceptual design of the P. Auger Observatory. Two giant ground arrays of water {hacek C}erenkov tanks overlooked by fluorescence detectors will cover an area of 3000 km{sup 2} each. They will be build in the Southern and Northern hemisphere to provide full sky coverage. The total aperture of 14000&hthinsp;km{sup 2}sr will allow to study all observable aspects of cosmic rays from below 10 EeV up to arbitrarily high energies with an unprecedented accuracy. {copyright} {ital 1998 American Institute of Physics.}
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- OSTI ID:
- 307137
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-980455-; ISSN 0094-243X; TRN: 99:002675
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 444, Issue 1; Conference: SILAFAE `98: 2. Latin America symposium on particle and high energy physics, San Juan (Puerto Rico), 1-11 Apr 1998; Other Information: PBD: Oct 1998
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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