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Pierre Auger Observatory Some science topics Spectrum Inclined Events Fluorescence Yield Neutrino Limits Clusters/Anisotropy (Diego Harari) Photon Limit (Markus Risse). James W. Cronin Rencontres du Vietnam
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Pierre Auger Observatory Some science topics Spectrum Inclined Events Fluorescence Yield Neutrino Limits Clusters/Anisotropy (Diego Harari) Photon Limit (Markus Risse) James W. Cronin Rencontres du Vietnam Hanoi August 7, 2006 1
S1000 is Energy parameter 8
Key feature of the Auger Observatory Hybrid measurements: Calibration of energy and shower geometry by fluorescence telescope
Measured Not simulated By Tokonatsu Yamamoto University of Chicago
Normalized to 1.0 at sec theta = 1.27 or theta = 38 deg Attenuation curve by constant intensity technique Measured from data not simulated 16
ICRC 2005 18
32,000 Inclined showers ≥ 600 Very large events with more than 50 tanks triggered
Energy reconstruction Log(E/EeV) = 0.73 ± 0.03 + (1.04 ± 0.06) log(N19) Hybrid data: FD versus SD reconstruction Inclined showers > 60 deg
9 Signal processing can extract em/muon ratio
Work in progress Preliminary ! Theoretical uncertainty ± factor 3 Preliminary ! 23
Elongation Rate 17.5 18.5 18.0 18.75 19.25 19.75 Nicholas Busca Nicholas Busca