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The UHECR Spectrum with HiRes

The UHECR Spectrum with HiRes. Douglas Bergman Rutgers University ICHEP 2002, Amsterdam 26 July 2002. The HiRes Experiment. Study UHECR with Air Fluorescence Spectrum Composition Sources/Anisotropy Currently has the highest exposure above 10 EeV. HiRes Collaboration.

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The UHECR Spectrum with HiRes

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  1. The UHECR Spectrum with HiRes Douglas Bergman Rutgers University ICHEP 2002, Amsterdam 26 July 2002

  2. The HiRes Experiment • Study UHECR with Air Fluorescence • Spectrum • Composition • Sources/Anisotropy • Currently has the highest exposure above 10 EeV

  3. HiRes Collaboration J.A. Bellido, R.W. Clay, B.R. Dawson, K.M. Simpson University of Adelaide J. Boyer, B. Knapp, W. Lee, E.J. Mannel, M. Seman, C. Song, S. Westerhoff, X. Zhang Columbia University J. Amann, C. Hoffman, M. Holzcheiter, L. Marek, G. Sinnis, T.N. Thompson, D. Tupa Los Alamos National Labratory J. Belz, M. Munro, M. Schindel The University of Montana G. Martin, J.A.J. Matthews, M. Roberts University of New Mexico D.R. Bergman, S. Karg, L. MacLynne, L. Perera, S. Schnetzer, G.B. Thomson, A. Zech Rutgers University N. Manago, M. Sasaki, M. Sasano University of Tokyo T. Abu-Zayyad, G. Archbold, K. Belov, Z. Cao, M. Dalton, J. Girard, R. Gray, W. Hanlon, B. Jones, C.C.H. Jui, D. Kieda, K. Kim, E.C. Loh, K. Martens, J.N. Matthews, J. Meyer, S.A. Moore, A.N. Moosman, J.R. Mumford, K. Reil, R. Riehle, P. Shen, J. Smith, P. Sokolsky, R.W. Springer, B.T. Stokes, S.B. Thomas, L. Wiencke University of Utah

  4. HiRes Location • West Desert of Utah on Dugway Proving Grounds • 100 miles WSW of Salt Lake City

  5. 21 Mirrors 360 deg in azimuth 3-17 deg in elevation Sample & Hold DAQ Began observation: June 1997 42 Mirrors 360 deg in azimuth 3-33 deg in elevation FADC DAQ Began observation: October 1999 HiRes Sites HiRes-I HiRes-II

  6. 5.1 m2segmented mirror 256 pixel PMT array and UV filter HiRes Mirror & PMT Cluster

  7. Data Reconstruction & Analysis • Find Shower-Detector Plane • Fit time vs angle to determine geometry • Convert number of photoelectrons to number of particles in shower • Integrate, using average energy loss, to find energy

  8. Data/MC Comparison: Geometry • Data/MC comparisons constrain possible errors in aperture calculation • Note that Psi and Rp are correlated

  9. Data/MC Comparison: Energy • Energy distributions also match • Depends on spectrum and composition in MC • Input spectrum divides out of aperture

  10. HiRes Spectra • Excellent agreement between HR-1 and HR-2

  11. Uniform Source Model Fit • Fly’s Eye composition suggests heavy-to-light change in ankle region • Use this to motivate a two component spectrum • Galactic component, power law with linear factor from composition measurement • Extragalactic component assuming uniform source density as in Berezinsky et al., hep-ph/0204357

  12. HiRes vs AGASA • Disagreement between HiRes and AGASA reduced: • Factor of 2 in flux • A few points over 100 EeV • Scaling AGASA energies down by 20% makes apparent the nice agreement in ankle region

  13. HiRes vs AGASA • Agreement below 60 EeV and disagreement above quite visible in unmodified flux comparison

  14. Conclusion • HiRes has measured the spectrum of Cosmic Rays at the highest energies and with the highest sensitivity at these energies • We observe a feature consistent with what’s expected from the GZK process • HiRes has observed several strong candidates at energies above the the GZK energy

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