Acquisition of Instrumentation for the South Pole Air Shower Experiment

摘要9601950盖瑟这是一个学术研究基础设施奖，旨在升级南极空气簇射实验(SPASE)的仪器，并为特拉华大学巴托尔研究所的家庭实验室提供分析设备。SPASE有三个主要的科学目标：寻找超高能伽马射线源；通过与南极Muon和中微子探测器阵列(Amanda)合作，确定极高能量宇宙射线的元素组成；以及为Amanda提供指向校准。由这笔赠款资助的设备将在成分研究中特别有用，这是宇宙线物理界最优先考虑的领域。Spase是巴托尔和英国利兹大学共同努力的成果。这一奖项的资金由南极大气和天体物理学方案以及科学和技术基础设施办公室提供。***

Abstract 9601950 Gaisser This is an Academic Research Infrastructure (ARI) award to upgrade the instrumentation for the South Pole Air Shower Experiment (SPASE) and to provide analysis equipment for the home laboratory at Bartol Research Institute at the University of Delaware. SPASE has three main scientific goals: to search for sources of ultra high energy gamma rays; by working in conjunction with the Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA), which is a detector buried deep in the ice below South Pole, to determine the elemental composition of very high energy cosmic rays; and to provide pointing calibration for AMANDA. The equipment funded by this grant will be especially useful in the composition studies, an area of the highest priority in the cosmic ray physics community. SPASE is a collaborative effort of Bartol and the University of Leeds (UK). Funds for this award is being provided by both the Antarctic Aeronomy and Astrophysics Program and the Office of Science and Technology Infrastructure. ***