Ultra-high energy cosmic ray research with the Pierre Auger Observatory: operation, data analysis and interpretation

皮埃尔奥格天文台的超高能宇宙射线研究：操作、数据分析和解释

• 批准号: PP/E007007/1
• 负责人: Subir Sarkar
• 金额: $ 5.41万
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2008 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=PP%2FE007007%2F1
• 关键词: Ultra; energy; cosmic; ray; research

The Pierre Auger Observatory is a 3000 square kilometre detector array in Argentina that was designed and constructed to record showers of secondary particles, induced by ultra-high energy (UHE) cosmic rays in the atmosphere. The rate of these cosmic rays is as low as 1 particle per square kilometre per century, and, 40 years after their discovery, it is still unknown what their origin is, how they gain their huge energies and what they actually are. The Pierre Auger Observatory will measure UHE cosmic rays with unprecedented precision and statistics to answer exactly these questions. The size of the experiment was chosen to catch about 30 UHE particle per year, and two complementary techniques are used for good precision and particle identification. The Leeds and Oxford groups bring a broad range of experience to the international Collaboration which comprises about 250 physicists from 17 countries.

皮埃尔·俄歇天文台是阿根廷的一个3000平方公里的探测器阵列，其设计和建造是为了记录由大气中的超高能宇宙射线引起的次级粒子簇射。这些宇宙射线的速率低至每世纪每平方公里1个粒子，而且在它们被发现40年后，人们仍然不知道它们的起源是什么，它们如何获得巨大的能量以及它们实际上是什么。Pierre Auger天文台将以前所未有的精度和统计数据测量UHE宇宙射线，以准确回答这些问题。实验的规模被选择为每年捕获约30个UHE颗粒，并使用两种互补技术以获得良好的精度和颗粒识别。利兹和牛津大学的团队为国际合作带来了广泛的经验，该合作由来自17个国家的约250名物理学家组成。

项目成果

Erratum to "Atmospheric effects on extensive air showers observed with the surface detector of the Pierre Auger observatory" [Astroparticle Physics 32(2) (2009), 89-99]

“用皮埃尔·俄歇天文台表面探测器观测到的大气对大范围空气簇射的影响”勘误表 [AstropolitanarticlePhysics 32(2) (2009), 89-99]

• DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2009.10.005
• 发表时间: 2010
• 期刊: Astroparticle Physics
• 影响因子: 3.5
• 作者: Abraham J

Observation of the suppression of the flux of cosmic rays above 4 x 10 (19) eV.

• DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.101.061101
• 发表时间: 2008-08
• 期刊: Physical review letters
• 影响因子: 8.6
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Westerhoff;G. Wieczorek;L. Wiencke;B. Wilczynska;H. Wilczynski;C. Wileman;M. G. Winnick;H. Wu;B. Wundheiler;T. Yamamoto;P. Younk;E. Zas;D. Zavrtanik;M. Zavrtanik;I. Zaw;A. Zepeda;M. Ziolkowski

Trigger and aperture of the surface detector array of the Pierre Auger Observatory

皮埃尔俄歇天文台表面探测器阵列的触发器和孔径

• DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2009.11.018
• 发表时间: 2010
• 期刊: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
• 作者: Abraham J

Correlation of the highest-energy cosmic rays with the positions of nearby active galactic nuclei

最高能量宇宙射线与附近活动星系核位置的相关性

• DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2008.01.002
• 发表时间: 2008
• 期刊: Astroparticle Physics
• 影响因子: 3.5
• 作者: Abraham J

Limit on the diffuse flux of ultrahigh energy tau neutrinos with the surface detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory

皮埃尔俄歇天文台表面探测器对超高能 tau 中微子扩散通量的限制

• DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.79.102001
• 发表时间: 2009
• 期刊: Physical Review D
• 影响因子: 5
• 作者: Abraham J