Reconstruction of inclined air showers detected with the Pierre Auger Observatory

Aab, A.; Abreu, P.; Aglietta, M.; Boháčová, Martina; Chudoba, Jiří; Ebr, Jan; Mandát, Dušan; Nečesal, Petr; Palatka, Miroslav; Pech, Miroslav; Prouza, Michael; Řídký, Jan; Schovánek, Petr; Trávníček, Petr; Vícha, Jakub

doi:https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2014/08/019

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Reconstruction of inclined air showers detected with the Pierre Auger Observatory

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SYSNO ASEP	0436674
Document Type	J - Journal Article
R&D Document Type	Journal Article
Subsidiary J	Článek ve WOS
Title	Reconstruction of inclined air showers detected with the Pierre Auger Observatory
Author(s)	Aab, A. (DE) Abreu, P. (PT) Aglietta, M. (IT) Boháčová, Martina (FZU-D)_{RID, ORCID} Chudoba, Jiří (FZU-D)_{RID, ORCID} Ebr, Jan (FZU-D)_{RID, ORCID} Mandát, Dušan (FZU-D)_{RID, ORCID} Nečesal, Petr (FZU-D) Palatka, Miroslav (FZU-D)_{RID, ORCID, SAI} Pech, Miroslav (FZU-D)_{RID, ORCID} Prouza, Michael (FZU-D)_{RID, ORCID} Řídký, Jan (FZU-D)_{RID, ORCID} Schovánek, Petr (FZU-D)_{RID, ORCID} Trávníček, Petr (FZU-D)_{RID, ORCID} Vícha, Jakub (FZU-D)_{RID, ORCID}
Number of authors	487
Source Title	Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. - : Institute of Physics Publishing - ISSN 1475-7516 Roč. 8, AUG (2014), 1-33
Number of pages	33 s.
Language	eng - English
Country	GB - United Kingdom
Keywords	ultra high energy cosmic rays ; cosmic ray experiments
Subject RIV	BF - Elementary Particles and High Energy Physics
R&D Projects	GA14-17501S GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF)
	7AMB14AR005 GA MŠMT - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS)
	LG13007 GA MŠMT - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS)
Institutional support	FZU-D - RVO:68378271
UT WOS	000341848800019
EID SCOPUS	84911008502
DOI	10.1088/1475-7516/2014/08/019
Annotation	We describe the method devised to reconstruct inclined cosmic-ray air showers with zenith angles greater than 60 degrees detected with the surface array of the Pierre Auger Observatory. The measured signals at the ground level are fitted to muon density distributions predicted with atmospheric cascade models to obtain the relative shower size as an overall normalization parameter. The method is evaluated using simulated showers to test its performance. The energy of the cosmic rays is calibrated using a sub-sample of events reconstructed with both the fluorescence and surface array techniques. The reconstruction method described here provides the basis of complementary analyses including an independent measurement of the energy spectrum of ultra-high energy cosmic rays using very inclined events collected by the Pierre Auger Observatory.
Workplace	Institute of Physics
Contact	Kristina Potocká, potocka@fzu.cz, Tel.: 220 318 579
Year of Publishing	2015

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