The Auger Engineering Radio Array and Multy-hybrid Cosmic Ray Detection

E. M. HOLT; THE PIERRE AUGER COLLABORATION; J. M. FIGUEIRA

Torino

Conferencia; XIV International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics TAUP2015; 2015

To be published in Journal of Physics: Conference Series /// The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) aims at the detection of air showers induced by high-energy cosmic rays. As an extension of the Pierre Auger Observatory, it measures complementary information to the particle detectors, fluorescence telescopes and to the muon scintillators of the Auger Muons and Infill for the Ground Array (AMIGA). AERA is sensitive to all fundamental parameters of an extensive air shower such as the arrival direction, energy and depth of shower maximum. Since the radio emission is induced purely by the electromagnetic component of the shower, in combination with the AMIGA muon counters, AERA is perfect for separate measurements of the electrons and muons in the shower, if combined with a muon counting detector like AMIGA. In addition to the depth of the shower maximum, the ratio of the electron and muon number serves as a measure of the primary particle mass.