INVESTIGADORES
SANCHEZ Federico Andres
artículos
Título:
Properties and performance of the prototype instrument for the Pierre Auger Observatory
Autor/es:
AUGER COLLABORATION, F. SANCHEZ
Revista:
NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS AND METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH A - ACCELERATORS, SPECTROMETERS, DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPAMENT
Editorial:
Elsevier
Referencias:
Año: 2004 p. 50 - 95
ISSN:
0168-9002
Resumen:
Construction oft he first stage of the Pierre Auger Observatory has begun. The aim of the Observatory is to collect unprecedented information about cosmic rays above 10^18 eV: The first phase of the project, the construction and operation of a prototype system, known as the engineering array, has now been completed. It has allowed all of the sub-systems that will be used in the full instrument to be tested under field conditions. In this paper, the properties and performance of these sub-systems are described and their success illustrated with descriptions of some of the events recorded thus far.
