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Capabilities of a giant hybrid air shower detector |
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| Authors: | Paul Sommers |
| Institution: | High Energy Astrophysics Institute, Department of Physics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA |
| Abstract: | Recent reports of superhigh energy cosmic rays beyond the expected spectral cutoff have intensified interest in the unknown origin of the highest energy cosmic rays. There is a need for a much larger data base of more precisely measured air showers. This requires new sensitive detectors of enormous aperture. Combining a ground array of particle counters with an optical detector of atmospheric fluorescence yields a detector of outstanding capability. Such a hybrid detector provides far more accurate measurements of energies, arrival directions, and primary particle atomic masses than can be achieved by either type of detector separately. |
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