AUGER array results and plans - ECRS 2012螺旋阵列的结果和计划- ECRS 2012.pptVIP

* See presentation of Navarro at this meeting … Summary Energy spectrum exhibits ankle and GZK suppression The sources are extragalactic, within the “GZK sphere”: (weak) anisotropy persists above ~60 EeV The composition is baryonic, appearing to become iron-dominated (or new particle physics … models do not give enough muons) p-Air, p-p cross sections beyond the LHC energy Few/no photons or neutrinos (disfavors exotic “top down” models) Photons/neutrinos nearing GZK regime * * What’s Next? Auger has been “operating” since 2004, fully deployed since 2008. The international agreement runs for 3.5 more years (end of 2015) We hope to continue after that, are exploring new technologies in use now or can be started very soon … -- Auger Engineering Radio Array - AERA - see presentation by Fraenkel -- Microwave, GHz, ... prototypes operating -- Focus on better composition determination through new muon detectors, new flourescence techniques, … RD спасибо * спасибо * * * The picture shows the southern site of the Auger Observatory. The surface array will have 1600 spaced 1.5 km (one mile) apart on a regular grid. The array will cover 3000 square kilometers. At the edges of the array there will be four enclosures each with six fixed telescopes. These telescopes together cover the whole sky above the array. Note the town of Malargüe in the south west corner of the array. The Auger campus is located on the edge of Malargüe. More about that later. * * * * * * Now I would like to show you the observatory in action. Here is an event of fairly high energy – about 70 EeV - at a moderate zenith angle of 48 degrees. Note that an EeV corresponds to 1 x 10^18 eV.) At the left are the flash ADC traces of the detector stations that participated in the event. The horizontal axis is in nanoseconds while the vertical axis is in vertical equivalent muons. The three colors are the response to the three PMTs. As you see the signal goes out to 3