Volume 358 - 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2019) - CRI - Cosmic Ray Indirect
Analysis of Data from Surface Detector Stations of the AugerPrime Upgrade
A. Taboada*  on behalf of the Pierre Auger Collaboration
Full text: pdf
Pre-published on: July 22, 2019
Published on: July 02, 2021
Abstract
Measuring the different components of extensive air showers is of key importance in reconstructing the mass composition of ultra-high energy cosmic rays. AugerPrime, the upgrade of the Pierre Auger Observatory, aims to enhance the sensitivity of its surface detector to the masses of cosmic rays by installing a $3.8~\mathrm{m^2}$ plastic scintillator detector on top of each of the 1660 Water-Cherenkov Detectors (WCDs). This Scintillator Surface Detector (SSD) provides a complementary measurement which allows for disentanglement of the electromagnetic and muonic shower components. Another important improvement of AugerPrime are the surface-detector electronics. The new electronics will process signals from the WCD and the SSD with higher sampling frequency and enhanced resolution in signal amplitude. Furthermore, a smaller photomultiplier tube will be added to each WCD, thus increasing its dynamic range. Twelve upgraded surface detector stations have been operating since September 2016. Additionally, seventy-seven SSDs have been deployed and are taking data since March 2019. In this work, the analysis of the data from these detectors is presented.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.358.0434
How to cite

Metadata are provided both in "article" format (very similar to INSPIRE) as this helps creating very compact bibliographies which can be beneficial to authors and readers, and in "proceeding" format which is more detailed and complete.

Open Access
Copyright owned by the author(s) under the term of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.