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The Prototype High-Resolution Fly's Eye Cosmic Ray Detector

Wed, 2015-08-05 11:12 — Adnan Mohammad Yuosef Alshekh
Journal Title, Volume, Page: 
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment Volume 450, Issues 2–3, Pages 253–269
Year of Publication: 
2000
Link: 
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168900200003077
Authors: 
A Salman
Department of Physics and the High Energy Astrophysics Institute, University of Utah, UT 84112, USA
Current Affiliation: 
Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine
[email protected]
T Abu-Zayyad
Department of Physics and the High Energy Astrophysics Institute, University of Utah, UT 84112, USA
K Belov
Department of Physics and the High Energy Astrophysics Institute, University of Utah, UT 84112, USA
D.J Bird
Department of Physics and Mathematical Physics, The University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
J Boyer
Columbia University, Nevis Laboratories, Irvington, NY 10533, USA
G Chen
Department of Physics and the High Energy Astrophysics Institute, University of Utah, UT 84112, USA
R.W Clay
Department of Physics and Mathematical Physics, The University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
H.Y Dai
Department of Physics and the High Energy Astrophysics Institute, University of Utah, UT 84112, USA
B.R Dawson
Department of Physics and Mathematical Physics, The University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
Y Ho
Columbia University, Nevis Laboratories, Irvington, NY 10533, USA
M.A Huang
Department of Physics and the High Energy Astrophysics Institute, University of Utah, UT 84112, USA
C.C.H Jui
Department of Physics and the High Energy Astrophysics Institute, University of Utah, UT 84112, USA
M.J Kidd
Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL 61801, USA
D.B Kieda
Department of Physics and the High Energy Astrophysics Institute, University of Utah, UT 84112, USA
B.C Knapp
Columbia University, Nevis Laboratories, Irvington, NY 10533, USA
W Lee
Columbia University, Nevis Laboratories, Irvington, NY 10533, USA
E.C Loh
Department of Physics and the High Energy Astrophysics Institute, University of Utah, UT 84112, USA
E.J Mannel
Columbia University, Nevis Laboratories, Irvington, NY 10533, USA
J.N Matthews
Department of Physics and the High Energy Astrophysics Institute, University of Utah, UT 84112, USA
T.A O'Halloran
Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL 61801, USA
K.M Simpson
Department of Physics and Mathematical Physics, The University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
J.D Smith
Department of Physics and the High Energy Astrophysics Institute, University of Utah, UT 84112, USA
P Sokolsky
Department of Physics and the High Energy Astrophysics Institute, University of Utah, UT 84112, USA
P Sommers
Department of Physics and the High Energy Astrophysics Institute, University of Utah, UT 84112, USA
S.B Thomas
Department of Physics and the High Energy Astrophysics Institute, University of Utah, UT 84112, USA
L.R Wiencke
Department of Physics and the High Energy Astrophysics Institute, University of Utah, UT 84112, USA
C.R Wilkinson
Department of Physics and Mathematical Physics, The University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
N.R Wild
Department of Physics and Mathematical Physics, The University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
Preferred Abstract (Original): 

The High-Resolution Fly's Eye (HiRes) is an observatory for the highest energy cosmic rays. It detects the nitrogen fluorescence light induced by the passage of giant cosmic ray extensive air showers through the atmosphere. A two-site prototype of the observatory was operated from September 1994 to November 1996. In this paper we describe the components of that detector, and the procedures used to calibrate the detector and characterise the atmosphere. Data collected by the HiRes prototype are being used for physics studies, including an analysis of the cosmic ray mass composition in the energy range from 1017 to .

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