TY - JOUR
T1 - The Pierre Auger Observatory Upgrade
AU - Pierre Auger Collaboration
AU - Marsella, Giovanni
AU - Aab, A.
AU - Abreu, P.
AU - Aglietta, M.
AU - Ahn, E. J.
AU - Al Samarai, I.
AU - Albuquerque, I. F.M.
AU - Allekotte, I.
AU - Allison, P.
AU - Almela, A.
AU - Alvarez Castillo, J.
AU - Alvarez-Muñiz, J.
AU - Ambrosio, M.
AU - Anastasi, G. A.
AU - Anchordoqui, L.
AU - Andrada, B.
AU - Andringa, S.
AU - Aramo, C.
AU - Arqueros, F.
AU - Arsene, N.
AU - Asorey, H.
AU - Assis, P.
AU - Aublin, J.
AU - Avila, G.
AU - Badescu, A. M.
AU - Balaceanu, A.
AU - Baus, C.
AU - Beatty, J. J.
AU - Becker, K. H.
AU - Bellido, J. A.
AU - Berat, C.
AU - Bertaina, M. E.
AU - Bertou, X.
AU - Biermann, P. L.
AU - Billoir, P.
AU - Biteau, J.
AU - Blaess, S. G.
AU - Blanco, A.
AU - Blazek, J.
AU - Bleve, C.
AU - Boháčová, M.
AU - Boncioli, D.
AU - Bonifazi, C.
AU - Borodai, N.
AU - Botti, A. M.
AU - Brack, J.
AU - Brancus, I.
AU - Bretz, T.
AU - Bridgeman, A.
AU - Pelayo, R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2017.
PY - 2017/3/23
Y1 - 2017/3/23
N2 - It is planned to operate the Pierre Auger Observatory until at least the end of 2024. An upgrade of the experiment has been proposed in order to provide additional measurements to allow one to elucidate the mass composition and the origin of the flux suppression at the highest energies, to search for a flux contribution of protons up to the highest energies and to reach a sensitivity to a contribution as small as 10% in the flux suppression region, to study extensive air showers and hadronic multi-particle production. With operation planned until 2024, event statistics will more than double compared with the existing Auger data set, with the critical added advantage that every event will now have mass information. Obtaining additional composition-sensitive information will not only help to better reconstruct the properties of the primary particles at the highest energies, but also improve the measurements in the energy range just above the ankle. Furthermore, measurements with the new detectors will help to reduce systematic uncertainties related to the modelling hadronic showers and to limitations in the reconstruction algorithms. A description of the principal proposed Auger upgrade will be presented. The Auger upgrade promises high-quality future data, and real scope for new physics.
AB - It is planned to operate the Pierre Auger Observatory until at least the end of 2024. An upgrade of the experiment has been proposed in order to provide additional measurements to allow one to elucidate the mass composition and the origin of the flux suppression at the highest energies, to search for a flux contribution of protons up to the highest energies and to reach a sensitivity to a contribution as small as 10% in the flux suppression region, to study extensive air showers and hadronic multi-particle production. With operation planned until 2024, event statistics will more than double compared with the existing Auger data set, with the critical added advantage that every event will now have mass information. Obtaining additional composition-sensitive information will not only help to better reconstruct the properties of the primary particles at the highest energies, but also improve the measurements in the energy range just above the ankle. Furthermore, measurements with the new detectors will help to reduce systematic uncertainties related to the modelling hadronic showers and to limitations in the reconstruction algorithms. A description of the principal proposed Auger upgrade will be presented. The Auger upgrade promises high-quality future data, and real scope for new physics.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85017191667&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1051/epjconf/201713602003
DO - 10.1051/epjconf/201713602003
M3 - Artículo de la conferencia
AN - SCOPUS:85017191667
SN - 2101-6275
VL - 136
JO - EPJ Web of Conferences
JF - EPJ Web of Conferences
M1 - 02003
T2 - 6th Roma International Conference on Astroparticle Physics, RICAP 2016
Y2 - 21 June 2016 through 24 June 2016
ER -