Session K1: Astroparticle Symposium V: UHE Cosmic Rays - Auger North and Exotics
1:50 PM–3:02 PM, Saturday, October 24, 2009
Green Center Room: 211
Chair: Gordon Thomson, University of Utah
Abstract ID: BAPS.2009.4CF.K1.1
Abstract: K1.00001 : The Northern Site of the Pierre Auger Observatory
1:50 PM–2:14 PM
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Author:
David Nitz
(Michigan Technical University and Pierre Auger Collaboration)
The Pierre Auger Observatory is a multi-national project for research on ultra-high energy cosmic rays. The Southern Auger Observatory (Auger South) in Mendoza province, Argentina, was completed in 2008 with an instrumented area of 3,000 km$^2$. Science results form Auger South motivate the completion and extension of the investigations begun there by constructing the Northern Auger Observatory (Auger North), with a much larger acceptance for the extremely rare cosmic ray events above a few times $10^{19}$ eV. Auger North will have an instrumented area of 8,000 square miles (20,000 km$^2$) in Southeast Colorado, USA. The presentation covers the science of Auger North, the layout and the technical implementation, as well as current R\&D efforts underway in Colorado.
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