The Pierre Auger Observatory Upgrade

Pierre Auger Collaboration

doi:10.1051/epjconf/201713602003

The Pierre Auger Observatory Upgrade

Pierre Auger Collaboration

Physics

Sezione di Lecce
Universita del Salento
Universität Siegen
Instituto Superior Tecnico
Sezione di Torino
INAF-IAPS
Fermilab
Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies
University of São Paulo
CNEA-UNCuyo-CONICET
Ohio State University
CONICET
Universidad Tecnológica
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Sezione di Napoli
Gran Sasso Science Institute
Lehman College
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
University of Bucharest
Universidad Industrial de Santander
Observatorio Pierre Auger and Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica
Observatorio Pierre Auger and Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica
University Politehnica of Bucharest
'Horia Hulubei' National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Bergische Universität Wuppertal
University of Adelaide
UJF-Grenoble 1/CNRS-INSU
Università di Torino and Sezione INFN
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie
Université Paris 11
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN
Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik
Colorado State University
RWTH Aachen University

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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.

Original language	British English
Article number	02003
Journal	EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume	136
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201713602003
State	Published - 23 Mar 2017
Event	6th Roma International Conference on Astroparticle Physics, RICAP 2016 - Frascati, Roma, Italy Duration: 21 Jun 2016 → 24 Jun 2016

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