Measurement of the flux of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays from monocular observations by the high resolution fly's eye experiment

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 15, 2004, Pages

  Abbasi, R U ^a   Abu Zayyad, T ^a   Amann, J F ^b   Archbold, G ^a   Bellido, J A ^c   Belov, K ^a   Belz, J W ^d   Bergman, D R ^e   Cao, Z ^a   Clay, R W ^c   Cooper, M D ^b   Dai, H ^a   Dawson, B R ^c   Everett, A A ^a   Fedorova, Yu A ^a   Girard, J H V ^a   Gray, R C ^a   Hanlon, W F ^a   Hoffman, C M ^b   Holzscheiter, M H ^b   Huntemeyer P ^a   Jones, B F ^a   Jui, C C H ^a   Kieda, D B ^a   Kim, K ^a   Kirn, M A ^d   Loh, E C ^a   Manago, N ^f   Marek, L J ^b   Martens, K ^a   Martin, G ^g   Matthews, J A J ^g   Matthews, J N ^a   Meyer, J R ^a   Moore, S A ^a   Morrison, P ^a   Moosman, A N ^a   Mumford, J R ^a   Munro, M W ^d   Painter, C A ^b   Perera, L ^e   Reil, K ^a   Riehle, R ^a   Roberts, M ^g   Sarracino, J S ^b   Sasaki, M ^f   Schnetzer, S R ^e   Shen, P ^a   Simpson, K M ^c   Sinnis, G ^b   Smith, J D ^a   Sokolsky, P ^a   Song, C ^h   Springer, R W ^a   Stokes, B T ^a   Taylor, S F ^a   Thomas, S B ^a   Thompson, T N ^b   Thomson, G B ^e   Tupa, D ^b   Westerhoff, S ^h   Wiencke, L R ^a   VanderVeen, T D ^a   Zech, A ^e   Zhang, X ^h   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^e RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^h Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; CALIBRATION; FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MIRRORS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTOTUBES; RADIATION DETECTORS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

AIR SHOWERS; EXTRAGALATIC SOURCES; SHOWER ENERGIES;

COSMIC RAYS;

EID: 2542428820     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.151101     Document Type: Article

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