Measurement of the flux of ultra high energy cosmic rays by the stereo technique

Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 53-60

  Abbasi, R U ^a   Abu Zayyad, T ^a   Al Seady, M ^a   Allen, M ^a   Amann, J F ^b   Archbold, G ^a   Belov, K ^a,d   Belz, J W ^a   Bergman, D R ^d   Blake, S A ^a   Brusova, O A ^a   Burt, G W ^a   Cannon, C ^a   Cao, Z ^a,h   Deng, W ^a   Fedorova, Y ^a   Findlay, J ^a   Finley, C B ^g   Gray, R C ^a   Hanlon, W F ^a   Hoffman, C M ^b   Holzscheiter, M H ^b   Hughes, G ^d   Huntemeyer P ^a   Ivanov, D ^d   Jones, B F ^a   Jui, C C H ^a   Kim, K ^a   Kirn, M A ^c   Loh, E C ^a   Maestas, M M ^a   Manago, N ^e   Marek, L J ^b   Martens, K ^a   Matthews, J A J ^f   Matthews, J N ^a   Moore, S A ^a   O'Neill, A ^g   Painter, C A ^b   Perera, L ^d   Reil, K ^a   Riehle, R ^a   Roberts, M D ^a   Rodriguez, D ^a   Sasaki, M ^e   Schnetzer, S R ^d   Scott, L M ^d   Sinnis, G ^b   Smith, J D ^a   Snow, R ^a   Sokolsky, P ^a   Springer, R W ^a   Stokes, B T ^a,d   Stratton, S R ^d   Thomas, J R ^a   Thomas, S B ^a   Thomson, G B ^d   Tupa, D ^b   Wiencke, L R ^a   Zech, A ^d   Zhang, B K ^h   Zhang, X ^g   Zhang, Y ^h   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^g Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^h INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Air fluorescence technique; Cosmic rays; GZK cut off; Spectrum; Stereo reconstruction

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAY DETECTORS; COSMIC RAY MEASUREMENT; COSMIC RAYS; FLUORESCENCE; STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING;

AIR FLUORESCENCES; COSMIC RAY SPECTRA; GREISEN-ZATSEPIN-KUZMIN CUTOFFS; GZK CUT-OFF; SPECTRUM; STEREO RECONSTRUCTION; STEREOSCOPIC TECHNIQUES; ULTRA HIGH-ENERGY COSMIC RAYS;

COSMOLOGY;

EID: 69049088691     PISSN: 09276505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2009.06.001     Document Type: Article

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