Cosmic Ray Tracking: electronic papers

Extracts from Annual Reports of the Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik:

• Annual Report 1993 (in German, 7 p., 5 fig., 68 kB)
• Annual Report 1994 (in German, 7 p., 6 fig., 65 kB)
• Annual Report 1995 (in English, 4 p., 4 fig., 24 kB, also available in German)
• Annual Report 1996 (in English, 2 p., 1 fig., 14 kB)

23rd International Cosmic Ray Conference, Calgary, July 1993:

• Operation and Performance of CRT detectors at the HEGRA array
  (4 p., 4 fig., 37 kB)

24th International Cosmic Ray Conference, Rome, August 1995:

• Performance of Cosmic Ray Tracking (CRT) detectors
  (4 p., 2 fig., 28 kB)
• Muons in extensive air showers and the cosmic-ray composition near the knee
  (4 p., 3 fig., 21 kB)

A comparison of the possible performance of different types of low-threshold particle arrays (CRT and others) as presented at the Heidelberg Workshop on TeV Gamma Ray Astronomy, October 1994. Published in Space Science Reviews 75, 185-197 (1996)

• Low Threshold Particle Arrays
  (13 p., 6 fig., 94 kB, also available as report MPIK-V29-1995)

A description of the CRT detectors and their performance are presented in two papers published in Nuclear Instruments and Methods (section A). Paper 1: NIM A369 (1996) 284-292; paper 2: NIM A369 (1996) 293-305. These papers include several long Encapsulated PostScript figures. If your network line to this place is slow or if you want to have just a quick look into the papers, please get the papers without figures:

• The Cosmic Ray Tracking (CRT) detector system
  (13 p., 60 kB, no figures)
• Operation and performance of the Cosmic Ray Tracking (CRT) detector system
  (23 p., 77 kB, no figures)

• The Cosmic Ray Tracking (CRT) detector system
  (13 p., 6 fig., 460 kB)
• Operation and performance of the Cosmic Ray Tracking (CRT) detector system
  (23 p., 13 fig., 496 kB)

Even more details are in extended versions of the above papers, available as technical reports:

• The Cosmic Ray Tracking detector system
  (19 p., 10 fig., 1104 kB, report MPIK-V30-1995)
• Operation and performance of the Cosmic Ray Tracking detector system
  (35 p., 23 fig., 1021 kB, report MPIK-V31-1995)

One of the scientific goals under investigation with the CRT detectors at La Palma is the mass composition of the ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. The method is based on the angular distribution of particles in air showers. A description of the method is presented in the following paper (published in Astroparticle Physics Vol. 5, p. 139 (1996)):

• Measuring the UHE cosmic-ray composition with tracking detectors in air shower arrays
  (14p., 7 fig., 70 kB, also available as report MPIK-V9-1996)

25th International Cosmic Ray Conference, Durban, 1997

• Changes of the cosmic ray mass composition at the knee
  (4 p., 4 fig., 50 kB)

Results are presented in more detail in a paper published in Astroparticle Physics Vol. 8, p. 253 (1998):

• Changes of the cosmic-ray mass composition in the 10¹⁴-10¹⁶ eV energy range
  (22p., 11 fig., 141 kB)

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Last update: August 13, 1998 by KB