Published April 16, 2004
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Journal article
Measurement of the flux of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays from monocular observations by the High Resolution Fly's Eye Experiment
Creators
- Abbasi, R.U.1
- Abu-Zayyad, T.1
- Archbold, G.1
- Belov, K.1
- Cao, Z.1
- Dai, H.1
- Everett, A.A.1
- Fedorova, Yu.A.1
- Girard, J.H.V.1
- Gray, R.C.1
- Hanlon, W.F.1
- Huentemeyer, P.1
- Jones, B.F1
- Jui, C.C.H.1
- Kieda, D.B.1
- Kim, K.1
- Loh, E.C.1
- Martens, K.1
- Matthews, J.N.1
- Meyer, J.R.1
- and others
- High Resolution Fly's Eye Collaboration
- 1. Department of Physics and High Energy Astrophysics Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 (United States)
Description
We have measured the cosmic ray spectrum above 1017.2 eV using the two air-fluorescence detectors of the High Resolution Fly's Eye observatory operating in monocular mode. We describe the detector, phototube, and atmospheric calibrations, as well as the analysis techniques for the two detectors. We fit the spectrum to a model consisting of galactic and extragalactic sources
Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review Letters
- Journal Volume
- 92
- Journal Issue
- 15
- Journal Page Range
- p. 151101-151101.4
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
- CODEN
- PRLTAO
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 36017854
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CALIBRATION; COSMIC RAY SOURCES; COSMIC RAY SPECTROMETERS; ENERGY RESOLUTION; ENERGY SPECTRA; FLUORESCENCE; PEV RANGE
- Descriptors DEC
- EMISSION; ENERGY RANGE; LUMINESCENCE; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; PHOTON EMISSION; RESOLUTION; SPECTRA; SPECTROMETERS
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2004 The American Physical Society
- Collaborations
- High Resolution Fly's Eye Collaboration