Published November 21, 2008 | Version v1
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Energy dependence of air fluorescence yield measured by AIRFLY

Creators

  • 1. Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, 5640 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago, IL 60637 (United States)
  • 2. Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Na Slovance 2, CZ-182 21 Praha 8 (Czech Republic)
  • 3. Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati dell'INFN, INFN, Sezione di Frascati, Via Enrico Fermi 40, Frascati, Rome 00044 (Italy)
  • 4. Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439 (United States)
  • 5. Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Universita de l'Aquila and INFN, Via Vetoio, I-67010 Coppito, Aquila (Italy)
  • 6. Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Universita di Roma Tor Vergata and Sezione INFN, Via della Ricerca Scientifica, I-00133 Roma (Italy)
  • 7. Czech Technical University, Technicka 4, 16607 Praha 6 (Czech Republic)
  • 8. Departamento de Fisica de Particulas, Campus Sur, Universidad, E-15782 Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
  • 9. Institut fuer Experimentelle Kernphysik (IEKP), Universitaet Karlsruhe (Thailand), Postfach 6980, D-76128 Karlsruhe (Germany)

Description

In the fluorescence detection of ultra high energy (≥1018eV) cosmic rays, the number of emitted fluorescence photons is assumed to be proportional to the energy deposited in air by shower particles. We have performed measurements of the fluorescence yield in atmospheric gases excited by electrons over energies ranging from keV to hundreds of MeV in several accelerators. We found that within the measured energy ranges the proportionality holds at the level of few %.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2008.08.051

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nima.2008.08.051;
PII
S0168-9002(08)01277-1;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Journal Volume
597
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 46-49
ISSN
0168-9002
CODEN
NIMAER

Conference

Title
5. fluorescence workshop
Dates
16-20 Sep 2007
Place
Madrid (Spain)

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
41009451
Subject category
S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
ACCELERATORS; AIR; COSMIC SHOWERS; ELECTRONS; ENERGY DEPENDENCE; FLUORESCENCE; KEV RANGE; MEV RANGE; PHOTONS; RADIATION DETECTION; YIELDS
Descriptors DEC
BOSONS; COSMIC RADIATION; DETECTION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; EMISSION; ENERGY RANGE; FERMIONS; FLUIDS; GASES; IONIZING RADIATIONS; LEPTONS; LUMINESCENCE; MASSLESS PARTICLES; PHOTON EMISSION; RADIATIONS; SECONDARY COSMIC RADIATION; SHOWERS

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