Speaker
Prof.
James Beatty
(Ohio State)
Description
The Auger collaboration is proposing an upgrade to elucidate mass composition and the origin of the flux suppression at the highest energies, search for a flux contribution from protons at the highest energies, and explore hadronic interactions at energies beyond those accessible at man-made accelerators. The upgrade consists of a surface scintillator detector (SSD) at each water Cherenkov detector (WCD) site to improve muon discrimination, an upgrade of the electronics to accommodate the SSD and enhance the WCD performance, underground muon detectors in the infilled region of the array to calibrate and verify muon measurements, and an enhancement of the duty cycle of the fluorescence detector. The motivation for the upgrade and its expected performance will be discussed.
Primary author
Prof.
James Beatty
(Ohio State)
