The Pierre Auger Research and Development Array (RDA) in southeastern Colorado - R&D for a giant ground array
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
9-17-2013
Abstract
The Pierre Auger Research and Development Array (RDA) was originally designed to be the precursor of the northern Auger observatory, a hybrid array of 4400 surface detector stations and 39 fluorescence telescopes deployed over 20,000 square kilometers. It is conceived as a test bed aiming at validating an improved and more cost-effective 1-PMT surface detector design and a new peer-to-peer communication system. The array of ten surface detector stations and ten communication-only stations is currently being deployed in southeastern Colorado and will be operated at least until late 2013. It is configured in such a way that it allows testing of a new peer-to-peer communication protocol, as well as a new surface detector electronics design with a larger dynamic range aiming at reducing the distance from the shower core where saturation is observed. All these developments are expected in the short term to improve the performance of the Pierre Auger Observatory and enable future enhancements. In the longer term, it is hoped that some of these new developments may contribute to the design of a next-generation giant ground array. © Owned by the authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2013.
Publication Title
EPJ Web of Conferences
Recommended Citation
Sarazin, F.,
Collonges, S.,
Courty, B.,
Daubenspeck, M.,
Gaumé, A.,
Génolini, B.,
Guglielmi, L.,
Hevinga, M.,
Hodgson, J.,
Hollenbeck, J.,
Kuhn, K.,
Malinowski, M.,
Marton, M.,
Maskevics, M.,
Meyer, H.,
Nelson, K.,
Rauly, E.,
Robinson, S.,
Rokos, A.,
Solomey, N.,
Speelman, C.,
Thompson, J.,
Nguyen Trung, T.,
Wolf, O.,
&
Yadon, J.
(2013).
The Pierre Auger Research and Development Array (RDA) in southeastern Colorado - R&D for a giant ground array.
EPJ Web of Conferences,
53.
http://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20135308017
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