… Because of the low flux of UHECR it is unfeasible to study them by direct detection.
Instead, we determine the longitudinal shape of the air-shower of particles produced by the …

… one or more fluorescence detectors in conjunction with the surface detector array (hybrid …
Drum Fluorescence Detector, and observed in hybrid mode with the TA surface detector [8]. …

… Also located at the Middle Drum site are 10 FD telescopes used for the TALE detector. At
the southwest and southeast corners of the SD array are the Long Ridge (LR) and Black Rock …

… -high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) in the past 2 decades. … precise information about the
composition of cosmic rays as a … detector arrays and high resolution air fluorescence detectors…

… of UHECRs. It is the largest hybrid detector ever built, combining a fluorescence detector (FD…
the camera from each of them is compared to the drum calibration, and in this way a better …

… mechanics of UHECR detectors, we must first build an understanding of … detector featured
67 drums containing an array of 12-14 PMTs at the focal plane of a 1.5 m mirror in a steel drum …

… Array (TA) Middle Drum (MD) fluorescence and surface detector array. The simulated events
… of the Auger data through the TA detector and the average difference between the two data …

… is the measurement of UHECR mass composition using data … of detectors: a surface array of
water Cherenkov Detectors (WCD… The drum calibration is designed to provide an end to end …

… SD detectors, each operating in monocular mode. Events that trigger both detectors within a
… are fit to a model of the UHECR shower axis to obtain the shower detector plane (SDP). The …

… the Middle Drum (MD) fluorescence detector employs 14 … and energy, UHECR composition
is traditionally performed … electronics, to fully understand the response of our detector. Data/…