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Cosmic Ray Studies at the Pierre Auger Observatory
S. Paredes Saenz
on behalf of The Maradona-Pelé Collaboration (work-in-progress name)
M. P. C.
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Overview
● Introduction & Motivation
● The Pierre Auger Observatory
● Data Selection
● Measurements & Results
● Summary & Conclusion
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What are cosmic rays?
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● Energetic particles from outer space
● Primary particle can be a charged nucleus or gamma rays
○ Primary interacts with the atmosphere, decaying into an air shower
○ Leptonic cascade is well modeled, hadronic is model-dependent
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Why study them?
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Why study them?
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Why study them?
● What is the origin of cosmic rays?
○ Supernovae
○ γ-ray bursters
○ Massive black holes
○ Colliding galaxies
● They bring information of the chemical composition of the universe.
What is their mass composition? 7
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Problems
● Interplanetary travel, space probes, airplane jets, mobile phones, biological.
● At high energies (> 1015 eV) only via extensive air showers.
○ Test of hadronic models and cross sections at very high energies
How can we study them?
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Problems
● Interplanetary travel, space probes, airplane jets, mobile phones, biological.
● At high energies (> 1015 eV) only via extensive air showers.
○ Test of hadronic models and cross sections at very high energies
How can we study them?
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Problems
● Interplanetary travel, space probes, airplane jets, mobile phones, biological.
● At high energies (> 1015 eV) only via extensive air showers.
○ Test of hadronic models and cross sections at very high energies
How can we study them?
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The Pierre Auger Observatory
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Pierre Auger Observatory (Malargüe, Mendoza, Argentina)
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Slant Depth
Amount of material traversed by the shower at a z position on the shower axis.
What do we measure?
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Slant Depth
Amount of material traversed by the shower at a z position on the shower axis.
What do we measure?
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Slant Depth
Amount of material traversed by the shower at a z position on the shower axis.
What do we measure?
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Slant Depth
Amount of material traversed by the shower at a z position on the shower axis.
What do we measure?
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Slant Depth
Amount of material traversed by the shower at a z position on the shower axis.
What do we measure?
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Reconstructing the air showers
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FD detector - Camera ViewEarly = Light | Late = Dark
● Energy deposited is proportional to number of particles
● Fit profile to obtain Xmax
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Data Selection
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Data Cut Flow
Data Quality
Optimal Resolution& Uniform Acceptance
Data collected from December 1st 2004 to December 31st 201221
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Initial air-shower candidates
Data from one telescope with misaligned optics are not used
Require known aerosol conditions
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Initial air-shower candidates
Data from one telescope with misaligned optics are not used
Require known aerosol conditions
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Initial air-shower candidates
Data from one telescope with misaligned optics are not used
Require known aerosol conditions
Full shower reconstruction is required
Full longitudinal profile reconstruction
Possible reflection or shadowing by clouds
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Avoid bias in triggering of heavy nucleus vs. proton showers
Select showers containing Xmax
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Avoid bias in triggering of heavy nucleus vs. proton showers
Select showers containing Xmax
Veto highly collimated and faint showersSelect only “good”
showers28
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“Good” quality shower
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“Good” quality shower
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“Good” quality shower
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“Good” quality shower
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“Good” quality shower
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“Good” quality shower
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Avoid bias in triggering of heavy nucleus vs. proton showers
Select showers containing Xmax
Veto highly collimated and faint showersSelect only “good”
showers35
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Avoid bias in triggering of heavy nucleus vs. proton showers
Select showers containing Xmax
Veto highly collimated and faint showersSelect only “good”
showers
Reject events with uninstrumented gaps, residual cloud and dust, etc.
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Resolution
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Resolution determines the width of the distribution of Xrec
max around the true Xmax
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Detector
● Stat. fluctuations of the number of photoelectrons detected
● Reconstruction of the arrival direction
● Energy-dependant resolution
● Alignment of telescopes
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Aerosols
● Fluctuations of the night sky background
● Time variability of the aerosol content
● Non-uniformity of the aerosol layers across the array
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Molecular atmosphere
● Precision of the density profile of the atmosphere
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Syste“Matt”ic Uncertainties
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Syste“Matt”ic Uncertainties
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Syste“Matt”ic Uncertainties
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Systematics
● Reconstruction systematics dominant at low energies
● Atmospheric systematics dominant at high energies
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Systematics: Reconstruction
● Reconstruction uncertainty:○ Longitudinal and
lateral shower shape mismodeleing
↳ Estimated comparing data to simulations
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Systematics: Atmosphere
● Atmospheric uncertainty:○ Non-uniformity
of aerosol concentration
○ Yield of fluorescent light
↳ Estimated from atmospheric monitoring studies
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Systematics: Detector Calibration
● Detector Calibration:○ Relative timing
between FD and SD
○ Alignment○ Gains in
photomultipliers
↳ Estimated by re-running reconstruction with varied parameters
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Results
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Bin convention:● Energies from 1017.8 to 1019.5 eV
bins of Δ lg (E/eV) = 0.1
● Energies above 1019.5 eV an
integral bin is used
Xmax distributions
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Fig. Energy evolution of the first two central moments of the distribution compared to air-shower simulations for proton and iron primaries
Xmax and 𝜎(Xmax) as a function of shower energy
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High energy: tendency for heavier composition Lower energy: tendency for lighter composition
Fig. Energy evolution of the first two central moments of the distribution compared to air-shower simulations for proton and iron primaries
Xmax and 𝜎(Xmax) as a function of shower energy
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● Based in various models of hadronic interactions, we can obtain an estimate of the primary mass A from the Xmax distribution:
Mass of primary interpretation
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Summary and Conclusions
● A measurement of the shower depth maximum Xmax of high-energy cosmic rays was presented.
● Largest sample of Xmax ever obtained by a cosmic-ray detector was collected.
● All results are freely available to be used in interpretations of the measurements, facilitating comparison to other experiments.
● An interpretation in terms of mass composition is performed, which suggests that cosmic-rays are composed of light nuclei up to 1018.3 eV and the fraction of heavy nuclei increases up to energies to 1019.6 eV.
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Thank you!
M. P. C.
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Backup Slides 56
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Slant Depth:
E0 = primary energy, E = Energy per particle λ = interaction depth
Heitler (superposition) model
Amount of material transvesed by the shower at z position in the axis of the cosmic ray.
At Ec ionization = bremmstrahlung
Bremmstrahlung: radiation produced by deceleration of a charged particle when deflected by another charged particle.
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❖ Predictions of the moments from simulations for proton and iron induced air showers to the data
SIBYLL 2.1EPOS LHC QGSJET II 04
● The simulation (CONEX) have been performed using the three hadronic interaction models
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Average of the logarithmic mass and its variance estimated from data using different interaction
models
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Efficiency check (Data and MC) Detector resolution cross check between the separate sites
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Simulated distributions with and without detector effects
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Cross-Check Summary
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Result Summary Table
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https://web.ikp.kit.edu/corsika/movies/Movies.htm
IRON PROTON
Xmax air showers
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● Mean and standard deviation of Xmax distribution, <Xmax> and 𝛔(Xmax), respectively.
peat
● For 18.1 < lg(E/eV) < 18.2
● Repeat for other events
method
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Acceptance is the ratio of selected to generated events
Apply selection criteria to simulations
Acceptance depends on Xmax and E but not on the primary
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FD detector - Camera ViewEarly = Light | Late = Dark
Detected photoelectronsTime trace of light
Reconstruction
1. Project every time bin to path length at height hi
2. Estimate the light emitted along
3. Light fro cm Cherenkov photons proportional to
the energy deposited within the volume
4. Energy deposited proportional to number of particles
5. Fit longitudinal profile to obtain Xmax
and E(Xmax)
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Shower Contains Xmax
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● Single composition simulations don’t match with data across the whole energy range
●○ Divide energy range
and define elongated rate:
● Changes in elongated rate -> change of primary composition
Elongation Rate - 𝞂(Xmax)
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● Energetic particles from outer space
● Primary particle can be a charged nucleus or gamma rays
○ Primary interacts with the atmosphere, decaying into an air shower
○ Leptonic cascade is well modeled, hadronic is model-dependent
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