Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-01-17
J.Phys.G27:1663-1674,2001
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
11 pages, invited review presented at the 17th ECRS, Lodz, July 2000; to appear in Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle
Scientific paper
10.1088/0954-3899/27/7/321
Measurements of cosmic ray particles at energies above E = 5 x 10^{14} eV are performed by large area ground based air shower experiments. Only they provide the collection power required for obtaining sufficient statistics at the low flux levels involved. In this review we briefly outline the physics and astrophysics interests of such measurements and discuss in more detail various experimental techniques applied for reconstructing the energy and mass of the primary particles. These include surface arrays of particle detectors as well as observations of Cherenkov- and of fluorescence light. A large variety of air shower observables is then reconstructed from such data and used to infer the properties of the primary particles via comparisons to air shower simulations. Advantages, limitations, and systematic uncertainties of different approaches will be critically discussed.
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