Acceptance of fluorescence detectors and its implication in energy spectrum inference at the highest energies

Details Acceptance of fluorescence detectors and its implication in energy spectrum inference at the highest energies Acceptance of fluorescence detectors and its implication in energy spectrum inference at the highest energies

2005-09-20

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0509597v1

Phys.Rev.D72:103009,2005

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.72.103009

Along the years HiRes and AGASA experiments have explored the fluorescence and the ground array experimental techniques to measure extensive air showers, being both essential to investigate the ultra-high energy cosmic rays. However, such Collaborations have published contradictory energy spectra for energies above the GZK cut-off. In this article, we investigate the acceptance of fluorescence telescopes to different primary particles at the highest energies. Using CORSIKA and CONEX shower simulations without and with the new pre-showering scheme, which allows photons to interact in the Earth magnetic field, we estimate the aperture of the HiRes-I telescope for gammas, iron nuclei and protons primaries as a function of the number of simulated events and primary energy. We also investigate the possibility that systematic differences in shower development for hadrons and gammas could mask or distort vital features of the cosmic ray energy spectrum at energies above the photo-pion production threshold. The impact of these effects on the true acceptance of a fluorescence detector is analyzed in the context of top-down production models.

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