Search for inclined photon air showers with the AugerPrime Radio Detector / vorgelegt von Jannis Pawlowsky. Wuppertal, August 7, 2024
Inhalt
- Structure and goals of this thesis
- Cosmic Ray and Air Shower Physics
- The Pierre Auger Observatory
- The baseline design
- The Auger Engineering Radio Array
- The AugerPrime Radio Detector
- Trigger and communication system at Auger
- Photon searches at Auger
- Radio noise at Auger
- Development of a Radio trigger
- Concept of the trigger mechanism
- Trigger simulations in Off line
- Testing of the trigger in field conditions
- Test outline
- Inhibit of RD T2 triggers
- RD T2 rate
- Expected T3 rate
- Observed T3s
- Fraction of inhibited time
- Proceeding of the RD test and development
- Proposed CDAS modifications
- Detection of inclined photon air showers
- Simulation set
- Trigger efficiency for a radio trigger
- Trigger efficiency for an SNR trigger
- Trigger efficiency with implemented CDAS modification
- Possible improvement of the trigger efficiency
- Online zenith angle reconstruction
- Stationary noise source rejection
- Footprint shape rejection
- Sub-threshold trigger combinations
- Trigger efficiency increase for proton induced air showers
- Radio reconstruction of inclined photon air showers
- Iterative reconstruction chain
- Arrival direction reconstruction
- Energy reconstruction
- Observed bias for the reconstruction of the EM energy of photons
- Discussion of a parametrisation correction
- Estimation of the photon energy
- Comparison to the WCD energy estimation
- Outlook on a discrimination analysis
- Aperture and sky coverage of the inclined photon search
- Summary and outlook
- Appendix A: Offline implementation of the RD trigger
- Appendix B: Proposed CDAS modification
- Appendix C: Photon energy parametrisation