Reconstruction of the primary energy spectrum from fluorescence telescope data of the Pierre Auger Observatory / Heiko Geenen. Wuppertal : Fachbereich C, Physik, Berg. Univ. Wuppertal, 2007
Inhalt
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Cosmic Rays and Extensive Air Showers
- 2.1 Cosmic Rays
- 2.1.1 The Energy Spectrum of Cosmic Rays
- 2.1.2 The Composition of Cosmic Rays
- 2.1.3 Arrival Directions of Cosmic Rays
- 2.1.4 The GZK Cutoff
- 2.2 Source and Propagation Models of UHE Cosmic Rays
- 2.2.1 Models of the Origin of Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Rays
- 2.2.2 Bottom-up Origin - Astro-Physical Scenarios
- 2.2.3 Single-Shock Acceleration
- 2.2.4 Fermi Acceleration
- 2.2.5 Top-down models - Particle Physics Scenarios
- 2.2.6 Propagation Models
- 2.3 Air Shower Physics
- 2.3.1 Air Shower Development
- 2.3.2 The Longitudinal Shower-Profile
- 2.3.3 The Shower Footprint on Ground
- 2.4 Detection Techniques
- 3 The Pierre Auger Observatory
- 3.1 The Southern Experiment
- 3.2 The Surface Array in Argentina
- 3.3 The Fluorescence Telescope Sites in Argentina
- 4 Reconstruction and Data Processing
- 4.1 Data Reconstruction
- 4.2 Systematic Uncertainties
- 4.3 The Offline Framework
- 4.4 The Simulation and Reconstruction on the ALiCENextCluster
- 4.5 MySQL as DST
- 5 Validation of the MC Simulation and Reconstruction
- 5.1 The MC Sample
- 5.2 Fluorescence Data Simulation
- 5.3 Trigger Performance
- 5.4 Reconstruction and Performance Cuts
- 5.5 Performance of the FD-Reconstruction Using a Full Simulation-Reconstruction Chain
- 5.5.1 Reconstruction Performance of the SDP
- 5.5.2 Geometry Reconstruction
- 5.5.3 Profile Reconstructing
- 5.5.4 Summary
- 5.6 Performance of the Hybrid-Like Reconstruction
- 6 Data Analysis at Detector Level
- 6.1 Importance Sampling
- 6.2 The Simulation Sample
- 6.2.1 The Energy Spectrum
- 6.2.2 The Core Position
- 6.2.3 The Shower Direction
- 6.2.4 Physics Expectation and Re-Weighting
- 6.3 The Data Sample and Filtering
- 6.4 Uptime
- 6.5 Data-MC Comparison and Data Quality
- 6.6 Effect of Input Spectrum and Composition
- 6.7 Extension to the Complete Data Set
- 6.8 Apertures of Different Event Topologies of the Pierre Auger Observatory FD
- 7 Physics Analysis
- 7.1 The Problem of Unfolding
- 7.1.1 Limited Acceptance
- 7.1.2 Limited Resolution
- 7.1.3 Convolution of a Power-Law Spectrum
- 7.1.4 General Unfolding Formalism
- 7.1.5 Discretisation of the Problem
- 7.2 Unfolding Algorithms
- 7.3 Comparison of Unfolding Algorithms
- 7.4 Implementation of the Gold Algorithm
- 7.5 Data Analysis
- 8 Summary and outlook
- A Simulation-Reconstruction Performance
- B Dependence of the Unfolding result on the kernel MC
- C Scaling other Experimental Results
- D Parametrisation-Fits
- E The MySQL database for the simulation-reconstruction chain
- Bibliography
- Glossary
- Acknowledgement