The Pierre Auger Observatory Upgrade - Preliminary Design Report
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2016-04-14 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract
The Pierre Auger Observatory has begun a major Upgrade of its already impressive capabilities, with an emphasis on improved mass composition determination using the surface detectors of the Observatory. Known as AugerPrime, the upgrade will include new 4 m plastic scintillator detectors on top of all 1660 water-Cherenkov detectors, updated and more flexible surface detector electronics, a large array of buried muon detectors, and an extended duty cycle for operations of the fluorescence detectors. This Preliminary Design Report was produced by the Collaboration in April 2015 as an internal document and information for funding agencies. It outlines the scientific and technical case for AugerPrime. We now release it to the public via the arXiv server. We invite you to review the large number of fundamental results already achieved by the Observatory and our plans for the future.
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@article{arxiv.1604.03637,
title = {The Pierre Auger Observatory Upgrade - Preliminary Design Report},
author = {The Pierre Auger Collaboration and A. Aab and P. Abreu and M. Aglietta and E. J. Ahn and I. Al Samarai and I. F. M. Albuquerque and I. Allekotte and P. Allison and A. Almela and J. Alvarez Castillo and J. Alvarez-Muñiz and R. Alves Batista and M. Ambrosio and A. Aminaei and L. Anchordoqui and S. Andringa and C. Aramo and F. Arqueros and N. Arsene and H. Asorey and P. Assis and J. Aublin and M. Ave and M. Avenier and G. Avila and N. Awal and A. M. Badescu and K. B. Barber and J. Bäuml and C. Baus and J. J. Beatty and K. H. Becker and J. A. Bellido and C. Berat and M. E. Bertaina and X. Bertou and P. L. Biermann and P. Billoir and S. G. Blaess and A. Blanco and M. Blanco and J. Blazek and C. Bleve and H. Blümer and M. Boháčová and D. Boncioli and C. Bonifazi and N. Borodai and J. Brack and I. Brancus and A. Bridgeman and P. Brogueira and W. C. Brown and P. Buchholz and A. Bueno and S. Buitink and M. Buscemi and K. S. Caballero-Mora and B. Caccianiga and L. Caccianiga and M. 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journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.03637},
year = {2016}
}
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201 pages