RT Journal Article
T1 The impact of the air-fluorescence yield on the reconstructed shower parameters of ultra-high energy cosmic rays.
A1 Monasor, M.
A1 Vázquez Peñas, José Ramón
A1 García Pinto, Diego
A1 Arqueros Martínez, Fernando
AB An accurate knowledge of the fluorescence yield and its dependence on atmospheric properties such as pressure, temperature or humidity is essential to obtain a reliable measurement of the primary energy of cosmic rays in experiments using the fluorescence technique. In this work, several sets of fluorescence yield data (i.e. absolute value and quenching parameters) are described and compared. A simple procedure to study the effect of the assumed fluorescence yield on the reconstructed shower parameters (energy and shower maximum depth) as a function of the primary features has been developed. As an application, the effect of water vapor and temperature dependence of the collisional cross section on the fluorescence yield and its impact on the reconstruction of primary energy and shower maximum depth has been studied. Published by Elsevier B.V.
PB Elsevier Science BV
SN 0927-6505
YR 2011
FD 2011-01
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/45130
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/45130
LA eng
NO © 2011 Elsevier Science BV .This work has been supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion (FPA2009-07772 and CONSOLIDER CPAN CSD2007-42) and "Comunidad de Madrid" (Ref.: 910600). Monasor acknowledges the "Consejeria de Educacion y Ciencia de Castilla-La Mancha" and the "Fondo Social Europeo" for a postdoctoral fellowship. Very fruitful discussion with our colleagues of the Auger collaboration are acknowledged, in particular with B. Keilhauer, J. Matthews, V.H. Ponce and M. Unger.
NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion (MICINN)
NO Comunidad de Madrid
NO Consejeria de Educacion y Ciencia de Castilla-La Mancha
NO Fondo Social Europeo
DS Docta Complutense
RD 18 abr 2025