Performance of the South Pole Air Shower Experiment during 1987 to 1992
- 15 November 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 48 (10) , 4495-4503
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.48.4495
Abstract
We describe the performance of an extensive air shower array sited at the geographic South Pole from its construction in 1987 to the austral summer of 1991. The stability of the array over this four year period when the detectors were subjected to temperature cycling over a 60°C range is evaluated. The analysis techniques used to determine the core position and direction of the shower are discussed, along with checks on the angular resolution and pointing accuracy of the array, found to be 0.9° and 0.2°±0.5° respectively.Keywords
This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
- Search for point sources of ultrahigh energyrays in the southern hemisphere with the South Pole Air Shower ExperimentPhysical Review D, 1993
- The CYGNUS extensive air-shower experimentNuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 1992
- The applications of neural networks in the core location analysis of extensive air showersJournal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, 1991
- Measurement of the angular resolution of an extensive air shower array using a Cherenkov light detectorNuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 1991
- An experiment to search for ultra high energy γ-ray sources from the south poleNuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 1989
- Improving the angular resolution of an ultra-high-energy gamma-ray telescope by the addition of thin lead sheets above its detectorsJournal of Physics G: Nuclear Physics, 1988