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Composition Studies with the Pierre Auger Observatory
Michael Unger, for the Pierre Auger Collaboration
Published 2009-02-22, updated 2009-03-04Version 2
We report on studies of the composition of ultra high energy cosmic rays with the Pierre Auger Observatory. The detection of longitudinal air shower profiles with the fluorescence detector is described and the measurement of the average shower maximum as a function of energy is presented. Furthermore, mass sensitive parameters that can be obtained from the observatory's surface detector data are discussed.
Comments: To appear in Proccedings of CRIS 2008, Malfa, Italy; Corrected Eq. 2
Categories: astro-ph.HE
Keywords: pierre auger observatory, composition studies, ultra high energy cosmic rays, longitudinal air shower profiles, observatorys surface detector data
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