title: Simulating a measurement of the 2nd knee in the cosmic ray spectrum with an atmospheric fluorescence telescope tower array.
abstract: A fluorescence telescope tower array has been designed to measure cosmic rays in the energy range of 10(17)-10(18) eV. A full Monte Carlo simulation, including air shower production, light generation and propagation, detector response, electronics, and trigger system, has been developed for that purpose. Using such a simulation tool, the detector configuration, which includes one main tower array and two side-trigger arrays, 24 telescopes in total, has been optimized. The aperture and the event rate have been estimated. Furthermore, the performance of the X max technique in measuring composition has also been studied.
authors.affiliation: Physics Department, Kunming University, Kunming, Yunnan 650214, China.
authors.forename: Jiali
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Physics Department, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan 650214, China.
authors.forename: Qunyu
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: Astro-Particle Physics Center, Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS, Beijing 100049, China.
authors.forename: Yunxiang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Bai
authors.affiliation: Astro-Particle Physics Center, Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS, Beijing 100049, China.
authors.forename: Zhen
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Cao
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D003359:Cosmic Radiation; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011834:Radiation Monitoring / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence / Q000295:instrumentation*; D061351:Telescopes
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references.pmid: 10054968
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references.pmid: 18352170