Yvette Cendes with Prof. Corbin Covault

Test and Feasibility of a Cherenkov Detector for the Auger North Project

Cherenkov radiation can be used to reconstruct the energy of high-energy cosmic rays entering the Earth’s atmosphere. A durable, low-cost Cherenkov detector will be tested with actual cosmic ray events and compared to cosmic ray shower simulations to test Cherenkov detector effectiveness. The viability of the detector as a component of the proposed Auger North project, which would enhance the performance relative to the currently proposed florescence detectors, will also be considered.