{"id":2501,"date":"2008-05-01T20:57:33","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T20:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/?p=2501"},"modified":"2016-06-20T14:18:02","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T14:18:02","slug":"test-and-feasibility-of-a-cherenkov-detector-for-the-auger-north-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/test-and-feasibility-of-a-cherenkov-detector-for-the-auger-north-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Test and Feasibility of a Cherenkov Detector for the Auger North Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Yvette Cendes with Prof. Corbin Covault<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/physics-senior-projects\/files\/2008\/05\/YvetteCendesPoster.ppt\">Test and Feasibility of a Cherenkov Detector for the Auger North Project<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Cherenkov radiation can be used to reconstruct the energy of high-energy cosmic rays entering the Earth&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yvette Cendes with Prof. Corbin Covault<a href=\"\/physics-senior-projects\/files\/2008\/05\/YvetteCendesPoster.ppt\">Test and Feasibility of a Cherenkov Detector for the Auger North Project<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cherenkov radiation can be used to reconstruct the energy of high-energy cosmic rays entering the Earth&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/test-and-feasibility-of-a-cherenkov-detector-for-the-auger-north-project\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Test and Feasibility of a Cherenkov Detector for the Auger North Project<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[82,41],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2697,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501\/revisions\/2697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}