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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 98: Kosmische Strahlung 8

T 98.2: Talk

Thursday, March 7, 2013, 17:05–17:20, WIL-B321

Geometrical Reconstruction of Extensive Air Shower’s for the JEM-EUSO mission. — •Alejandro Guzman¹, Thomas Mernik¹, Andrea Santangelo¹, Francesco Fenu¹, and Gustavo Medina-Tanco² — ¹Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik, Tübingen, Germany. — ²Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares UNAM, Ciudad de México, Mexico.

The space observation of Extreme Energy Cosmic Rays(EECR) , i.e. energies exceeding 10¹⁹eV, will open a new realm of statistics of events for the highest energies ever recorded in particle physics. This higher statistics will in principle allow the identification of the astrophysical sources of EECR. This identification will help understanding the possible accelerating mechanisms of such sources. Therefore it is required to correctly asses the incoming direction of the EECR by a proper reconstruction of the geometrical characteristics of the Extensive Air Shower (EAS) originated by the EECR.

In this presentation I will give a brief overview of the techniques currently being developed for angular reconstruction of EAS, in the context of the Extreme Universe Space Observatory on board the Japanese Experimental Module (JEM-EUSO).