Heimann, Philipp: A test for the existence of protons in ultra-high energy cosmic rays. 2018
Inhalt
- Abstract
- Kurzzusammenfassung
- Contents
- 0. Introduction
- 1. Cosmic Rays
- 1.1. Discovery of Cosmic Rays
- 1.2. Spectrum
- 1.3. Acceleration mechanisms
- 1.4. Possible Sources
- 1.5. Composition
- 2. The Pierre Auger Observatory
- 2.1. The surface detector
- 2.2. The fluorescence detector
- 2.3. Other detectors at the Auger Observatory
- 2.4. AugerPrime
- 2.5. Air shower reconstruction
- 3. Description of method
- 3.1. Specific Motivation: Lorentz invariance violation
- 3.2. Brief descreption of main idea
- 3.3. Properties of Xmax distributions
- 3.4. Helium probability as a measure for lighter primaries
- 3.5. Candidate selection
- 3.6. Determination of the final probabilities PiHe
- 4. Performance of method
- 5. Data selection
- 6. First application to data
- 7. Summary and Outlook
- A. Additional plots to chapter 3
- B. Selection table
- C. Additional probability distributions
- D. Details of the candidate events
- E. Bibliography
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- F. Acknowledgements