David Nitz

From 4CS2009

David Nitz is a professor at Michigan Technical University, Houghton, MI, and is presently visiting at the Colorado School of Mines. He also works with the Observatorio Pierre Auger, Malargue, Argentina as part of the Pierre Auger Collaboration.

Title: The Northern Site of the Pierre Auger Observatory

Abstract:

The Pierre Auger Observatory is a multi-national project for research on ultra-high energy cosmic rays. The Southern Auger Observatory (Auger South) in Mendoza province, Argentina, was completed in 2008 with an instrumented area of 3,000 km**2. Science results form AugerSouth motivate the completion and extension of the investigations begun there by constructing the Northern Auger Observatory (Auger North), with a much larger acceptance for the extremely rare cosmic ray events above a few times 10**19 eV. Auger North will have an instrumented area of 8,000 square miles (20,000 km**2) in Southeast Colorado, USA. The presentation covers the science of Auger North, the layout and the technical implementation, as well as current R&D efforts underway in Colorado.