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High Resolution Fly's Eye

(HiRes, HiRes Fly's Eye, Fly's Eye HiRes)
(1990s-2000s cosmic-ray observatory)

The High Resolution Fly's Eye (HiRes) was a Cherenkov detector to detect cosmic-ray operating in western Utah from 1997 to 2006. It was a follow-on to the Fly's Eye and precursor to the current Telescope Array Project (TA). Compared to the Fly's Eye, which watched the whole sky for air showers, HiRes concentrated on a portion of the sky but with smaller pixels providing better angular resolution. An initial configuration (HiRes-I) used a ring of 22 telescopes covering elevations from 3° to 17°. An additional configuration (HiRes-II) was later added some distance away, covering elevations from 3° to 31°. Underground muon detectors collected additional data regarding the aftermath of the air showers.


(observatory,cosmic rays)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Resolution_Fly%27s_Eye_Cosmic_Ray_Detector
https://www.particle.cz/conferences/c2cr2005/talks/jui.pdf
https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/3329/attachments/21639/26504/zech.pdf
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1999ICRC....3..264A/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2001ICRC....1..350H/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005APh....23..157A/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008PhRvL.100j1101A/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009APh....32...53H/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010ASPC..426....3M/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011NuPhS.212...74S/abstract
https://web.physics.utah.edu/~bergman/publications/2013%20Bergman%20EPJWebConf-53-04001.pdf
https://timeline.web.cern.ch/flys-eye-detects-record-breaking-cosmic-ray-32-x-1020-ev
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIAyHRQpEm8

Referenced by pages:
CASA-MIA
Fly's Eye
Telescope Array Project (TA)

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