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The UCLA group in the Pierre Auger project has several tasks within the collaboration.
We test PMTs for the surface detectors, we help monitor and calibrate the surface detectors,
we do monte carlo simulations of the detectors to understand their behavior,
exotic physics searches, and we are actively involved in planning for the future of the
Pierre Auger experiment, namely another similar cosmic ray detector in the Northern
hemisphere to gain full sky coverage.
Our contributions have been documented with internal Pierre Auger papers called GAP notes, as well as papers submitted to the 2003 ICRC in Japan. We also have made many presentations at Pierre Auger collaboration meetings and at the April 2003 collaboration meeting Katsushi taught a PMT school which explained how PMTs work, how to calibrate them, and how this calibration process should be performed in the Pierre Auger observatory. Links to these papers and presentations are found on the left hand side of this page. The UCLA Pierre Auger group:
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