Future Plans at the Pierre Auger Observatory Lawrence Wiencke Colorado School of Mines Apr , Cambridge 1

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The Pierre Auger Observatory of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays Southern site: Argentina 3000 Square km Northern site: Colorado square km (RIP 2010) Argentina Australia Brasil Bolivia* Czech Rep. France Germany Italy Mexico Netherlands Poland Portugal Slovenia Spain UK USA Vietnam* *Assoc. Countries 3

Long Term Go really big – Pierre Auger Aperture is 3000 km 2 str – Next detector should be 30,000 km 2 str+ Some (no so) minor details – When? Where? What? Include interdisciplinary science from the start 4

Pierre Auger Fluorescence Detectors World’s best optical cosmic ray air shower detectors – Measure Cosmic Air Showers very well – Measure Lasers well (<1 hz rate) – Throw away >99.9 % of the night sky Next generation FD – Cosmic Ray Detector and Atmospheric instrument Very loose trigger and fast readout – Discovery & measurement potential! 5

Future – next 5 years Pierre Auger Observatory – – 1991 First meetings – 2003 Engineering Array – 2005 Construction 1000/1600 tanks – 2008 Construction complete – Present continue Cosmic Ray data taking perhaps for years Upgrades in progress and planned – Extend energy range down & measure muons – New technologies & methods 6

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8 HEAT High Elevation Airshower Telescope Extend Energy Range (down) to eV

9 R&D Program for Radio Detection of Cosmic Rays

Atmospheric + FD R&D in Colorado

Raman LIDAR Solid State Laser Control Systems XLF Design Features Parts from CLF Steering, Optics, Solar Power Propane safety system Funding Students Staff Faculty New Container Calibration System, Super Test Beam

13 Oktocopter with GPS

Some ideas from this work shop Gravity Waves – In our radiosonde data? – Auger Participation in SAAGRIA – Possible connection to seismic measurements? Clouds – – Edge charging, effects/correlation with CR Aerosols – – sampling (z) – ~100 nm size Revive Radiosonde Measurements, supplement with oktocopter? – Aerosols, ionization, gravity waves … – KIT group is interested Lightening – Track effects with Pierre Auger Surface Detector – Coincidence with air showers Weather effects – Surface Detector singles rates Extended seismi array? Are there connection or correlations between atmospheric phenomena and Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays? (E>10 18 eV) 14

15 Southern Hemisphere Center for Atmospheric Research at the Pierre Auger Observatory?