The New South Pole Air Shower Experiment - SPASE-2

• Main Authors: J.E. Dickinson, P.A. Evenson, T. K. Gaisser, J. R. Gill, S. P. Hart, J.A. Hinton, J. Lloyd-evans, D. Martello, T. C. Miller, P.A. Ogden, M. Patel, K. Rochester, G.M. Spiczak, T. Stanev, A.A. Watson Bartol
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Antarctic; South Pole; The Antarctic; Antarc*; South pole
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.22.1022; http://www.bartol.udel.edu/spase/nim-spase2-text.ps

This paper describes a new coincidence experiment designed to improve understanding of the composition of the primary cosmic-ray beam around the knee of the spectrum. The experiment consists of an air shower array on the surface (SPASE2) , which works in coincidence with an array of air- Cerenkov detectors (VULCAN), and the Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA) deep in the ice. The experiment must cover the energy range from 10 14 eV to 3 \Theta 10 16 eV to overlap with direct measurements at lower energy and encompass the regions of the knee and beyond in the cosmic ray spectrum. 1