The Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory

Dr. David F. Nitz Professor PhD in Physics, University of Rochester Experimental Particle Astrophysics Office: Dow 303 Phone: 906.487.2274, 7.2086 Fax: 906.487.2933 Email: dfnitz@mtu.edu

Research Interests Auger Observatory Photo Gallery Auger Observatory at Michigan Tech RSI Computer Lab: Dow 312 Lab Phone: 906.487.1795

Recent Publications

Search for Ultra-High Energy Gamma Rays from EGRET Detected Active Galactic Nuclei (with M. Catanese et al.), Astrophys. J. 469, 572 (1996).

High Statistics Search for Ultra-High Energy Gamma-Ray Emission from Cygnus X-3 and Hercules X-1 (with A. Borione et al.), Phys. Rev. D55, 1714 (1997).

Search for Ultrahigh Energy Gamma-Ray Emission from the Crab Nebula and Pulsar (with A. Borione et al.), Astrophys. J. 481, 313 (1997).

Limits on the Isotropic Diffuse Flux of Ultrahigh Energy Gamma-Radiation (with M.C. Chantell et al.), Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 1805 (1997).

Constraints on Gamma-ray Emission from the Galactic Plane at 300 TeV (with A. Borione et al.), Astrophys. J. 493, 175 (1998).

Triggering and Data Acquistition Systems for the Auger Observatory (D. Nitz), IEEE Transactions on Nucl. Science 45, 1824 (1998).

The Cosmic Ray Energy Spectrum with CASA-MIA (with M.A.K. Glasmacher et al.), Astropart. Phys. 10, 291 (1999).

The Cosmic Ray Composition between 10¹⁴ and 10¹⁶ eV (with M.A.K. Glasmacher et al.), Astropart. Phys. 12, 1 (1999).