CASA-MIA
(1990s cosmic-ray detector in Utah)
CASA-MIA was a ultra-high energy cosmic-ray (UHECR)
detector in Utah operating during the 1990s.
The aim was detection of cosmic-ray particles with energies
above 100 TeV.
CASA-MIA referred to a pair of detectors:
- CASA for Chicago Air Shower Array was an array of a thousand evenly-spread detectors spread under a quarter square kilometer to sense air showers, each detector consisting of a scintillator with photomultiplier tube (PMT) sensors.
- MIA for Michigan Muon Array was an underground array of a thousand muon detectors (similar to the above detectors in principle but designed for muon sensing) spread underneath the same plot of land, but arranged in groups.
Three other related experiments operated at the same time and place:
The location is that of an earlier cosmic-ray experiment called Fly's Eye
and the later experiment, HiRes.
(observatory,cosmic rays)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Air_Shower_Array
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Resolution_Fly%27s_Eye_Cosmic_Ray_Detector
https://www.astro.ucla.edu/~rene/talks/Cronin-Fest-Ong.pdf
https://www.astro.ucla.edu/~rene/talks/Cronin-Fest-Ong-Writeup.pdf
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1991PhRvD..43..314G/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1993ApJ...417..742M/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1996ApJ...469..572C/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1997ICRC....4...45C/abstract
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