Publications of Project GRAND

(see footnote for abbreviations)


 

"Improving the angular resolution of existing air shower arrays by adding a thin layer of lead," J. Poirier and S. Mikocki, NIM A257, 473 (1987)

"The differences in delay times for air showers initiated by 100 TeV gammas and protons," S. Mikocki, J. Linsley, J. Poirier and A. Wrotniak, JPG 13, 85 (1987)

"A new method to identify muons in an extensive air shower array," J. Linsley, S. Mikock and J. Poirier, JPG 13, L163 (1987)

"Project GRAND: a new method to detect extensive air showers by directly measuring the angle of secondaries with muon identification," J. Poirier, E. Funk, J. LoSecco, S. Mikocki and T. Rettig, Proc 20th ICRC 2, 438 (1987)

"Angular distributions of charged particles in extensive air showers at 100 TeV," S. Mikocki, J. Linsley, J. Poirier and A. Wrotniak, Proc 20th ICRC 5, 452 (1987)

"Time structure of charged particles in extensive air showers at 100 TeV," S. Mikocki, J. Linsley, J. Poirier and A. Wrotniak, Proc 20th ICRC 6, 75 (1987)

"Differences in angular distributions of secondaries from extensive air showers initiated by gammas and protons," S. Mikocki and J. Poirier, JPG 13, L217 (1987)

"Angular distributions of secondary charged particles in showers initiated by gammas and protons," J. Poirier, J. Linsley and S. Mikocki, PR D36, 1378 (1987)

"Electromagnetic-shower development in concrete and the punchthrough effect," S. Mikocki and J. Poirier, PR D36, 1381 (1987)

"Comparison of methods for determining the centers of extensive air showers," J. Poirier, E. Funk, S. Mikocki and N. Rohrer, NIM A260, 280 (1987)

"A new method to detect gamma ray extensive air showers which directly measures angles and identifies muons," J. Poirier, G. Canough, E. Funk, P. Kinney, J. LoSecco, S. Mikocki and T. Rettig, NIM A264, 81 (1988)

"Monte Carlo simulation of electromagnetic extensive air showers," S. Mikocki, J. Gress and J. Poirier, Proc 21st ICRC 9, 1 (1990)

"The angular distributions of charged secondaries in extensive air showers at 100 and 1000 TeV," J. Poirier, J. Gress and S. Mikocki, Proc 21st ICRC 9, 46 (1990)

"Determination of the centers of extensive air showers," J. Poirier, E. Funk, S.Mikocki and N. Rohrer, Proc 21st ICRC 9, 50 (1990)

"Difference in the radial distributions of secondary electrons and muons in proton extensive air showers from 10^13 to 10^16 eV," J. Poirier, J. Gress and S. Mikocki, Proc 21st ICRC 9, 126 (1990)

"GRAND proportional wire chambers," J. Gress, S. Mikocki, J. Poirier and T. Rettig, Proc 21st ICRC 10, 335 (1990)

"The project GRAND extensive air shower array," J. Poirier, G. Canough, J. Gress, S. Mikocki and T. Rettig, NP B (Proc Suppl) 14A, 143 (1990)

"Angular distributions of charged secondaries in electromagnetic and hadronic extensive air showers at 10, 100, 1000, and 10 000 TeV," A. Trzupek, S. Mikocki, J. Gress, J. Kochocki and J. Poirier, JPG 17, L19 (1991)

"GRAND particle identification," J. Gress, Y. Lu, A. Anagnostopoulos, J. Kochocki, J. Olson, J. Poirier, S. Mikocki and A. Trzupek, AIP#220, 242 (1991)

"Identification of particles in air showers using tracking chambers and a thin absorber," J. Gress, Y. Lu, A. Anagnostopoulos, J. Kochocki, J. Poirier, S. Mikocki and A. Trzupek, NIM A302, 368 (1991)

"Monte Carlo simulation of extensive air showers initiated by gamma rays and protons," S. Mikocki, A. Trzupek, J. Gress, J. Kochocki and J. Poirier, JPG 17, 1303 (1991)

"A multiprocessor controlled data acquisition system," Y. Lu, T. Markiewicz, J. Gress, J. Kochocki and J. Poirier, NIM A307, 425 (1991)

"All-sky survey for compact stellar sources yielding secondary muons at sea level," J. Poirier, J. Kochocki, Y. Lu and A. Trzupek, Proc 22nd ICRC 1, 192 (1991)

"Angular distributions of muons and electrons in cosmic ray showers," J. Kochocki, Y. Lu and J. Poirier, Proc 22nd ICRC 4, 291 (1991)

"Secondary gamma ray composition of cosmic rays," A. Trzupek, J. Kochocki, Y. Lu and J. Poirier, Proc 22nd ICRC 4, 295 (1991)

"Status of project GRAND", J. Poirier, J. Gress, J. Kochocki, Y. Lu and A. Trzupek, Proc 22nd ICRC 4, 417 (1991)

"A multi-processor controlled data acquisition system," Y. Lu, T. Markiewicz, J. Gress, J. Kochocki and J. Poirier, Proc 22nd ICRC 4, 421 (1991)

"Secondary muon/electron identification in a thin steel absorber," J. Kochocki, J. Gress, Y. Lu, J. Poirier and A. Trzupek, Proc 22nd ICRC 4, 425 (1991)

"Measurement of the angular correlation between primary cosmic rays and single muons at sea level using the moon's shadow," Y. Lu, J. Kochocki and J. Poirier, Proc 22nd ICRC 4, 583 (1991)

"Secondary gamma composition from hadronic and electromagnetic extensive air showers at 10, 100, 1000, and 10 000 TeV," A. Trzupek, J Kochocki, Y. Lu and J. Poirier, JPG 18, 1849 (1992)

"GRAND: an extensive air shower array of proportional wire chambers," J. Poirier, J. Gress, J Kochocki, Y. Lu and A. Trzupek, AIP#276, 614 (1993)

"Secondary gammas in extensive air showers," A. Trzupek, J. Kochocki, Y. Lu and J. Poirier, AIP#276, 566 (1993)

"A correction to the scale of primary energies derived from extensive air showers," A. Trzupek, Y. Lu and J. Poirier, AIP#276, 560 (1993)

"The energy scale of extensive air showers," A. Trzupek, Y. Lu and J. Poirier, Proc 23rd ICRC 4, 359 (1993)

"Is there a moon shadow in single muon data?" A. Trzupek, Y. Lu and J. Poirier, Proc 23rd ICRC 4, 422 (1993)

"Survey for stellar sources using identified single muons at sea level," A. Trzupek, Y. Lu and J. Poirier, Proc 23rd ICRC 4, 454 (1993)

"A new candidate for a long-lived neutral particle at VHE/UHE from stellar sources," J. Poirier, Proc 23rd ICRC 4, 633 (1993)

"Production and transmission of a possible new long-lived neutral particle at VHE/UHE from stellar sources," J. Poirier, Proc 23rd ICRC 4, 637 (1993)

"Is there a correlation of single muon angles with the galactic plane?" J. Poirier, P. Fischer, J. Gress, Y. Lu and A. Trzupek, Proc 24th ICRC 1, 634 (1995)

"A new variable H_h to use in measuring the atomic composition of cosmic ray primaries," J. Poirier, P Fischer, J. Gress, Y. Lu and A. Trzupek, Proc 24th ICRC 3, 532 (1995)

"On the origin of gamma ray bursts," John Poirier, Proc 24th ICRC 2, 160 (1995)

"A search for correlations between gamma ray bursts and secondary cosmic ray muons," J. Gress, J. Poirier and Y. Lu, Proc 24th ICRC 2, 144 (1995)

"Search for enhancements from nearby AGNs with identified single muons," J. Poirier, G. Herczeg and J. Gress, Proc 25th ICRC 3, 289 (1997)

"Properties of extensive air showers measured by project GRAND," J. Poirier and J. Gress, Proc 25th ICRC 6, 221 (1997)

"Measured direction angle differences for extensive air shower muons," J. Gress, J. Poirier, A. Trzupek and P. Fiszer, Proc 25th ICRC 6, 225 (1997)

"Single muon angular distribution for project GRAND," B. Fields, J. Gress and J. Poirier, Y. Lu, Proc 25th ICRC 6, 365 (1997)

"Search for stellar point sources with an enlarged sample of identified single muons," J. Poirier, N. Cunningham, J. Gress and Y. Lu, Proc 25th ICRC 6, 369 (1997)

"Can EGRET's gamma ray sources > 100 MeV be seen with single secondary cosmic muons from gammas > 30 Gev?", J. Carpenter, S. Desch, T.F. Lin, J. Poirier and A. Roesch, Proc 26th ICRC, (1999)

"Secondary cosmic muon angular distributions with high statistics", J. Poirier, J. Gress and T.F. Lin, Proc 26th ICRC, (1999)

"Asymmetries of secondary cosmic muons with high statistics and low systematics", T.F. Lin, B. Fields, J. Gress and J. Poirier, Proc 26th ICRC, (1999)

"A search for point sources of cosmic primary rays which produce single muon tracks at ground level", A. Roesch, J. Carpenter, S. Desch, J. Gress, T.F. Lin and J. Poirier, Proc 26th ICRC, (1999)

"A Monte Carlo calculation of muon flux at ground level from primary cosmic gamma rays", A. Fasso and J. Poirier, Proc 26th ICRC, (1999)

"Corrections to the predictions for atmospheric neutrino observations", J. Poirier, Proc 26th ICRC, (1999)

"The South Atlantic magnetic field anomaly and its effect on the calculated production of atmospheric neutrinos", J. Poirier, Proc 26th ICRC, (1999)

"Possible detection of gamma ray air showers in coincidence with BATSE gamma ray bursts,", T.F. Lin, J. Carpenter, S Desch, J. Gress, J. Poirier and A. Roesch, Proc 26th ICRC (1999)

"Composition of UHE cosmic ray primaries", J. Poirier, J. Carpenter, J. Gress, T.F. Lin and A. Roesch, Proc 26th ICRC, (1999)

"Status report on project GRAND: an extensive air shower array of proportional wire chambers", J. Poirier, J. Carpenter, S. Desch, J. Gress, T.F. Lin, Y. Lu and A. Roesch, Proc 26th ICRC, (1999)

"Sub-TeV gammas in coincidence with BATSE gamma ray bursts," J. Poirier, T.F. Lin, J. Gress, P.C. Fragile and G.J. Mathews, LANL astro-ph/0004379 (2000)

"Spatial and energy distribution of muons in gamma induced air showers", A. Fasso and J. Poirier, LANL astro-ph/0006196 (2000)

"A measurement of secondary muon angular distributions", J. Poirier and C. D'Andrea, Proc 27th ICRC, (2001)

"Calculation of atmospheric muons from cosmic gamma rays", J. Poirier, S. Roesler, and A. Fasso, Proc 27th ICRC, (2001)

"Status of project GRAND's proportional wire chamber array", J. Poirier, D. Baker, J. Barchie, C. D'Andrea, M. Dunford, M. Green, J. Gress, T. Lin, D. Race, R. Skibba, G. VanLaecke and M. Wysocki, Proc 27th ICRC, (2001)

"A project GRAND study of the GLE of July 14, 2000", J. Poirier, C. D'Andrea and M. Dunford, Proc 27th ICRC, (2001)

"Variation of muon counts versus solar time", J. Poirier and C. D'Andrea, Proc 27th ICRC, (2001)

"Secondary muon asymmetries at sea level with systematics", J. Poirier, C. D'Andrea and M. Dunford, Proc 27th ICRC, (2001)

"Distributions of secondary muons at sea level from cosmic gamma rays below 10 TeV", J. Poirier, S. Roesler and A. Fasso, (2001)

"A proportional wire chamber array: GRAND's status", J. Poirier, C. D'Andrea, M. Lopez del Puerto, E. Strahler and J. Vermedahl, Proc 28th ICRC, (2003)

"Search for sub-TeV gamma rays coincidence with BATSE gamma ray bursts", J. Poirier, C. D'Andrea, J. Gress and D. Race, Proc 28th ICRC, (2003)

"Study of the ground level event of April 15, 2001 with GRAND", C. D'Andrea and J. Poirier, Proc 28th ICRC, (2003)

"Search for sub-TeV gamma rays in coincidence with gamma ray bursts", J. Poirier, C. D'Andrea, P.C. Fragile, J. Gress, G.J. Mathews, and D. Race, (2003)

"Constraints on models for TeV gamma rays from gamma-ray bursts", P.C. Fragile, G.J. Mathews, J. Poirier and T. Totani, (2004)

"Ground level muons coincident with the 20 January 2005 solar flare," C. D'Andrea and J. Poirier, Geophys. Res. Lett. 32, L14102 (2005)

"Forbush decrease data with a simple model", C. D'Andrea, J. Poirier, D. S. Balsara, (2006)

"Status Report on Project GRAND", J. Poirier, C. D'Andrea, E. Fidler, J. Gress, M. Herrera, P. Hemphill, C. Swartzendruber, Proc 30th ICRC, (2007)

"Data on Forbush Decrease event of September 11, 2005 from GRAND", J. Poirier, M. Herrera, P. Hemphill, C. D'Andrea, Proc 30th ICRC, (2007)

"Atmospheric Effects on Muon Flux at Project GRAND", J. Poirier and T. Catanach, Proc 32nd ICRC, (2011)

"Periodic Variations in Muon Flux at Project GRAND", J. Poirier and T. Catanach, Proc 32nd ICRC, (2011)

"Status Report on Project GRAND", J. Poirier, C. D'Andrea, C. Barry, T. Catanach, L. Cheng, T. Wilson and C. Swartzendruber, Proc 32nd ICRC, (2011)

"A Measurement of Secondary Muon Angular Distribution with High Statistics", C. D'Andrea and J. Poirier, Proc 32nd ICRC, (2011)

abbreviations:
AIP: American Institute of Physics Conf Proceedings
ICRC: International Cosmic Ray Conference
JPG: Journal of Physics G: Nuclear Particle Physics
LANL: Los Alamos E-Print Achives
NIM: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research
NP: Nuclear Physics
PR: Physical Review
Proc: Proceedings of


 
 

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