A Brief History of the Study of High Energy Cosmic Rays using Arrays of Surface Detectors

Abstract

A brief history of the development of surface detectors for the study of the high-energy cosmic rays is presented. The paper is based on an invited talk given at UHECR2022 held in LAquila, October 2022. In a complementary talk, P Sokolsky discussed the development of the fluorescence technique for air-shower detection.

11 pages, 2 diagrams. Based on talked presented at UHECR2022 in L'Aquila Minor revisions (typos etc.) after referee's report

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