Maria Monasor
            
        
                14/09/2010, 09:00
            
        
                    Atmospheric Light Production
                
            
            
        The fluorescence yield -- the number of photons produced per unit of deposited energy by nitrogen fluorescence as air shower particles move through air -- is a crucial ingredient in the reconstruction of air shower parameters using the fluorescence technique.  Several values of the absolute fluorescence yield, as well as the parameters which determine its dependence on atmospheric conditions...