The tibet AS+MD project; status report 2017
Abstract:
We built a large (approximately 4,000 m<sup>2</sup>) water Cherenkov-type muon detector array under the existing Tibet air shower array at 4,300 m above sea level, to observe 10-1000 TeV gamma rays from cosmic-ray accelerators in our Galaxy with wide field of view at very low background level. A gamma-ray induced air shower has significantly less muons compared with a cosmic-ray induced one. Therefore, we can effectively discriminate between primary gamma rays and cosmic-ray background events by means of counting number of muons in an air shower event by the muon detector array. We make a status report on the experiment.
Año de publicación:
2017
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Conference Object
Estado:
Acceso restringido
Áreas de conocimiento:
- Rayo cósmico
- Ciencia planetaria
- Geofísica
Áreas temáticas de Dewey:
- Astronomía y ciencias afines
- Física moderna
- Geología, hidrología, meteorología
Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible:
- ODS 9: Industria, innovación e infraestructura
- ODS 17: Alianzas para lograr los objetivos
- ODS 7: Energía asequible y no contaminante