Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
8176908 Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 2014 4 Pages PDF
Abstract
The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) is a multipurpose project with a complex detector array for high energy gamma ray and cosmic ray detection. The array of 1 km2 is composed of five types of detectors to measure shower arrival direction, total number of secondary particles, muon content, Cherenkov image and high energy gamma rays near shower core, respectively. The main scientific goals are (1) searching for galactic cosmic ray origins by extensive spectroscopy investigations of gamma ray sources above 30 TeV; (2) all sky survey for gamma ray sources at energies higher than 300 GeV; (3) energy spectrum and composition measurements of cosmic rays over a wide range covering knees with fixed energy scale and known fluxes for all species at the low energy end. In this paper, the progress on relevant detector developments is reported, including constructions of prototype detectors at Tibet site and coincidence operation with the ARGO-YBJ resistive plat chamber full coverage array at 4300 m a.s.l. The energy spectrum of cosmic ray hydrogen and Helium nuclei up to 0.8 PeV is reported as the first piece of physics measurements by the LHAASO experiment.
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