Title of article
Performance of a prototype water Cherenkov detector for LHAASO project
Author/Authors
An، نويسنده , , Q. Y. Bai، نويسنده , , Y.X. and Bi، نويسنده , , X.J. and Cao، نويسنده , , Z. and Cao، نويسنده , , Zhe and Chang، نويسنده , , J.F. and Chen، نويسنده , , G. and Chen، نويسنده , , L.H. and CHEN، نويسنده , , M.J and Chen، نويسنده , , T.L. and Chen، نويسنده , , Y.T. and Cui، نويسنده , , S.W. and Dai، نويسنده , , B.Z. and Danzengluobu and Feng، نويسنده , , John C.F. and Gao، نويسنده , , B. and Gu، نويسنده , , M.H. and Hao، نويسنده , , X.J. and He، نويسنده ,
Pages
7
From page
11
To page
17
Abstract
A large high-altitude air shower observatory is to be built at Yang-Ba-Jing, Tibet, China. One of its main purposes is to survey the northern sky for very-high-energy (above 100 GeV) gamma ray sources via its ground-based water Cherenkov detector array. To gain full knowledge of water Cherenkov technique in detecting air showers, a prototype water Cherenkov detector is built at the Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing. The performance of the prototype water Cherenkov detector is studied by measuring its response to cosmic muons. The results are compared with those from a full Monte Carlo simulation to provide a series of information regarding the prototype detector in guiding electronics design and detector optimization.
Keywords
LHAASO , WCDA , Gamma Ray , Cosmic muon , Water cherenkov
Journal title
Astroparticle Physics
Record number
2016714
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