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GRANDProto300: a pathfinder with richastroparticle and radio-astronomy science case

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2019-09-12 v1

Abstract

The GRANDProto300 (GP300) experiment is the first stage of the Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) project. It will be deployed between 2020 and 2021 in a radio-quiet area, at 30003000\,m of altitude at the rim of the Tibetan plateau, over a total surface of 200200\,km2^2. The primary goal of GP300 is to demonstrate the viability of the GRAND detection concepts. It will provide a unique test bench to develop and validate new identification and reconstruction techniques for the radio detection of very inclined air-showers, in the perspective of the next stages of GRAND. GP300 also proposes a rich science case, which includes accurate measurements of cosmic-ray and gamma-ray air-showers in the energy range of 30 PeV to 1 EeV, and a wide-field survey of the Epoch of Reionization, and of radio transients such as Giant Radio Pulses and Fast Radio Bursts.

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@article{arxiv.1909.04893,
  title  = {GRANDProto300: a pathfinder with richastroparticle and radio-astronomy science case},
  author = {Valentin Decoene},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.04893},
  year   = {2019}
}

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Presented at the 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2019), 8 pages, 2 figures, 1 table