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An antenna array devoted to the autonomous radio-detection of high energy cosmic rays is being deployed on the site of the 21 cm array radio telescope in XinJiang, China. Thanks in particular to the very good electromagnetic environment of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-28 D. Ardouin , C. Carloganu , D. Charrier , Q. Gou , H. Hu , L. Kai , P. Lautridou , O. Martineau-Huynh , V. Niess , O. Ravel , T. Saugrin , X. Wu , J. Zhang , Y. Zhang , M. Zhao , Y. Zheng

GRAND is a newly proposed series of radio arrays with a combined area of 200,000 square km, to be deployed in mountainous areas. Its primary goal is to measure cosmic ultra-high-energy tau-neutrinos (E>1 EeV), through the interaction of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-11 Sijbrand de Jong

The GRANDProto300 (GP300) array is a pathfinder for the Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) project. Serving as a test bench, the GP300 array is expected to pioneer techniques of autonomous radio detection including…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-20 Pragati Mitra

High-energy neutrino astronomy will probe the working of the most violent phenomena in the Universe. The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) project consists of an array of $\sim10^5$ radio antennas deployed over…

The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) is a planned array of ~200 000 radio antennas deployed over ~200 000 km2 in a mountainous site. It aims primarly at detecting high-energy neutrinos via the observation of extensive air…

The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) aims to detect and study ultra-high-energy (UHE) neutrinos by observing the radio emissions produced in extensive air showers. The GRANDProto300 prototype primarily focuses on UHE cosmic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 Arsène Ferrière , Aurélien Benoit-Lévy

Radio-detection is now an established technique for studying ultra-high-energy (UHE) cosmic rays with energies exceeding $\sim 10^{17}$ eV. The next generation of radio experiments, such as the Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Marion Guelfand , Pauline Fritsch , Valentin Decoene , Olivier Martineau-Huynh , Mauricio Bustamante

Project GRAND is an extensive air shower array utilizing position sensitive detectors of proportional wire chambers. The 64 detectors deployed in a field 100 m x 100 m are located at 86.2 deg W and 41.7 deg N, at 220 m above sea level. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Poirier , J. Carpenter , S. Desch , J. Gress , T. F. Lin , Y. Lu , A. Roesch

The Tianshan Radio Experiment for Neutrino Detection (TREND) is a sino-french collaboration (CNRS/IN2P3 and Chinese Academy of Science) developing an autonomous antenna array for the detection of high energy Extensive Air Showers (EAS) on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Olivier Martineau-Huynh

The goal of our study is to assess the environmental impact of the installation and use of the Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) prototype detection units, based on the life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology, and to propose…

The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) aims at detecting ultra-high energy extraterrestrial neutrinos via the extensive air showers induced by the decay of tau leptons created in the interaction of neutrinos under the Earth's…

We present a pioneering estimate of the global yearly greenhouse gas emissions of a large-scale Astrophysics experiment over several decades: the Giant Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND). The project aims at detecting ultra-high energy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 Clarisse Aujoux , Kumiko Kotera , Odile Blanchard

The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) is a distributed, sparse ground antenna array designed to detect the radio emission from highly inclined extensive air showers induced by ultra-high-energy particles in the atmosphere. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-02 Lukas Gülzow , Tim Huege , Kumiko Kotera , Olivier Martineau , Markus Roth , Felix Schlüter

We present results of a search for giant radio galaxies (GRGs) with a projected largest linear size in excess of 1 Mpc. We designed a computational algorithm to identify contiguous emission regions, large and elongated enough to serve as…

One of the major challenges for large-scale radio surface arrays, such as the Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND), is the requirement of an autonomous online trigger for radio signals induced by extensive air showers. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 Pablo Correa

GRANDProto35 is the first stage of the GRAND project. It will be composed of an array of 35 radio antennas and 24 scintillation detectors, the radio and scintillating subarrays being triggered independently. The scintillation detector array…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-05-26 Xu Wang , Xiangli Qian , Yanhong Yu , Cunfeng Feng , Olivier Martineau-Huynh , Yi Zhang , Quanbu Gou , Wei Liu , Youliang Feng

Digital radio arrays have become an effective tool to measure air showers at energies around and above 100 PeV. Compared to optical techniques, the radio technique is not restricted to clear nights. Thanks to recent progress on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-28 Frank G. Schröder

Large-scale cosmic-ray detectors like the Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) are pushing the boundaries of our ability to identify air shower events. Existing trigger schemes rely solely on the timing of signals detected by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-02 Jelena Köhler , Aurélien Benoit-Lévy , Pablo Correa , Arsène Ferriere , Tim Huege , Kumiko Kotera , Olivier Martineau-Huynh , Simon Prunet , Markus Roth

The National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Science (NAOC), has started building the largest antenna in the world. Known as FAST, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope is a Chinese mega-science project…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Di Li , Rendong Nan , Zhichen Pan