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The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) is an envisioned observatory of ultra-high-energy particles of cosmic origin, with energies in excess of 100 PeV. GRAND uses large surface arrays of autonomous radio-detection units to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-09-06 GRAND Collaboration , Rafael Alves Batista , Aurélien Benoit-Lévy , Teresa Bister , Mauricio Bustamante , Yiren Chen , LingMei Cheng , Simon Chiche , Jean-Marc Colley , Pablo Correa , Nicoleta Cucu Laurenciu , Zigao Dai , Beatriz de Errico , Sijbrand de Jong , João R. T. de Mello Neto , Krijn D. de Vries , Peter B. Denton , Valentin Decoene , Kaikai Duan , Bohao Duan , Ralph Engel , Yizhong Fan , Arsène Ferrière , QuanBu Gou , Junhua Gu , Marion Guelfand , Jianhua Guo , Yiqing Guo , Vaidhai Gupta , Claire Guépin , Lukas Gülzow , Andreas Haungs , Haoning He , Eric Hivon , Hongbo Hu , Xiaoyuan Huang , Yan Huang , Tim Huege , Wen Jiang , Ramesh Koirala , Kumiko Kotera , Jelena Köhler , Bruno L. Lago , Sandra Le Coz , François Legrand , Antonios Leisos , Rui Li , Cheng Liu , Ruoyu Liu , Wei Liu , Pengxiong Ma , Oscar Macias , Frédéric Magnard , Olivier Martineau-Huynh , Ananstasiia Mikhno , Pragati Mitra , Miguel Mostafá , Fabrice Mottez , Jean Mouette , Kohta Murase , Valentin Niess , Stavros Nonis , Shoichi Ogio , Foteini Oikonomou , Tanguy Pierog , Lech Wiktor Piotrowski , Pierre Poisvert , Simon Prunet , Xiangli Qian , Markus Roth , Takashi Sako , Harm Schoorlemmer , Bart Steeman , Dániel Szálas-Motesiczky , Szymon Sławiński , Anne Timmermans , Charles Timmermans , Apostolos Tsirigotis , Matías Tueros , Shen Wang , Xiangyu Wang , Xu Wang , Daming Wei , Feng Wei , Xiangping Wu , Xuefeng Wu , Xin Xu , Xing Xu , Lili Yang , Xuan Yang , Qiang Yuan , Philippe Zarka , Houdun Zeng , Chao Zhang , Jianli Zhang , Kewen Zhang , Pengfei Zhang , Songbo Zhang , Hao Zhou

Multi-messenger astronomy is key today to broaden our understanding of the high energy Universe. When an ultra-high energy (UHE) particle interacts in the atmosphere or underground, it initiates an extensive air shower that produces a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-06 Marion Guelfand

The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) aims to detect highly inclined extensive air showers (EAS) with down-going and up-going trajectories. Several working groups in the GRAND collaboration are developing methods to…

The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) is an envisioned observatory of ultra-high-energy particles of cosmic origin, with energies in excess of 100 PeV. GRAND uses large surface arrays of antennas to look for the radio…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 Jaime Álvarez-Muñiz , Rafael Alves Batista , Aurélien Benoit-Lévy , Teresa Bister , Martina Bohacova , Mauricio Bustamante , Washington Carvalho , Yiren Chen , LingMei Cheng , Simon Chiche , Jean-Marc Colley , Pablo Correa , Nicoleta Cucu Laurenciu , Zigao Dai , Rogerio M. de Almeida , Beatriz de Errico , João R. T. de Mello Neto , Krijn D. de Vries , Valentin Decoene , Peter B. Denton , Bohao Duan , Kaikai Duan , Ralph Engel , William Erba , Yizhong Fan , Arsène Ferrière , QuanBu Gou , Junhua Gu , Marion Guelfand , Gang Guo , Jianhua Guo , Yiqing Guo , Claire Guépin , Lukas Gülzow , Andreas Haungs , Matej Havelka , Haoning He , Eric Hivon , Hongbo Hu , Guoyuan Huang , Xiaoyuan Huang , Yan Huang , Tim Huege , Wen Jiang , Sei Kato , Ramesh Koirala , Kumiko Kotera , Jelena Köhler , Bruno L. Lago , Zhisen Lai , Jolan Lavoisier , François Legrand , Antonios Leisos , Rui Li , Xingyu Li , Cheng Liu , Ruoyu Liu , Wei Liu , Pengxiong Ma , Oscar Macías , Frédéric Magnard , Alexandre Marcowith , Olivier Martineau-Huynh , Zack Mason , Thomas McKinley , Paul Minodier , Miguel Mostafá , Kohta Murase , Valentin Niess , Stavros Nonis , Shoichi Ogio , Foteini Oikonomou , Hongwei Pan , Konstantinos Papageorgiou , Tanguy Pierog , Lech W. Piotrowski , Simon Prunet , Clément Prévotat , Xiangli Qian , Markus Roth , Takashi Sako , Sarvesh Shinde , Dániel Szálas-Motesiczky , Szymon Sławiński , Kaoru Takahashi , Xishui Tian , Charles Timmermans , Petr Tobiska , Apostolos Tsirigotis , Matías Tueros , George Vittakis , Vincent Voisin , Hanrui Wang , Jiale Wang , Shen Wang , Xiangyu Wang , Xu Wang , Daming Wei , Feng Wei , Emily Weissling , Juan Wu , Xiangping Wu , Xuefeng Wu , Xin Xu , Xing Xu , Fufu Yang , Lili Yang , Xuan Yang , Qiang Yuan , Philippe Zarka , Hodung Zeng , Chao Zhang , Jianli Zhang , Kewen Zhang , Pengfei Zhang , Qingchi Zhang , Songbo Zhang , Yi Zhang , Hao Zhou , Jaime Álvarez-Muñiz , Sergio Cabana-Freire , Washington Carvalho , Alan Cummings , Cosmin Deaconu , Jackson Hinkel , Kaeli Hughes , Ryan Krebs , Youwei Liu , Zachary Martin , Katharine Mulrey , Alisa Nozdrina , Eric Oberla , Steven Prohira , Andrés Romero-Wolf , Abigail G. Vieregg , Stephanie A. Wissel , Enrique Zas , Andrew Zeolla

Ultra-high-energy cosmic neutrinos (UHE), with energies above 100 PeV, are unparalleled probes of the most energetic astrophysical sources and weak interactions at energies beyond the reach of accelerators. GRAND is an envisioned…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-26 João R. T. de Mello Neto

We present the performance of a new proportional gas detector. Its geometry consists of a cathode plane with 70x70 micron apertures, crossed by 25 micron anode strips to which it is attached by 50 micron kapton spacers. In the region where…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Adeva , F. Gomez , A. Pazos , R. Pfau , M. Plo , J. M. Rodriguez , P. Vazquez , J. C. Labbe

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…

The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) is an envisioned observatory of ultra-high-energy neutrinos, cosmic rays, and gamma rays, with energies above 100 PeV. GRAND targets the radio signals emitted by extensive air showers…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-25 Peng-Xiong Ma , Bo-Hao Duan , Xin Xu , Ke-Wen Zhang , Kai-Kai Duan , Shen Wang , Yi Zhang , Peng-Fei Zhang

The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) is a proposed multi-messenger observatory of Ultra-High-Energy (UHE) particles of cosmic origin. Its main goal is to find the long-sought origin of UHE cosmic rays by detecting large…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-25 GRAND Collaboration , Jaime Álvarez-Muniz , Rafael Alves Batista , Aurélien Benoit-Lévy , Teresa Bister , Martina Bohacova , Mauricio Bustamante , Washington Carvalho , Yiren Chen , LingMei Cheng , Simon Chiche , Jean-Marc Colley , Pablo Correa , Nicoleta Cucu Laurenciu , Zigao Dai , Rogerio M. de Almeida , Beatriz de Errico , João R. T. de Mello Neto , Krijn D. de Vries , Valentin Decoene , Peter B. Denton , Bohao Duan , Kaikai Duan , Ralph Engel , William Erba , Yizhong Fan , Arsène Ferrière , Juan Pablo Góngora , QuanBu Gou , Junhua Gu , Marion Guelfand , Gang Guo , Jianhua Guo , Yiqing Guo , Claire Guépin , Lukas Gülzow , Andreas Haungs , Matej Havelka , Haoning He , Eric Hivon , Hongbo Hu , Guoyuan Huang , Xiaoyuan Huang , Yan Huang , Tim Huege , Wen Jiang , Sei Kato , Ramesh Koirala , Kumiko Kotera , Jelena Köhler , Bruno L. Lago , Zhisen Lai , Jolan Lavoisier , François Legrand , Antonios Leisos , Rui Li , Xingyu Li , Cheng Liu , Ruoyu Liu , Wei Liu , Pengxiong Ma , Oscar Macias , Frédéric Magnard , Alexandre Marcowith , Olivier Martineau-Huynh , Zach Mason , Thomas McKinley , Paul Minodier , Miguel Mostafá , Kohta Murase , Valentin Niess , Stavros Nonis , Shoichi Ogio , Foteini Oikonomou , Hongwei Pan , Konstantinos Papageorgiou , Tanguy Pierog , Lech Wiktor Piotrowski , Simon Prunet , Clément Prévotat , Xiangli Qian , Markus Roth , Takashi Sako , Sarvesh Shinde , Dániel Szálas-Motesiczky , Szymon Sławiński , Kaoru Takahashi , Xishui Tian , Charles Timmermans , Petr Tobiska , Apostolos Tsirigotis , Matías Tueros , George Vittakis , Vincent Voisin , Hanrui Wang , Jiale Wang , Shen Wang , Xiangyu Wang , Xu Wang , Daming Wei , Feng Wei , Emily Weissling , Juan Wu , Xiangping Wu , Xuefeng Wu , Xin Xu , Xing Xu , Fufu Yang , Lili Yang , Xuan Yang , Qiang Yuan , Philippe Zarka , Houdun Zeng , Chao Zhang , Jianli Zhang , Kewen Zhang , Pengfei Zhang , Qingchi Zhang , Songbo Zhang , Yi Zhang , Hao Zhou

The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) is an envisioned large-scale radio array designed to detect ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs, $E > 100$ PeV) and neutrinos. Employing cost-effective antennas distributed across vast…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-23 Kewen Zhang , Yi Zhang , Yi-Qing Guo

GRANDProto300 is the planned 300-antenna pathfinder array of the Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND), of which the first 100 detection units have been already produced. Its main goal is to demonstrate the viability of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 Xing Xu , Jianhua Guo , Shen Wang

GRANDProto300 is a 300-antenna prototype array of the envisioned GRAND (Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection) project. The goal of GRANDProto300 is to detect radio signals emitted by cosmic ray-induced air showers, with energies ranging…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 Kai-Kai Duan , Peng-Xiong Ma , Ke-Wen Zhang , Xiao-Yuan Huang , Yi Zhang

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 $3000\,$m of altitude at the rim of the Tibetan…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-12 Valentin Decoene

Next-generation dual-phase time projection chambers (TPCs) for rare event searches will require large-scale, high-precision electrodes. To meet the stringent requirements for high-voltage performance of such an experiment, we have developed…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-02-04 Shumit A. Mitra , Alexander Deisting , Jan Lommler , Uwe Oberlack , Fabian Piermaier , Quirin Weitzel , Daniel Wenz

Project GRAND, a proportional wire chamber array, is used to examine the decreased counting rate of ground level muons during the Forbush decrease event of September 11, 2005. Data are presented and compared to that of other cosmic ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-07-16 J. Poirier , M. Herrera , P. Hemphill , C. D'Andrea

We present a novel electrical technique to measure the tension of wires in multi-wire drift chambers. We create alternating electric fields by biasing adjacent wires on both sides of a test wire with a superposition of positive and negative…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-05 D. Garcia-Gamez , V. Basque , T. G. Brooks , J. J. Evans , M. Perry , S. Söldner-Rembold , F. Spagliardi , A. M. Szelc

To determine the size of an extensive air shower it is not necessary to have knowledge of the function that describes the fall-off of signal size from the shower core (the lateral distribution function). In this paper an analysis with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Newton , J. Knapp , A. A. Watson

The article considers a prototype module with sensitive dimensions of 2 x 0.5 m2 based on 2 m long straw tubes which preserves its geometrical dimensions up to the pressure of 4 bar independently of the ambient temperature and humidity. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-10-23 V. Peshekhonov , K. Davkov , V. Myalkovskiy , N. Russakovich , I. Zhukov

As of early 2025, the GRAND Collaboration operates three prototype arrays: GRANDProto300 in China, GRAND@Nan\c{c}ay in France, and GRAND@Auger in Argentina. The GRAND@Auger prototype was established through an agreement between the GRAND…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-11 Beatriz de Errico , João R. T. de Mello Neto , Charles Timmermans