首台南极冰Act演示器的设计与性能
天体物理仪器与方法
2020-02-19 v2 高能天体物理现象
摘要
在本文中,我们描述了一种紧凑型成像大气切伦科夫望远镜 IceAct 的首批结果,该望远镜在地理南极与 IceCube 中微子天文台(IceCube)符合运行。一个由 IceAct 望远镜组成的阵列(称为 IceAct 项目)正作为 IceCube-Gen2 对 IceCube 扩展的一部分被考虑。总体而言,表面探测器将成为 IceCube-Gen2 中区分天体物理中微子与宇宙线诱发的的大气缪子和大气中微子主导本底的有力工具:IceTop 阵列已作为 IceCube 的一部分就位,但其能量阈值较高。尽管 IceAct 望远镜的占空比将低于目前的 IceTop 水箱,但 IceAct 望远镜可能在降低空气簇射探测阈值方面更为有效。此外,小型成像大气切伦科夫望远镜与 IceTop、深部 IceCube 探测器或其他未来探测系统结合,可能改进宇宙线能谱成分的测量。在本文中,我们展示了一台首台 7 像素成像大气切伦科夫望远镜演示器的测量,证明了该技术在南极与 IceTop 及深部 IceCube 探测器符合测量空气簇射的能力。
引用
@article{arxiv.1910.06945,
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journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.06945},
year = {2020}
}
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