注水水箱可提升空气簇射探测器灵敏度
天体物理学
2007-05-23 v1
摘要
此前研究表明，水切伦科夫探测器在探测广延空气簇射（EAS）方面比闪烁计数器具有更高的灵敏度。这在很大程度上是因为它们对 EAS 光子的灵敏度远高于 EAS 电子，而 EAS 光子的数量是 EAS 电子的五倍以上。大面积水切伦科夫探测器可以相对廉价地建造并可靠运行。一个稀疏探测器阵列已被设计出来，利用此类探测器大幅扩展 Milagro 伽马射线天文台收集 EAS 信息的区域。本文将介绍该阵列对 Milagro 探测器性能特征和灵敏度的改进，以及目前安装在 Milagro 探测器附近的原型阵列的初步结果。
引用
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9907214,
title = {Instrumented Water Tanks can Improve Air Shower Detector Sensitivity},
author = {R. Atkins and W. Benbow and D. Berley and M. -L. Chen and D. G. Coyne and R. S. Delay and B. L. Dingus and D. E. Dorfan and R. W. Ellsworth and D. Evans and A. Falcone and L. Fleysher and R. Fleysher and G. Gisler and J. A. Goodman and T. J. Haines and C. M. Hoffman and S. Hugenberger and L. A. Kelley and I. Leonor and J. Macri and M. McConnell and J. F. McCullough and J. E. McEnery and R. S. Miller and A. I. Mincer and M. F. Morales and P. Nemethy and J. M. Ryan and M. Schneider and B. Shen and A. Shoup and G. Sinnis and A. J. Smith and G. W. Sullivan and T. N. Thompson and O. T. Tumer and K. Wang and M. O. Wascko and S. Westerhoff and D. A. Williams and T. Yang and G. B. Yodh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9907214},
year = {2007}
}
备注
4 pages, submitted to XXVI International Cosmic Ray Conference, Salt Lake City