TAx4 实验的表面探测器
天体物理仪器与方法
2021-10-27 v1 仪器与探测器
摘要
望远镜阵列（TA）是北半球最大的超高能宇宙线（UHECR）观测站。它通过使用覆盖约 700 km 的表面探测器（SD）阵列和荧光探测器（FD）站，测量 UHECR 的能量谱、到达方向分布和质量组成，以探索其起源。TA 已发现能量大于 57 EeV 的宇宙线团簇的证据。为了用更多数据确认这一证据，有必要提高数据收集率。我们已开始建设 TA 的扩展项目，称之为 TAx4。在本文中，我们解释 TAx4 SD 的动机、设计、技术特征和预期性能。我们还介绍了 TAx4 的当前状态以及已收集数据的示例。
引用
@article{arxiv.2103.01086,
title = {Surface detectors of the TAx4 experiment},
author = {Telescope Array Collaboration and R. U. Abbasi and M. Abe and T. Abu-Zayyad and M. Allen and Y. Arai and E. Barcikowski and J. W. Belz and D. R. Bergman and S. A. Blake and R. Cady and B. G. Cheon and J. Chiba and M. Chikawa and T. Fujii and K. Fujisue and K. Fujita and R. Fujiwara and M. Fukushima and R. Fukushima and G. Furlich and W. Hanlon and M. Hayashi and N. Hayashida and K. Hibino and R. Higuchi and K. Honda and D. Ikeda and T. Inadomi and N. Inoue and T. Ishii and H. Ito and D. Ivanov and H. Iwakura and H. M. Jeong and S. Jeong and C. C. H. Jui and K. Kadota and F. Kakimoto and O. Kalashev and K. Kasahara and S. Kasami and H. Kawai and S. Kawakami and S. Kawana and K. Kawata and E. Kido and H. B. Kim and J. H. Kim and J. H. Kim and M. H. Kim and S. W. Kim and Y. Kimura and S. Kishigami and V. Kuzmin and M. Kuznetsov and Y. J. Kwon and K. H. Lee and B. Lubsandorzhiev and J. P. Lundquist and K. Machida and H. Matsumiya and T. Matsuyama and J. N. Matthews and R. Mayta and M. Minamino and K. Mukai and I. Myers and S. Nagataki and K. Nakai and R. Nakamura and T. Nakamura and Y. Nakamura and T. Nonaka and H. Oda and S. Ogio and M. Ohnishi and H. Ohoka and Y. Oku and T. Okuda and Y. Omura and M. Ono and R. Onogi and A. Oshima and S. Ozawa and I. H. Park and M. S. Pshirkov and J. Remington and D. C. Rodriguez and G. I. Rubtsov and D. Ryu and H. Sagawa and R. Sahara and Y. Saito and N. Sakaki and T. Sako and N. Sakurai and K. Sano and K. Sato and T. Seki and K. Sekino and P. D. Shah and F. Shibata and N. Shibata and T. Shibata and H. Shimodaira and B. K. Shin and H. S. Shin and D. Shinto and J. D. Smith and P. Sokolsky and N. Sone and B. T. Stokes and T. A. Stroman and T. Suzawa and Y. Takagi and Y. Takahashi and M. Takamura and M. Takeda and R. Takeishi and A. Taketa and M. Takita and Y. Tameda and H. Tanaka and K. Tanaka and M. Tanaka and Y. Tanoue and S. B. Thomas and G. B. Thomson and P. Tinyakov and I. Tkachev and H. Tokuno and T. Tomida and S. Troitsky and R. Tsuda and Y. Tsunesada and Y. Uchihori and S. Udo and T. Uehama and F. Urban and T. Wong and K. Yada and M. Yamamoto and K. Yamazaki and J. Yang and K. Yashiro and F. Yoshida and Y. Zhezher and Z. Zundel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.01086},
year = {2021}
}
备注
26 pages, 17 figures, submitted to Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A