The HiSCORE experiment and its potential for gamma-ray astronomy

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Tluczykont, M. [1 ]
Hampf, D. [1 ]
Einhaus, U. [1 ]
Horns, D. [1 ]
Brueckner, M.
Budnev, N.
Bueker, M. [1 ,2 ]
Chvalaev, O. [5 ]
Dyachok, A. [5 ]
Epimakhov, S. [1 ]
Gress, O. [5 ]
Ivanova, A. [5 ]
Konstantinov, E. [5 ]
Korosteleva, E. [3 ]
Kunnas, M. [1 ]
Kuzmichev, L. [3 ]
Lubsandorzhiev, B. K. [4 ]
Lubsandorzhiev, N. B. [4 ]
Maurer, A. [1 ]
Mirgazov, R.
Nachtigall, R. [1 ]
Pakhorukov, A.
Poleschuk, V. [5 ]
Prosin, V. [3 ]
Rubtsov, G. I. [4 ]
Rowell, G. P. [6 ]
Satunin, P. S. [4 ]
Semeney, Yu. [5 ]
Spiering, C.
Sveshnikova, L. [3 ]
Wischnewski, R. [2 ]
Zagorodnikov, A. [5 ]
机构
[1] Univ Hamburg, Inst Expt Phys, Luruper Chaussee 149, D-22761 Hamburg, Germany
[2] DESY, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany
[3] Lomonosov Moscow State Univ, Skobeltsyn Inst Nucl Phys, Moscow 119991, Russia
[4] Russian Acad Sci, Inst Nucl Res, Moscow 117312, Russia
[5] Inst Appl Phys ISU, Irkutsk, Russia
[6] Univ Adelaide, Sch Chem & Phys, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
关键词
COSMIC-RAYS; EMISSION; MILAGRO; GALAXY;
D O I
10.1088/1742-6596/409/1/012120
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
The HiSCORE (Hundred*i Square-km Cosmic ORigin Explorer) detector aims at the exploration of the accelerator sky, using indirect air-shower observations of cosmic rays from 100 TeV to 1 EeV and gamma rays in the last remaining observation window of gamma-ray astronomy from 10 TeV to several PeV. The main questions addressed by HiSCORE are cosmic ray composition and spectral measurements in the Galactic/extragalactic transition range, and the origin of cosmic rays via the search for gamma rays from Galactic PeV accelerators, the pevatrons. HiSCORE is based on non-imaging Cherenkov light-front sampling with sensitive large-area detector modules of the order of 0.5 m(2). A prototype station was deployed on the Tunka cosmic ray experiment site in Siberia, where an engineering array of up to 1 km(2) is planned for deployment in 2012/2013. Here, we address the expected physics potential of HiSCORE, the status of the project, and further plans
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