Design of the LHAASO detectors

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He, Huihai [1 ,2 ]
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[1] Chinese Acad Sci, Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
[2] Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
关键词
Origin of cosmic rays; Gamma ray astronomy; Extensive air shower;
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10.1007/s41605-018-0037-3
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TL [原子能技术]; O571 [原子核物理学];
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0827 ; 082701 ;
摘要
Introduction The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory plans to build a hybrid extensive air shower array with an area of about 1 km(2) at an altitude of 4,410 m a.s.l. in Sichuan province, China, to explore the origin of high-energy cosmic rays. KM2A LHAASO-KM2A will detect gamma ray sources with a sensitivity of about 1% Crab Unit at 100 TeV. It covers an area of 1 km(2) with a total of 5195 scintillation detectors. Its angular resolution reaches about 0.3 degrees, and the energy resolution is better than 25%. With the help of 1171 muon detectors, cosmic nuclei background will be rejected to a level of 10-4 at 50 TeV. The design and performances of the scintillation detectors and muon detectors are described in detail. WCDA LHAASO-WCDA focuses on surveying the northern sky for steady and transient sources from 100 GeV to 20 TeV, with a very high background rejection power and a good angular resolution. The WCDA consists of three water ponds with a total area of 78,000 m(2), and the effective water depth is 4 m. Each water pond is divided into 5m x 5m cells partitioned by black plastic curtains to prevent penetration of the light from neighboring cells. An 8-inch PMT sits at the bottom center of each cell, looking upward to collect Cherenkov light generated by shower secondary particles in water. WFCTA LHAASO-WFCTA is composed of 12 wide-field-of-view Cherenkov/fluorescence telescopes. Each telescope consists of a spherical light collector of about 4.7 m(2) and focal plane camera of 32 x 32 pixels with a pixel size of 0.5 degree. LHAASO prototype arrays A prototype array about 1% of LHAASO has been constructed at Yangbajing Cosmic Ray Observatory and has been in operation for more than 2 years. Its performance fully meets the design requirements. Conclusion The LHAASO detectors are designed to fulfill the physical goals in gamma ray astronomy and cosmic ray physics. One-fourth of LHAASO will be constructed and put into operation to produce physical data by the end of 2018. The whole array will be finished in the beginning of 2021.
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