Simulating a Measurement of the 2nd Knee in the Cosmic Ray Spectrum with an Atmospheric Fluorescence Telescope Tower Array

A fluorescence telescope tower array has been designed to measure cosmic rays in the energy range of 10(17)–10(18) eV. A full Monte Carlo simulation, including air shower production, light generation and propagation, detector response, electronics, and trigger system, has been developed for that pur...

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Autores principales: Liu, Jiali, Yang, Qunyu, Bai, Yunxiang, Cao, Zhen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3967395/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24737964
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/278968
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Yang, Qunyu
Bai, Yunxiang
Cao, Zhen
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Yang, Qunyu
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Cao, Zhen
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description A fluorescence telescope tower array has been designed to measure cosmic rays in the energy range of 10(17)–10(18) eV. A full Monte Carlo simulation, including air shower production, light generation and propagation, detector response, electronics, and trigger system, has been developed for that purpose. Using such a simulation tool, the detector configuration, which includes one main tower array and two side-trigger arrays, 24 telescopes in total, has been optimized. The aperture and the event rate have been estimated. Furthermore, the performance of the X (max⁡) technique in measuring composition has also been studied.
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spelling pubmed-39673952014-04-15 Simulating a Measurement of the 2nd Knee in the Cosmic Ray Spectrum with an Atmospheric Fluorescence Telescope Tower Array Liu, Jiali Yang, Qunyu Bai, Yunxiang Cao, Zhen ScientificWorldJournal Research Article A fluorescence telescope tower array has been designed to measure cosmic rays in the energy range of 10(17)–10(18) eV. A full Monte Carlo simulation, including air shower production, light generation and propagation, detector response, electronics, and trigger system, has been developed for that purpose. Using such a simulation tool, the detector configuration, which includes one main tower array and two side-trigger arrays, 24 telescopes in total, has been optimized. The aperture and the event rate have been estimated. Furthermore, the performance of the X (max⁡) technique in measuring composition has also been studied. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014-03-09 /pmc/articles/PMC3967395/ /pubmed/24737964 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/278968 Text en Copyright © 2014 Jiali Liu et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Simulating a Measurement of the 2nd Knee in the Cosmic Ray Spectrum with an Atmospheric Fluorescence Telescope Tower Array
title Simulating a Measurement of the 2nd Knee in the Cosmic Ray Spectrum with an Atmospheric Fluorescence Telescope Tower Array
title_full Simulating a Measurement of the 2nd Knee in the Cosmic Ray Spectrum with an Atmospheric Fluorescence Telescope Tower Array
title_fullStr Simulating a Measurement of the 2nd Knee in the Cosmic Ray Spectrum with an Atmospheric Fluorescence Telescope Tower Array
title_full_unstemmed Simulating a Measurement of the 2nd Knee in the Cosmic Ray Spectrum with an Atmospheric Fluorescence Telescope Tower Array
title_short Simulating a Measurement of the 2nd Knee in the Cosmic Ray Spectrum with an Atmospheric Fluorescence Telescope Tower Array
title_sort simulating a measurement of the 2nd knee in the cosmic ray spectrum with an atmospheric fluorescence telescope tower array
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3967395/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24737964
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/278968
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