Study of longitudinal development of cosmic-ray induced air showers with LHAASO-WFCTA
Issued Date
2022-03-18
Resource Type
eISSN
18248039
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-85145587970
Journal Title
Proceedings of Science
Volume
395
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SCOPUS
Bibliographic Citation
Proceedings of Science Vol.395 (2022)
Suggested Citation
Liu H. Study of longitudinal development of cosmic-ray induced air showers with LHAASO-WFCTA. Proceedings of Science Vol.395 (2022). Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/86555
Title
Study of longitudinal development of cosmic-ray induced air showers with LHAASO-WFCTA
Author(s)
Author's Affiliation
State Key Laboratory of Particle Detection & Electronics
Nanjing University
Shanghai Astronomical Observatory Chinese Academy of Sciences
Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Shandong University
Wuhan University
Yunnan University
Institute of High Energy Physics Chinese Academy of Science
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Guangzhou University
Tsinghua University
Sun Yat-Sen University
University of Science and Technology of China
Zhengzhou University
Institiúid Ard-Lénn Bhaile Átha Cliath
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Sichuan University
National Astronomical Observatories Chinese Academy of Sciences
Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik
Southwest Jiaotong University
Purple Mountain Observatory Chinese Academy of Sciences
Université de Genève
Hebei Normal University
Tibet University
TIANFU Cosmic Ray Research Center
Nanjing University
Shanghai Astronomical Observatory Chinese Academy of Sciences
Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Shandong University
Wuhan University
Yunnan University
Institute of High Energy Physics Chinese Academy of Science
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Guangzhou University
Tsinghua University
Sun Yat-Sen University
University of Science and Technology of China
Zhengzhou University
Institiúid Ard-Lénn Bhaile Átha Cliath
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Sichuan University
National Astronomical Observatories Chinese Academy of Sciences
Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik
Southwest Jiaotong University
Purple Mountain Observatory Chinese Academy of Sciences
Université de Genève
Hebei Normal University
Tibet University
TIANFU Cosmic Ray Research Center
Other Contributor(s)
Abstract
The Wide Field-of-view Cerenkov Telescope Array (WFCTA) is an important component of Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO), which aims to measure the individual energy spectra of cosmic rays from ~30 TeV to a couple of EeV. The longitudinal development is one of the main tools to distinguish nuclei from each other. WFCTA is composed of 18 imaging air Cerenkov telescopes, each telescope has 32 × 32 pixels, covers a field of view 16o × 16o (each pixel corresponding to 0.5o × 0.5o). The first telescope started in operation since February 2019, up to now, there are 18 telescopes in operation. Cerenkov photon detected by different pixels were generated at different height (or different traversed material). The distribution of dN/dθ (θ is the angle between the direction of Cerenkov photon and the direction of primary particle) is reconstructed from the image of WFCTA to study the longitudinal development of the shower (similar to dN/dX). In this paper, the dN/dθ reconstructing method and the preliminary result on the particle identification power based on this method will be shown.
