An experimental technique is presented to determine the effectiveness of methods to tag photon initiated air showers and reject hadron initiated ones. The technique is based on the rate reduction in the Moon direction. With a photon energy threshold below or equal to 1 TeV, with an angular resolution of a few mrad and being insensitive to visible light, the proposed CLUE detector allows a wide and original physics program. In particular the direct measurement of the fraction of primary photons in the continuum of the cosmic ray flux is feasible with adequate statistics in a few months of data taking.
A Method To Measure the Gamma-ray Content In Vhe Cosmic-ray Showers / M., Cresti; L., Peruzzo; A., Pesci; A., Saggion; G., Sartori; F., Angelini; F., Bedeschi; R., Bellazzini; E., Bertolucci; G., Chiarelli; M., Mariotti; M. M., Massai; A., Menzione; D. A., Smith; A., Stefanini; F., Zetti; A., Scribano; Bartoli, Bruno; M., Budinich; F., Liello; E., Milotti; A. R., P.; J. A., Chinellato; A., Turtelli; M., Luksys. - In: NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH. SECTION A, ACCELERATORS, SPECTROMETERS, DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT. - ISSN 0168-9002. - STAMPA. - 306:(1991), pp. 563-571. [10.1016/0168-9002(91)90053-S]
A Method To Measure the Gamma-ray Content In Vhe Cosmic-ray Showers
BARTOLI, BRUNO;
1991
Abstract
An experimental technique is presented to determine the effectiveness of methods to tag photon initiated air showers and reject hadron initiated ones. The technique is based on the rate reduction in the Moon direction. With a photon energy threshold below or equal to 1 TeV, with an angular resolution of a few mrad and being insensitive to visible light, the proposed CLUE detector allows a wide and original physics program. In particular the direct measurement of the fraction of primary photons in the continuum of the cosmic ray flux is feasible with adequate statistics in a few months of data taking.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
