The High Energy cosmic-Radiation Detection (HERD) facility has been proposed as space astronomy payloads on-board the future China’s Space Station (CSS) aimed to detect charged cosmicrays and gamma-rays from few GeV to PeV energies.
The main science objectives of HERD are searching dark matter particles, the study of cosmic ray chemical composition up to the knee and high energy gamma-ray observations. HERD consists of a very thick (3 Interaction Length , 55 Radiation Length) cube calorimeter made of small LYSO cubic crystals allowing 3D reconstruction, a tracker consisting of silicon microstrip detectors and thin converter foils for gamma conversion and plastic scintillator planes for veto and charge measurements. HERD will extend high precision and high statistics measurement of cosmic-ray spectra up to 1 PeV. It will also observe the gamma-ray sky from a few GeV up to 1 TeV contributing to multi-messenger astronomy together with high energy gamma-ray, neutrino and gravitational waves ground-based telescopes.
Volume 364 -
European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP2019) -
Astroparticle Physics and Gravitational Waves
The High Energy cosmic-Radiation Detection facility (HERD)
Full text:
pdf
Supplementary files:
Pre-published on:
October 20, 2020
Published on:
November 12, 2020
Abstract
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.364.0035
How to cite
Metadata are provided both in "article" format (very similar to INSPIRE) as this helps creating very compact bibliographies which can be beneficial to authors and readers, and in "proceeding" format which is more detailed and complete.
Open Access
Copyright owned by the author(s) under the term of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Copyright owned by the author(s) under the term of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.