PoS - Proceedings of Science
Volume 301 - 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2017) - Session Cosmic-Ray Indirect. CRI-properties of CRs at high energies (anisotropy, energy, mass)
Extending the range of particle densities observed by GRAPES-3
A. Chandra*, S. Ahmad, K. P. Arunbabu, S.R. Dugad, S.K. Gupta, B. Hariharan, Y. Hayashi, P. Jagadeesan, A. Jain, V.B. Jhansi, S. Kawakami, H. Kojima, P.K. Mohanty, S.D. Morris, P.K. Nayak, A. Oshima, B.S. Rao, L.V. Reddy, S. Shibata and M. Zuberi
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Pre-published on: August 16, 2017
Published on: August 03, 2018
Abstract
The GRAPES-3 experiment is a unique facility to study cosmic ray energy spectrum and composition with high precision. It consists an array of 400 plastic scinitillation detectors and a muon telescope of 3712 proportional counters to study extensive air shower (EAS) phenomenon around knee ($\gtrsim$ 10$^{15}$ eV). Study of energy spectrum and composition of primary cosmic rays (PCRs) can improve the understanding about the nature of the sources accelerating PCRs to energies \(\gtrsim 10^{15}\) eV which may be studied by using high statistics data produced by GRAPES-3. Measurement of particle densities ($\gtrsim$ 5000 m$^{-2}$) is achieved by viewing each scintillator with two photomultiplier tubes (PMTs). The results obtained till date will be presented at the conference.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.301.0479
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