Online charge calibration of LHAASO-WCDA-a study with the engineering array

LHAASO-WCDA is a large ground-based water Cherenkov detector array planned to be built at Shangri-La, Yunnan Province, China. As a major component of the LHAASO project, the main purpose of LHAASO-WCDA is to survey the northern sky for very-high-energy (above 100 GeV) gamma ray sources and measure the spectrum. To gain full knowledge of the water Cherenkov technique and to investigate the engineering issues, a 9-cell detector array has been built at the Yang-Ba-Jing site, neighboring the ARGO-YBJ experiment. With the array, charge calibration methods for both low and high ranges of the PMT readout are studied, whose result shows that a precision at several percentages can be reached, which can satisfy the requirement of the detector array. During the long term operation, the charge calibration stability and environmental affection are studied; in this paper, the results are discussed. These calibration methods are proposed to be applied in the future LHAASO-WCDA project.     

Online charge calibration of LHAASO-WCDA——a study with the engineering array

LHAASO-WCDA is a large ground-based water Cherenkov detector array planned to be built at ShangriLa, Yunnan Province, China. As a major component of the LHAASO project, the main purpose of LHAASO-WCDA is to survey the northern sky for very-high-energy（above 100 GeV） gamma ray sources and measure the spectrum. To gain full knowledge of the water Cherenkov technique and to investigate the engineering issues, a 9-cell detector array has been built at the Yang-Ba-Jing site, neighboring the ARGO-YBJ experiment. With the array, charge calibration methods for both low and high ranges of the PMT readout are studied, whose result shows that a precision at several percentages can be reached, which can satisfy the requirement of the detector array. During the long term operation, the charge calibration stability and environmental afection are studied; in this paper, the results are discussed. These calibration methods are proposed to be applied in the future LHAASO-WCDA project.     

L3宇宙线实验触发系统和触发效率的测量

介绍了在欧洲核子研究中心(CERN)的L3探测器上进行的宇宙线实验的触发系统判选过程,还介绍了使用蒙特卡洛模拟检验触发系统和计算触发效率的方法,并给出了实际数据的测量结果和误差.结果已用于L3宇宙线实验的μ谱的测量中.     

Search for exotic events from the L3+C data

An effort to search for Kolar-like events within the data set of the L3＋C experiment is reported. From a total of 0.89×10^10 triggered events there are no reliable two-prong Kolar-like events observed. The corresponding event flux upper limit 7.1 × 10^-13 cm^-2. s^-1 . sr^-1 at 90% confidence level is deduced based on some reasonable assumptions.     

通过浅层地下多μ事例研究“膝”区宇宙线成分的一种途径

地下多μ现象的观测是研究“膝”区(1015—1016eV)宇宙线成分的一种重要方法.现有的地下探测器对于成分研究不甚理想,因为它们原本主要是为其它目的而设计的.我们提出一种新的途径:用一个探测器陈列在浅层地下观测多μ事例.这一方法对成分研究具有较高的灵敏度.     

用于漂移室中宇宙线径迹重建的Cellmap的研究

以L3宇宙线实验的径迹重建为例，讨论了一个在磁谱仪漂移室中对大斜率宇宙线径迹着火点进行重建的Cellmap，并与L3宇宙线实验中已采用的Cellmap进行了比较. 对大斜率径迹，用新的Cellmap可以重建出更多的着火点，并且径迹重建χ2量的分布有所改善.     

（Sr，Ba）_（1－x）Eu_xTiO_3的高温高压合成及XPS研究

用高温高压法合成了Ｓｒ１－ｘＥｕｘＴｉＯ３（ｘ＝０．０，０．１，０．２，０．３，０．４，０．５）及Ｂａ０．３Ｅｕ０．７ＴｉＯ３化合物．结果表明，所有样品均为立方结构，样品中存在Ｅｕ（Ⅱ）和Ｅｕ（Ⅲ）的混合价．Ｅｕ３＋的掺入直接影响了Ｓｒ离子与氧离子的结合，使Ｓｒ３ｐ３／２的结合能随ｘ的增加而增加．     

Study on the optimization of the water Cherenkov detector array of the LHAASO project for surveying VHE gamma ray sources

It is prpopsed that a water Cherenkov detector array, LHAASO-WCDA, is to be built at Shangri-la, Yunnan Province, China. As one of the major components of the LHAASO project, the main purpose of it is to survey the northern sky for gamma ray sources in the energy range of 100 GeV—30 TeV. In order to design the water Cherenkov array efficiently to economize the budget, a Monte Carlo simulation is carried out. With the help of the simulation, the cost performance of different configurations of the array are obtained and compared with each other, serving as a guide for the more detailed design of the experiment in the next step.