Conveners
C4: Astroparticle and Space Instrumentation
- Yuriy Tikhonov (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibrsk, RF)
The INO-ICAL collaboration has built a prototype detector called mini-ICAL at IICHEP, Madurai, India, as part of their research and development efforts. This module serves to investigate detector performance, and engineering challenges in constructing large-scale magnets and magnetic field measurement systems, and to test ICAL electronics in the presence of a magnetic field. Additionally,...
The China Seismo-Electromagnetic Satellite (CSES) mission develops through a constellation of satellites, devoted to the study of the near-Earth environment, including electromagnetic fields, ionospheric plasma and particle populations. Each satellite - flying on a quasi-polar Sun-synchronous low-Earth orbit - is a multi-channel space observatory and hosts several instruments onboard....
A new photodetection device that uses Silicon Photomultipliers and a Cherenkov photon trap system will be presented, which was named C-Arapuca. We describe the construction of a tank containing 550 liters of ultra-pure water, where C-Arapuca and a photomultiplier tube were installed. Cherenkov photons produced by cosmic ray muons are trapped through the use of a dichroic filter on the optical...
The Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO) is the proposal for a new ground-based gamma-ray observatory in the Southern Hemisphere, and an array of water-Cherenkov detectors (WCD) will be used to monitor the very-high-energies gamma-ray emission from the southern sky. In this report, we propose one fiber-PMT, small size photomultiplier tube (PMT) coupling with wavelength shift fiber...
A large-volume liquid scintillator neutrino detector is proposed to develop at the Baksan Neutrino Observatory of Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the North Caucasus. The detector will be located at the depth of 4700 m.w.e. (meter of water equivalent). A target mass of the detector will be 10 kt. This multipurpose detector is being developed to study...
EAS Cherenkov arrays are a powerful instrument for studies of primary cosmic rays in a wide range of energy. In this approach the Earth’s atmosphere is used as a calorimeter providing EAS Cherenkov arrays high energy resolution. Another advantage of the method is its high time resolution which results in a good angular resolution. Usually EAS Cherenkov array is a sparsely instrumented array...
