The TIBET AS+MD Project; progress report 2015

Masato Takita
2016 Proceedings of The 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2015)   unpublished
We plan to build a large (approximately 10,000 m**2) water Cherenkov-type muon detector array under the existing Tibet air shower array at 4,300 m above sea level, to observe 10-1000 TeV gamma rays from cosmic-ray accelerators in our Galaxy with wide field of view at very low background level. A gamma-ray induced air shower has significantly less muons compared with a cosmic-ray induced one. Therefore, we can effectively discriminate between primary gamma rays and cosmic-ray background events
more » ... means of counting number of muons in an air shower event by the muon detector array. We will make a progress report on the project, as some part of it started data-taking in 2014.
doi:10.22323/1.236.0969 fatcat:rztmtn37svfqjn2q4jdr74v3rm