Multi TeV sensitivity of GRAPES-3 with expanded - Bose Institute多TeV的grapes-3扩展-百色学院灵敏度.pptVIP

Multi-TeV ?-ray Astronomy with GRAPES-3 Pravata K Mohanty On behalf of the GRAPE-3 collaboration Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai Workshop on Astroparticle Physics , Bose Institute, Darjeeling, 10 - 12 December 2009 High energy ?-ray astronomy Cosmic Ray origin: a long standing problem Conventional method: Energy spectrum and composition More direct method: Detection of high energy ?-rays High energy ?-ray astronomy is emerging as a very exciting field of astronomy. The detection of a large numbers of galactic and extra-galactic sources in GeV - TeV energy range by the current generation of IACT experiments such as HESS, VERITAS, MAGIC and very recent results of Fermi-LAT space telescope completely changed the scenario and our perception of ?-ray universe. The region 10 TeV is still unexplored. High energy ?-ray astronomy with EAS arrays EAS experiments ideal 10 TeV Large effective area Large FOV - ~ 100% duty cycle Drawbacks – Poor angular resolution Ideal for extended sources, flaring sources and sky survey Present EAS experiments: GRAPES-3, ARGO-YBJ, Tibet AS-gamma, MILAGRO Future experiments: HAWC, Tibet AS +MD, GRAPES-3 + Expanded MD ….. The GRAPES-3 Experiment Scintillation detectors - 400, 1m2 each - Inter-spacing 8 m - Particle density (ADC) - Timing (TDC) Muon detector - 35 m2 x 16 modules - 4 orthogonal layers of proportional counters to track muons - 1 GeV threshold s Front view of two muon modules in a station Trigger - by scintillation detectors - Rate ~ 30 Hz - Efficiency (90%): ~ 30 TeV for ? ~ 50 TeV for P ?-ray Astronomy with GRAPES-3 s GRAPES-3 Location: 76.7E, 11.4N, 2200m a.s.l Advantage of location: Can view both northern and southern skies Target: Observation of sources detected by HESS and MILAGRO like HESS J1908+063 MGROJ1908+06 Search for extended sources Search for