Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-09-02
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
To appear in Proc. of the 31st ICRC, Lodz, Poland
Scientific paper
We propose to explore the so-far poorly measured cosmic ray and gamma-ray sky (accelerator sky) in the energy range from 10 TeV to 1 EeV. New physics questions might be addressed in this last remaining observation window of gamma-ray astronomy. The very high beam-energies provided by Cosmic accelerators and the air-shower detection technique naturally imply an entanglement between fundamental questions of astroparticle physics and particle physics. The new large-area (10 km$^2$) wide-angle (1 sr) air Cherenkov detector SCORE (Study for a Cosmic ORigin Explorer) is based on non-imaging Cherenkov light-front sampling with sensitive large-area detector modules of the order of 1 m$^2$. The lateral photon density and arrival-time distribution will be sampled up to large distances from the shower core. The physics motivations, the detector concept and first simulation results will be presented.
Hampf Daniel
Horns Dieter
Kneiske Tanja
Tluczykont Martin
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