1. Performance of the thermal neutron detector array in Yangbajing, Tibet for cosmic ray EAS detection.
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Liu, Mao-Yuan, Alekseenko, Victor, Cui, Shu-Wang, Chen, Tian-Lu, Dangzengluobu, Gao, Qi, Kuleshov, Denis, Levochkin, Kirill, Liu, Ye, Li, Bing-Bing, Ma, Xin-Hua, Shchegolev, Oleg, Shi, Cong, Stenkin, Yuri, and Stepanov, Vladimir
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COSMIC ray showers ,NEUTRON counters ,COSMIC rays ,THERMAL neutrons ,SURFACE of the earth - Abstract
The measurement of thermal neutrons generated by cosmic ray extensive air showers (EAS) on the Earth's surface provides a new method for studying the composition and energy of cosmic rays with energy in the so-called "knee" region. Given the success of the PRISMA-YBJ array, a new type of thermal neutron detector array was installed at the high-altitude cosmic ray observatory in Yangbajing, Tibet. The array consists of 16 EN-detectors and utilizes a new type scintillator based on a compound alloy of ZnS(Ag) and B
2 O3 with natural boron. This report describes the deployment of the detector array and its operational results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2020
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