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The Complex of Experimental Facilities for the Cosmic Ray Investigation at the Tien Shan Mountain Station

Authors :
Kanat Mukashev
Alia Argynova
Valery Zhukov
Tunyk Idrissova
Bakhtiyar Iskakov
Vecheslav Piskal
Turlan Sadykov
Zhakypbek Sadykov
Alexey Stepanov
Abai Serikkanov
Source :
Applied Sciences, Vol 12, Iss 1, p 465 (2022)
Publication Year :
2022
Publisher :
MDPI AG, 2022.

Abstract

The study describes the experimental complex of the station located in the Tien Shan mountains at an elevation of 3340 m above sea level. The complex consists of detectors of different types scattered across the station area, such as scintillation particles detectors, Cherenkov detectors, radio emission detectors for the measurement of the electron component of extensive air showers (EAS) created by the (1–1000) PeV cosmic ray particles, an ionization calorimeter and neutron detectors for the study of the nuclear-active component of EAS cores, and the underground particle detectors for the detection of cosmic ray muons. The data acquisition system allows the simultaneous recording of parameters from various stand-alone detectors registering an EAS, and storage of the acquired data in the database. As an illustration of research capability, the results of the EAS study are presented here which were obtained during the last few years at the different experimental set-ups constituting the Tien Shan complex.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
20763417
Volume :
12
Issue :
1
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Applied Sciences
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.4ecd898feb4fcfad513dbed14fe865
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3390/app12010465