Project of the URAN array for registration of atmospheric neutrons

International Conference on Particle Physics and Astrophysics

Gromushkin, D.M.^1 ; Barbashina, N.S.^1 ; Bogdanov, F.A.^1 ; Kokoulin, R.P.^1 ; Ovchinnikov, V.V.^1 ; Petrukhin, A.A.^1 ; Stenkin, Yu V^1,2 ; Khokhlov, S.S.^1 ; Shulzhenko, I.A.^1 ; Yashin, I.I.^1

National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Kashirskoe highway 31, Moscow

115409, Russia^1

Institute for Nuclear Research of RAS, Moscow

117312, Russia^2

关键词: Atmospheric neutrons;    Extensive air showers;    Thermal neutrons;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/675/3/032043/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1742-6596/675/3/032043

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

The project of a new setup is directed at the registration of atmospheric neutrons (URAN) generated by hadronic component of extensive air showers (EAS). The setup includes 72 en-detector which simultaneously register two major EAS components: electromagnetic by the group passage of charged particles and hadron component by the thermal neutrons. The neutrons and charged particles are detected using a specialized scintillation composition made of granulated alloy of crystals based on the ZnS(Ag) powder with an admixture of B2O3.