Abstract The question of the origin of cosmic rays and other questions of astroparticle and particle physics can be addressed with indirect air-shower observations above 10TeV primary energy. We propose to explore the cosmic ray and γ-ray sky (accelerator sky) in the energy range from 10TeV to 1EeV with the new ground-based large-area wide angle (ΔΩ ∼0.85 sterad) air-shower detector HiSCORE (Hundredi Square-km Cosmic ORigin Explorer). The HiSCORE detector is based on non-imaging air-shower Cherenkov light-front sampling using an array of light-collecting stations. A full detector simulation and basic reconstruction algorithms have been used to assess the performance of HiSCORE. First prototype studies for different hardware components of the detector array have been carried out. The resulting sensitivity of HiSCORE to γ-rays will be comparable to CTA at 50TeV and will extend the sensitive energy range for γ-rays up to the PeV regime. HiSCORE will also be sensitive to charged cosmic rays between 100TeV and 1EeV.


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    Title :

    The ground-based large-area wide-angle γ-ray and cosmic-ray experiment HiSCORE


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    Published in:

    Advances in Space Research ; 48 , 12 ; 1935-1941


    Publication date :

    2011-08-03


    Size :

    7 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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