Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao
| First 5 Authors: Bing-Bing Li, Xin-Hua Ma, Shu-Wang Cui, Hao-Kun Chen, Tian-Lu Chen
| Summary:
By accurately measuring composition and energy spectrum of cosmic ray, the
origin problem of so called "keen" region (energy > 1 PeV) can be solved.
However, up to the present, the results of the spectrum in the knee region
obtained by several previous experiments have shown obvious differences, so
they cannot give effective evidence for judging the theoretical models on the
origin of the knee. Recently, the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory
(LHAASO) has reported several major breakthroughs and important results in
astro-particle physics field. Relying on its advantages of wide-sky survey,
high altitude location and large area detector arrays, the research content of
LHAASO experiment mainly includes ultra high-energy gamma-ray astronomy,
measurement of cosmic ray spectra in the knee region, searching for dark matter
and new phenomena of particle physics at higher energy. The electron and
Thermal Neutron detector (EN-Detector) is a new scintillator detector which
applies thermal neutron detection technology to measure cosmic ray extensive
air shower (EAS). This technology is an extension of LHAASO. The EN-Detector
Array (ENDA) can highly efficiently measure thermal neutrons generated by
secondary hadrons so called "skeleton" of EAS. In this paper, we perform the
optimization of ENDA configuration, and obtain expectations on the ENDA
results, including thermal neutron distribution, trigger efficiency and
capability of cosmic ray composition separation. The obtained real data results
are consistent with those by the Monte Carlo simulation.
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