Speaker
Mr
Bakhtiyar Iskakov
(Satbayev University, Institute of Physics and Technology)
Description
Adron-55 with a field of scintillation detectors is used for research in the field of high energy gamma astronomy. The ionization calorimeter consists of two parts - the upper gamma block and the lower hadron block. The gamma block absorbs and registers the electron-photon component of cosmic rays, and the hadron component due to the small thickness of the gamma block passes without interaction through the gamma block and begins to interact and generate particles in the hadron block. The idea of the project is to select events when interactions in the gamma block are observed and there are no interactions in the hadron block. An analysis of the experimental results from the Adron-44 and Adron-55 installations showed that such events are ~ 8%.
The central part consists of gamma and hadron blocks of an ionization calorimeter, as well as a scintillation carpet. The peripheral part consists of 8 scintillation detectors located in circles with radius of 40 and 100 m.
Over 4 years of operation, more than 120,000 events with energies above 10^15 eV have been recorded.
Primary author
Mr
Bakhtiyar Iskakov
(Satbayev University, Institute of Physics and Technology)
Co-author
Mr
Y.M. Tautayev
(Satbayev University)
