Geomagnetic effects on atmospheric Cerenkov images

被引：14

作者：

Chadwick, PM ^{[1
]}

Lyons, K ^{[1
]}

McComb, TJL ^{[1
]}

Orford, KJ ^{[1
]}

Osborne, JL ^{[1
]}

Rayner, SM ^{[1
]}

Roberts, ID ^{[1
]}

Shaw, SE ^{[1
]}

Turver, KE ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Durham, Dept Phys, Sci Labs, Durham DH1 3LE, England

来源：

JOURNAL OF PHYSICS G-NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS | 1999年 / 25卷 / 06期

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D O I：

10.1088/0954-3899/25/6/312

中图分类号：

O57 [原子核物理学、高能物理学];

学科分类号：

070202 ;

摘要：

Atmospheric Cerenkov telescopes are used to detect electromagnetic showers from primary gamma-rays of energy similar to 300 GeV up to approximate to 10 TeV and to discriminate these from cascades due to hadrons using the Cerenkov images. The geomagnetic field affects the development of showers and is shown to diffuse and distort the images. When the component of the field normal to the shower axis is sufficiently large (> 0.4 G) the performance of gamma-ray telescopes may be affected, although corrections should be possible.

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页码：1223 / 1233

页数：11

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