TY - GEN
T1 - TeV γ-ray astronomy with ground-based air-shower arrays
AU - Mostaf, Miguel A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences.
PY - 2016/7/6
Y1 - 2016/7/6
N2 - The TeV energy band is a very exciting window into the origin of high energy cosmic radiation, particle acceleration, and the annihilation of dark matter particles. Above a few hundred GeV, ground-based experiments of very large effective areas open a new domain to study extragalactic sources at intermediate redshifts, galaxy clusters, gamma ray bursts, AGN and their flaring states, extended sources and galactic diffuse emission, and to indirect searches for dark matter. In particular, ground arrays of particle detectors-that operate with high duty cycles and large fields of view-can extend to multi-TeV energies the measurements made with experiments on satellites, and complement the observations done with air Cherenkov telescopes on the ground. Key science goals of ground arrays include performing unbiased all-sky surveys, monitoring of transient events from known (and unknown) sources, and detecting extended regions of diffuse emission. In this paper, the status and most recent results from ARGO-YBJ, Tibet AS, HAWC, and LHAASO are presented.
AB - The TeV energy band is a very exciting window into the origin of high energy cosmic radiation, particle acceleration, and the annihilation of dark matter particles. Above a few hundred GeV, ground-based experiments of very large effective areas open a new domain to study extragalactic sources at intermediate redshifts, galaxy clusters, gamma ray bursts, AGN and their flaring states, extended sources and galactic diffuse emission, and to indirect searches for dark matter. In particular, ground arrays of particle detectors-that operate with high duty cycles and large fields of view-can extend to multi-TeV energies the measurements made with experiments on satellites, and complement the observations done with air Cherenkov telescopes on the ground. Key science goals of ground arrays include performing unbiased all-sky surveys, monitoring of transient events from known (and unknown) sources, and detecting extended regions of diffuse emission. In this paper, the status and most recent results from ARGO-YBJ, Tibet AS, HAWC, and LHAASO are presented.
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U2 - 10.1051/epjconf/201612104003
DO - 10.1051/epjconf/201612104003
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84978775146
T3 - EPJ Web of Conferences
BT - Roma International Conference on Astroparticle Physics 2014, RICAP 2014
A2 - Coniglione, Rosa
A2 - De Bonis, Giulia
A2 - Piattelli, Paolo
A2 - Capone, Antonio
A2 - De Vincenzi, Mario
A2 - Distefano, Carla
A2 - Morselli, Aldo
A2 - Sapienza, Piera
PB - EDP Sciences
T2 - 5th Roma International Conference on Astroparticle Physics, RICAP 2014
Y2 - 30 September 2014 through 3 October 2014
ER -