Detecting cosmic rays using precision radio imaging

使用精密无线电成像探测宇宙射线

• 批准号: DP200102643
• 负责人: Dr Clancy James
• 金额: $ 26.54万
• 依托单位: Curtin University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP200102643
• 关键词: Detecting; cosmic; rays; using; precision

This project's aim is to identify the source of the highest-energy particles in nature, cosmic rays, and discover new physical processes at energies unreachable by the Large Hadron Collider. It will do this by using the Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope to detect the sub-microsecond pulses from cosmic ray interactions in the Earth's atmosphere. The project's intended outcome is a sample of thousands of cosmic ray events, and a new technique to analyse the structure within them. The anticipated benefits are the establishment of the Murchison Widefield Array as a world-leading instrument for astroparticle physics, new knowledge of high-energy astro and particle physics, and advances and training in fast signal processing methods.

该项目的目标是确定自然界中最高能量粒子宇宙射线的来源，并发现大型强子对撞机无法达到的能量的新物理过程。 它将通过使用Murchison Widefield Array射电望远镜来探测地球大气层中宇宙射线相互作用产生的亚微秒脉冲。该项目的预期成果是数千个宇宙射线事件的样本，以及分析其中结构的新技术。 预期的好处是建立默奇森宽场阵列作为世界领先的天体粒子物理学仪器，高能天体和粒子物理学的新知识，以及快速信号处理方法的进步和培训。