Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Beschreibung:
We propose to explore the so-far poorly measured cosmic ray and gamma-ray sky(accelerator sky) in the energy range from 10 TeV to 1 EeV. New physicsquestions might be addressed in this last remaining observation window ofgamma-ray astronomy. The very high beam-energies provided by Cosmicaccelerators and the air-shower detection technique naturally imply anentanglement between fundamental questions of astroparticle physics andparticle physics. The new large-area (10 km2) wide-angle (1 sr) airCherenkov detector SCORE (Study for a Cosmic ORigin Explorer) is based onnon-imaging Cherenkov light-front sampling with sensitive large-area detectormodules of the order of 1 m2. The lateral photon density and arrival-timedistribution will be sampled up to large distances from the shower core. Thephysics motivations, the detector concept and first simulation results will bepresented.