Purpose The Taishan Neutrino Experiment(TAO),also known as JUNO-TAO,serves as a satellite experiment for the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Experiment(JUNO).Its primary objective is to measure the neutrino energy spect...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.12275289,11975257,and 12175247);the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.2023015);the National Key R&D Program of China(Grant No.2016YFA0400304).
Background Liquid Argon(LAr)is used as a target material in several current and planned experiments related to dark matter direct searching and neutrino detection.Argon provides excellent pulse shape discrimination(PS...
Background Silicon photomultiplier tube(SiPM)has been widely applied in high energy physics experiments.The wide field of view Cherenkov telescope array of Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory(LHAASO)consists of...
supported in part by National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.11205108,No.11475121);Excellent Youth Found of Sichuan University(No.2016SCU04A13)and China Scholarship Council.
Purpose In order to improve imaging quality of position sensitive gamma detectors,many research groups especially those interested in positron emission tomography(PET)imaging have done many efforts to develop detectin...
This research is supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Grant No.XDA15360102.
Background The Gravitational wave high-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor(GECAM)satellite developed a SiPM-based gamma-ray detector to monitor the gravitational wave-related GRBs and guide subsequent o...
This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,Grant No.11775251;the strategic leading science and technology program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.XDA 15360100,XDA 15360102).
Background Each GECAM satellite payload contains 25 gamma-ray detectors(GRDs),which can detect gamma-rays and particles and can roughly localize the Gamma-Ray Bursts(GRBs).GRD was designed using lanthanum bromide(LaBr...
This research was supported by the“Strategic Priority Research Program”of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,Grant No.XDA 15360102.
Background The Gravitational wave highly energetic Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor(GECAM)is dedicated to detecting gravitational wave gamma-ray bursts.It is capable of all-sky monitoring over and discoveri...
This research was supported by the Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences,Chinese Academy of Sciences(QYZDBSSW-SLH012);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(11775251,11775252);the strategic leading science and technology program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDA 15360100,XDA 15360102).
Purpose The discovery of gravitational waves and gamma-ray bursts heralds the era of multi-messenger astronomy.With the adoption of two small satellites to achieve the all-sky monitoring of gamma-ray bursts,the gravit...
The authors would like to thank all colleagues for helpful suggestions and comments.This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.11803039 and 12173038);the Strategic Priority Research Program on Space Science,the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.XDA 15360100 and XDA 15360102).
Background The Gravitational Wave High-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor(GECAM)consists of 2 microsatellites,each of which contains 25 GRD(LaBr3)detectors and 8 CPD(plastic scintillator)detectors.Meth...
The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the Swiss Space Office of the State Secretariat for Educa-tion,Research and Innovation(ESA PRODEX Programme);the Swiss National Science Foundation(SNSF);the Sino-Swiss grant SSSTC EG 21-12201;the International Partnership Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences,grant No.113111KYSB20190020;the National Natural Science Foundation of China,grant No.12027803,U1731239;Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences,CAS,grant No.QYZDY-SSW-SLH008;Youth Innovation Promotion Association,CAS.
Purpose The application of traditional silicon strip detectors in space experiments often suffers from heat and power consumption limitations when a large area has to be instrumented.Recently,a scintillating fiber det...