2016/05/17 by R. U. Beisembaev, E. A. Beisembaeva, Beisembaev, R. U. +22 · 1 citation
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) #Precipitation Measurement and Analysis #Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology #hep-ex #physics.ins-det
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1605.05179
Initial technical note for Horizon-T experiment, updated with recent detector upgrades, 11/2016. Updated 12/2017 with minor edits. Large upgrade will be in another article
openalex publication_date 2016/05/17 · arxiv created 2017/12/21 · arxiv updated 2017/12/22 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
Horizon-T is an innovative detector system constructed to study Extensive Air Showers (EAS) in the energy range above 1016 eV coming from a wide range of zenith angles (0 - 85 degrees). The system is located at Tien Shan high-altitude Science Station of Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences at approximately 3340 meters above the sea level. It consists of eight charged particle detection points separated by the distance up to one kilometer as well as optical detector subsystem to view the Vavilov-Cerenkov light from the EAS. The time resolution of charged particles and Vavilov-Cerenkov light photons passage of the detector system is a few ns. This level of resolution allows conducting research of atmospheric development of individual EAS.