2015/11/30 by D. D. Dzhappuev, V. B. Petkov, Dzhappuev, D. D. +9
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) #astro-ph.HE
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1511.09397
7 pages. To appear in Proceedings of The International Workshop on Quark Phase Transition in Compact Objects and Multimessenger Astroronomy: Neutrino Signals, Supernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursts (Nizhny Arkhyz - Terskol, October 7-14, 2015)
arxiv created 2015/11/30 · arxiv updated 2015/12/01
The present-day status of the problem of searching for primary cosmic gamma rays at energies above 100 TeV is discussed, as well as a proposal for a new experiment in this field. It is shown that an increase of the area of the muon detector of the Carpet-2 air shower array up to 410 square meters, to be realized in 2016, will make this array quite competitive with past and existing experiments, especially at modest energies. Some preliminary results of measurements made with smaller area of the muon detector are presented together with estimates of expected results to be obtained with the coming large-area muon detector.