The LHAASO observatory, status and prospects

05.12.2018 14:00 – 15:30

The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) project, a new generation instrument addressed to a deep investigation of the “High Energy Universe”a. The start of the construction of infrastructures and experimental facilities has stated in 2017 and the the detector deployment is on-going. The commissioning of one fourth of the detector is expected by next February, and the the completion of the installation is expected by the end of 2021.

The main science case of LHAASO is the quest for cosmic ray sources. LHAASO will open for the first time the 100-1000 TeV range to the direct observations of the high energy cosmic ray sources.
The LHAASO approach (survey of the gamma-ray sky from about 100 GeV up to 1000 TeV) is complemen-try to the neutrino astronomy carried out by IceCube/Km3Net detectors and to the charged-particle astronomy pursued by AUGER, or the gamma -ray astronomy of CTA>

Prof. Zhen, LHAASO spokesperson , will discuss the status of the project, the recent improvement and the physics potential.

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Bâtiment: Ecole de Physique

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