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China's mountain observatory begins hunt for origins of cosmic rays


China's mountain observatory begins hunt for origins of cosmic rays

The LHAASO will take an indirect approach. Set more than 4.4 kilometres above sea level in Daocheng, Sichuan, on the eastern part of the Tibetan ...

China's mountain observatory begins hunt for origins of cosmic rays

China's mountain observatory begins hunt for origins of cosmic rays. Nature. 2019 May 8. doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-01467-1. Online ahead of print.

Huge Chinese cosmic-ray observatory begins operation

Located about 4410 m above sea level in the Haizi Mountain in Sichuan Province in southwest China, the 1.2 billion yuan ($180m) Large High ...

Chinese mountain observatory to probe cosmic-ray origins

Set high on a mountain plain in China, an ambitious observatory will offer a unique perspective on the origins of cosmic rays, high-energy particles that rain ...

Highest ever energy light captured by Chinese mountain observatory

Using an observatory on the edge of the Tibetan Plateau, astronomers have spotted the highest energy light ever, gamma ray photons up to 1.4 petaelectronvolts ...

Chinese observatory's new discovery, a step closer to solving ...

BEIJING, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- China's cosmic ray observatory has discovered a giant ultra ... However, the origin of cosmic rays in the "knee" ...

Chinese scientists find clues about origin of cosmic rays - China Daily

The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory in China made the groundbreaking discovery, revealing a "super cosmic ray accelerator" within the ...

China's mountain observatory begins hunt for origins of cosmic rays ...

China's mountain observatory begins hunt for origins of cosmic rays ... The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory is now operational. The Large High Altitude ...

Chinese scientists' pursuit of cosmic rays opens windows on universe

Chinese scientists are constructing the Large High-Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) to search for the origin of cosmic rays, and study ...

Dark Matter Particle Explorer - Wikipedia

The Dark Matter Particle Explorer, or DAMPE, also known as Wukong (Chinese: 悟空), is a Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) satellite which launched on 17 ...

Construction starts on huge Chinese cosmic-ray observatory

Located about 4410 m above sea level in the Haizi Mountain in Sichuan Province in southwest China, the 1.2 billion yuan ($180m) Large High ...

Chinese researchers confirm origin of cosmic rays for the first time

The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) has discovered a giant ultra-high-energy gamma-ray bubble structure in the Cygnus ...

Chinese observatory's new discovery, a step closer to solving ...

China's cosmic ray observatory has discovered a giant ultra-high-energy gamma ... However, the origin of cosmic rays in the "knee" region is still ...

China's cosmic ray observatory half functional - Chinadaily.com.cn

A giant observatory to search for the origin of cosmic rays in southwest China's Sichuan Province was half completed and thousands of its ...

IHEP in the Media----Institute of High Energy Physics

2019. China's mountain observatory begins hunt for origins of cosmic rays. Source:Nature. 08: May 2019. LHAASO has started conducting scientific observations.

Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory - Wikipedia

It is designed to observe air showers triggered by gamma rays and cosmic rays. ... "China's mountain observatory begins hunt for origins of cosmic rays".

Giant 'bubble' in space could be source of powerful cosmic rays

Cao and his colleagues used the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) in Daocheng, China, to measure γ-rays coming from Cygnus OB2 ...

China starts building huge cosmic-ray observatory to study the ...

LHAASO is expected to offer a unique perspective on the origins of cosmic rays, high-energy particles that rain down on Earth. Scientist ...

Chinese Mountain Observatory to Probe Cosmic-ray Origins

Construction has started on the project, which will probe, for the first time, ultra-high-energy γ-rays — bursts of radiation thought to be ...

Scientists Discover Highest Energy Cosmic Gamma Rays in Tibet ...

"The discovery is a milestone in the search for the origin ... observatory for detecting cosmic rays in Sichuan Province. ... Work Begins ...