Performance of new 8-inch photomultiplier tube used for the Tibet muon-detector array

分类： 物理学 >> 核物理学 提交时间： 2016-08-31

Ying Zhang Jing Huang Ding Chen Liu-Ming Zhai Xu Chen Xiao-Bin Hu Yu-Hui Lin Hong-Bo Jin Xue-Yao Zhang Cun-Feng Feng: Huan-Yu Jia Xun-Xiu Zhou DANZENGLUOBU Tian-Lu Chen LABACIREN Mao-Yuan Liu Qi Gao ZHAXICIREN

摘要： A new hybrid experiment has been constructed to measure the chemical composition of cosmic rays around the "knee" in the wide energy range by the Tibet ASγ collaboration at Tibet, China, since 2014. They consist of a high-energy air-shower-core array (YAC-II), a high-density air-shower array (Tibet-III) and a large underground water-Cherenkov muon-detector array (MD). In order to obtain the primary proton, helium and iron spectra and their "knee" positions in the energy range lower than 1016 eV, each of PMTs equipped to the MD cell is required to measure the number of photons capable of covering a wide dynamic range of 100 - 106 photoelectrons (PEs) according to Monte Carlo simulations. In this paper, we firstly compare the characteristic features between R5912-PMT made by Japan Hamamatsu and CR365-PMT made by Beijing Hamamatsu. This is the first comparison between R5912-PMT and CR365-PMT. If there exists no serious difference, we will then add two 8-inch-in-diameter PMTs to meet our requirements in each MD cell, which are responsible for the range of 100 - 10000 PEs and 2000 - 1000000 PEs, respectively. That is, MD cell is expected to be able to measure the number of muons over 6 orders of magnitude.

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