{
  "id": "1602.08830",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2016-02-29T05:40:52.000Z",
  "updated": "2016-02-29T05:40:52.000Z",
  "title": "Sensitivity of YAC to measure the light-component spectrum of primary cosmic rays at the \"knee\" energies",
  "authors": [
    "L M Zhai",
    "J Huang",
    "D Chen",
    "M Shibata",
    "Y Katayose",
    "Ying Zhang",
    "J S Liu",
    "Xu Chen",
    "X B Hu",
    "Y H Lin"
  ],
  "comment": "15 pages, 8 figure",
  "doi": "10.1088/0954-3899/42/4/045201",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.HE",
    "hep-ex"
  ],
  "abstract": "A new air-shower core-detector array (YAC : Yangbajing Air-shower Core-detector array) has been developed to measure the primary cosmic-ray composition at the \"knee\" energies in Tibet, China, focusing mainly on the light components. The prototype experiment (YAC-I) consisting of 16 detectors has been constructed and operated at Yangbajing (4300 m a.s.l.) in Tibet since May 2009. YAC-I is installed in the Tibet-III AS array and operates together. In this paper, we performed a Monte Carlo simulation to check the sensitivity of YAC-I+Tibet-III array to the cosmic-ray light component of cosmic rays around the knee energies, taking account of the observation conditions of actual YAC-I+Tibet-III array. The selection of light component from others was made by use of an artificial neural network (ANN). The simulation shows that the light-component spectrum estimated by our methods can well reproduce the input ones within 10\\% error, and there will be about 30\\% systematic errors mostly induced by the primary and interaction models used. It is found that the full-scale YAC and the Tibet-III array is powerful to study the cosmic-ray composition, in particular, to obtain the energy spectra of protons and helium nuclei around the knee energies.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2016-02-29T05:40:52.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "primary cosmic rays",
      "light-component spectrum",
      "light component",
      "air-shower core-detector array",
      "sensitivity"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "IOP",
      "journal": "Journal of Physics G Nuclear Physics",
      "year": 2015,
      "month": "Apr",
      "volume": 42,
      "number": 4,
      "pages": "045201"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 15,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2015JPhG...42d5201Z",
      "inspire": 1345314
    }
  }
}