학술논문
First Detection of Photons with Energy Beyond 100 TeV from an Astrophysical Source
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Working Paper
Author
Amenomori, M.; Bao, Y. W.; Bi, X. J.; Chen, D.; Chen, T. L.; Chen, W. Y.; Chen, Xu; Chen, Y.; Cirennima; Cui, S. W.; Danzengluobu; Ding, L. K.; Fang, J. H.; Fang, K.; Feng, C. F.; Feng, Zhaoyang; Feng, Z. Y.; Gao, Qi; Gou, Q. B.; Guo, Y. Q.; He, H. H.; He, Z. T.; Hibino, K.; Hotta, N.; Hu, Haibing; Hu, H. B.; Huang, J.; Jia, H. Y.; Jiang, L.; Jin, H. B.; Kajino, F.; Kasahara, K.; Katayose, Y.; Kato, C.; Kato, S.; Kawata, K.; Kozai, M.; Labaciren; Le, G. M.; Li, A. F.; Li, H. J.; Li, W. J.; Lin, Y. H.; Liu, B.; Liu, C.; Liu, J. S.; Liu, M. Y.; Lou, Y. -Q.; Lu, H.; Meng, X. R.; Mitsui, H.; Munakata, K.; Nakamura, Y.; Nanjo, H.; Nishizawa, M.; Ohnishi, M.; Ohta, I.; Ozawa, S.; Qian, X. L.; Qu, X. B.; Saito, T.; Sakata, M.; Sako, T. K.; Sengoku, Y.; Shao, J.; Shibata, M.; Shiomi, A.; Sugimoto, H.; Takita, M.; Tan, Y. H.; Tateyama, N.; Torii, S.; Tsuchiya, H.; Udo, S.; Wang, H.; Wu, H. R.; Xue, L.; Yagisawa, K.; Yamamoto, Y.; Yang, Z.; Yuan, A. F.; Zhai, L. M.; Zhang, H. M.; Zhang, J. L.; Zhang, X.; Zhang, X. Y.; Zhang, Y.; Zhang, Yi; Zhang, Ying; Zhaxisangzhu; Zhou, X. X.
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 051101 (2019)
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Abstract
We report on the highest energy photons from the Crab Nebula observed by the Tibet air shower array with the underground water-Cherenkov-type muon detector array. Based on the criterion of muon number measured in an air shower, we successfully suppress 99.92% of the cosmic-ray background events with energies $E>100$ TeV. As a result, we observed 24 photon-like events with $E>100$ TeV against 5.5 background events, which corresponds to 5.6$\sigma$ statistical significance. This is the first detection of photons with $E>100$ TeV from an astrophysical source.
Comment: April 4, 2019; Submitted to the Physical Review Letters
Comment: April 4, 2019; Submitted to the Physical Review Letters