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Sensitivity Study of Gamma-Ray Burst Detection by ARGO

Science College of Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China2 Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS, Beijing 100049, China

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ARGO is a "full coverage" air shower detector currently under construction in Tibet, China. One of the main goals of this experiment is to search for possible gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with E>10GeV. In this work, the sensitivity in observing a GRB (with a certain significance) by ARGO is found to be dependent on the flux of the GRB, the slope and the energy cutoff of its spectrum, as well as its time duration and the zenith angle at the observation.

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ZHOU Xun-Xiu, CHENG Ning, HU Hong-Bo and HUANG Qing. Sensitivity Study of Gamma-Ray Burst Detection by ARGO[J]. Chinese Physics C, 2007, 31(1): 65-69.

ZHOU Xun-Xiu, CHENG Ning, HU Hong-Bo and HUANG Qing. Sensitivity Study of Gamma-Ray Burst Detection by ARGO[J]. Chinese Physics C, 2007, 31(1): 65-69. shu

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Sensitivity Study of Gamma-Ray Burst Detection by ARGO

Corresponding author:ZHOU Xun-Xiu,

Science College of Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China2 Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS, Beijing 100049, China

Received Date:2006-04-05
Accepted Date:2006-04-28
Available Online:2007-01-05

Abstract:ARGO is a "full coverage" air shower detector currently under construction in Tibet, China. One of the main goals of this experiment is to search for possible gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with E>10GeV. In this work, the sensitivity in observing a GRB (with a certain significance) by ARGO is found to be dependent on the flux of the GRB, the slope and the energy cutoff of its spectrum, as well as its time duration and the zenith angle at the observation.