On the PRISMA Project

Abstract

A novel type of Extensive Air Shower (EAS) array is proposed and described. It is shown that only new approaches to the so called "knee problem" could solve this complicated and old problem.

4 pages, 2 figures, 1 table. A talk given to ISVHECRI2008. To be published in Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.)

References in corpus (2)

• The all-particle spectrum of primary cosmic rays in the wide energy range from 10^14 eV to 10^17 eV observed with the Tibet-III air-shower array
• Thermal Neutrons in Eas: A New Dimension in Eas Study

Cited by in corpus (4)

• Detection of thermal neutrons with the PRISMA-YBJ array in Extensive Air Showers selected by the ARGO-YBJ experiment
• Research on the knee region of cosmic ray by using a novel type of electron-neutron detector array
• Study of Stability and Consistency of EAS Thermal Neutron Detection at ENDA-64
• Why the knee at 100 PeV could not be seen?