Speaker
Songzhan Chen
(IHEP, CAS)
Description
LHAASO is a large hybrid extensive air shower (EAS) array being constructed at Haizi Mountain, 4410 m a.s.l., in China. It is composed of three sub-arrays: a 1.3 km array (KM2A) for 100 TeV γ-ray astronomy, a 78000 m water Cherenkov detector array (WCDA) for TeV γ-ray astronomy. A considerable proportion of the LHAASO detectors have been operating since 2019 and the whole array were completed in July 2021. LHAASO is the most sensitive detector for the observation of ultra-high energy gamma-rays in the world. Some important progresses and new discoveries have been made in the ultra-high energy gamma-ray astronomy. In this talk, I will report the status, achieved performances and recent science results of LHAASO on gamma-ray astronomy.
Author
Songzhan Chen
(IHEP, CAS)
