| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 210, 2019
Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays 2018 (UHECR 2018)
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| Article Number | 06007 | |
| Number of page(s) | 7 | |
| Section | Futur Detectors | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201921006007 | |
| Published online | 17 May 2019 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201921006007
The GRAND project and GRANDProto300 experiment
1
Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies (LPNHE), 4 place Jussieu, F-75252, Paris Cedex 5, France
2
National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100012, China
* e-mail: omartino@in2p3.fr
Published online: 17 May 2019
The Giant Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) is a proposal for a giant observatory of ultra-high energy cosmic particles (neutrinos, cosmic rays and gamma rays). It will be composed of twenty subarrays of 10 000 antennas each, totaling a detection area of 200 000 km2. GRAND will reach unprecedented sensitivity to neutrinos allowing to detect cosmogenic neutrinos while its sub-degree angular resolution will also make it possible to hunt for point sources and possibly start neutrino astronomy. Combined with its gigantic exposure to ultra-high energy cosmic rays and gamma rays, GRAND will be a powerful tool to solve the century-long mistery of the nature and origin of the particles with highest energy in the Universe. On the path to GRAND, the GRANDProto300 experiment will be deployed in 2020 over a total area of 200 km2. It primarly aims at validating the detection concept of GRAND, but also proposes a rich science program centered on a precise and complete measurement of the air showers initiated by cosmic rays with energies between 1016.5 and 1018 eV, a range where we expect to observe the transition between the Galactic and extra-galactic origin of cosmic rays.
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