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Large high altitude air shower observatory (LHAASO) is a complex of extensive air shower (EAS) detector arrays, located on the Mt. Haizi (29°21' N, 100°08' E) at an altitude of 4410 m a. s. l., Daocheng, Sichuan Province, China. The information about primary cosmic rays can be obtained by using data from secondary particles measured at LHAASO, with photons make up the majority among these secondary particles. During thunderstorms, the atmospheric electric field can affect secondary charged particles (mainly positrons and electrons), thus changing the information of photons on the ground. In this work, Monte Carlo simulations are performed to investigate the effects of near-ground thunderstorm electric fields on cosmic ray secondary photons at LHAASO. A simple model with a vertical and uniform atmospheric electric field in a layer of atmosphere is used in our simulations. During thunderstorms, the number and energy of photons are found to significantly change and strongly depend on the electric field strength. In a field of –1000 V/cm (below the threshold of the relativistic runaway electron avalanche (RREA) process), the number of photons is increased by 23%. Also, the spectrum of photons softens, and the increased number of photons with energy less than 2 MeV exceeds 29%. In an electric field of –1700 V/cm (above the threshold of the RREA process), the number of photons experiences exponential growth, with an increase of 279%. The spectrum of photons becomes softer than that at –1000 V/cm, and the increased number with energy less than 2 MeV is more than 361%. It is consistent with the theory of RREA. For these phenomena of photons at LHAASO, the main factor is that the number of positrons and electrons are increased due to the acceleration of negative electric field on electrons, with increase of 65% in –1000 V/cm and 992% in –1700 V/cm, and the spectrum of positrons and electrons soften. Newborn free positrons/electrons may undergo bremsstrahlung and deposit part of their energy into photons, causing the change of number and energy of photons to follow roughly the same pattern as positrons and electrons. The simulation results can provide the information for understanding the variations of the data detected by LHAASO during thunderstorms and the acceleration mechanisms of secondary charged particles caused by an atmospheric electric field.
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Keywords:
- thunderstorms electric field /
- cosmic ray secondary particles /
- Monte Carlo simulations /
- LHAASO experiment
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图 7 (a)不同电场中电子和光子数目随能量的分布; (b) –1700 V/cm的电场中, 能量低于m的新增电子和光子数目与新增总电子和总光子数目之比随能量的变化
Figure 7. (a) The number of electrons/positrons and photons as a function of energy in absence of a field and in a field of –1700 V/cm; (b) the ratios of increasing number with energy less than m to total number as a function of energy in a field of –1700 V/cm.
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Liu D X, Qie X S, Wang Z C, Wu X K, Pan L X 2013 Acta Phys. Sin. 62 219201Google Scholar
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Zhou X X, Wang X J, Huang D H, Jia H Y, Wu C Y 2015 Acta Phys. Sin. 64 149202Google Scholar
[4] Tsuchiya H, Enoto T, Torii T, et al. 2009 Phys. Rev. Lett. 102 255003Google Scholar
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[6] Wilson C T R 1924 Proc. Phys. Soc. London 37 32DGoogle Scholar
[7] Gurevich A V, Milikh G M 1992 Phys. Lett. A 165 463Google Scholar
[8] Dwyer J R 2003 Res. Lett. 30 2055Google Scholar
[9] Symbalisty E M D, Roussel-Dupre R A, Yukhimuk V A 1998 IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 26 1575Google Scholar
[10] Alexeenko V V, Chernyaev A B, Chudakov A E, et a1. 1985 Proceeding of 19th International Cosmic Ray Conference. (La Jolla. USA: International Union of Pure and Applied Physics) pp352−355
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Xu B, Bie Y G, Zhou D 2012 Chin. J. Space Sci. 32 501 (in Chinses)Google Scholar
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He H H, Zhang Y 2003 HEPNP 27 1106 (in Chinses)Google Scholar
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[24] Neubert T, Østgaard N, Reglero V, et al. 2020 Science 367 183Google Scholar
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[26] Abbasi R U, Abu-Zayyad T, Allen M, et al. 2018 J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 123 6864Google Scholar
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[29] McCarthy M P, Parks G K 1985 Geophys. Res. Lett. 12 393Google Scholar
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Zhou X X, Wang X J, Huang D H, Jia H Y 2016 Chin. J. Space Sci. 36 49Google Scholar
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