Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory
The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory is a gamma-ray and cosmic-ray observatory in Daocheng, in the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan, China. It is designed to observe air showers triggered by gamma rays and cosmic rays. The observatory is at an altitude of above sea level. Observations started in April 2019.
The observatory covers an area of some. It has three underground observing pools, each “more than triple the size of the Water Cube in Beijing”. One of the pools is designed to contain of water. The pools will contain 12 telescopes to capture high-energy photons. Cherenkov radiation detectors are used. Research teams from Australia and Thailand will participate in the project directly, with others expressing interest.
