AE005-08
Observation of 'neutron bursts' from Cosmic Ray Showers and relevance to ground based Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flash (TGF) observational campaigns.

Wednesday, 9 December 2020: 16:22
Virtual
Gregory S Bowers1, Xuan-Min Shao2, William Blaine3, Brenda Dingus1, David Miles Smith4, Jeffrey Michael Chaffin5, John Ortberg5, Hamid K Rassoul6, Cheng Ho1, Lukas Nellen7 and Nissim Fraija8, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (4)University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Physics and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (5)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (6)Florida Inst Tech, Department of Aerospace Physics and Space Science, Melbourne, FL, United States, (7)Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico, Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Mexico City, Mexico, (8)Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico, Instituto de Astronoma, Mexico City, Mexico
Abstract:
We present recent fair-weather observations of 'neutron bursts' produced by large cosmic ray showers observed at the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) gamma-ray observatory during a campaign to observe terrestrial gamma-ray flashes. These neutron bursts consist of several hundred counts over a 2ms interval recorded in a 3”x3” LaBr3 scintillation detector, and were coincident with both HAWC and RF observations of a large cosmic ray shower. This implies that ground deployments of TGF detectors and RF sensors can additionally be used to observe neutron bursts.
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