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Keywords: ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR), UHECR energy spectrum, second knee, Pierre Auger Observatory
Published in RUNG: 16.06.2020; Views: 2652; Downloads: 79
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Keywords: ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR), UHECR anisotropies, Pierre Auger Observatory
Published in RUNG: 16.06.2020; Views: 2644; Downloads: 100
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Abstract: Since 2007, the Telescope Array (TA) experiment, based in Utah, USA, has been observing ultra high energy cosmic rays to understand their origins. The experiment includes a surface detector (SD) array and three fluorescence detector (FD) stations. The FD stations, installed surrounding the SD array, measure the air fluorescence light emitted from extensive air showers (EASs) for precise determination of their energies and species. The detectors employed at one of the three FD stations were relocated from the High Resolution Fly's Eye (HiRes) experiment. At the other two stations, newly designed detectors were constructed for the TA experiment. An FD consists of a primary mirror and a camera equipped with photomultiplier tube pixels. To obtain the EAS parameters with high accuracy, understanding the FD optical characteristics is important. In this paper, we report the characteristics and installation of the new FDs and the performances of the FD components. The results of the monitored mirror reflectance during the observation time are also described in this report.
Keywords: Ultra high energy cosmic rays, Extensive air showers, Air fluorescence light detectors
Published in RUNG: 19.05.2020; Views: 2531; Downloads: 0
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Abstract: The Telescope Array (TA) experiment is designed to detect air showers induced by ultra high energy cosmic rays. The TA ground Surface particle Detector (TASD) observed several short-time bursts of air shower like events. These bursts are not likely due to chance coincidence between single shower events. The expectation of chance coincidence is less than 10^-4 for five-year's observation. We checked the correlation between these bursts of events and lightning data, and found evidence for correlations in timing and position. Some features of the burst events are similar to those of a normal cosmic ray air shower, and some are not. On this paper, we report the observed bursts of air shower like events and their correlation with lightning.
Keywords: High energy radiation, Lightning, Terrestrial gamma-ray flash
Published in RUNG: 30.04.2020; Views: 2629; Downloads: 0
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Abstract: We present the results of the search for ultra-high-energy photons with nine years of data from the Telescope Array surface detector. A multivariate classifier is built upon 16 reconstructed parameters of the extensive air shower. These parameters are related to the curvature and the width of the shower front, the steepness of the lateral distribution function, and the timing parameters of the waveforms sensitive to the shower muon content. A total number of two photon candidates found in the search is fully compatible with the expected background. The 95% CL limits on the diffuse flux of the photons with energies greater than 10^18.0, 10^18.5, 10^19.0, 10^19.5 and 10^20.0 eV are set at the level of 0.067, 0.012, 0.0036, 0.0013, correspondingly.
Keywords: Ultra-high-energy photons, Telescope array experiment, Extensive air showers
Published in RUNG: 30.04.2020; Views: 2978; Downloads: 0
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