1. The bursts of high energy events observed by the telescope array surface detector
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Hiroshi Yamaoka, T. Suzawa, Robert M. Anderson, Hideaki Shimodaira, Isaac Myers, M. Abe, Kenta Yashiro, T. Goto, Elliott Barcikowski, Dmitri Ivanov, Keijiro Mukai, Maxim Pshirkov, Sergey Troitsky, A. L. Sampson, Takaaki Ishii, Kanako Yamazaki, Priti Shah, K. Tsutsumi, S. Kitamura, Fumiya Shibata, D. C. Rodriguez, Hidemi Ito, S. Kawakami, J. P. Lundquist, Keiji Saito, Igor Tkachev, R. Ishimori, John Belz, R. W. Springer, Pierre Sokolsky, Naoaki Hayashida, Akimichi Taketa, Ben Stokes, K. Oki, Koichi Sekino, H. Yoshii, Tareq Abu-Zayyad, R. Yamane, Federico R. Urban, Kiyoshi Tanaka, Y. Yoneda, N. Inoue, M. Ohnishi, Michiyuki Chikawa, Hiroyuki Sagawa, R. Zollinger, S. Udo, C. C. H. Jui, Heungsu Shin, M. Takeda, Shigehiro Nagataki, Ryuji Takeishi, Akitoshi Oshima, Y. Uchihori, Y. J. Kwon, Hideyuki Ohoka, K. Nagasawa, S. B. Thomas, Tomohiro Matsuda, H. Kawai, Mai Takamura, T.-A. Shibata, Fumio Kakimoto, Peter Tinyakov, Gordon Thomson, K. Hibino, Samuel Blake, Byung Gu Cheon, Tom Stroman, Robert Cady, Shoichi Ogio, Zach Zundel, Hang Bae Kim, G. Vasiloff, L. M. Scott, J. Ogura, K. Martens, Hideki Tanaka, Jyunsei Chiba, Dongsu Ryu, B. K. Shin, Takayuki Tomida, Masato Takita, Mayuko Minamino, K. Honda, Yasunori Kitamura, Rasha Abbasi, A. Nozato, Y. Hayashi, Yoshiki Tsunesada, Daisuke Ikeda, M. Allen, Inkyu Park, S. R. Stratton, K. Kawata, Masaaki Tanaka, Nobuyuki Sakurai, Tiffany Wong, Masaki Fukushima, Douglas Bergman, Takahiro Fujii, V. Kuzmin, Ryota Onogi, J. H. Kim, S. Yoshida, Naoto Sakaki, O. Kalashev, Toru Nakamura, Eiji Kido, Kazuhiro Machida, Kenichi Kadota, T. Matsuyama, S. Ozawa, Yasunori Saito, K. Kasahara, Shoichi Kishigami, R. Azuma, Yuichiro Tameda, John N. Matthews, Masaomi Ono, G. Rubtsov, Shingo Kawana, William Hanlon, T. Okuda, J. Yang, H. Tokuno, J. D. Smith, J. Lan, and Toshiyuki Nonaka
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Physics ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Gamma ray ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Astronomy ,Cosmic ray ,Astrophysics ,01 natural sciences ,Lightning ,Particle detector ,law.invention ,Telescope ,Air shower ,law ,0103 physical sciences ,Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray ,010306 general physics ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Terrestrial gamma-ray flash - 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.
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- 2017