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1. Effects of the Galactic Magnetic Field on the UHECR Correlation Studies with Starburst Galaxies

Author: Ryo Higuchi, Takashi Sako, Toshihiro Fujii, Kazumasa Kawata, and Eiji Kido
Subjects: Cosmic ray astronomy, Cosmic ray sources, Cosmic rays, Ultra-high-energy cosmic radiation, Astrophysics, QB460-466
Abstract: We estimate the biases caused by the coherent deflection of cosmic rays due to the Galactic magnetic field (GMF) in maximum likelihood analyses for searches of ultrahigh-energy cosmic-ray sources in the literature. We simulate mock event data sets with a set of assumptions for the starburst galaxy source model, coherent deflection by a GMF model, and mixed-mass composition. We then conduct a maximum likelihood analysis without accounting for the GMF in the same manner as previous studies. We find that the anisotropic fraction f _ani is estimated to be systematically lower than the true value. We estimate the true parameters that are compatible with the best-fit parameters that were reported, and find that except for a narrow region with a large anisotropic fraction and a small separation angular scale, a wide parameter space is still compatible with the experimental results. We also develop a maximum likelihood method that takes the GMF model into account and confirm in Monte Carlo simulations that we can estimate the true parameters within a 1 σ contour under the ideal condition that we know the event-by-event mass and the GMF.
Published: 2023
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2. ПОИСК НЕЙТРИНО УЛЬТРАВЫСОКИХ ЭНЕРГИЙ ПО ДАННЫМ НАЗЕМНОЙ РЕШЕТКИ ЭКСПЕРИМЕНТА TELESCOPE ARRAY

Author: Taka Tomida, J. Remington, Kenta Yashiro, Yasunori Saito, M. Abe, O. Kalashev, Jonathan Smith, Takeshi Okuda, Igor Tkachev, N. Inoue, M. Ohnishi, Federico R. Urban, Yuichiro Tameda, H. Oda, Akimichi Taketa, T. Suzawa, Naoaki Hayashida, Shingo Kawana, Yasuhiro H. Takahashi, John N. Matthews, Isaac Myers, Vladim Kuzmin, William Hanlon, Elliott Barcikowski, Seok Ho Jeong, K. Nagasawa, B. G. Cheon, Hidemi Ito, Fumiya Shibata, Zach Zundel, J. Yang, S. Kitamura, Dmitri Ivanov, Keijiro Mukai, R. Sahara, John Belz, Y. J. Kwon, Hideyuki Ohoka, Fumio Kakimoto, Toshiyuki Nonaka, Toshitsugu Fujii, Daisuke Ikeda, R. Ishimori, Yuta Tanoue, D. R. Bergman, S. R. Stratton, G. Furlich, Takaaki Ishii, Tiffany Wong, Hideki Tanaka, K. Kadota, Inkyu Park, Motoki Hayashi, Hisono Tokuno, T. K. Sako, J. P. Lundquist, D. C. Rodriguez, Ben Stokes, Toru Nakamura, K. Yamazaki, Hongsu Kim, S. B. Thomas, Masahiro Fukushima, S. Kawakami, K. Hibino, Pierre Sokolsky, Ryo Nakamura, K. H. Lee, Jihee Kim, T.-A. Shibata, Eiji Kido, M. V. Kuznetsov, Kazuhiro Machida, Hiroshi Yamaoka, Keitaro Fujita, M. Takeda, Shigehiro Nagataki, Yana Zhezher, Y. Uchihori, Kei Nakai, Kohei Yada, Gordon Thomson, Tom Stroman, Robert Cady, Kazuo Saito, Charlie Jui, BayarJon Paul Lubsandorzhiev, Hiroyuki Sagawa, Mayuko Minamino, Michiyuki Chikawa, K. Honda, Yasunori Kitamura, Grigory Rubtsov, Masaaki Tanaka, Kalen Martens, M. Takita, H. Yoshii, Bokkyun Shin, Koichi Sekino, Kiyoshi Tanaka, Maxim Pshirkov, Jyunsei Chiba, P. Tinyakov, Dongsu Ryu, Y. Omura, Mai Takamura, Y. Takagi, Samuel Blake, Shoichi Ogio, Priti Shah, Ryuji Takeishi, J. Ogura, M. Allen, K. Kasahara, Shoichi Kishigami, Akitoshi Oshima, Y. Tsunesada, Hideaki Shimodaira, Hyoming Jeong, Masaomi Ono, K. Tsutsumi, Rasha Abbasi, Tareq Abu-Zayyad, L. M. Scott, Y. Hayashi, K. Kawata, M. Yamamoto, Nobuyuki Sakurai, Ryota Onogi, J. H. Kim, A. Di Matteo, Ryota Fujiwara, R. Mayta, Heungsu Shin, Naoto Sakaki, Shigeharu Udo, R. Azuma, H. Kawai, T. Seki, T. Matsuyama, S. Ozawa, and Sergey Troitsky
Subjects: General Physics and Astronomy
Published: 2020

3. Current status of the TAx4 surface detectors

Author: Eiji Kido
Subjects: General Medicine
Abstract: Telescope Array (TA) is the largest ultrahigh-energy cosmic-ray (UHECR) observatory in the northern hemisphere. It explores the origin of UHECRs using a surface detector (SD) array, covering approximately 700 km2, and a fluorescence detector (FD) stations viewing the skies above the array. TA has found evidence for a cluster of cosmic rays with energies greater than 57 EeV known as a HotSpot. Recently, TA has obtained additional evidence for an excess of cosmic rays with energies above 1019.4 eV and also found implications of spectrum anisotropy. An expanded SD array and FD stations called TAx4 experiment was designed to increase the data collection rate at the highest energies to confirm the anisotropies with more data. We have constructed and deployed more than half of the SDs for the TAx4 experiment and began stable data taking operations. We present TAx4 SD’s current status.
Published: 2023

4. Estimation and reduction of the biases by the galactic magnetic field on the UHECR correlation studies

Author: Ryo Higuchi, Takashi Sako, Toshihiro Fujii, Kazumasa Kawata, and Eiji Kido
Subjects: General Medicine
Abstract: The correlation studies between ultrahigh-energy cosmic ray (UHECR) anisotropy and source candidates are keys to understand the origin of UHECRs. Especially, studies with consideration of source models, magnetic fields, and mass compositions are necessary. We estimated the biases caused by the coherent deflection due to the galactic magnetic field (GMF) in the previous maximum-likelihood analysis for searching the UHECR sources (Aab et al. 2018, Abbasi et al. 2018). In our work with simulated mock datasets, we find that the anisotropic fraction fani is estimated systematically lower than the true value when we ignore the effect caused by the GMF. We also develop the maximum-likelihood method which includes the GMF model and confirm that the estimated parameters would be improved. We apply the method to the observational datasets obtained from the Telescope Array and Auger experiments.
Published: 2023

5. Study on the cosmic ray intensity variation using scintillation counters for air shower observation

Author: Ryuji Takeishi, Daiki Shinto, Priti Shah, Michiyuki Chikawa, Ryo Nakamura, Shingo Kawana, Rasha Abbasi, Masahiro Takeda, Ken Honda, Takashi Sako, M. Ohnishi, Taichi Inadomi, Kinya Hibino, William Hanlon, Sergey Troitsky, Fumiya Shibata, Saori Kasami, G. Furlich, Takaaki Ishii, Aoi Iwasaki, Taka Tomida, Jyunsei Chiba, Dongsu Ryu, Fugo Yoshida, J. Remington, Ben Stokes, Min Hyo Kim, Koki Sato, Zach Zundel, Matt Potts, Kenta Yashiro, Hirokazu Iwakura, Kengo Sano, Federico R. Urban, Nobuyuki Sakurai, Y. Takagi, D. C. Rodriguez, HangBae Kim, Vladim Kuzmin, Hideki Tanaka, Shinnosuke Kurisu, Keitaro Fujita, Shigeharu Udo, Hisono Tokuno, Hideaki Shimodaira, Hyoming Jeong, Takeshi Okuda, Igor Tkachev, Naohiro Sone, Naoaki Hayashida, Tatsunobu Shibata, H. Oda, Ivan Kharuk, Ryuhei Arimura, S. Kawakami, Stanton Thomas, Akitoshi Oshima, Ryota Fujiwara, Toshiyuki Nonaka, Ryo Higuchi, Shunsuke Ozawa, Yuta Tanoue, Ricardo Gonzalez, Yoshiki Tsunesada, Daisuke Ikeda, Naoto Sakaki, Katsuaki Kasahara, Pierre Sokolsky, Yuya Oku, Arata Nakazawa, Katsumasa Kawata, Charlie Jui, Motoki Hayashi, Shigehiro Nagataki, Oleg Kalashev, Tiffany Wong, Samuel Blake, Hirotaka Ito, Shoichi Ogio, Yana Zhezher, Hiroyuki Sagawa, Kei Nakai, BayarJon Paul Lubsandorzhiev, Sang Woo Kim, Masaki Fukushima, Fumio Kakimoto, M. Yamamoto, Yuichiro Tameda, Heungsu Shin, Mayuko Minamino, K. Yamazaki, Kozo Fujisue, Jeremy Smith, Tareq Abu-Zayyad, John Matthews, Tsubasa Yoshioka, Koichi Tanaka, J. Yang, Tomoyuki Nakamura, Yukio Uchihori, Toru Nakamura, Koichi Sekino, Jon Paul Lundquist, Kenichi Kadota, Youngjoon Kwon, John Belz, Akimichi Taketa, Eiji Nishio, P. Tinyakov, Il Hung Park, Masato Takita, Ryota Fukushima, Ryota Onogi, J. H. Kim, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Maxim Pshirkov, Y. Takahashi, Mai Takamura, Yuto Arai, Isaac Myers, Hideyuki Kawai, Yuma Shibasaki, R. Mayta, Douglas Bergman, Grigory Rubtsov, Ryosuke Tsuda, Soomin Jeong, R. Sahara, T. Seki, Naoya Inoue, Yasunori Saito, Hiroyuki Matsumiya, Takafumi Uehama, Eiji Kido, Kazuhiro Machida, Telescope Array, Shoichi Kishigami, Masaomi Ono, Norimichi Shibata, Y. Omura, Monica Allen, Bokkyun Shin, ByongGu Cheon, Elliott Barcikowski, Dmitri Ivanov, Keijiro Mukai, Hideyuki Ohoka, Yusuke Kimura, Toshio Matsuyama, Manobu Tanaka, K. H. Lee, Jihee Kim, Gordon Thomson, Tom Stroman, Robert Cady, Toshihiro Fujii, Yuto Kubota, Y. Nakamura, and Kohei Yada
Subjects: Physics, Air shower, Scintillation counter, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Variation (astronomy), Intensity (heat transfer)
Published: 2021

6. Anisotropy search in the Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray Spectrum in the Northern Hemisphere using latest data obtained with Telescope Array surface detector

Author: Grigory Rubtsov, John Matthews, Norimichi Shibata, Y. Omura, J. Yang, Fumiya Shibata, Shingo Kawana, M. Ohnishi, Taichi Inadomi, Matt Potts, William Hanlon, Monica Allen, Bokkyun Shin, Fugo Yoshida, Yuma Shibasaki, ByongGu Cheon, Ben Stokes, Douglas Bergman, Jyunsei Chiba, Dongsu Ryu, Toshihiro Fujii, Koki Sato, Yasunori Saito, M. Yamamoto, Hirokazu Iwakura, Y. Takagi, Ryuhei Arimura, Hideyuki Ohoka, Yuto Kubota, Federico R. Urban, Nobuyuki Sakurai, Kengo Sano, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Heungsu Shin, Ivan Kharuk, Yukio Uchihori, Keitaro Fujita, K. H. Lee, Jihee Kim, Yoshiki Tsunesada, Daisuke Ikeda, Hirotaka Ito, Sergey Troitsky, Yuto Arai, Ryota Onogi, J. H. Kim, Maxim Pshirkov, Takeshi Okuda, Y. Nakamura, Kohei Yada, Charlie Jui, BayarJon Paul Lubsandorzhiev, Mayuko Minamino, Hiroyuki Matsumiya, Igor Tkachev, R. Mayta, Hideki Tanaka, Naohiro Sone, Ryosuke Tsuda, Tiffany Wong, Taka Tomida, J. Remington, Masaki Fukushima, Takafumi Uehama, Aoi Iwasaki, Daiki Shinto, Hideaki Shimodaira, Hyoming Jeong, Shoichi Kishigami, Soomin Jeong, Shigeharu Udo, Eiji Kido, Hiroyuki Sagawa, Takashi Sako, Ryo Higuchi, Hisono Tokuno, H. Oda, Gordon Thomson, Tom Stroman, Priti Shah, Ryo Nakamura, Robert Cady, Kazuhiro Machida, Masahiro Takeda, Pierre Sokolsky, Naoaki Hayashida, Ken Honda, Tatsunobu Shibata, T. Seki, G. Furlich, Takaaki Ishii, R. Sahara, Fumio Kakimoto, Naoya Inoue, Akitoshi Oshima, Vladim Kuzmin, Ryuji Takeishi, Ryota Fukushima, Shigehiro Nagataki, Shunsuke Ozawa, K. Yamazaki, Masaomi Ono, Elliott Barcikowski, Toshiyuki Nonaka, Saori Kasami, Tareq Abu-Zayyad, Zach Zundel, Yana Zhezher, Kenta Yashiro, Dmitri Ivanov, D. C. Rodriguez, Ricardo Gonzalez, Samuel Blake, Sang Woo Kim, Kinya Hibino, Shoichi Ogio, Keijiro Mukai, HangBae Kim, Yusuke Kimura, Rasha Abbasi, Koichi Tanaka, Yuya Oku, Michiyuki Chikawa, Jon Paul Lundquist, Katsuaki Kasahara, Stanton Thomas, Katsumasa Kawata, Oleg Kalashev, Yuichiro Tameda, Tomoyuki Nakamura, Tsubasa Yoshioka, Arata Nakazawa, Masato Takita, Toru Nakamura, Telescope Array, Min Hyo Kim, Toshio Matsuyama, Kei Nakai, Ryota Fujiwara, Kenichi Kadota, Manobu Tanaka, Il Hung Park, Naoto Sakaki, S. Kawakami, Akimichi Taketa, Eiji Nishio, Hideyuki Kawai, Shinnosuke Kurisu, Jeremy Smith, Isaac Myers, Youngjoon Kwon, John Belz, Koichi Sekino, P. Tinyakov, Y. Takahashi, Mai Takamura, Yuta Tanoue, Motoki Hayashi, and Kozo Fujisue
Subjects: Surface (mathematics), Telescope, Physics, law, Detector, Northern Hemisphere, Astrophysics, Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray, Anisotropy, law.invention
Published: 2021

7. The measurements of the cosmic ray energy spectrum and the depth of maximum shower development of Telescope Array Hybrid trigger events

Author: Katsuaki Kasahara, Shinnosuke Kurisu, Katsumasa Kawata, Shingo Kawana, William Hanlon, Tsubasa Yoshioka, R. Sahara, Hideaki Shimodaira, Hyoming Jeong, Ryo Higuchi, Norimichi Shibata, Monica Allen, Bokkyun Shin, Jeremy Smith, Y. Omura, Vladim Kuzmin, G. Furlich, Takaaki Ishii, Akimichi Taketa, Toshio Matsuyama, Eiji Nishio, ByongGu Cheon, K. Yamazaki, Tareq Abu-Zayyad, Toshiyuki Nonaka, Hideyuki Ohoka, D. C. Rodriguez, Fumiya Shibata, Hiroyuki Matsumiya, Fugo Yoshida, HangBae Kim, Hiroyuki Sagawa, Ricardo Gonzalez, Pierre Sokolsky, Tatsunobu Shibata, Hideyuki Kawai, Takafumi Uehama, Manobu Tanaka, Rasha Abbasi, Takeshi Okuda, Youngjoon Kwon, John Belz, Yuma Shibasaki, Shigehiro Nagataki, Matt Potts, Yana Zhezher, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Akitoshi Oshima, Igor Tkachev, Sang Woo Kim, Eiji Kido, Koichi Tanaka, K. H. Lee, Jihee Kim, Kazuhiro Machida, Isaac Myers, Naohiro Sone, Shunsuke Ozawa, Hideki Tanaka, Heungsu Shin, Douglas Bergman, Gordon Thomson, Ryo Nakamura, Jon Paul Lundquist, Tom Stroman, Robert Cady, Yuta Tanoue, Ben Stokes, H. Oda, Grigory Rubtsov, Tomoyuki Nakamura, Yasunori Saito, Yuto Arai, Motoki Hayashi, Ryota Fujiwara, Federico R. Urban, Nobuyuki Sakurai, Ryosuke Tsuda, Hirotaka Ito, Hisono Tokuno, Elliott Barcikowski, Charlie Jui, Soomin Jeong, Naoto Sakaki, Kozo Fujisue, BayarJon Paul Lubsandorzhiev, Mayuko Minamino, Yuya Oku, Oleg Kalashev, Dmitri Ivanov, Fumio Kakimoto, Arata Nakazawa, Kenta Yashiro, Kei Nakai, T. Seki, Naoya Inoue, Keijiro Mukai, Min Hyo Kim, Yusuke Kimura, S. Kawakami, Stanton Thomas, M. Ohnishi, Taichi Inadomi, Koki Sato, Sergey Troitsky, Kengo Sano, Aoi Iwasaki, Toshihiro Fujii, Michiyuki Chikawa, Toru Nakamura, Taka Tomida, J. Remington, Kenichi Kadota, Yuto Kubota, Il Hung Park, Saori Kasami, Y. Nakamura, Kohei Yada, Koichi Sekino, Naoaki Hayashida, P. Tinyakov, Ryuji Takeishi, Ryuhei Arimura, Yoshiki Tsunesada, Daisuke Ikeda, Tiffany Wong, Masaki Fukushima, Takashi Sako, Zach Zundel, John Matthews, J. Yang, Daiki Shinto, Priti Shah, Jyunsei Chiba, Dongsu Ryu, Masahiro Takeda, Ken Honda, Hirokazu Iwakura, Y. Takagi, Shigeharu Udo, Keitaro Fujita, Ryota Fukushima, Ivan Kharuk, M. Yamamoto, Yukio Uchihori, Ryota Onogi, J. H. Kim, R. Mayta, Kinya Hibino, Yuichiro Tameda, Masato Takita, Shoichi Kishigami, Y. Takahashi, Mai Takamura, Masaomi Ono, Telescope Array, Samuel Blake, Shoichi Ogio, and Maxim Pshirkov
Subjects: Telescope, Physics, Shower, law, Energy spectrum, Astronomy, Cosmic ray, law.invention
Published: 2021

8. Cosmic ray energy spectrum in the 2nd knee region measured by the TALE-SD array

Author: Taka Tomida, J. Remington, G. Furlich, Takaaki Ishii, D. C. Rodriguez, Stanton Thomas, Hideki Tanaka, HangBae Kim, Fumiya Shibata, Naoaki Hayashida, Hiroyuki Matsumiya, ByongGu Cheon, Fugo Yoshida, Michiyuki Chikawa, Pierre Sokolsky, Shigehiro Nagataki, Yana Zhezher, Isaac Myers, Maxim Pshirkov, Sang Woo Kim, Matt Potts, Telescope Array, Hisono Tokuno, Ryuhei Arimura, Vladim Kuzmin, Daiki Shinto, Toru Nakamura, Takafumi Uehama, Koichi Sekino, Tomoyuki Nakamura, Takeshi Okuda, P. Tinyakov, Heungsu Shin, R. Sahara, Aoi Iwasaki, Yoshiki Tsunesada, Kenichi Kadota, Priti Shah, Daisuke Ikeda, Igor Tkachev, Il Hung Park, Toshiyuki Nonaka, Hideyuki Ohoka, Shoichi Kishigami, Rasha Abbasi, Masahiro Takeda, Naohiro Sone, Arata Nakazawa, Y. Takahashi, Mai Takamura, Ricardo Gonzalez, Tiffany Wong, Eiji Kido, Kei Nakai, Ben Stokes, Kazuhiro Machida, Masaki Fukushima, Ken Honda, H. Oda, Katsuaki Kasahara, Masaomi Ono, Yuto Arai, Toshihiro Fujii, Jyunsei Chiba, Katsumasa Kawata, Takashi Sako, Charlie Jui, Yuta Tanoue, Dongsu Ryu, Federico R. Urban, Nobuyuki Sakurai, Motoki Hayashi, BayarJon Paul Lubsandorzhiev, Mayuko Minamino, Kenta Yashiro, Yuto Kubota, Saori Kasami, Kozo Fujisue, Tsubasa Yoshioka, John Matthews, Hirokazu Iwakura, Shingo Kawana, Y. Takagi, Ryosuke Tsuda, Soomin Jeong, Yasunori Saito, Zach Zundel, J. Yang, William Hanlon, Fumio Kakimoto, Grigory Rubtsov, Ryuji Takeishi, Tatsunobu Shibata, Samuel Blake, Shoichi Ogio, T. Seki, Akitoshi Oshima, Yuya Oku, M. Ohnishi, Ryota Fujiwara, Taichi Inadomi, Y. Nakamura, Oleg Kalashev, Kohei Yada, Keitaro Fujita, Shunsuke Ozawa, Koki Sato, Yuichiro Tameda, Monica Allen, Bokkyun Shin, Naoto Sakaki, Naoya Inoue, Kengo Sano, Ryota Fukushima, Hirotaka Ito, Youngjoon Kwon, Ivan Kharuk, Masato Takita, John Belz, Norimichi Shibata, Y. Omura, Elliott Barcikowski, Dmitri Ivanov, Keijiro Mukai, Yusuke Kimura, Hideaki Shimodaira, Hyoming Jeong, Kinya Hibino, Ryo Higuchi, Toshio Matsuyama, K. Yamazaki, Tareq Abu-Zayyad, Manobu Tanaka, K. H. Lee, Jihee Kim, Gordon Thomson, Tom Stroman, Akimichi Taketa, Robert Cady, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Eiji Nishio, M. Yamamoto, Yukio Uchihori, Ryota Onogi, J. H. Kim, R. Mayta, Shigeharu Udo, Hideyuki Kawai, Shinnosuke Kurisu, Ryo Nakamura, Jeremy Smith, Yuma Shibasaki, Min Hyo Kim, Douglas Bergman, S. Kawakami, Hiroyuki Sagawa, Koichi Tanaka, Jon Paul Lundquist, and Sergey Troitsky
Subjects: Physics, Energy spectrum, Cosmic ray, Knee region, Astrophysics
Published: 2021

9. Cosmic Ray Composition between 2 PeV and 2 EeV measured by the TALE Fluorescence Detector

Author: Shigeharu Udo, Daiki Shinto, Fumiya Shibata, Priti Shah, Stanton Thomas, Norimichi Shibata, Y. Omura, Matt Potts, Masahiro Takeda, Ken Honda, Ryo Nakamura, Youngjoon Kwon, Vladim Kuzmin, John Belz, Telescope Array, Yasunori Saito, Shinnosuke Kurisu, Yuta Tanoue, Motoki Hayashi, Tatsunobu Shibata, ByongGu Cheon, Saori Kasami, M. Yamamoto, Takeshi Okuda, Igor Tkachev, Naohiro Sone, Fumio Kakimoto, John N. Matthews, K. H. Lee, Jihee Kim, Tomoyuki Nakamura, Yukio Uchihori, J. P. Lundquist, Akitoshi Oshima, Hideyuki Ohoka, Michiyuki Chikawa, Toru Nakamura, Fugo Yoshida, Ryota Onogi, J. H. Kim, Keitaro Fujita, Kozo Fujisue, Hideki Tanaka, Shunsuke Ozawa, Jeremy Smith, Kenichi Kadota, Il Hung Park, H. Oda, Takashi Sako, Charlie Jui, Hiroyuki Matsumiya, R. Mayta, Shoichi Kishigami, Akimichi Taketa, Gordon Thomson, Hisono Tokuno, BayarJon Paul Lubsandorzhiev, Mayuko Minamino, Takafumi Uehama, Ryota Fujiwara, Eiji Nishio, Sergey Troitsky, Kinya Hibino, Min Hyo Kim, Masaomi Ono, Maxim Pshirkov, Tom Stroman, Robert Cady, Pierre Sokolsky, Taka Tomida, Shingo Kawana, Eiji Kido, Kazuhiro Machida, J. Remington, Naoto Sakaki, Katsuaki Kasahara, Shigehiro Nagataki, Yana Zhezher, M. Ohnishi, Taichi Inadomi, Yuto Kubota, Zach Zundel, Ben Stokes, William Hanlon, Sang Woo Kim, Koki Sato, Federico R. Urban, Nobuyuki Sakurai, Hideyuki Kawai, Yuma Shibasaki, Ryuhei Arimura, Katsumasa Kawata, J. Yang, Koichi Sekino, Monica Allen, Bokkyun Shin, Naoaki Hayashida, Kengo Sano, P. Tinyakov, Yoshiki Tsunesada, Daisuke Ikeda, Y. Nakamura, Douglas Bergman, Kohei Yada, S. Kawakami, Kenta Yashiro, Y. Takahashi, Mai Takamura, Tiffany Wong, Heungsu Shin, Tsubasa Yoshioka, Masaki Fukushima, Yuya Oku, Oleg Kalashev, Hiroyuki Sagawa, Samuel Blake, Shoichi Ogio, Toshiyuki Nonaka, Ricardo Gonzalez, Yuichiro Tameda, Yuto Arai, Koichi Tanaka, Rasha Abbasi, T. Fujii, Masato Takita, Toshio Matsuyama, Elliott Barcikowski, Dmitri Ivanov, Keijiro Mukai, Manobu Tanaka, Yusuke Kimura, Ryosuke Tsuda, Soomin Jeong, T. Seki, Naoya Inoue, Arata Nakazawa, Kei Nakai, G. Furlich, Takaaki Ishii, D. C. Rodriguez, HangBae Kim, Isaac Myers, Hideaki Shimodaira, Hyoming Jeong, Ryo Higuchi, K. Yamazaki, Tareq Abu-Zayyad, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Grigory Rubtsov, Hirotaka Ito, Aoi Iwasaki, Ivan Kharuk, Ryuji Takeishi, R. Sahara, Ryota Fukushima, Jyunsei Chiba, Dongsu Ryu, Hirokazu Iwakura, and Y. Takagi
Subjects: Physics, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Fluorescence spectroscopy
Published: 2021

10. The status of the TALE surface detector array and TALE infill project

Author: Takashi Sako, Zach Zundel, Shigeharu Udo, Kenta Yashiro, Toru Nakamura, Kenichi Kadota, Il Hung Park, Min Hyo Kim, Ryo Nakamura, Tatsunobu Shibata, R. Sahara, Noemie Globus, Elliott Barcikowski, S. Kawakami, Akitoshi Oshima, Dmitri Ivanov, Grigory Rubtsov, Fugo Yoshida, Shunsuke Ozawa, Keijiro Mukai, Charlie Jui, BayarJon Paul Lubsandorzhiev, Yusuke Kimura, Fumio Kakimoto, Mayuko Minamino, Saori Kasami, G. Furlich, Takaaki Ishii, Norimichi Shibata, Fumiya Shibata, Hiroyuki Sagawa, Y. Omura, D. C. Rodriguez, Matt Potts, Aoi Iwasaki, HangBae Kim, Koichi Tanaka, Jon Paul Lundquist, Ryota Fukushima, Monica Allen, Bokkyun Shin, Yuya Oku, Ryuji Takeishi, Vladim Kuzmin, Oleg Kalashev, Telescope Array, M. Yamamoto, Youngjoon Kwon, Arata Nakazawa, John Belz, Kei Nakai, Yukio Uchihori, Stanton Thomas, Yasunori Saito, Maxim Pshirkov, Michiyuki Chikawa, Ben Stokes, Ryota Onogi, J. H. Kim, Hirotaka Ito, R. Mayta, Ryuhei Arimura, Shoichi Kishigami, Pierre Sokolsky, Federico R. Urban, Nobuyuki Sakurai, Hideki Tanaka, Kinya Hibino, Yoshiki Tsunesada, Shigehiro Nagataki, Yana Zhezher, Masaomi Ono, Sang Woo Kim, Sergey Troitsky, Hisono Tokuno, Taka Tomida, J. Remington, Rasha Abbasi, M. Ohnishi, Taichi Inadomi, Naoaki Hayashida, Hideaki Shimodaira, Hyoming Jeong, Isaac Myers, Koki Sato, Ryo Higuchi, Toshihiro Fujii, Tomoyuki Nakamura, Hiroyuki Matsumiya, Ryota Fujiwara, Takafumi Uehama, ByongGu Cheon, Yuto Kubota, Eiji Kido, Naoto Sakaki, Kazuhiro Machida, Kengo Sano, Katsuaki Kasahara, K. Yamazaki, Katsumasa Kawata, Tareq Abu-Zayyad, Tsubasa Yoshioka, Takeshi Okuda, Igor Tkachev, Y. Nakamura, Kohei Yada, Naohiro Sone, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Hideyuki Ohoka, H. Oda, Akimichi Taketa, Eiji Nishio, Ivan Kharuk, Hideyuki Kawai, Yuma Shibasaki, Jyunsei Chiba, Dongsu Ryu, Hirokazu Iwakura, Y. Takagi, Douglas Bergman, Shinnosuke Kurisu, Jeremy Smith, Toshio Matsuyama, K. H. Lee, Jihee Kim, Gordon Thomson, Tom Stroman, Robert Cady, Manobu Tanaka, Keitaro Fujita, Daiki Shinto, Priti Shah, Masahiro Takeda, Ken Honda, John Matthews, J. Yang, Koichi Sekino, P. Tinyakov, Y. Takahashi, Mai Takamura, Daisuke Ikeda, Tiffany Wong, Masaki Fukushima, Yuta Tanoue, Motoki Hayashi, Heungsu Shin, Kozo Fujisue, Yuto Arai, Ryosuke Tsuda, Soomin Jeong, Shingo Kawana, William Hanlon, T. Seki, Toshiyuki Nonaka, Ricardo Gonzalez, Naoya Inoue, Yuichiro Tameda, Masato Takita, Samuel Blake, and Shoichi Ogio
Subjects: Surface (mathematics), Optics, business.industry, Infill, Detector array, business, Geology
Published: 2021

11. The impact of photonuclear reaction models on propagation of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays

Author: T. Inakura, Eiji Kido, Yutaka Utsuno, A. Tamii, Shigehiro Nagataki, and M. Kimura
Subjects: Nuclear physics, Physics, Reaction model, Cosmic ray, Ultrahigh energy
Published: 2021

12. Current status and prospects of surface detector of the TAx4 experiment

Author: Katsumasa Kawata, Grigory Rubtsov, Tsubasa Yoshioka, Tatsunobu Shibata, Yuichiro Tameda, Kenta Yashiro, Akitoshi Oshima, Fugo Yoshida, Jyunsei Chiba, Ryosuke Tsuda, Soomin Jeong, M. Yamamoto, Ryo Nakamura, Shunsuke Ozawa, Dongsu Ryu, Takashi Sako, Shingo Kawana, Hirokazu Iwakura, Y. Takagi, ByongGu Cheon, T. Seki, Naoya Inoue, Yukio Uchihori, Hideaki Shimodaira, Hyoming Jeong, Hideki Tanaka, Aoi Iwasaki, John Matthews, Ryota Onogi, J. H. Kim, William Hanlon, Ryo Higuchi, Fumiya Shibata, J. Yang, Hisono Tokuno, Masato Takita, Akimichi Taketa, M. Ohnishi, Taichi Inadomi, Hideyuki Ohoka, Ryota Fujiwara, Youngjoon Kwon, John Belz, R. Mayta, Yuta Tanoue, Koki Sato, Eiji Nishio, Motoki Hayashi, Naoto Sakaki, Ryota Fukushima, Matt Potts, Ivan Kharuk, K. Yamazaki, Ben Stokes, Sergey Troitsky, Min Hyo Kim, Tareq Abu-Zayyad, Kengo Sano, Kozo Fujisue, Zach Zundel, Kinya Hibino, Saori Kasami, Toru Nakamura, R. Sahara, Taka Tomida, J. Remington, Federico R. Urban, Nobuyuki Sakurai, Takeshi Okuda, Igor Tkachev, Naohiro Sone, Samuel Blake, Shoichi Ogio, Kenichi Kadota, Il Hung Park, Hideyuki Kawai, Rasha Abbasi, Keitaro Fujita, Koichi Sekino, H. Oda, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Heungsu Shin, Shinnosuke Kurisu, Toshiyuki Nonaka, Ricardo Gonzalez, P. Tinyakov, S. Kawakami, Charlie Jui, Fumio Kakimoto, Yuto Arai, Naoaki Hayashida, Shigeharu Udo, Yuya Oku, Michiyuki Chikawa, Oleg Kalashev, BayarJon Paul Lubsandorzhiev, Mayuko Minamino, Y. Takahashi, Mai Takamura, Jeremy Smith, Ryuhei Arimura, Daiki Shinto, Monica Allen, Bokkyun Shin, Yuma Shibasaki, Priti Shah, Hiroyuki Sagawa, Masahiro Takeda, Vladim Kuzmin, Yoshiki Tsunesada, Daisuke Ikeda, Ken Honda, Toshio Matsuyama, Douglas Bergman, Tiffany Wong, Koichi Tanaka, Masaki Fukushima, Jon Paul Lundquist, Elliott Barcikowski, Dmitri Ivanov, Keijiro Mukai, Yusuke Kimura, Manobu Tanaka, K. H. Lee, Jihee Kim, Maxim Pshirkov, Gordon Thomson, Toshihiro Fujii, Tom Stroman, Robert Cady, Yuto Kubota, Y. Nakamura, Kohei Yada, Pierre Sokolsky, Shigehiro Nagataki, Shoichi Kishigami, Yana Zhezher, Sang Woo Kim, Masaomi Ono, Telescope Array, Tomoyuki Nakamura, Stanton Thomas, Hiroyuki Matsumiya, Takafumi Uehama, Eiji Kido, Kazuhiro Machida, Yasunori Saito, Isaac Myers, Norimichi Shibata, Y. Omura, G. Furlich, Takaaki Ishii, D. C. Rodriguez, HangBae Kim, Arata Nakazawa, Kei Nakai, Hirotaka Ito, Ryuji Takeishi, and Katsuaki Kasahara
Subjects: Physics, Surface (mathematics), Optics, business.industry, Detector, Current (fluid), business
Published: 2021

13. Cosmic Ray Composition in the Second Knee Region as Measured by the TALE Hybrid Detector

Author: ByongGu Cheon, Hiroyuki Matsumiya, Charlie Jui, BayarJon Paul Lubsandorzhiev, Mayuko Minamino, Takashi Sako, Ivan Kharuk, Takeshi Okuda, Igor Tkachev, Takafumi Uehama, Hideyuki Ohoka, Daiki Shinto, Priti Shah, Isaac Myers, K. H. Lee, Jihee Kim, Telescope Array, Naohiro Sone, Eiji Kido, Fugo Yoshida, Kazuhiro Machida, Aoi Iwasaki, Hideaki Shimodaira, Hyoming Jeong, Masahiro Takeda, Ken Honda, H. Oda, Zach Zundel, Yuta Tanoue, Fumiya Shibata, Gordon Thomson, Tom Stroman, Robert Cady, Shoichi Kishigami, Ryo Higuchi, Youngjoon Kwon, Sergey Troitsky, Motoki Hayashi, Masaomi Ono, John Belz, Kozo Fujisue, Stanton Thomas, Kinya Hibino, Elliott Barcikowski, Matt Potts, Taka Tomida, Dmitri Ivanov, John Matthews, Samuel Blake, Ryuhei Arimura, J. Remington, M. Ohnishi, Taichi Inadomi, Koichi Sekino, Shoichi Ogio, Keijiro Mukai, J. Yang, P. Tinyakov, K. Yamazaki, G. Furlich, Takaaki Ishii, Pierre Sokolsky, Norimichi Shibata, Yuichiro Tameda, Shingo Kawana, Yusuke Kimura, Y. Omura, Tareq Abu-Zayyad, Yoshiki Tsunesada, Ryuji Takeishi, Daisuke Ikeda, Y. Takahashi, Mai Takamura, Koki Sato, Shigehiro Nagataki, Yana Zhezher, Jyunsei Chiba, Dongsu Ryu, William Hanlon, Hiroyuki Sagawa, Shigeharu Udo, Sang Woo Kim, D. C. Rodriguez, Kengo Sano, Tatsunobu Shibata, Tiffany Wong, Hirokazu Iwakura, Y. Takagi, HangBae Kim, Toshihiro Fujii, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Masato Takita, Keitaro Fujita, Yasunori Saito, Masaki Fukushima, Akitoshi Oshima, Yuto Kubota, Vladim Kuzmin, Kenta Yashiro, Grigory Rubtsov, Shunsuke Ozawa, Tomoyuki Nakamura, Manobu Tanaka, Y. Nakamura, Kohei Yada, Koichi Tanaka, Ryosuke Tsuda, Fumio Kakimoto, Ben Stokes, Ryota Fukushima, Naoaki Hayashida, M. Yamamoto, Monica Allen, Bokkyun Shin, Soomin Jeong, Michiyuki Chikawa, R. Sahara, Jon Paul Lundquist, Federico R. Urban, Arata Nakazawa, Nobuyuki Sakurai, Toshiyuki Nonaka, Yukio Uchihori, Kei Nakai, Ryota Onogi, J. H. Kim, Ricardo Gonzalez, Maxim Pshirkov, Toshio Matsuyama, T. Seki, Naoya Inoue, R. Mayta, Hirotaka Ito, Min Hyo Kim, S. Kawakami, Heungsu Shin, Yuto Arai, Saori Kasami, Ryo Nakamura, Hideki Tanaka, Hisono Tokuno, Yuma Shibasaki, Douglas Bergman, Akimichi Taketa, Eiji Nishio, Yuya Oku, Hideyuki Kawai, Shinnosuke Kurisu, Oleg Kalashev, Jeremy Smith, Toru Nakamura, Kenichi Kadota, Il Hung Park, Ryota Fujiwara, Naoto Sakaki, Katsuaki Kasahara, Katsumasa Kawata, Tsubasa Yoshioka, and Rasha Abbasi
Subjects: Physics, Detector, Cosmic ray, Knee region, Astrophysics, Composition (combinatorics)
Published: 2021

14. Effects of Galactic magnetic field on the UHECR anisotropy studies

Author: Tomoyuki Nakamura, Sergey Troitsky, Taka Tomida, M. Yamamoto, Fugo Yoshida, J. Remington, M. Ohnishi, Taichi Inadomi, Elliott Barcikowski, Stanton Thomas, Pierre Sokolsky, Yuichiro Tameda, Hideaki Shimodaira, Hyoming Jeong, Dmitri Ivanov, R. Sahara, Shigehiro Nagataki, Yana Zhezher, Ryota Fujiwara, Sang Woo Kim, Yukio Uchihori, Manobu Tanaka, Ryo Higuchi, Ivan Kharuk, Keijiro Mukai, Koki Sato, ByongGu Cheon, Norimichi Shibata, Yuma Shibasaki, Ryota Onogi, J. H. Kim, Y. Omura, Keitaro Fujita, Naoto Sakaki, Aoi Iwasaki, Yusuke Kimura, K. H. Lee, Jihee Kim, Hideyuki Ohoka, R. Mayta, Kengo Sano, Gordon Thomson, K. Yamazaki, Tom Stroman, Robert Cady, Tareq Abu-Zayyad, Kinya Hibino, Toru Nakamura, Yasunori Saito, Douglas Bergman, Naoaki Hayashida, Takeshi Okuda, Igor Tkachev, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Min Hyo Kim, Kenichi Kadota, Michiyuki Chikawa, Rasha Abbasi, Ryosuke Tsuda, Yuta Tanoue, Naohiro Sone, Il Hung Park, Masato Takita, Soomin Jeong, John N. Matthews, Katsuaki Kasahara, H. Oda, Saori Kasami, Shinnosuke Kurisu, Motoki Hayashi, Takashi Sako, Katsumasa Kawata, Youngjoon Kwon, John Belz, Ben Stokes, J. P. Lundquist, Arata Nakazawa, S. Kawakami, Monica Allen, Bokkyun Shin, T. Seki, Yuto Kubota, Kozo Fujisue, Federico R. Urban, Hiroyuki Matsumiya, Nobuyuki Sakurai, Tsubasa Yoshioka, Naoya Inoue, Vladim Kuzmin, J. Yang, Shigeharu Udo, Kei Nakai, Kenta Yashiro, T. Fujii, Hiroyuki Sagawa, Maxim Pshirkov, Takafumi Uehama, Shingo Kawana, Kazumasa Kawata, Toshio Matsuyama, Y. Nakamura, Jeremy Smith, Yuya Oku, Kohei Yada, Koichi Tanaka, Akimichi Taketa, Koichi Sekino, Hideki Tanaka, Oleg Kalashev, Eiji Kido, Tatsunobu Shibata, William Hanlon, Daiki Shinto, Eiji Nishio, Kazuhiro Machida, Jyunsei Chiba, Dongsu Ryu, Telescope Array, Zach Zundel, Akitoshi Oshima, Priti Shah, P. Tinyakov, Heungsu Shin, Fumio Kakimoto, Shunsuke Ozawa, Isaac Myers, Ryuhei Arimura, Hisono Tokuno, Masahiro Takeda, Ken Honda, Ryuji Takeishi, Yoshiki Tsunesada, Daisuke Ikeda, Hideyuki Kawai, Hirokazu Iwakura, Y. Takagi, Tiffany Wong, Samuel Blake, Masaki Fukushima, Shoichi Ogio, Yuto Arai, Toshiyuki Nonaka, Shoichi Kishigami, Ricardo Gonzalez, G. Furlich, Takaaki Ishii, Y. Takahashi, Mai Takamura, Masaomi Ono, D. C. Rodriguez, HangBae Kim, Grigory Rubtsov, Ryota Fukushima, Hirotaka Ito, Ryo Nakamura, Charlie Jui, BayarJon Paul Lubsandorzhiev, Mayuko Minamino, Fumiya Shibata, and Matt Potts
Subjects: Physics, Astrophysics, Anisotropy, Magnetic field
Published: 2021

15. Mass composition of Telescope Array's surface detectors events using deep learning

Author: Hideaki Shimodaira, Hyoming Jeong, Hiroyuki Sagawa, Fumiya Shibata, Ryuji Takeishi, Ryo Higuchi, Youngjoon Kwon, John Belz, Hideyuki Ohoka, Ryo Nakamura, Rasha Abbasi, Daiki Shinto, Ryuhei Arimura, Koichi Tanaka, Yoshiki Tsunesada, Daisuke Ikeda, Michiyuki Chikawa, Tiffany Wong, Masaki Fukushima, Matt Potts, Yuma Shibasaki, Priti Shah, Jon Paul Lundquist, K. Yamazaki, Pierre Sokolsky, Katsuaki Kasahara, Katsumasa Kawata, Tareq Abu-Zayyad, Fugo Yoshida, Masahiro Takeda, Takashi Sako, Ken Honda, Zach Zundel, Shigehiro Nagataki, Yana Zhezher, Ben Stokes, Tsubasa Yoshioka, Kenta Yashiro, Sergey Troitsky, R. Sahara, Douglas Bergman, Sang Woo Kim, Taka Tomida, Shingo Kawana, Charlie Jui, BayarJon Paul Lubsandorzhiev, J. Remington, Mayuko Minamino, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Min Hyo Kim, Shinnosuke Kurisu, William Hanlon, Ryota Fujiwara, Elliott Barcikowski, Dmitri Ivanov, Monica Allen, Naoto Sakaki, Tomoyuki Nakamura, G. Furlich, Takaaki Ishii, Federico R. Urban, Nobuyuki Sakurai, Saori Kasami, Keijiro Mukai, Bokkyun Shin, Toshio Matsuyama, K. H. Lee, Jihee Kim, Gordon Thomson, Ryota Fukushima, Samuel Blake, Shoichi Ogio, Hirotaka Ito, Yusuke Kimura, Tom Stroman, Robert Cady, Naoaki Hayashida, Norimichi Shibata, Y. Omura, S. Kawakami, D. C. Rodriguez, Keitaro Fujita, Jeremy Smith, HangBae Kim, Takeshi Okuda, Igor Tkachev, Akimichi Taketa, Hideki Tanaka, Stanton Thomas, Naohiro Sone, Isaac Myers, Eiji Nishio, Yuya Oku, Aoi Iwasaki, Oleg Kalashev, Hiroyuki Matsumiya, Toshihiro Fujii, Hisono Tokuno, H. Oda, Jyunsei Chiba, Grigory Rubtsov, Dongsu Ryu, Manobu Tanaka, Yuto Kubota, Koichi Sekino, Takafumi Uehama, Maxim Pshirkov, Hideyuki Kawai, P. Tinyakov, Toru Nakamura, Kenichi Kadota, M. Ohnishi, Y. Nakamura, Il Hung Park, Kohei Yada, Hirokazu Iwakura, Taichi Inadomi, Y. Takagi, Y. Takahashi, Mai Takamura, Eiji Kido, Kazuhiro Machida, Arata Nakazawa, Koki Sato, John Matthews, Toshiyuki Nonaka, Kei Nakai, Ivan Kharuk, J. Yang, Ricardo Gonzalez, Kengo Sano, Yasunori Saito, Yuta Tanoue, Fumio Kakimoto, Motoki Hayashi, Yuichiro Tameda, Kozo Fujisue, Shoichi Kishigami, Masaomi Ono, Masato Takita, Telescope Array, Shigeharu Udo, Kinya Hibino, M. Yamamoto, Yukio Uchihori, Ryota Onogi, J. H. Kim, R. Mayta, Vladim Kuzmin, Ryosuke Tsuda, Soomin Jeong, T. Seki, Naoya Inoue, Heungsu Shin, Yuto Arai, Tatsunobu Shibata, Akitoshi Oshima, Shunsuke Ozawa, and ByongGu Cheon
Subjects: Surface (mathematics), Telescope, Physics, Optics, business.industry, law, Deep learning, Detector, Artificial intelligence, Mass composition, business, law.invention
Published: 2021

16. FOV direction and image size calibration of Fluorescence Detector using light source on UAV

Author: Telescope Array, Yasunori Saito, Shoichi Kishigami, Hideaki Shimodaira, Hyoming Jeong, Masaomi Ono, Ryo Higuchi, Ryuhei Arimura, Fugo Yoshida, Ryo Nakamura, Tomoyuki Nakamura, Charlie Jui, Min Hyo Kim, M. Ohnishi, Taichi Inadomi, Hideki Tanaka, Hisono Tokuno, BayarJon Paul Lubsandorzhiev, John Matthews, Yoshiki Tsunesada, Heungsu Shin, Manobu Tanaka, Koki Sato, Mayuko Minamino, J. Yang, Daisuke Ikeda, K. Yamazaki, Tareq Abu-Zayyad, M. Yamamoto, S. Kawakami, Kengo Sano, Sergey Troitsky, Fumio Kakimoto, Yuto Arai, Tiffany Wong, Taka Tomida, J. Remington, Koichi Sekino, Stanton Thomas, Kenta Yashiro, Ryosuke Tsuda, Saori Kasami, Monica Allen, Yukio Uchihori, Masaki Fukushima, Fumiya Shibata, Ben Stokes, Toshio Matsuyama, P. Tinyakov, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Soomin Jeong, Bokkyun Shin, Pierre Sokolsky, Norimichi Shibata, Hiroyuki Sagawa, K. H. Lee, Jihee Kim, Y. Omura, Ryota Onogi, J. H. Kim, Gordon Thomson, G. Furlich, Takaaki Ishii, Tom Stroman, Robert Cady, Y. Takahashi, Mai Takamura, ByongGu Cheon, Matt Potts, Shigehiro Nagataki, Yana Zhezher, Keitaro Fujita, Federico R. Urban, Nobuyuki Sakurai, Koichi Tanaka, Naoaki Hayashida, T. Seki, Naoya Inoue, R. Mayta, Jon Paul Lundquist, Sang Woo Kim, Hiroyuki Matsumiya, Yuta Tanoue, Yuichiro Tameda, Kinya Hibino, Motoki Hayashi, Takafumi Uehama, D. C. Rodriguez, Eiji Kido, Maxim Pshirkov, Kozo Fujisue, Takeshi Okuda, Kazuhiro Machida, HangBae Kim, Hideyuki Ohoka, Igor Tkachev, Naohiro Sone, Shigeharu Udo, Shinnosuke Kurisu, Grigory Rubtsov, Tatsunobu Shibata, H. Oda, Michiyuki Chikawa, Daiki Shinto, Arata Nakazawa, Kei Nakai, Akitoshi Oshima, Priti Shah, R. Sahara, Jeremy Smith, Akimichi Taketa, Eiji Nishio, Masahiro Takeda, Takashi Sako, Vladim Kuzmin, Ken Honda, Masato Takita, Shunsuke Ozawa, Isaac Myers, Hideyuki Kawai, Yuma Shibasaki, Douglas Bergman, Samuel Blake, Shoichi Ogio, Zach Zundel, Jyunsei Chiba, Dongsu Ryu, Hirokazu Iwakura, Y. Takagi, Ivan Kharuk, Toru Nakamura, Elliott Barcikowski, Kenichi Kadota, Dmitri Ivanov, Il Hung Park, Keijiro Mukai, Yusuke Kimura, Yuya Oku, Oleg Kalashev, Ryota Fukushima, Youngjoon Kwon, John Belz, Toshihiro Fujii, Yuto Kubota, Y. Nakamura, Kohei Yada, Hirotaka Ito, Rasha Abbasi, Aoi Iwasaki, Ryota Fujiwara, Naoto Sakaki, Katsuaki Kasahara, Katsumasa Kawata, Tsubasa Yoshioka, Ryuji Takeishi, Shingo Kawana, William Hanlon, Toshiyuki Nonaka, and Ricardo Gonzalez
Subjects: Physics, Light source, Optics, business.industry, Calibration, business, Image resolution, Fluorescence spectroscopy
Published: 2021

17. UHECR mass composition from anisotropy of their arrival directions with the Telescope Array SD

Author: Katsuaki Kasahara, Ryota Fukushima, Takeshi Okuda, Igor Tkachev, Katsumasa Kawata, Daiki Shinto, Naohiro Sone, ByongGu Cheon, Shoichi Kishigami, Norimichi Shibata, Manobu Tanaka, Grigory Rubtsov, Ryuhei Arimura, M. Yamamoto, H. Oda, Masaomi Ono, Priti Shah, Y. Omura, Yoshiki Tsunesada, Tsubasa Yoshioka, Daisuke Ikeda, Masahiro Takeda, Tiffany Wong, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Ken Honda, K. H. Lee, Jihee Kim, Kenta Yashiro, Gordon Thomson, Hideyuki Ohoka, Yuichiro Tameda, Yukio Uchihori, Masaki Fukushima, Hiroyuki Sagawa, R. Sahara, Charlie Jui, Jyunsei Chiba, Dongsu Ryu, Tom Stroman, Fugo Yoshida, Robert Cady, Ryota Onogi, J. H. Kim, Shinnosuke Kurisu, Shingo Kawana, Ryota Fujiwara, BayarJon Paul Lubsandorzhiev, William Hanlon, Hirokazu Iwakura, Y. Takagi, R. Mayta, Hiroyuki Matsumiya, Koichi Tanaka, Mayuko Minamino, Vladim Kuzmin, Hideaki Shimodaira, Ivan Kharuk, Jon Paul Lundquist, Naoto Sakaki, Youngjoon Kwon, Kinya Hibino, John Belz, Ryo Nakamura, Hyoming Jeong, Michiyuki Chikawa, Keitaro Fujita, Takafumi Uehama, Saori Kasami, Fumiya Shibata, Ryo Higuchi, Yuya Oku, M. Ohnishi, Takashi Sako, Masato Takita, Eiji Kido, Toshiyuki Nonaka, Taichi Inadomi, Oleg Kalashev, Ryosuke Tsuda, Soomin Jeong, Ricardo Gonzalez, Rasha Abbasi, Kazuhiro Machida, Toshio Matsuyama, Min Hyo Kim, Matt Potts, Koki Sato, Kengo Sano, K. Yamazaki, Tareq Abu-Zayyad, Hideki Tanaka, Zach Zundel, S. Kawakami, Yasunori Saito, Peter Tinyakov, Samuel Blake, Shoichi Ogio, Shigeharu Udo, T. Seki, Toru Nakamura, Naoya Inoue, Jeremy Smith, John Matthews, J. Yang, Monica Allen, Kenichi Kadota, Hisono Tokuno, Yuta Tanoue, Akimichi Taketa, Bokkyun Shin, Eiji Nishio, Il Hung Park, Motoki Hayashi, Ben Stokes, Kozo Fujisue, Heungsu Shin, Federico R. Urban, Nobuyuki Sakurai, Hideyuki Kawai, Yuma Shibasaki, Koichi Sekino, Yuto Arai, Douglas Bergman, Tatsunobu Shibata, Y. Takahashi, Mai Takamura, Akitoshi Oshima, Shunsuke Ozawa, Maxim Pshirkov, Fumio Kakimoto, Sergey Troitsky, Taka Tomida, J. Remington, Naoaki Hayashida, Toshihiro Fujii, Yuto Kubota, Y. Nakamura, Kohei Yada, Elliott Barcikowski, Dmitri Ivanov, Keijiro Mukai, Yusuke Kimura, Stanton Thomas, Aoi Iwasaki, Tomoyuki Nakamura, Ryuji Takeishi, Pierre Sokolsky, Shigehiro Nagataki, Yana Zhezher, Isaac Myers, Sang Woo Kim, Hirotaka Ito, G. Furlich, Takaaki Ishii, D. C. Rodriguez, HangBae Kim, Arata Nakazawa, and Kei Nakai
Subjects: Telescope, Physics, law, Astrophysics, Mass composition, Anisotropy, law.invention
Published: 2021

18. Analysis of TAx4 hybrid trigger and events

Author: Ivan Kharuk, Yuma Shibasaki, Jyunsei Chiba, Dongsu Ryu, Aoi Iwasaki, Hirokazu Iwakura, Y. Takagi, K. H. Lee, Jihee Kim, Ryota Fukushima, Ryuhei Arimura, Shigeharu Udo, Fumiya Shibata, Gordon Thomson, Hideki Tanaka, Fugo Yoshida, Tom Stroman, Robert Cady, Yoshiki Tsunesada, Sergey Troitsky, Daisuke Ikeda, Douglas Bergman, Taka Tomida, J. Remington, Tiffany Wong, John Matthews, ByongGu Cheon, Hiroyuki Matsumiya, Ryo Nakamura, Ryuji Takeishi, Masaki Fukushima, Hisono Tokuno, Ryosuke Tsuda, Soomin Jeong, M. Yamamoto, J. Yang, Matt Potts, Pierre Sokolsky, Min Hyo Kim, Yukio Uchihori, Naoaki Hayashida, Takashi Sako, T. Seki, Shigehiro Nagataki, Yana Zhezher, Akimichi Taketa, Naoya Inoue, Tatsunobu Shibata, Daiki Shinto, Sang Woo Kim, Eiji Nishio, Ryota Onogi, J. H. Kim, Priti Shah, Takafumi Uehama, G. Furlich, Takaaki Ishii, Saori Kasami, Hideaki Shimodaira, Hyoming Jeong, Masahiro Takeda, Charlie Jui, Ken Honda, R. Mayta, S. Kawakami, Heungsu Shin, BayarJon Paul Lubsandorzhiev, Ryo Higuchi, Toru Nakamura, Yuta Tanoue, Mayuko Minamino, Kenichi Kadota, Zach Zundel, Akitoshi Oshima, Eiji Kido, Elliott Barcikowski, Shingo Kawana, Shoichi Kishigami, Yuto Arai, Keitaro Fujita, Motoki Hayashi, Yuichiro Tameda, Hideyuki Ohoka, Il Hung Park, Kinya Hibino, Hirotaka Ito, Toshio Matsuyama, Kazuhiro Machida, Hiroyuki Sagawa, Hideyuki Kawai, D. C. Rodriguez, Dmitri Ivanov, Vladim Kuzmin, William Hanlon, Stanton Thomas, HangBae Kim, Shinnosuke Kurisu, Kozo Fujisue, Keijiro Mukai, K. Yamazaki, Masaomi Ono, Michiyuki Chikawa, Tareq Abu-Zayyad, Yusuke Kimura, Yasunori Saito, Koichi Tanaka, Grigory Rubtsov, Tomoyuki Nakamura, Jon Paul Lundquist, Koichi Sekino, Shunsuke Ozawa, Yuya Oku, P. Tinyakov, Isaac Myers, Oleg Kalashev, Masato Takita, Y. Takahashi, Mai Takamura, R. Sahara, Telescope Array, S. W. Kim, Manobu Tanaka, Toshiyuki Nonaka, Jeremy Smith, Norimichi Shibata, Y. Omura, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Ricardo Gonzalez, Ben Stokes, Samuel Blake, Toshihiro Fujii, Monica Allen, Shoichi Ogio, Yuto Kubota, Bokkyun Shin, Y. Nakamura, Kohei Yada, Federico R. Urban, Arata Nakazawa, Nobuyuki Sakurai, Kei Nakai, Youngjoon Kwon, John Belz, Rasha Abbasi, M. Ohnishi, Taichi Inadomi, Koki Sato, Fumio Kakimoto, Ryota Fujiwara, Kengo Sano, Naoto Sakaki, Katsuaki Kasahara, Katsumasa Kawata, Kenta Yashiro, Tsubasa Yoshioka, Maxim Pshirkov, Takeshi Okuda, Igor Tkachev, Naohiro Sone, and H. Oda
Published: 2021

19. Reconstruction of air shower events measured by the surface detectors of the TAx4 experiment

Author: Fugo Yoshida, Fumio Kakimoto, Norimichi Shibata, Kinya Hibino, John Matthews, J. Yang, Y. Omura, Ivan Kharuk, Toshihiro Fujii, Hiroyuki Sagawa, Yuichiro Tameda, Hideki Tanaka, Yuma Shibasaki, Yuto Kubota, Hisono Tokuno, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Katsuaki Kasahara, Koichi Tanaka, Jon Paul Lundquist, M. Yamamoto, Katsumasa Kawata, Monica Allen, Bokkyun Shin, Hiroyuki Matsumiya, Tsubasa Yoshioka, Takafumi Uehama, Y. Nakamura, Kohei Yada, Yukio Uchihori, Hyomin Jeong, Tatsunobu Shibata, Ryota Onogi, J. H. Kim, Michiyuki Chikawa, ByongGu Cheon, Hideaki Shimodaira, Hyoming Jeong, Eiji Kido, M. Ohnishi, Taichi Inadomi, Kazuhiro Machida, Ryo Higuchi, Charlie Jui, Akitoshi Oshima, R. Mayta, Douglas Bergman, Keitaro Fujita, Elliott Barcikowski, Maxim Pshirkov, Manobu Tanaka, Pierre Sokolsky, Vladim Kuzmin, BayarJon Paul Lubsandorzhiev, Shunsuke Ozawa, Min Hyo Kim, Dmitri Ivanov, Koki Sato, Mayuko Minamino, Saori Kasami, Shigehiro Nagataki, Hideyuki Ohoka, Takashi Sako, K. Yamazaki, Tareq Abu-Zayyad, Keijiro Mukai, Youngjoon Kwon, Yasunori Saito, John Belz, Yana Zhezher, Sang Woo Kim, S. Kawakami, Jyunsei Chiba, Ryo Nakamura, Masato Takita, Yusuke Kimura, Daiki Shinto, Dongsu Ryu, Yuta Tanoue, Fumiya Shibata, Yuya Oku, K. H. Lee, Jihee Kim, Kengo Sano, Priti Shah, Hirokazu Iwakura, Y. Takagi, Motoki Hayashi, Oleg Kalashev, Kenta Yashiro, Zach Zundel, Masahiro Takeda, Ken Honda, Ben Stokes, Matt Potts, Kozo Fujisue, Stanton Thomas, Gordon Thomson, Toshiyuki Nonaka, Ryuhei Arimura, Ryosuke Tsuda, Akimichi Taketa, Tom Stroman, Robert Cady, Soomin Jeong, Ricardo Gonzalez, Federico R. Urban, Nobuyuki Sakurai, Koichi Sekino, Yoshiki Tsunesada, P. Tinyakov, Daisuke Ikeda, Eiji Nishio, T. Seki, Tomoyuki Nakamura, Ryota Fukushima, Naoya Inoue, Tiffany Wong, Toru Nakamura, Kenichi Kadota, Y. Takahashi, Mai Takamura, Masaki Fukushima, Takeshi Okuda, Igor Tkachev, Shingo Kawana, Naohiro Sone, Heungsu Shin, William Hanlon, H. Oda, Il Hung Park, G. Furlich, Takaaki Ishii, Hideyuki Kawai, Shinnosuke Kurisu, Yuto Arai, Toshio Matsuyama, Samuel Blake, Shoichi Ogio, Jeremy Smith, D. C. Rodriguez, Aoi Iwasaki, HangBae Kim, Ryota Fujiwara, Naoto Sakaki, Grigory Rubtsov, Rasha Abbasi, R. Sahara, Arata Nakazawa, Kei Nakai, Telescope Array, Isaac Myers, Hirotaka Ito, Ryuji Takeishi, Shoichi Kishigami, Masaomi Ono, Sergey Troitsky, Taka Tomida, J. Remington, Naoaki Hayashida, and Shigeharu Udo
Subjects: Surface (mathematics), Materials science, Optics, Air shower, business.industry, Detector, business
Published: 2021

20. Observations of the Origin of Downward Terrestrial Gamma‐Ray Flashes

Author: Hideaki Shimodaira, Hyoming Jeong, Hidemi Ito, N. Inoue, Takashi Sako, D. Ikeda, M. Ohnishi, Taichi Inadomi, Tareq Abu-Zayyad, Takayuki Tomida, Toru Nakamura, Federico R. Urban, Yuya Oku, Oleg Kalashev, Fumiya Shibata, Kenichi Kadota, S. Udo, C. C. H. Jui, Pierre Sokolsky, M. Takeda, Zach Zundel, Shigehiro Nagataki, Sergey Troitsky, Toshiyuki Nonaka, M. Byrne, Kengo Sano, R. Sahara, Matt Potts, K. H. Lee, Yasunori Saito, Hiroyuki Sagawa, Ben Stokes, T.-A. Shibata, Heungsu Shin, S. B. Thomas, H. Tokuno, H. Yamaoka, Yuta Tanoue, Motoki Hayashi, J. P. Lundquist, Gordon Thomson, Tom Stroman, Robert Cady, Kiyoshi Tanaka, Michiyuki Chikawa, J. Remington, Y. Hayashi, G. Furlich, Takaaki Ishii, Igor Tkachev, Naohiro Sone, Y. Zhezher, Yoshihiko Nakamura, Akimichi Taketa, J. D. Smith, T. Fujii, Keitaro Fujita, Y. J. Kwon, Hideyuki Ohoka, Vladim Kuzmin, H. Oda, K. Kawata, D. C. Rodriguez, S. Ozawa, BayarJon Paul Lubsandorzhiev, S. Jeong, B. K. Shin, D. Rodeheffer, Naoaki Hayashida, B. G. Cheon, T. Matuyama, Kenta Yashiro, Mayuko Minamino, M. Allen, Tiffany Wong, R. Takeishi, Yuichiro Tameda, Isaac Myers, K. Honda, Ryota Fujiwara, John N. Matthews, John Belz, Elliott Barcikowski, K. Kasahara, Masaki Fukushima, Akitoshi Oshima, Fumio Kakimoto, Dmitri Ivanov, Naoto Sakaki, Paul R. Krehbiel, M. Yamamoto, Y. Takahashi, Keijiro Mukai, Masaomi Ono, Masato Takita, M. Wallace, K. Yamazaki, H. Kawai, Masaaki Tanaka, Nobuyuki Sakurai, S. Kawakami, Hiroyuki Matsumiya, Saori Kasami, A. Di Matteo, T. Seki, Takafumi Uehama, Y. Tsunesada, Maxim Pshirkov, R. Mayta, R. LeVon, Hongsu Kim, Y. Uchihori, Eiji Kido, Kei Nakai, M. V. Kuznetsov, Kazuhiro Machida, K. Sekino, William Hanlon, T. Okuda, Inkyu Park, Grigory Rubtsov, William Rison, D. R. Bergman, R. U. Abbasi, Peter Tinyakov, Samuel Blake, Shoichi Ogio, J. H. Kim, Y. Omura, Dongsu Ryu, Mark A. Stanley, Hirokazu Iwakura, Y. Takagi, Ryo Nakamura, Kazuo Saito, H. Yoshii, M. Yosei, and K. Hibino
Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Atmospheric Science, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Conjunction (astronomy), Gamma ray, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Electron, Radio atmospheric, 01 natural sciences, Lightning, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Geophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Electric field, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph), Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous), Atmospheric electricity, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Cosmic-ray observatory, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract: In this paper we report the first close, high-resolution observations of downward-directed terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs) detected by the large-area Telescope Array cosmic ray observatory, obtained in conjunction with broadband VHF interferometer and fast electric field change measurements of the parent discharge. The results show that the TGFs occur during strong initial breakdown pulses (IBPs) in the first few milliseconds of negative cloud-to-ground and low-altitude intracloud flashes, and that the IBPs are produced by a newly-identified streamer-based discharge process called fast negative breakdown. The observations indicate the relativistic runaway electron avalanches (RREAs) responsible for producing the TGFs are initiated by embedded spark-like transient conducting events (TCEs) within the fast streamer system, and potentially also by individual fast streamers themselves. The TCEs are inferred to be the cause of impulsive sub-pulses that are characteristic features of classic IBP sferics. Additional development of the avalanches would be facilitated by the enhanced electric field ahead of the advancing front of the fast negative breakdown. In addition to showing the nature of IBPs and their enigmatic sub-pulses, the observations also provide a possible explanation for the unsolved question of how the streamer to leader transition occurs during the initial negative breakdown, namely as a result of strong currents flowing in the final stage of successive IBPs, extending backward through both the IBP itself and the negative streamer breakdown preceding the IBP., Comment: Typo fixed and reference added. Manuscript is 36 pages. Supplemental Information is 42 pages. This paper is to be published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. Online data repository: Open Science Framework DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/Z3XDA
Published: 2020

21. Search for Large-scale Anisotropy on Arrival Directions of Ultra-high-energy Cosmic Rays Observed with the Telescope Array Experiment

Author: Takashi Sako, Hideaki Shimodaira, Hyoming Jeong, Ryo Higuchi, Inkyu Park, Kenta Yashiro, R. U. Abbasi, Tareq Abu-Zayyad, R. Azuma, Fumiya Shibata, F. Kakimoto, R. Ishimori, Daisuke Ikeda, K. Yamazaki, H. Kawai, Tiffany Wong, R. Takeishi, Masaki Fukushima, Maxim Pshirkov, Hongsu Kim, B. K. Shin, Hideki Tanaka, Toshiyuki Fujii, B. G. Cheon, T. Seki, John Belz, K. Kawata, BayarJon Paul Lubsandorzhiev, Akimichi Taketa, Min Hyo Kim, G. Furlich, Takaaki Ishii, Mayuko Minamino, K. Honda, Takayuki Tomida, Seok Ho Jeong, K. H. Lee, Yuta Tanoue, Masaaki Tanaka, D. C. Rodriguez, T.-A. Shibata, S. Kawakami, Motoki Hayashi, Zach Zundel, Peter Tinyakov, Samuel Blake, Gordon Thomson, Ben Stokes, Tom Stroman, Robert Cady, J. P. Lundquist, Shoichi Ogio, Kozo Fujisue, Hiroyuki Sagawa, M. Yamamoto, M. Yosei, Hidemi Ito, Grigory Rubtsov, Koichi Sekino, Kiyoshi Tanaka, D. R. Bergman, T. Suzawa, Y. Zhezher, Heungsu Shin, Isaac Myers, Katsuaki Kasahara, Y. Takahashi, Mai Takamura, Nobuyuki Sakurai, Yuya Oku, Oleg Kalashev, K. Hibino, Shoichi Kishigami, M. Allen, Sergey Troitsky, Toru Nakamura, Kenichi Kadota, T. Matsuyama, S. Ozawa, Masaomi Ono, Toshiyuki Nonaka, Y. Uchihori, Kei Nakai, Ryota Onogi, A. Di Matteo, J. Remington, Hideyuki Ohoka, R. Mayta, Vladim Kuzmin, Ryota Fujiwara, Keitaro Fujita, Saori Kasami, Shingo Kawana, Naoto Sakaki, Naoaki Hayashida, Yoshihiko Nakamura, William Hanlon, Priti Shah, T. Okuda, J. Yang, Masato Takita, R. Sahara, Pierre Sokolsky, M. Takeda, Shigehiro Nagataki, M. Abe, Akitoshi Oshima, Y. Tsunesada, H. Tokuno, Younghoon Kwon, J. D. Smith, J. H. Kim, Elliott Barcikowski, Dmitri Ivanov, Keijiro Mukai, Jyunsei Chiba, Dongsu Ryu, Hirokazu Iwakura, Y. Takagi, Kohei Yada, Y. Omura, Igor Tkachev, Naohiro Sone, H. Oda, N. Inoue, M. Ohnishi, Taichi Inadomi, Federico R. Urban, S. Udo, C. C. H. Jui, Kengo Sano, S. B. Thomas, Yasunori Saito, Yuichiro Tameda, John N. Matthews, S. W. Kim, Hiroyuki Matsumiya, M. Chikawa, Takafumi Uehama, Eiji Kido, M. V. Kuznetsov, Kazuhiro Machida, and Ryo Nakamura
Subjects: Physics, Pierre Auger Observatory, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, 01 natural sciences, Auger, Computational physics, law.invention, Telescope, Dipole, Amplitude, Space and Planetary Science, law, 0103 physical sciences, Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Anisotropy, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract: Motivated by the detection of a significant dipole structure in the arrival directions of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays above 8 EeV reported by the Pierre Auger Observatory (Auger), we search for a large-scale anisotropy using data collected with the surface detector array of the Telescope Array Experiment (TA). With 11 years of TA data, a dipole structure in a projection of the right ascension is fitted with an amplitude of 3.3+- 1.9% and a phase of 131 +- 33 degrees. The corresponding 99% confidence-level upper limit on the amplitude is 7.3%. At the current level of statistics, the fitted result is compatible with both an isotropic distribution and the dipole structure reported by Auger., Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, Proofed title. Added journal reference and DOI
Published: 2020
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22. Gamma Ray Showers Observed at Ground Level in Coincidence With Downward Lightning Leaders

Author: Fumiya Shibata, R. W. Springer, Maxim Pshirkov, John Belz, Akitoshi Oshima, Hiroyuki Sagawa, Fumio Kakimoto, D. R. Bergman, Zach Zundel, K. Hibino, Koichi Sekino, K. Kasahara, Y. Tsunesada, Hideaki Shimodaira, Ryo Nakamura, R. LeVon, Hongsu Kim, Kazuo Saito, Shoichi Kishigami, Heungsu Shin, Shunsuke Ozawa, Mayuko Minamino, K. Honda, Hidemi Ito, K. Martens, Toshitsugu Fujii, M. Yamamoto, Y. Yoneda, N. Inoue, G. Vasiloff, Ryuji Takeishi, Masato Takita, Nobuyuki Sakurai, Masaomi Ono, Priti Shah, Hideki Tanaka, Grigory Rubtsov, M. Ohnishi, H. Yoshii, Ryota Onogi, Ben Stokes, Daisuke Ikeda, Elliott Barcikowski, Sergey Troitsky, Masaaki Tanaka, T. Matuyama, Vladim Kuzmin, Jyunsei Chiba, Dongsu Ryu, M. Allen, Helio Takai, Takayuki Tomida, Dmitri Ivanov, Tiffany Wong, B. G. Cheon, Keijiro Mukai, S. Jeong, Masaki Fukushima, B. K. Shin, K. Oki, Federico R. Urban, J. Remington, S. Udo, C. C. H. Jui, Tareq Abu-Zayyad, R. Yamane, Peter Tinyakov, Samuel Blake, Shoichi Ogio, Rasha Abbasi, William Rison, H. Kawai, Michiyuki Chikawa, M. Byrne, Naoaki Hayashida, S. Kawakami, Kiyoshi Tanaka, S. B. Thomas, Akimichi Taketa, Y. Hayashi, Toru Nakamura, K. Kawata, T. Seki, Kenichi Kadota, J. Lan, Igor Tkachev, R. Cady, J. P. Lundquist, G. Furlich, Takaaki Ishii, D. Rodeheffer, Toshiyuki Nonaka, T.-A. Shibata, Gordon Thomson, S. Yoshida, Hiroshi Yamaoka, Tom Stroman, Naoto Sakaki, Kenta Yashiro, D. C. Rodriguez, Isaac Myers, Inkyu Park, Y. Uchihori, H. Tokuno, K. Yamazaki, J. D. Smith, Yuichiro Tameda, John N. Matthews, William Hanlon, T. Okuda, J. H. Kim, J. Yang, Y. J. Kwon, Hideyuki Ohoka, Paul R. Krehbiel, T. Goto, Eiji Kido, Pierre Sokolsky, Kazuhiro Machida, M. Takeda, Shigehiro Nagataki, R. J. Thomas, and O. Kalashev
Subjects: Atmospheric Science, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Radiation, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, law.invention, Telescope, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Electron avalanche, law, 0103 physical sciences, Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous), Cosmic-ray observatory, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Lightning detection, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Gamma ray, Lightning, Physics - Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics, Geophysics, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph), Satellite, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Bursts of gamma ray showers have been observed in coincidence with downward propagating negative leaders in lightning flashes by the Telescope Array Surface Detector (TASD). The TASD is a 700~square kilometer cosmic ray observatory located in southwestern Utah, U.S.A. In data collected between 2014 and 2016, correlated observations showing the structure and temporal development of three shower-producing flashes were obtained with a 3D lightning mapping array, and electric field change measurements were obtained for an additional seven flashes, in both cases co-located with the TASD. National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN) information was also used throughout. The showers arrived in a sequence of 2--5 short-duration ($\le$10~$\mu$s) bursts over time intervals of several hundred microseconds, and originated at an altitude of $\simeq$3--5 kilometers above ground level during the first 1--2 ms of downward negative leader breakdown at the beginning of cloud-to-ground lightning flashes. The shower footprints, associated waveforms and the effect of atmospheric propagation indicate that the showers consist primarily of downward-beamed gamma radiation. This has been supported by GEANT simulation studies, which indicate primary source fluxes of $\simeq$$10^{12}$--$10^{14}$ photons for $16^{\circ}$ half-angle beams. We conclude that the showers are terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs), similar to those observed by satellites, but that the ground-based observations are more representative of the temporal source activity and are also more sensitive than satellite observations, which detect only the most powerful TGFs.
Published: 2018

23. The bursts of high energy events observed by the telescope array surface detector

Author: 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
Subjects: 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.
Published: 2017

24. First upper limits on the radar cross section of cosmic-ray induced extensive air showers

Author: John Belz, Eiji Kido, Nobuyuki Sakurai, Fumiya Shibata, Kazuhiro Machida, R. Ishimori, Takahiro Fujii, Helio Takai, M. Abou Bakr Othman, Maxim Pshirkov, J. H. Kim, W. R. Cho, C. Jayanthmurthy, O. Kalashev, R. W. Springer, Peter Tinyakov, Samuel Blake, Shoichi Ogio, Charlie Jui, Mayuko Minamino, K. Honda, Yasunori Kitamura, Masaaki Tanaka, G. Vasiloff, J. P. Lundquist, Toru Nakamura, Jyunsei Chiba, Kenichi Kadota, Akitoshi Oshima, Dongsu Ryu, Ryuji Takeishi, M. J. Chae, S. Kitamura, Hidemi Ito, K. Nagasawa, Y. Uchihori, Hideaki Shimodaira, Hiroyuki Sagawa, Fumio Kakimoto, T. Matsuyama, D. Z. Besson, M. Allen, Y. J. Kwon, Michiyuki Chikawa, Priti Shah, T. Suzawa, Hideyuki Ohoka, Isaac Myers, K. Oki, Y. Yoneda, N. Inoue, S. I. Lim, M. Ohnishi, Tomohiro Matsuda, S. Prohira, Masato Takita, Suresh Venkatesh, K. Yamazaki, J. Ogura, Mai Takamura, Tareq Abu-Zayyad, R. Yamane, Ahmad RezazadehReyhani, Toshiyuki Nonaka, T. Goto, S. Udo, R. Azuma, Rasha Abbasi, Hiroshi Yamaoka, Pierre Sokolsky, Yuichiro Tameda, B. G. Cheon, John N. Matthews, L. M. Scott, Zach Zundel, Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny, Takaaki Ishii, Bokkyun Shin, A. Nozato, Y. Hayashi, Sergey Troitsky, Hongsu Kim, A. L. Sampson, K. Kawata, D. C. Rodriguez, V. Kuzmin, S. Kawakami, Akimichi Taketa, K. Martens, H. Kawai, S. Yoshida, Hideki Tanaka, M. Takeda, Daisuke Ikeda, M. Byrne, S. B. Thomas, S. R. Stratton, Shigehiro Nagataki, Tiffany Wong, Masaki Fukushima, J. Lan, Douglas Bergman, Ross Anderson, Kiyoshi Tanaka, Kenta Yashiro, K. Tsutsumi, R. Zollinger, Naoaki Hayashida, M. Abe, S. Kunwar, Igor Tkachev, R. Cady, David Schurig, K. Hibino, H. Yoshii, Y. Tsunesada, Shunsuke Ozawa, Ben Stokes, Elliott Barcikowski, Dmitri Ivanov, Keijiro Mukai, Federico R. Urban, T.-A. Shibata, Gordon Thomson, Tom Stroman, Inkyu Park, K. Kasahara, Masaomi Ono, G. Rubtsov, Takayuki Tomida, W.H. Gillman, H. Tokuno, J. D. Smith, Shingo Kawana, William Hanlon, T. Okuda, J. Yang, and J. C. Hanson
Subjects: Physics, Radar cross-section, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Pulse-Doppler radar, business.industry, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Continuous-wave radar, Radar engineering details, Optics, Radar astronomy, law, Radar imaging, 0103 physical sciences, Radar, Radar display, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, 010306 general physics, business, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Remote sensing
Abstract: TARA (Telescope Array Radar) is a cosmic ray radar detection experiment colocated with Telescope Array, the conventional surface scintillation detector (SD) and fluorescence telescope detector (FD) near Delta, Utah, U.S.A. The TARA detector combines a 40 kW, 54.1 MHz VHF transmitter and high-gain transmitting antenna which broadcasts the radar carrier over the SD array and within the FD field of view, towards a 250 MS/s DAQ receiver. TARA has been collecting data since 2013 with the primary goal of observing the radar signatures of extensive air showers (EAS). Simulations indicate that echoes are expected to be short in duration (~10 microseconds) and exhibit rapidly changing frequency, with rates on the order of 1 MHz/microsecond. The EAS radar cross-section (RCS) is currently unknown although it is the subject of over 70 years of speculation. A novel signal search technique is described in which the expected radar echo of a particular air shower is used as a matched filter template and compared to waveforms obtained by triggering the radar DAQ using the Telescope Array fluorescence detector. No evidence for the scattering of radio frequency radiation by EAS is obtained to date. We report the first quantitative RCS upper limits using EAS that triggered the Telescope Array Fluorescence Detector., Comment: 21 pages, 30 figures
Published: 2017

25. Search for EeV protons of galactic origin

Author: R. Ishimori, R. Zollinger, Kenta Yashiro, Yasunori Saito, Yuichiro Tameda, John N. Matthews, K. Nagasawa, J. Yang, Y. J. Kwon, Eiji Kido, Hideyuki Ohoka, Kazuhiro Machida, J. Lan, S. Kitamura, Masato Takita, M. Abe, Byung Gu Cheon, Hidemi Ito, John Belz, Toshiyuki Nonaka, Elliott Barcikowski, Takayuki Tomida, Igor Tkachev, R. Cady, Motoki Hayashi, J. P. Lundquist, Ryuji Takeishi, BayarJon Paul Lubsandorzhiev, K. Hibino, Ben Stokes, Inkyu Park, T. Matsuyama, L. M. Scott, S. Ozawa, Dmitri Ivanov, Keijiro Mukai, Hiroshi Yamaoka, Tomohiro Matsuda, Mayuko Minamino, K. Honda, Y. Yoneda, N. Inoue, Federico R. Urban, A. Nozato, Y. Hayashi, K. Oki, M. Ohnishi, Yasunori Kitamura, T. Goto, S. Udo, C. C. H. Jui, K. Kawata, M. Allen, Douglas Bergman, Yoshiki Tsunesada, Nobuyuki Sakurai, Masaaki Tanaka, Sergey Troitsky, Daisuke Ikeda, Hideaki Shimodaira, Toru Nakamura, Kenichi Kadota, S. R. Stratton, H. Kawai, K. Kasahara, Akitoshi Oshima, S. B. Thomas, O. Kalashev, Shoichi Kishigami, Koichi Sekino, Kanako Yamazaki, Takahiro Fujii, Tiffany Wong, Priti Shah, K. Saito, Masaki Fukushima, Masaomi Ono, Jyunsei Chiba, Dongsu Ryu, B. K. Shin, Grigory Rubtsov, K. Martens, Hideki Tanaka, S. Yoshida, Y. Takahashi, Mai Takamura, Ryota Onogi, J. H. Kim, Vladim Kuzmin, H. Yoshii, Tareq Abu-Zayyad, A. H. Tirone, R. Yamane, Kiyoshi Tanaka, J. Ogura, Naoto Sakaki, Naoaki Hayashida, Peter Tinyakov, Samuel Blake, Maxim Pshirkov, Shoichi Ogio, T.-A. Shibata, Gordon Thomson, Tom Stroman, Zach Zundel, Pierre Sokolsky, Hang Bae Kim, Akimichi Taketa, Heungsu Shin, Rasha Abbasi, M. Takeda, Fumio Kakimoto, Shigehiro Nagataki, Michiyuki Chikawa, K. Tsutsumi, R. Azuma, S. Kawakami, Hiroyuki Sagawa, Y. Uchihori, T. Suzawa, Isaac Myers, Takaaki Ishii, D. C. Rodriguez, Shingo Kawana, William Hanlon, T. Okuda, H. Tokuno, J. D. Smith, and Fumiya Shibata
Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Galactic anticenter, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Galactic plane, 01 natural sciences, Galactic tide, law.invention, Telescope, law, 0103 physical sciences, Galactic corona, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Anisotropy, Longitude, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: Cosmic rays in the energy range $10^{18.0}$ - $10^{18.5}$ eV are thought to have a light, probably protonic, composition. To study their origin one can search for anisotropy in their arrival directions. Extragalactic cosmic rays should be isotropic, but galactic cosmic rays of this type should be seen mostly along the galactic plane, and there should be a shortage of events coming from directions near the galactic anticenter. This is due to the fact that, under the influence of the galactic magnetic field, the transition from ballistic to diffusive behavior is well advanced, and this qualitative picture persists over the whole energy range. Guided by models of the galactic magnetic field that indicate that the enhancement along the galactic plane should have a standard deviation of about 20$^\circ$ in galactic latitude, and the deficit in the galactic anticenter direction should have a standard deviation of about 50$^\circ$ in galactic longitude, we use the data of the Telescope Array surface detector in $10^{18.0}$ to $10^{18.5}$ eV energy range to search for these effects. The data are isotropic. Neither an enhancement along the galactic plane nor a deficit in the galactic anticenter direction is found. Using these data we place an upper limit on the fraction of EeV cosmic rays of galactic origin at 1.3% at 95% confidence level.
Published: 2017

26. Long distance network link for TAx4 expansion

Author: Stan B. Thomas, Toshiyuki Nonaka, Takeshi Okuda, Naoto Sakaki, Hiroyuki Sagawaa, Eiji Kido, Kohei Yada, John Matthews, Robert Cady, Ryota Fujiwara, and Shoichi Ogio
Subjects: Computer science, business.industry, Attenuation, Detector, Elevation, Measure (physics), Electrical engineering, Terrain, Power (physics), law.invention, Telescope, Air shower, law, business
Abstract: As a high-energy expansion of existing Telescope Array (TA) experiment, TAx4 SDs have been deployed and operated from Apr.2019. Network communication for inter-site and each detector also have been expanded to longer distance. Communication towers are located in off-grid. Those are operated by solar panel and batteries. In this report we describe hardware configuration and installation as well as operation status after the installation. We measure reception signals at communication towers and each detector sites. The reception depends on condition of terrain. There are several models and tools those are used for predicting received power considering elevation model. For future ground experiment of air shower observation, it is useful if attenuation of signal strength and communication quality could be estimated quantitatively. In this report, we present observed signal strength and its comparison with available attenuation models also.
Published: 2019

27. Status and prospects of the TAx4 experiment

Author: Eiji Kido
Subjects: Physics, QC1-999, Detector, Field of view, Cosmic ray, North east, First light, law.invention, Telescope, law, Energy spectrum, South east, Remote sensing
Abstract: The TAx4 experiment is a project to observe highest energy cosmic rays by expanding the detection area of the Telescope Array (TA) experiment with newly constructed surface detectors (SDs) and fluorescence detectors (FDs). The construction of both SDs and FDs is ongoing. New SDs are arranged in a square grid with 2.08 km spacing at the north east and south east of the TA SD array. Field of view of new FDs overlaps the detection area of new SDs to observe SD FD hybrid events. More than half of the new SDs were deployed on February and March 2019. The first light with new FDs was observed on February 16th, 2018. The performance of the constructed detectors and the prospects of the detector deployment and operation will be shown in this talk as well as proposed physics program. The latter includes high exposure analysis of the hotspot and energy spectrum anisotropy with the extended TA experiment.
Published: 2019

28. Implications of the cosmic ray spectrum from the second knee to the ankle region observed by the TA and TALE experiment for the cosmic ray proton sources

Author: Eiji Kido
Subjects: Physics, Range (particle radiation), Proton, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Spectral line, law.invention, Telescope, law, Calibration, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Energy (signal processing)
Abstract: The Telescope Array and the Telescope Array Low Energy Extension experiment provides energy spectra of cosmic rays with energies above $10^{15.3}$ eV using the same energy calibration techniques of fluorescence detectors. The calibration techniques enable the wide range of energy spectra to be combined with small systematic uncertainty. The energy spectra from below the second knee to the ankle are fitted with cosmic ray protons from a simple phenomenological extragalactic source model and with some galactic cosmic ray models. The energy spectra can be successfully fitted with some galactic cosmic ray models which show steep break at the second knee.
Published: 2019

29. Search for Ultra-High-Energy Neutrinos with the Telescope Array Surface Detector

Author: Koichi Sekino, Y. Takahashi, Mai Takamura, S. Kitamura, Hidemi Ito, K. Martens, Yuta Tanoue, Motoki Hayashi, J. P. Lundquist, K. Tsutsumi, John Belz, Heungsu Shin, Vladim Kuzmin, Takashi Sako, Toru Nakamura, Inkyu Park, Kenichi Kadota, Yana Zhezher, Hiroyuki Sagawa, D. R. Bergman, Maxim Pshirkov, Charlie Jui, BayarJon Paul Lubsandorzhiev, Mayuko Minamino, K. Yamazaki, M. Abe, K. H. Lee, K. Honda, Daisuke Ikeda, S. R. Stratton, Yasunori Kitamura, T.-A. Shibata, Gordon Thomson, Toshiyuki Fujii, Ryo Nakamura, Tom Stroman, Robert Cady, Masaaki Tanaka, Fumiya Shibata, M. Yamamoto, Nobuyuki Sakurai, Tiffany Wong, R. Takeishi, L. M. Scott, Hongsu Kim, Y. Hayashi, R. Ishimori, Masaki Fukushima, Kazuo Saito, Ben Stokes, N. Inoue, M. Ohnishi, Y. J. Kwon, Akimichi Taketa, Eiji Kido, B. G. Cheon, H. Kawai, K. Kawata, Federico R. Urban, M. V. Kuznetsov, Ryota Onogi, Hideyuki Ohoka, Pierre Sokolsky, A. Di Matteo, H. Yoshii, S. Udo, Kazuhiro Machida, Hideaki Shimodaira, Hyoming Jeong, M. Takeda, Shigehiro Nagataki, R. Mayta, T. Seki, Seok Ho Jeong, S. B. Thomas, Peter Tinyakov, Samuel Blake, Oleg Kalashev, Shoichi Ogio, Priti Shah, Igor Tkachev, Zach Zundel, S. Kawakami, Fumio Kakimoto, Tareq Abu-Zayyad, K. Nagasawa, H. Oda, H. Tokuno, R. Azuma, Toshiyuki Nonaka, K. Hibino, Kenta Yashiro, Akitoshi Oshima, Y. Tsunesada, Keitaro Fujita, B. K. Shin, H. Yamaoka, Michiyuki Chikawa, Masato Takita, J. D. Smith, Sergey Troitsky, Y. Omura, J. Remington, J. H. Kim, Elliott Barcikowski, Dmitri Ivanov, Jyunsei Chiba, Keijiro Mukai, Naoaki Hayashida, Shingo Kawana, Dongsu Ryu, Y. Takagi, Yasunori Saito, William Hanlon, T. Okuda, J. Yang, Yuichiro Tameda, John N. Matthews, Kohei Yada, Hideki Tanaka, Takayuki Tomida, K. Kasahara, Shoichi Kishigami, Kiyoshi Tanaka, Grigory Rubtsov, M. Allen, Masaomi Ono, R. Sahara, Ryota Fujiwara, Naoto Sakaki, Y. Uchihori, Kei Nakai, Rasha Abbasi, T. Matsuyama, S. Ozawa, T. Suzawa, J. Ogura, Isaac Myers, G. Furlich, Takaaki Ishii, and D. C. Rodriguez
Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, business.industry, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Detector, FOS: Physical sciences, General Physics and Astronomy, Flux, Observable, Cosmic ray, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Telescope, Optics, Distribution function, law, 0103 physical sciences, Alternating decision tree, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, 010306 general physics, business, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We present an upper limit on the flux of ultra-high-energy down-going neutrinos for $E > 10^{18}\ \mbox{eV}$ derived with the nine years of data collected by the Telescope Array surface detector (05-11-2008 -- 05-10-2017). The method is based on the multivariate analysis technique, so-called Boosted Decision Trees (BDT). Proton-neutrino classifier is built upon 16 observables related to both the properties of the shower front and the lateral distribution function., 10 pages, 4 figures, accepted to JETP
Published: 2019

30. Search for point sources of ultra-high energy photons with the Telescope Array surface detector

Author: Yasunori Saito, Yuichiro Tameda, John N. Matthews, G. Furlich, Takaaki Ishii, Takayuki Tomida, Heungsu Shin, D. C. Rodriguez, Fumio Kakimoto, Hideki Tanaka, Hideyuki Ohoka, Pierre Sokolsky, Elliott Barcikowski, M. Takeda, Shigehiro Nagataki, Yana Zhezher, K. Hibino, Dmitri Ivanov, Douglas Bergman, Hideaki Shimodaira, Hyoming Jeong, Keijiro Mukai, Younghoon Kwon, T. Suzawa, K. Martens, Eiji Kido, Kenta Yashiro, M. V. Kuznetsov, K. Tsutsumi, Kazuhiro Machida, K. Yamazaki, Isaac Myers, Sergey Troitsky, K. H. Lee, Grigory Rubtsov, T.-A. Shibata, Hidemi Ito, J. Remington, Gordon Thomson, BayarJon Paul Lubsandorzhiev, K. Kasahara, Tom Stroman, Shoichi Kishigami, Robert Cady, Mayuko Minamino, John Belz, Hiroyuki Sagawa, Kiyoshi Tanaka, Kuzmin, Maxim Pshirkov, K. Honda, J. H. Kim, Toshio Seki, Y. Uchihori, Kei Nakai, Masaaki Tanaka, Naoaki Hayashida, Akitoshi Oshima, Y. Tsunesada, Y. Omura, Fumiya Shibata, Masaomi Ono, Toshiyuki Nonaka, R. Sahara, M. Allen, Takashi Sako, R. Ishimori, Hongsu Kim, Toru Nakamura, Kohei Yada, Igor Tkachev, Kenichi Kadota, Inkyu Park, Shingo Kawana, Jyunsei Chiba, Dongsu Ryu, H. Oda, T. Fujii, Keitaro Fujita, Y. Takagi, Akimichi Taketa, Ben Stokes, Tareq Abu-Zayyad, N. Inoue, B. G. Cheon, H. Kawai, B. K. Shin, M. Ohnishi, Federico R. Urban, S. Udo, C. C. H. Jui, Oleg Kalashev, William Hanlon, S. B. Thomas, S. Kawakami, T. Okuda, Rasha Abbasi, Seok Ho Jeong, J. Yang, L. M. Scott, Y. Hayashi, M. Yamamoto, Priti Shah, K. Kawata, Zach Zundel, Nobuyuki Sakurai, Ryota Onogi, A. Di Matteo, Daisuke Ikeda, Ryota Fujiwara, R. Mayta, S. R. Stratton, Tiffany Wong, Naoto Sakaki, R. Takeishi, Ryo Nakamura, Kazuo Saito, Masaki Fukushima, H. Yoshii, R. Azuma, T. Matsuyama, S. Ozawa, Masato Takita, H. Yamaoka, Michiyuki Chikawa, H. Tokuno, J. D. Smith, Peter Tinyakov, Samuel Blake, Shoichi Ogio, Yuta Tanoue, Motoki Hayashi, J. P. Lundquist, Koichi Sekino, Y. Takahashi, Mai Takamura, and M. Abe
Subjects: Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Photon flux, Library science, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Joint research, High energy photon, Science research, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Research policy, Science policy, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, 010306 general physics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Vice president
Abstract: The surface detector (SD) of the Telescope Array (TA) experiment allows one to indirectly detect photons with energies of order $10^{18}$ eV and higher and to separate photons from the cosmic-ray background. In this paper we present the results of a blind search for point sources of ultra-high energy (UHE) photons in the Northern sky using the TA SD data. The photon-induced extensive air showers (EAS) are separated from the hadron-induced EAS background by means of a multivariate classifier based upon 16 parameters that characterize the air shower events. No significant evidence for the photon point sources is found. The upper limits are set on the flux of photons from each particular direction in the sky within the TA field of view, according to the experiment's angular resolution for photons. Average 95% C.L. upper limits for the point-source flux of photons with energies greater than $10^{18}$, $10^{18.5}$, $10^{19}$, $10^{19.5}$ and $10^{20}$ eV are $0.094$, $0.029$, $0.010$, $0.0073$ and $0.0058$ km$^{-2}$yr$^{-1}$ respectively. For the energies higher than $10^{18.5}$ eV, the photon point-source limits are set for the first time. Numerical results for each given direction in each energy range are provided as a supplement to this paper., Comment: accepted to MNRAS, 11 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables; results in text-file format are supplemented to paper source
Published: 2019
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31. The Cosmic-Ray Composition between 2 PeV and 2 EeV Observed with the TALE Detector in Monocular Mode

Author: BayarJon Paul Lubsandorzhiev, Mayuko Minamino, K. Honda, Masaaki Tanaka, Ryuji Takeishi, Hiroyuki Sagawa, Yasunori Saito, Pierre Sokolsky, B. K. Shin, M. Takeda, M. Yamamoto, Shigehiro Nagataki, R. Sahara, Toshiyuki Fujii, Shingo Kawana, William Hanlon, T. Okuda, J. Yang, M. Allen, Seok Ho Jeong, Nobuyuki Sakurai, K. H. Lee, T.-A. Shibata, Shoichi Kishigami, Yuichiro Tameda, John N. Matthews, Zach Zundel, T. Suzawa, Fugo Yoshida, Gordon Thomson, Tom Stroman, Fumiya Shibata, Ryota Onogi, Saori Kasami, D. Ikeda, Robert Cady, S. W. Kim, Ryosuke Tsuda, Isaac Myers, Hidemi Ito, R. Mayta, Masaomi Ono, H. Kawai, K. Kawata, N. Inoue, B. G. Cheon, Katsuaki Kasahara, J. H. Kim, Takashi Sako, T. Seki, Kiyoshi Tanaka, Koichi Sekino, M. Ohnishi, Min Hyo Kim, Takayuki Tomida, Grigory Rubtsov, Hideki Tanaka, Peter Tinyakov, Samuel Blake, Toshiyuki Nonaka, Taichi Inadomi, Norimichi Shibata, Y. Omura, Hideaki Shimodaira, Hyoming Jeong, Shoichi Ogio, Younghoon Kwon, Inkyu Park, John Belz, T. Matsuyama, Ryo Higuchi, Ryota Fukushima, S. Ozawa, Katsuya Yamazaki, Y. Nakamura, Federico R. Urban, Heungsu Shin, Kohei Yada, S. Kawakami, Keitaro Fujita, Y. Takahashi, Mai Takamura, Elliott Barcikowski, R. U. Abbasi, Y. Uchihori, Kei Nakai, Maxim Pshirkov, Dmitri Ivanov, S. Udo, C. C. H. Jui, Koki Sato, Tiffany Wong, Yuto Arai, Keijiro Mukai, Hiroyuki Matsumiya, Masaki Fukushima, Yusuke Kimura, Akimichi Taketa, Yuta Tanoue, Ryota Fujiwara, M. Chikawa, Takafumi Uehama, Tareq Abu-Zayyad, Motoki Hayashi, G. Furlich, Takaaki Ishii, J. P. Lundquist, Jyunsei Chiba, Naoto Sakaki, Daiki Shinto, Eiji Kido, M. V. Kuznetsov, Kazuhiro Machida, D. C. Rodriguez, Kozo Fujisue, Kengo Sano, Priti Shah, Dongsu Ryu, S. B. Thomas, Hirokazu Iwakura, Y. Takagi, Igor Tkachev, Naohiro Sone, H. Oda, Kenta Yashiro, Masato Takita, F. Kakimoto, Hongsu Kim, Sergey Troitsky, J. Remington, Naoaki Hayashida, Akitoshi Oshima, Y. Tsunesada, Ben Stokes, Y. Zhezher, Hideyuki Ohoka, Vladim Kuzmin, Toru Nakamura, Kenichi Kadota, M. Abe, Yuya Oku, Oleg Kalashev, Ryo Nakamura, D. R. Bergman, K. Hibino, H. Tokuno, and J. D. Smith
Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Astroparticle physics, Physics, Monocular, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Detector, Mode (statistics), FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, 030226 pharmacology & pharmacy, 01 natural sciences, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics
Abstract: We report on a measurement of the cosmic ray composition by the Telescope Array Low-Energy Extension (TALE) air fluorescence detector (FD). By making use of the Cherenkov light signal in addition to air fluorescence light from cosmic ray (CR) induced extensive air showers, the TALE FD can measure the properties of the cosmic rays with energies as low as $\sim 2$ PeV and exceeding 1 EeV. In this paper, we present results on the measurement of $X_{\rm max}$ distributions of showers observed over this energy range. Data collected over a period of $\sim 4$ years was analyzed for this study. The resulting $X_{\rm max}$ distributions are compared to the Monte Carlo (MC) simulated data distributions for primary cosmic rays with varying composition and a 4-component fit is performed. The comparison and fit are performed for energy bins, of width 0.1 or 0.2 in $\log_{10} (E/{\rm eV})$, spanning the full range of the measured energies. We also examine the mean $X_{\rm max}$ value as a function of energy for cosmic rays with energies greater than $10^{15.8}$ eV. Below $10^{17.3}$ eV, the slope of the mean $X_{\rm max}$ as a function of energy (the elongation rate) for the data is significantly smaller than that of all elements in the models, indicating that the composition is becoming heavier with energy in this energy range. This is consistent with a rigidity-dependent cutoff of events from galactic sources. Finally, an increase in the $X_{\rm max}$ elongation rate is observed at energies just above $10^{17}$ eV indicating another change in the cosmic rays composition., 20 pages, 22 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Published: 2021

32. Testing a reported correlation between arrival directions of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays and a flux pattern from nearby starburst galaxies using Telescope Array data

Author: H. Kawai, Grigory Rubtsov, T. Seki, Hideaki Shimodaira, Hyoming Jeong, Toshitsugu Fujii, Shingo Kawana, G. Furlich, Takaaki Ishii, Oleg Kalashev, William Hanlon, T. Goto, K. Martens, T. Okuda, J. Yang, D. C. Rodriguez, K. Tsutsumi, M. Abe, Y. Uchihori, Elliott Barcikowski, S. Kitamura, Dmitri Ivanov, Hidemi Ito, T. Suzawa, Keijiro Mukai, Hiroyuki Sagawa, Tareq Abu-Zayyad, Maxim Pshirkov, Kenta Yashiro, Yasunori Saito, Toru Nakamura, Isaac Myers, Kenichi Kadota, R. Yamane, R. Sahara, K. Nagasawa, Heungsu Shin, Yuichiro Tameda, John N. Matthews, Ben Stokes, Fumio Kakimoto, M. Allen, L. M. Scott, Y. Hayashi, K. Yamazaki, Vladim Kuzmin, Y. J. Kwon, M. Yamamoto, K. Hibino, K. Kawata, S. Jeong, B. G. Cheon, Hideyuki Ohoka, Charlie Jui, Ryo Nakamura, K. H. Lee, T.-A. Shibata, Gordon Thomson, Nobuyuki Sakurai, Sergey Troitsky, Tom Stroman, Akimichi Taketa, Robert Cady, Kazuo Saito, J. H. Kim, Igor Tkachev, BayarJon Paul Lubsandorzhiev, J. Remington, Mayuko Minamino, K. Honda, John Belz, Yasunori Kitamura, Y. Omura, S. Kawakami, H. Oda, D. R. Bergman, H. Yoshii, Masaaki Tanaka, A. Di Matteo, Inkyu Park, Fumiya Shibata, Ryota Onogi, R. Ishimori, Kiyoshi Tanaka, Naoaki Hayashida, Takayuki Tomida, Y. Yoneda, N. Inoue, M. Ohnishi, Federico R. Urban, Akitoshi Oshima, Y. Tsunesada, Pierre Sokolsky, S. Udo, Hongsu Kim, R. Mayta, M. Takeda, S. B. Thomas, J. Ogura, Shigehiro Nagataki, Yana Zhezher, Eiji Kido, M. V. Kuznetsov, Kazuhiro Machida, K. Kasahara, Shoichi Kishigami, Hideki Tanaka, Zach Zundel, Daisuke Ikeda, R. Azuma, S. R. Stratton, Tiffany Wong, R. Takeishi, Masaki Fukushima, H. Yamaoka, Michiyuki Chikawa, Masaomi Ono, Toshiyuki Nonaka, Keitaro Fujita, B. K. Shin, Priti Shah, Peter Tinyakov, Samuel Blake, Shoichi Ogio, Masato Takita, Motoki Hayashi, J. P. Lundquist, Koichi Sekino, Y. Takahashi, Mai Takamura, Jyunsei Chiba, Dongsu Ryu, Y. Takagi, T. Matsuyama, S. Ozawa, Rasha Abbasi, S. Yoshida, Naoto Sakaki, H. Tokuno, and J. D. Smith
Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, FOS: Physical sciences, Sigma, Flux, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Galaxy, Auger, law.invention, Telescope, Space and Planetary Science, law, 0103 physical sciences, Anisotropy, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Energy (signal processing)
Abstract: The Pierre Auger Collaboration (Auger) recently reported a correlation between the arrival directions of cosmic rays with energies above 39 EeV and the flux pattern of 23 nearby starburst galaxies (SBGs). In this Letter, we tested the same hypothesis using cosmic rays detected by the Telescope Array experiment (TA) in the 9-year period from May 2008 to May 2017. Unlike the Auger analysis, we did not optimize the parameter values but kept them fixed to the best-fit values found by Auger, namely 9.7% for the anisotropic fraction of cosmic rays assumed to originate from the SBGs in the list and 12.9{\deg} for the angular scale of the correlations. The energy threshold we adopted is 43 EeV, corresponding to 39 EeV in Auger when taking into account the energy-scale difference between two experiments. We find that the TA data is compatible with isotropy to within 1.1{\sigma} and with the Auger result to within 1.4{\sigma}, meaning that it is not capable to discriminate between these two hypotheses., Comment: More accurate title, fixed an inconsistency in the declination range used, with a few figures slightly changing as a result, other minor revisions
Published: 2018

33. Study of muons from ultrahigh energy cosmic ray air showers measured with the Telescope Array experiment

Author: S. Kitamura, Hidemi Ito, Kenta Yashiro, Eiji Kido, M. V. Kuznetsov, Kazuhiro Machida, Jyunsei Chiba, Dongsu Ryu, Y. Takagi, Douglas Bergman, Toshiyuki Nonaka, K. Nagasawa, Hideki Tanaka, Elliott Barcikowski, J. H. Kim, T. Goto, G. Furlich, Takaaki Ishii, Y. Omura, Keitaro Fujita, Dmitri Ivanov, Pierre Sokolsky, J. Ogura, Yasunori Saito, B. K. Shin, Igor Tkachev, D. C. Rodriguez, R. Sahara, M. Takeda, Shigehiro Nagataki, Keijiro Mukai, Yuichiro Tameda, John N. Matthews, Akimichi Taketa, Rasha Abbasi, H. Oda, K. Yamazaki, M. Yamamoto, L. M. Scott, Nobuyuki Sakurai, T. Suzawa, Y. Yoneda, N. Inoue, M. Ohnishi, Sergey Troitsky, J. Remington, Y. Hayashi, Inkyu Park, Federico R. Urban, S. Udo, C. C. H. Jui, Isaac Myers, Y. J. Kwon, Hideyuki Ohoka, K. Kawata, Ryota Onogi, Koichi Sekino, A. Di Matteo, K. H. Lee, S. B. Thomas, T.-A. Shibata, Naoaki Hayashida, Takayuki Tomida, Gordon Thomson, T. Matsuyama, S. Ozawa, R. Mayta, Hongsu Kim, Priti Shah, Tom Stroman, Robert Cady, Y. Zhezher, Grigory Rubtsov, Hideaki Shimodaira, Hyoming Jeong, Y. Takahashi, Mai Takamura, K. Kasahara, Y. Uchihori, Shoichi Kishigami, S. Yoshida, Naoto Sakaki, R. Azuma, Masaomi Ono, Tareq Abu-Zayyad, R. Yamane, Kiyoshi Tanaka, Motoki Hayashi, J. P. Lundquist, Shingo Kawana, William Hanlon, M. Allen, H. Kawai, T. Okuda, J. Yang, H. Tokuno, J. D. Smith, Daisuke Ikeda, S. R. Stratton, Tiffany Wong, R. Takeishi, T. Seki, Masaki Fukushima, Masato Takita, K. Martens, K. Tsutsumi, Peter Tinyakov, Samuel Blake, Shoichi Ogio, Zach Zundel, Fumiya Shibata, R. Ishimori, Toshitsugu Fujii, Oleg Kalashev, H. Yamaoka, Michiyuki Chikawa, Ryo Nakamura, Kazuo Saito, H. Yoshii, Heungsu Shin, Toru Nakamura, K. Hibino, Kenichi Kadota, BayarJon Paul Lubsandorzhiev, Mayuko Minamino, K. Honda, Yasunori Kitamura, Masaaki Tanaka, John Belz, Hiroyuki Sagawa, Ben Stokes, B. G. Cheon, S. Kawakami, Maxim Pshirkov, Akitoshi Oshima, Y. Tsunesada, M. Abe, Fumio Kakimoto, Vladim Kuzmin, and S. Jeong
Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Muon, COSMIC cancer database, Particle number, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Monte Carlo method, Hadron, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Telescope, Nuclear physics, Air shower, 13. Climate action, law, 0103 physical sciences, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, 010306 general physics
Abstract: One of the uncertainties in interpretation of ultra-high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) data comes from the hadronic interaction models used for air shower Monte Carlo (MC) simulations. The number of muons observed at the ground from UHECR-induced air showers is expected to depend upon the hadronic interaction model. One may therefore test the hadronic interaction models by comparing the measured number of muons with the MC prediction. In this paper, we present the results of studies of muon densities in UHE extensive air showers obtained by analyzing the signal of surface detector stations which should have high $\it{muon \, purity}$. The muon purity of a station will depend on both the inclination of the shower and the relative position of the station. In 7 years' data from the Telescope Array experiment, we find that the number of particles observed for signals with an expected muon purity of $\sim$65% at a lateral distance of 2000 m from the shower core is $1.72 \pm 0.10{\rm (stat.)} \pm 0.37 {\rm (syst.)}$ times larger than the MC prediction value using the QGSJET II-03 model for proton-induced showers. A similar effect is also seen in comparisons with other hadronic models such as QGSJET II-04, which shows a $1.67 \pm 0.10 \pm 0.36$ excess. We also studied the dependence of these excesses on lateral distances and found a slower decrease of the lateral distribution of muons in the data as compared to the MC, causing larger discrepancy at larger lateral distances.
Published: 2018

34. The TA×4 Experiment

Author: Eiji Kido
Subjects: Physics, Energy spectrum, Computational physics
Published: 2018

35. Depth of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray Induced Air Shower Maxima Measured by the Telescope Array Black Rock and Long Ridge FADC Fluorescence Detectors and Surface Array in Hybrid Mode

Author: R. Azuma, M. Yamamoto, Nobuyuki Sakurai, Ryota Onogi, A. Di Matteo, R. Mayta, B. G. Cheon, Fumiya Shibata, K. Martens, Hideki Tanaka, R. Ishimori, K. H. Lee, M. Abe, T.-A. Shibata, Gordon Thomson, Tom Stroman, Robert Cady, H. Tokuno, S. Kitamura, Priti Shah, T. Goto, K. Tsutsumi, Hideaki Shimodaira, Hyoming Jeong, Rasha Abbasi, S. Kawakami, Akimichi Taketa, Hidemi Ito, Jyunsei Chiba, Dongsu Ryu, J. D. Smith, J. Ogura, Toshiyuki Nonaka, Kiyoshi Tanaka, Akitoshi Oshima, Y. Takagi, G. Furlich, Takaaki Ishii, Shunsuke Ozawa, O. Kalashev, BayarJon Paul Lubsandorzhiev, Hiroshi Yamaoka, Mayuko Minamino, K. Honda, Y. Zhezher, Hiroyuki Sagawa, Keitaro Fujita, Yasunori Kitamura, Peter Tinyakov, Samuel Blake, D. C. Rodriguez, Shoichi Ogio, Ben Stokes, Toshitsugu Fujii, T. Matsuyama, Elliott Barcikowski, B. K. Shin, K. Yamazaki, Dmitri Ivanov, T. Suzawa, M. Allen, Masaaki Tanaka, K. Hibino, R. Sahara, Heungsu Shin, Zach Zundel, Ryo Nakamura, Keijiro Mukai, Isaac Myers, Kazuo Saito, Inkyu Park, Hongsu Kim, Pierre Sokolsky, S. Yoshida, Eiji Kido, Naoto Sakaki, Grigory Rubtsov, M. V. Kuznetsov, M. Takeda, John Belz, Vladim Kuzmin, H. Yoshii, Kazuhiro Machida, Shigehiro Nagataki, S. Jeong, Michiyuki Chikawa, H. Kawai, Tareq Abu-Zayyad, R. Yamane, K. Nagasawa, Douglas Bergman, Y. J. Kwon, Hideyuki Ohoka, Yasunori Saito, T. Seki, Yoshiki Tsunesada, Daisuke Ikeda, S. R. Stratton, Y. Uchihori, L. M. Scott, Tiffany Wong, R. Takeishi, Masaki Fukushima, Toru Nakamura, Y. Hayashi, Yuichiro Tameda, K. Kawata, John N. Matthews, Masato Takita, Kenichi Kadota, Sergey Troitsky, J. H. Kim, Y. Omura, Shingo Kawana, Naoaki Hayashida, William Hanlon, Igor Tkachev, T. Okuda, J. Yang, H. Oda, Kenta Yashiro, Y. Yoneda, N. Inoue, M. Ohnishi, Federico R. Urban, S. Udo, C. C. H. Jui, S. B. Thomas, Takayuki Tomida, K. Kasahara, Shoichi Kishigami, Masaomi Ono, Maxim Pshirkov, Motoki Hayashi, J. P. Lundquist, Koichi Sekino, Y. Takahashi, Mai Takamura, and Fumio Kakimoto
Subjects: Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, chemistry.chemical_element, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Telescope, Optics, Observatory, law, 0103 physical sciences, Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Helium, Astroparticle physics, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Air shower, chemistry, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Ridge (meteorology), Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, business
Abstract: The Telescope Array observatory utilizes fluorescence detectors and surface detectors to observe air showers produced by ultra high energy cosmic rays in the Earth's atmosphere. Cosmic ray events observed in this way are termed hybrid data. The depth of air shower maximum is related to the mass of the primary particle that generates the shower. This paper reports on shower maxima data collected over 8.5 years using the Black Rock Mesa and Long Ridge fluorescence detectors in conjunction with the array of surface detectors. We compare the means and standard deviations of the observed $X_{\mathrm{max}}$ distributions with Monte Carlo $X_{\mathrm{max}}$ distributions of unmixed protons, helium, nitrogen, and iron, all generated using the QGSJet~II-04 hadronic model. We also perform an unbinned maximum likelihood test of the observed data, which is subjected to variable systematic shifting of the data $X_{\mathrm{max}}$ distributions to allow us to test the full distributions, and compare them to the Monte Carlo to see which elements are not compatible with the observed data. For all energy bins, QGSJet~II-04 protons are found to be compatible with Telescope Array hybrid data at the 95% confidence level after some systematic $X_{\mathrm{max}}$ shifting of the data. Three other QGSJet~II-04 elements are found to be compatible using the same test procedure in an energy range limited to the highest energies where data statistics are sparse., Comment: 39 pages, 18 figures, 5 tables, published in The Astrophysical Journal. This is a peer-reviewed, un-copyedited version of an article published in The Astrophysical Journal. IOP Publishing Ltd is not responsible for any errors or omissions in this version of the manuscript or any version derived from it. The Version of Record is available online at https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aabad7
Published: 2018
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36. Evidence of Intermediate-Scale Energy Spectrum Anisotropy of Cosmic Rays E$\geq$10$^{19.2}$ eV with the Telescope Array Surface Detector

Author: N. Inoue, M. Ohnishi, R. Sahara, Toru Nakamura, S. Udo, Kenichi Kadota, Maxim Pshirkov, K. Kasahara, M. Abe, Shoichi Kishigami, T. Goto, Toshiyuki Nonaka, Zach Zundel, S. B. Thomas, Fumio Kakimoto, Masaomi Ono, Jyunsei Chiba, Charlie Jui, Dongsu Ryu, B. K. Shin, Hiroshi Yamaoka, Yoshiki Tsunesada, Daisuke Ikeda, Kenta Yashiro, Keitaro Fujita, BayarJon Paul Lubsandorzhiev, Ben Stokes, S. R. Stratton, Y. Takagi, Tiffany Wong, Mayuko Minamino, K. Honda, Masaki Fukushima, H. Tokuno, Yasunori Kitamura, K. Martens, Masato Takita, Hideki Tanaka, Takayuki Tomida, Masaaki Tanaka, J. D. Smith, Fumiya Shibata, Sergey Troitsky, S. Kitamura, R. Ishimori, Keiji Saito, Igor Tkachev, Michiyuki Chikawa, Eiji Kido, M. V. Kuznetsov, D. R. Bergman, H. Oda, Kazuhiro Machida, Hidemi Ito, Pierre Sokolsky, Y. Uchihori, Y. J. Kwon, Hideyuki Ohoka, R. Takeishi, Yasunori Saito, Shigehiro Nagataki, Akitoshi Oshima, T. Matsuyama, Yana Zhezher, T. Suzawa, Shunsuke Ozawa, Shingo Kawana, Yuichiro Tameda, John N. Matthews, Priti Shah, O. Kalashev, Vladim Kuzmin, William Hanlon, J. Ogura, F. Urban, S. Jeong, Isaac Myers, Motoki Hayashi, Peter Tinyakov, J. P. Lundquist, Samuel Blake, Shoichi Ogio, T. Okuda, J. Yang, M. Allen, Y. Omura, Naoaki Hayashida, Koichi Sekino, Elliott Barcikowski, K. Nagasawa, Dmitri Ivanov, Y. Takahashi, Mai Takamura, G. Furlich, Takaaki Ishii, Keijiro Mukai, D. C. Rodriguez, S. Yoshida, Naoto Sakaki, Rasha Abbasi, Kiyoshi Tanaka, John Belz, R. Azuma, Inkyu Park, L. M. Scott, A. Nozato, Y. Hayashi, K. Kawata, Hideaki Shimodaira, Hyoming Jeong, K. H. Lee, Tareq Abu-Zayyad, Hiroyuki Sagawa, T.-A. Shibata, R. Yamane, Gordon Thomson, Ryo Nakamura, Tom Stroman, Robert Cady, Hongsu Kim, Akimichi Taketa, Grigory Rubtsov, M. Yamamoto, H. Yoshii, Nobuyuki Sakurai, K. Yamazaki, Takahiro Fujii, Ryota Onogi, J. H. Kim, A. Di Matteo, B. G. Cheon, R. Mayta, K. Hibino, S. Kawakami, Heungsu Shin, K. Tsutsumi, H. Kawai, T. Seki, and Y. Yoneda
Subjects: Astroparticle physics, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, Monte Carlo method, Isotropy, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Poisson distribution, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Telescope, symbols.namesake, Space and Planetary Science, law, 0103 physical sciences, symbols, Anisotropy, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics
Abstract: An intermediate-scale energy spectrum anisotropy has been found in the arrival directions of ultra-high energy cosmic rays of energies above $10^{19.2}$ eV in the northern hemisphere, using 7 years of data from the Telescope Array surface detector. A relative energy distribution test is done comparing events inside oversampled spherical caps of equal exposure, to those outside, using the Poisson likelihood ratio. The center of maximum significance is at $9^h$$16^m$, $45^{\circ}$. and has a deficit of events with energies $10^{19.2}$$\leq$$E$$
Published: 2018
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37. Constraints on the diffuse photon flux with energies above $10^{18}$ eV using the surface detector of the Telescope Array experiment

Author: Rasha Abbasi, Fumiya Shibata, S. Yoshida, T. Matsuyama, S. Ozawa, Naoto Sakaki, Yasunori Saito, John Belz, K. Nagasawa, R. Ishimori, S. Kitamura, Hidemi Ito, Ryo Nakamura, Motoki Hayashi, Toshiyuki Nonaka, Hideki Tanaka, Kazuo Saito, J. P. Lundquist, M. Yamamoto, Ben Stokes, B. G. Cheon, Heungsu Shin, T. Suzawa, Yuichiro Tameda, Isaac Myers, Inkyu Park, John N. Matthews, Douglas Bergman, Nobuyuki Sakurai, Ryota Onogi, A. Di Matteo, Koichi Sekino, M. Allen, R. Mayta, Y. Zhezher, Grigory Rubtsov, Kenta Yashiro, K. Martens, K. Tsutsumi, Keitaro Fujita, Y. Takahashi, Mai Takamura, L. M. Scott, H. Yoshii, Daisuke Ikeda, Eiji Kido, M. V. Kuznetsov, S. Kawakami, Y. Uchihori, R. Azuma, Toshitsugu Fujii, Kazuhiro Machida, S. R. Stratton, Y. Hayashi, Sergey Troitsky, B. K. Shin, Oleg Kalashev, Hongsu Kim, Hiroyuki Sagawa, Tiffany Wong, R. Takeishi, Charlie Jui, J. Remington, Pierre Sokolsky, K. Kawata, Masaki Fukushima, Akimichi Taketa, G. Furlich, Takaaki Ishii, J. H. Kim, BayarJon Paul Lubsandorzhiev, M. Takeda, Shigehiro Nagataki, Mayuko Minamino, Hideaki Shimodaira, Hyoming Jeong, D. C. Rodriguez, H. Kawai, Y. Omura, Kiyoshi Tanaka, K. Kasahara, K. Honda, Akitoshi Oshima, Y. Tsunesada, Shoichi Kishigami, Yasunori Kitamura, Naoaki Hayashida, Masaaki Tanaka, T. Seki, Masato Takita, J. Ogura, H. Yamaoka, Masaomi Ono, R. Sahara, Michiyuki Chikawa, Y. Yoneda, N. Inoue, Jyunsei Chiba, K. Hibino, Shingo Kawana, Fumio Kakimoto, Dongsu Ryu, K. Yamazaki, Tareq Abu-Zayyad, R. Yamane, Maksim Piskunov, William Hanlon, M. Ohnishi, Takayuki Tomida, Y. Takagi, T. Okuda, J. Yang, Federico R. Urban, Toru Nakamura, S. Udo, K. H. Lee, Kenichi Kadota, T.-A. Shibata, H. Tokuno, Zach Zundel, J. D. Smith, Priti Shah, Gordon Thomson, S. B. Thomas, Tom Stroman, Robert Cady, Igor Tkachev, Maxim Pshirkov, Elliott Barcikowski, Dmitri Ivanov, H. Oda, Keijiro Mukai, Peter Tinyakov, Samuel Blake, Shoichi Ogio, Vladim Kuzmin, T. Goto, S. Jeong, M. Abe, Y. J. Kwon, and Hideyuki Ohoka
Subjects: Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Muon, Photon, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Curvature, 01 natural sciences, Computational physics, law.invention, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Telescope, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Air shower, Distribution function, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), law, 0103 physical sciences, Waveform, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics
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 $0.067$, $0.012$, $0.0036$, $0.0013$, $0.0013~\mbox{km}^{-2}\mbox{yr}^{-1}\mbox{sr}^{-1}$ correspondingly., Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures
Published: 2018
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38. Mass composition of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays with the Telescope Array Surface Detector Data

Author: J. Remington, Koichi Sekino, S. Kitamura, Hidemi Ito, M. Yamamoto, Nobuyuki Sakurai, Ryota Onogi, A. Di Matteo, R. Mayta, Naoaki Hayashida, J. H. Kim, H. Tokuno, B. G. Cheon, Y. Takahashi, Mai Takamura, Pierre Sokolsky, Y. Omura, T. Suzawa, J. D. Smith, S. Yoshida, Naoto Sakaki, M. Takeda, Shigehiro Nagataki, T. Goto, Douglas Bergman, K. Nagasawa, Toshitsugu Fujii, K. Hibino, R. Azuma, Takayuki Tomida, BayarJon Paul Lubsandorzhiev, Kenta Yashiro, Yasunori Saito, Ryo Nakamura, Mayuko Minamino, K. Honda, Isaac Myers, Yasunori Kitamura, S. Kawakami, Kazuo Saito, O. Kalashev, K. Tsutsumi, Fumio Kakimoto, John Belz, Yuichiro Tameda, John N. Matthews, K. Martens, Toru Nakamura, Grigory Rubtsov, Maxim S. Piskunov, H. Yoshii, Masaaki Tanaka, Priti Shah, Fumiya Shibata, R. Ishimori, Kenichi Kadota, Hideki Tanaka, T. Matsuyama, L. M. Scott, Michiyuki Chikawa, K. Yamazaki, Hiroyuki Sagawa, Kohei Yada, Y. Hayashi, Shingo Kawana, R. Sahara, K. H. Lee, T.-A. Shibata, Gordon Thomson, Tom Stroman, Robert Cady, Y. J. Kwon, Hideyuki Ohoka, Elliott Barcikowski, Toshiyuki Nonaka, Dmitri Ivanov, Motoki Hayashi, M. Allen, K. Kawata, S. Ozawa, William Hanlon, J. P. Lundquist, Jyunsei Chiba, Dongsu Ryu, K. Kasahara, Shoichi Kishigami, Daisuke Ikeda, Keijiro Mukai, S. R. Stratton, G. Furlich, Takaaki Ishii, Hiroshi Yamaoka, Keitaro Fujita, Masato Takita, T. Okuda, J. Yang, Hongsu Kim, Masaomi Ono, B. K. Shin, Hideaki Shimodaira, Hyoming Jeong, Tiffany Wong, R. Takeishi, Heungsu Shin, Inkyu Park, Masaki Fukushima, Maxim Pshirkov, D. C. Rodriguez, Akimichi Taketa, Y. Takagi, Eiji Kido, Rasha Abbasi, M. V. Kuznetsov, Kazuhiro Machida, Kiyoshi Tanaka, H. Kawai, Igor Tkachev, J. Ogura, Tareq Abu-Zayyad, R. Yamane, Vladim Kuzmin, T. Seki, S. Jeong, Zach Zundel, Yana Zhezher, Peter Tinyakov, Samuel Blake, Shoichi Ogio, Y. Uchihori, H. Oda, Ben Stokes, M. Abe, Y. Yoneda, N. Inoue, M. Ohnishi, Federico R. Urban, Akitoshi Oshima, Y. Tsunesada, S. Udo, C. C. H. Jui, S. B. Thomas, and Sergey Troitsky
Subjects: Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, media_common.quotation_subject, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Library science, FOS: Physical sciences, Mass composition, 01 natural sciences, Promotion (rank), State (polity), Work (electrical), George (robot), 0103 physical sciences, Science policy, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Ultrahigh energy, 010306 general physics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Administration (government), media_common
Abstract: The results on ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECR) mass composition obtained with the Telescope Array surface detector are presented. The analysis employs the boosted decision tree (BDT) multivariate analysis built upon 14 observables related to both the properties of the shower front and the lateral distribution function. The multivariate classifier is trained with Monte-Carlo sets of events induced by the primary protons and iron. An average atomic mass of UHECR is presented for energies $10^{18.0}-10^{20.0}\ \mbox{eV}$. The average atomic mass of primary particles shows no significant energy dependence and corresponds to $\langle \ln A \rangle = 2.0 \pm 0.1 (stat.) \pm 0.44 (syst.)$. The result is compared to the mass composition obtained by the Telescope Array with $\mbox{X}_{\mbox{max}}$ technique along with the results of other experiments. Possible systematic errors of the method are discussed., Comment: 11 pages, 9 figures
Published: 2018
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39. Simulations of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays propagation

Author: Eiji Kido and Oleg Kalashev
Subjects: Physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Monte Carlo method, Code (cryptography), General Physics and Astronomy, Intergalactic travel, Cosmic ray, Neutron, Astrophysics, Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray, Solver, Convection–diffusion equation, Computational physics
Abstract: We compare two techniques for simulation of the propagation of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECR) in intergalactic space: the Monte Carlo approach and a method based on solving transport equations in one dimension. For the former, we adopt the publicly available tool CRPropa and for the latter, we use the code TransportCR, which has been developed by the first author and used in a number of applications, and is made available online with publishing this paper. While the CRPropa code is more universal, the transport equation solver has the advantage of a roughly 100 times higher calculation speed. We conclude that the methods give practically identical results for proton or neutron primaries if some accuracy improvements are introduced to the CRPropa code.
Published: 2015

40. A NORTHERN SKY SURVEY FOR POINT-LIKE SOURCES OF EeV NEUTRAL PARTICLES WITH THE TELESCOPE ARRAY EXPERIMENT

Author: R. Ishimori, R. W. Springer, John Belz, Gordon Thomson, Federico R. Urban, K. Hibino, W. R. Cho, Nobuyuki Sakurai, Tomohiro Matsuda, Pierre Sokolsky, Sergey Troitsky, Masayuki Tanaka, ByongGu Cheon, Yuichiro Tameda, John N. Matthews, Younghoon Kwon, M. J. Chae, K. Martens, Y. Yoneda, S. I. Lim, Thomas Stroman, M. Ohnishi, S. Kawana, Kenichi Kadota, M. Abe, Il Hung Park, Douglas Bergman, H. Yoshii, S. Kitamura, Tomoyuki Nakamura, Fumio Kakimoto, H. Kawai, S. Udo, C. C. H. Jui, Mayuko Minamino, S. Nagataki, S. Kawakami, A. L. Sampson, K. Oki, Yasunori Kitamura, A. Oshima, Takaaki Ishii, S. B. Thomas, Elliott Barcikowski, Hirotaka Ito, Maxim Pshirkov, Masaomi Ono, K. Nagasawa, Dmitri Ivanov, Tatsunobu Shibata, Toshio Matsuyama, H. Shimodaira, HangBae Kim, Kenta Yashiro, Kenichi Tanaka, T. Suzawa, H. Tanaka, Isaac Myers, T. Goto, M. Takamura, Hiroyuki Sagawa, Shunsuke Ozawa, Naoya Inoue, K. Tsutsumi, J. Ogura, Priti Shah, B. T. Stokes, Igor Tkachev, Jon Paul Lundquist, Grigory Rubtsov, Akimichi Taketa, Oleg Kalashev, Takayuki Tomida, Masahiro Takeda, Naoaki Hayashida, L. M. Scott, H. Yamaoka, Ken Honda, A. Nozato, Y. Hayashi, V.A. Kuzmin, Zach Zundel, K. Machida, K. Yamazaki, Tareq Abu-Zayyad, R. Yamane, K. Mukai, H. Ohoka, J. Yang, J. Lan, R. Zollinger, B. K. Shin, Yoshiki Tsunesada, Daisuke Ikeda, S. R. Stratton, S. Yoshida, Katsuaki Kasahara, Tiffany Wong, R. Takeishi, Masaki Fukushima, Mark Allen, Masato Takita, Michiyuki Chikawa, Yukio Uchihori, Takahiro Fujii, Peter Tinyakov, Samuel Blake, Shoichi Ogio, J. H. Kim, Kazumasa Kawata, R. Azuma, J. D. Smith, D. Rodriguez, H. Tokuno, Eiji Kido, Toshiyuki Nonaka, Ruth A. Anderson, William Hanlon, Rasha Abbasi, Robert Cady, T. Okuda, G. Vasiloff, Jyunsei Chiba, Dongsu Ryu, and Fumiya Shibata
Subjects: Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), media_common.quotation_subject, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Flux, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Scintillator, Coincidence, law.invention, Telescope, Space and Planetary Science, Neutron flux, Sky, law, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Order of magnitude, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, media_common
Abstract: We report on the search for steady point-like sources of neutral particles around 10$^{18}$ eV between 2008 May and 2013 May with the scintillator surface detector of the Telescope Array experiment. We found overall no significant point-like excess above 0.5 EeV in the northern sky. Subsequently, we also searched for coincidence with the Fermi bright Galactic sources. No significant coincidence was found within the statistical uncertainty. Hence, we set an upper limit on the neutron flux that corresponds to an averaged flux of 0.07 km$^{-2}$ yr$^{-1}$ for $E>1$ EeV in the northern sky at the 95% confidence level. This is the most stringent flux upper limit in a northern sky survey assuming point-like sources. The upper limit at the 95% confidence level on the neutron flux from Cygnus X-3 is also set to 0.2 km$^{-2}$ yr$^{-1}$ for $E>0.5$ EeV. This is an order of magnitude lower than previous flux measurements., 27 pages, 10 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Published: 2015

41. Energy spectrum of ultra-high energy cosmic rays observed with the Telescope Array using a hybrid technique

Author: S. Y. Roh, S. Yoshida, T. Kanbe, John Belz, Y. Murano, Thomas Stroman, Akitoshi Oshima, R. Zollinger, S. Kitamura, K. Nagasawa, Takayuki Tomida, Michiyuki Chikawa, Isaac Myers, H. Tokuno, K. Kitamoto, R. W. Springer, Igor Tkachev, R. Cady, Elliott Barcikowski, R. Aida, Eiji Kido, Toshiyuki Nonaka, Dmitri Ivanov, H. Fujii, H. Tanaka, Byung Gu Cheon, Yukio Uchihori, J. H. Kim, Pierre Sokolsky, Naoya Inoue, T. Fujii, Mayuko Minamino, Tatsunobu Shibata, Tomohiro Matsuda, Ross Anderson, Peter Tinyakov, Yasunori Kitamura, Samuel Blake, Shoichi Ogio, Toshio Matsuyama, K. Kobayashi, X. Zhou, Y. Yoneda, K. Tsutsumi, S. I. Lim, Zach Zundel, Sergey Troitsky, S. Machida, K. Martens, Hirotaka Ito, Younghoon Kwon, Shunsuke Ozawa, Mark Allen, S. Udo, C. C. H. Jui, Hiroyuki Sagawa, S. Kawana, H. Kawai, E. J. Cho, H. Shimodaira, M. Tanaka, S. Iwamoto, Y. Kondo, K. Oki, Tomoyuki Nakamura, S. Kawakami, Masaomi Ono, S. B. Thomas, S. Nagataki, Naoaki Hayashida, K. Miyata, R. Azuma, T. Matsuura, Fumiya Shibata, Y. Tsuyuguchi, Jon Paul Lundquist, Yoji Kobayashi, Kiyoshi Kuramoto, T. Shirahama, Takaaki Ishii, Gordon Thomson, B. T. Stokes, Yoshiki Tsunesada, K. Hibino, R. Ishimori, Daisuke Ikeda, S. R. Stratton, H. Yamaoka, Grigory Rubtsov, K. Hayashi, Hang Bae Kim, Katsuaki Kasahara, Akimichi Taketa, Tiffany Wong, T. Fukuda, Kenichi Tanaka, Masaki Fukushima, A. L. Sampson, S. Suzuki, Hyun-Il Kim, Douglas Bergman, Federico R. Urban, Masato Takita, Nobuyuki Sakurai, D. Oku, K. Hiyama, H. Yoshii, William Hanlon, Yukio Takahashi, G. Vasiloff, K. Ikuta, J. I. Shin, T. Okuda, Jyunsei Chiba, Maxim Pshirkov, Dongsu Ryu, Fumio Kakimoto, Y. Yamakawa, S. W. Nam, H. Ukai, Priti Shah, T. Iguchi, J. D. Smith, D. Rodriguez, Masahiro Takeda, Ken Honda, Yuichiro Tameda, John N. Matthews, M. Ohnishi, L. M. Scott, Y. Hayashi, V.A. Kuzmin, B. K. Shin, K. Yamazaki, Tareq Abu-Zayyad, R. Yamane, H. Ohoka, J. Yang, J. Lan, W. R. Cho, Kenichi Kadota, Il Hung Park, Y. Wada, and Oleg Kalashev
Subjects: Physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Detector, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, 7. Clean energy, Spectral line, Computational physics, law.invention, Telescope, Air shower, law, Energy spectrum, Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray
Abstract: We measure the spectrum of cosmic rays with energies greater than 10 18.2 eV with the fluorescence detectors (FDs) and the surface detectors (SDs) of the Telescope Array Experiment using the data taken in our first 2.3-year observation from May 27, 2008 to September 7, 2010. A hybrid air shower reconstruction technique is employed to improve accuracies in determination of arrival directions and primary energies of cosmic rays using both FD and SD data. The energy spectrum presented here is in agreement with our previously published spectra and the HiRes results.
Published: 2015

42. Gain monitoring of telescope array photomultiplier cameras for the first 4 years of operation

Author: Y. Uchihori, X. Zhou, B. G. Cheon, Takaaki Ishii, T. Kanbe, Robert M. Anderson, J. Martineau, D. C. Rodriguez, Grigory Rubtsov, Isaac Myers, Y. Kobayashi, A. L. Sampson, S. Kawakami, H. Yoshii, K. Tsutsumi, H. Tokuno, Yuichiro Tameda, John N. Matthews, L. M. Scott, Y. Hayashi, Hiroyuki Sagawa, J. D. Smith, Takayuki Tomida, K. Kitamoto, R. Azuma, T. Matsuura, Mayuko Minamino, K. Honda, Yasunori Kitamura, S. Yoshida, Vladim Kuzmin, R. Zollinger, R. Aida, Masaaki Tanaka, Hideaki Shimodaira, K. Hibino, Yoshiki Tsunesada, K. Yamazaki, Daisuke Ikeda, Fumiya Shibata, Tareq Abu-Zayyad, R. Yamane, R. Ishimori, S. R. Stratton, Ben Stokes, Tiffany Wong, T.-A. Shibata, Gordon Thomson, Tom Stroman, Robert Cady, T. Fukuda, Takeshi Okuda, Igor Tkachev, Masaki Fukushima, T. Shirahama, S. Y. Roh, Hyun-Il Kim, S. Kitamura, M. Allen, T. Matsuyama, Samuel Blake, E. J. Cho, Y. Kondo, Shoichi Ogio, K. Oki, Michiyuki Chikawa, Inkyu Park, K. Nagasawa, Shingo Kawana, T. Fujii, Eiji Kido, William Hanlon, Sergey Troitsky, S. Machida, R. W. Springer, J. I. Shin, Naoaki Hayashida, Y. Tsuyuguchi, Maxim Pshirkov, Kiyoshi Tanaka, Elliott Barcikowski, Dmitri Ivanov, H. Fujii, K. Hayashi, H. Kawai, K. Kasahara, Fumio Kakimoto, Tomohiro Matsuda, K. Ikuta, Nobuyuki Sakurai, Akitoshi Oshima, K. Kobayashi, Shunsuke Ozawa, John Belz, Y. Murano, Pierre Sokolsky, M. Takeda, Shigehiro Nagataki, K. Kuramoto, Yasuhiro H. Takahashi, Masato Takita, Zach Zundel, O. Kalashev, T. Iguchi, M. Wood, P. Tinyakov, Y. Yamakawa, K. Martens, Hideki Tanaka, Y. J. Kwon, Toshiyuki Nonaka, Hiroshi Yamaoka, Hideyuki Ohoka, J. Yang, H. Ukai, Priti Shah, K. Miyata, Hongsu Kim, Bokkyun Shin, Akimichi Taketa, S. Suzuki, Douglas Bergman, D. Oku, K. Hiyama, Y. Yoneda, N. Inoue, S. I. Lim, M. Ohnishi, S. Udo, C. C. H. Jui, S. B. Thomas, S. W. Nam, W. R. Cho, Toru Nakamura, Kenichi Kadota, Y. Wada, T. J. Sonley, S. Iwamoto, G. Vasiloff, Jyunsei Chiba, Dongsu Ryu, and J. H. Kim
Subjects: Physics, Telescope, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Photomultiplier, Optics, business.industry, law, Night sky, Optoelectronics, Scintillator, business, Instrumentation, law.invention
Abstract: The stability of the gain of the photomultiplier (PMT) camera for the Fluorescence Detector (FD) of the Telescope Array experiment was monitored using an 241 Am loaded scintillator pulsers (YAP) and a diffused xenon flasher (TXF) for a selected set of 35 PMT-readout channels. From the monitoring of YAP pulses over four years of FD operation, we found slow monotonic drifts of PMT gains at a rate of −1.7~+1.7%/year. An average of the PMT gains over the 35 channels stayed nearly constant with a rate of change measured at −0.01±0.31(stat)±0.21(sys)%/year. No systematic decrease of the PMT gain caused by the night sky background was observed. Monitoring by the TXF also tracked the PMT gain drift of the YAP at 0.88±0.14(stat)%/year.
Published: 2014

43. Telescope Array anisotropy summary

Author: Igor Tkachev, Sergey Troitsky, H. Tokuno, Hiroyuki Sagawa, Eiji Kido, Grigory Rubtsov, John Matthews, Dmitri Ivanov, Akimichi Taketa, Daisuke Ikeda, Nobuyuki Sakurai, Jon Paul Lundquist, Riuji Takeishi, Masaki Fukushima, Toshiyuki Nonaka, Takeshi Okuda, Kazumasa Kawata, Peter Tinyakov, Masahiro Takeda, and Gordon Thomson
Subjects: Data set, Telescope, Physics, law, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Northern Hemisphere, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Anisotropy, Cluster analysis, law.invention
Abstract: The Telescope Array has accumulated the largest UHECR data set in the Northern hemisphere. We make use of these data to search for large- and small-scale anisotropy of UHECR arrival directions. At small angular scales, we report an update on searches for clustering of events and on correlations with various classes of putative sources. At large angular scales, we revisit, with the new data and with new tests, the localized excess of events known as the TA ``hot spot''. We review some other studies of the arrival directions and corresponding implications for the nature of UHECR sources.
Published: 2017

44. The TAx4 experiment

Author: Eiji Kido
Subjects: Physics, Telescope, law, Hotspot (geology), Energy spectrum, Detector, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, law.invention
Abstract: The Telescope Array (TA) experiment consists of a surface detector (SD) array covering 700 km$^2$ in area and three fluorescence detector (FD) stations and explores the origin of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. We found the evidence of a hotspot in the arrival directions of cosmic rays with energies above 57 EeV. New SDs and FDs are planned to be constructed for the TAx4 experiment to cover 4 times larger area than TA to observe cosmic rays especially with the highest energies using high statistics. This project is expected to clarify not only the source of the hotspot but also the energy spectrum and the composition at the highest energies. The five-year proposal for TAx4 SD was accepted in the spring of 2015. The proposal for constructing 2 FD stations was also accepted in 2016. The current status and the future prospects of the TAx4 experiment are shown.
Published: 2017

45. The extension of the Telescope Array experiment

Author: Eiji Kido
Subjects: Telescope, Physics, law, Astronomy, Extension (predicate logic), law.invention
Published: 2017

46. The energy spectrum of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays measured by the Telescope Array FADC fluorescence detectors in monocular mode

Author: T. Kanbe, Y. Kobayashi, Fumiya Shibata, S. Kitamura, Robert M. Anderson, R. Ishimori, Hidemi Ito, Sergey Troitsky, Grigory Rubtsov, Isaac Myers, T. Matsuyama, Y. Yamakawa, S. Yoshida, H. Ukai, Priti Shah, Yuichiro Tameda, S. Suzuki, Taka Tomida, T. Shirahama, John N. Matthews, Douglas Bergman, Pierre Sokolsky, R. Zollinger, D. Oku, K. Hiyama, Y. J. Kwon, Hiroyuki Sagawa, K. Ikuta, Hideyuki Ohoka, Hideaki Shimodaira, M. Takeda, J. H. Kim, M. Allen, T. J. Sonley, Shigehiro Nagataki, K. Oki, Charlie Jui, J. Ogura, Y. Kondo, Akimichi Taketa, Naoaki Hayashida, Y. Tsuyuguchi, K. Kasahara, K. Kitamoto, J. P. Lundquist, Takaaki Ishii, Toshiyuki Nonaka, Mayuko Minamino, K. Honda, S. Y. Roh, B. G. Cheon, Takeshi Okuda, Igor Tkachev, T. Iguchi, A. L. Sampson, D. C. Rodriguez, S. Iwamoto, John Belz, Inkyu Park, K. Miyata, Masaomi Ono, J. I. Shin, Yasunori Kitamura, K. Yamazaki, Bokkyun Shin, S. Kawakami, Y. Murano, Tareq Abu-Zayyad, Vladim Kuzmin, R. Yamane, T. Fujii, K. Tsutsumi, Hiroshi Yamaoka, R. Aida, Masaaki Tanaka, G. Vasiloff, R. Azuma, T. Matsuura, Elliott Barcikowski, T.-A. Shibata, L. M. Scott, K. Hibino, Jyunsei Chiba, Dongsu Ryu, Gordon Thomson, Tom Stroman, Robert Cady, Y. Hayashi, Hongsu Kim, Dmitri Ivanov, H. Fujii, Y. Uchihori, O. Kalashev, W. R. Cho, H. Kawai, Hyun-Il Kim, Kiyoshi Tanaka, H. Yoshii, Eiji Kido, Yoshiki Tsunesada, K. Kuramoto, Y. Yoneda, N. Inoue, S. I. Lim, Daisuke Ikeda, Toru Nakamura, Kenichi Kadota, S. R. Stratton, M. Ohnishi, S. Machida, S. Udo, J. Yang, Y. Wada, Tiffany Wong, J. Lan, S. B. Thomas, Nobuyuki Sakurai, S. W. Nam, T. Fukuda, Masaki Fukushima, Peter Tinyakov, Samuel Blake, Shoichi Ogio, E. J. Cho, Michiyuki Chikawa, Yasuhiro H. Takahashi, Zach Zundel, Masato Takita, K. Martens, Hideki Tanaka, H. Tokuno, J. D. Smith, R. W. Springer, Tomohiro Matsuda, K. Kobayashi, Shingo Kawana, William Hanlon, Maxim Pshirkov, K. Hayashi, Fumio Kakimoto, Akitoshi Oshima, Shunsuke Ozawa, and Ben Stokes
Subjects: Astroparticle physics, Physics, business.industry, Aperture, Monte Carlo method, Detector, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, law.invention, Telescope, Optics, law, Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray, business, Event reconstruction
Abstract: We present a measurement of the energy spectrum of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays performed by the Telescope Array experiment using monocular observations from its two new FADC-based fluorescence detectors. After a short description of the experiment, we describe the data analysis and event reconstruction procedures. Since the aperture of the experiment must be calculated by Monte Carlo simulation, we describe this calculation and the comparisons of simulated and real data used to verify the validity of the aperture calculation. Finally, we present the energy spectrum calculated from the merged monocular data sets of the two FADC-based detectors, and also the combination of this merged spectrum with an independent, previously published monocular spectrum measurement performed by Telescope Array’s third fluorescence detector [T. Abu-Zayyad et al., The energy spectrum of Telescope Array’s middle drum detector and the direct comparison to the high resolution fly’s eye experiment, Astroparticle Physics 39 (2012) 109-119, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2012.05.012 , Available from: ]. This combined spectrum corroborates the recently published Telescope Array surface detector spectrum [T. Abu-Zayyad, et al., The cosmic-ray energy spectrum observed with the surface detector of the Telescope Array experiment, ApJ 768 (2013) L1, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/768/1/L1 , Available from: ] with independent systematic uncertainties.
Published: 2013

47. Anisotropy search in the Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray Spectrum in the Northern Hemisphere using the Telescope Array surface d

Author: Dmitri Ivanov, Masaki Fukushima, S. Nagataki, Eiji Kido, Hiroyuki Sagawa, Ben Stokes, Kazumasa Kawata, Akimichi Taketa, Takeshi Okuda, Masahiro Takeda, John N. Matthews, Naoki Sakurai, Robert Cady, and Toshiyuki Nonaka
Subjects: Surface (mathematics), Physics, Telescope, law, Cosmic microwave background, Northern Hemisphere, Astronomy, Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Anisotropy, law.invention
Published: 2016

48. Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic-Ray Hotspot Observed with the Telescope Array Surface Detectors

Author: Hiroyuki Sagawa, H. Tokuno, Takeshi Okuda, Eiji Kido, Naoki Sakurai, Daisuke Ikeda, Kazumasa Kawata, Dmitri Ivanov, R. Takeishi, Masaki Fukushima, Toshiyuki Nonaka, Grigory Rubtsov, Akimichi Taketa, Peter Tinyakov, John N. Matthews, Ben Stokes, Igor Tkachev, Masahiro Takeda, S. Nagataki, and Gordon Thomson
Subjects: Physics, media_common.quotation_subject, Initial sample, Detector, Astronomy, Astrophysics, law.invention, Telescope, law, Sky, Ursa Major Cluster, Hotspot (geology), Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray, media_common
Abstract: The Telescope Array (TA) collaboration has reported on an indication of the excess flux of ultra- high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) with E > 57 EeV, located near the Ursa Major cluster [1]. Corresponding sky region was called the 'hotspot'. In the present work we test this result using the latest data collected by the TA SD array. As a result, the number of events in the hotspot increases to 24, while expected background is 6.88 with the first 5-year and the additional 2-year data. The statistical significance of the hotspot for the seven year dataset remains at the same level of 3.4s as for 5 year initial sample.
Published: 2016

49. Simulations of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays Propagation

Author: Eiji Kido
Subjects: Physics, Flux, Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Redshift
Published: 2016

50. The present status of the Telescope Array experiment

Author: K. Kasahara, John N. Matthews, T.-A. Shibata, Lawrence Wiencke, Gordon Thomson, Z. Cao, Robert Cady, Dmitri Ivanov, Toshiyuki Nonaka, H. Fujii, Douglas Bergman, K. Hibino, Masahiro Teshima, Pierre Sokolsky, K. Yamamoto, Taka Tomida, Naoaki Hayashida, O. A. Brusova, P. Huentemeyer, Takeshi Okuda, John Belz, M. Takeda, Akitoshi Oshima, Shingo Kawana, T. Yamakawa, Shunsuke Ozawa, Eiji Kido, Y. Kondo, Charlie Jui, Samuel Blake, Shoichi Ogio, Akimichi Taketa, Y. Tsuyuguchi, J. Yang, I. S. Cho, Yuichiro Tameda, K. Honda, Inkyu Park, Hiroyuki Sagawa, T. Fujii, Priti Shah, J. D. Smith, H. Kawai, M. Allen, Masaaki Tanaka, Y. J. Kwon, Hideyuki Ohoka, Toru Nakamura, Kenichi Kadota, Masato Takita, R. Azuma, N. Inoue, M. Ohnishi, Hyesung Kang, S. Udo, S. B. Thomas, S. W. Nam, S. Yoshida, A. Kitshugi, Y. Yamakawa, N. Yoshii, Kiyoshi Tanaka, K. Hayashi, Fumio Kakimoto, K. Martens, D. C. Rodriguez, Nobuyuki Sakurai, Y. Uchihori, Hideaki Shimodaira, R. Torii, Gareth Hughes, Tareq Abu-Zayyad, L. M. Scott, Hisono Tokuno, R. W. Springer, Tomohiro Matsuda, K. Kobayashi, Jyunsei Chiba, Dongsu Ryu, Michiyuki Chikawa, S. Iwamoto, Yoshiki Tsunesada, Daisuke Ikeda, S. R. Stratton, T. Fukuda, and Masaki Fukushima
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Systematic difference, business.industry, Detector, Scintillator, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, law.invention, Ground level, Telescope, Optics, Air shower, law, Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray, business
Abstract: The Telescope Array(TA) experiment located at western desert in Utah USA (N39.3,W112.9) is designed for observation of air shower from extreme high energy cosmic rays. The TA detector consists of 2 types of detector to enable a cross check on systematic difference from the two main methods of observation for the energy region. One is a Fluorescence detector (FD) for detecting fluorescence light from air shower and another is surface detector (SD) array for detecting air shower particles at ground level. Each SD consists of 2 layers of plastic scintillator with 3m 2 of surface and more sensitive to electromagnetic component in air shower. The full operation using 3FD stations and full SD array has started. Here we present the updated status of Telescope Array experiment.
Published: 2009

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