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1. Structural Modulation in LaO0.9F0.1BiSe2 Single Crystals Revealed by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy/Spectroscopy

Author

Ishida, N, Demura, S, Fujisawa, Y, Ohta, S, Miyata, K, and Sakata, H

Subjects
Condensed Matter - Superconductivity
Abstract

We present scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy measurements on a cleaved surface of the LaO0.9F0.1BiSe2 single crystals. Tunneling spectra show a finite local density of states at EF, which is consistent with metallic conductivity in bulk. In addition, the existence of the supermodulation running along the diagonal directions of Bi square lattice was revealed. The period of the supermodulation was about 3 to 5 times the length of the lattice constant. This period is close to that observed in LaO0.5F0.5BiSe2.

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2018
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2. Measurement and comparison of individual external doses of high-school students living in Japan, France, Poland and Belarus -- the 'D-shuttle' project --

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Adachi, N., Adamovitch, V., Adjovi, Y., Aida, K., Akamatsu, H., Akiyama, S., Akli, A., Ando, A., Andrault, T., Antonietti, H., Anzai, S., Arkoun, G., Avenoso, C., Ayrault, D., Banasiewicz, M., Banaśkiewicz, M., Bernandini, L., Bernard, E., Berthet, E., Blanchard, M., Boreyko, D., Boros, K., Charron, S., Cornette, P., Czerkas, K., Dameron, M., Date, I., De Pontbriand, M., Demangeau, F., Dobaczewski, Ł., Dobrzyński, L., Ducouret, A., Dziedzic, M., Ecalle, A., Edon, V., Endo, K., Endo, T., Endo, Y., Etryk, D., Fabiszewska, M., Fang, S., Fauchier, D., Felici, F., Fujiwara, Y., Gardais, C., Gaul, W., Guérin, L., Hakoda, R., Hamamatsu, I., Handa, K., Haneda, H., Hara, T., Hashimoto, M., Hashimoto, T., Hashimoto, K., Hata, D., Hattori, M., Hayano, R., Hayashi, R., Higasi, H., Hiruta, M., Honda, A., Horikawa, Y., Horiuchi, H., Hozumi, Y., Ide, M., Ihara, S., Ikoma, T., Inohara, Y., Itazu, M., Ito, A., Janvrin, J., Jout, I., Kanda, H., Kanemori, G., Kanno, M., Kanomata, N., Kato, T., Kato, S., Katsu, J., Kawasaki, Y., Kikuchi, K., Kilian, P., Kimura, N., Kiya, M., Klepuszewski, M., Kluchnikov, E., Kodama, Y., Kokubun, R., Konishi, F., Konno, A., Kontsevoy, V., Koori, A., Koutaka, A., Kowol, A., Koyama, Y., Kozioł, M., Kozue, M., Kravtchenko, O., Kruczała, W., Kudła, M., Kudo, H., Kumagai, R., Kurogome, K., Kurosu, A., Kuse, M., Lacombe, A., Lefaillet, E., Magara, M., Malinowska, J., Malinowski, M., Maroselli, V., Masui, Y., Matsukawa, K., Matsuya, K., Matusik, B., Maulny, M., Mazur, P., Miyake, C., Miyamoto, Y., Miyata, K., Miyazaki, M., Molęda, M., Morioka, T., Morita, E., Muto, K., Nadamoto, H., Nadzikiewicz, M., Nagashima, K., Nakade, M., Nakayama, C., Nakazawa, H., Nihei, Y., Nikul, R., Niwa, S., Niwa, O., Nogi, M., Nomura, K., Ogata, D., Ohguchi, H., Ohno, J., Okabe, M., Okada, M., Okada, Y., Omi, N., Onodera, H., Onodera, K., Ooki, S., Oonishi, K., Oonuma, H., Ooshima, H., Oouchi, H., Orsucci, M., Paoli, M., Penaud, M., Perdrisot, C., Petit, M., Piskowski, A., Płocharski, A., Polis, A., Polti, L., Potsepnia, T., Przybylski, D., Pytel, M., Quillet, W., Remy, A., Robert, C., Sadowski, M., Saito, M., Sakuma, D., Sano, K., Sasaki, Y., Sato, N., Schneider, T., Schneider, C., Schwartzman, K., Selivanov, E., Sezaki, M., Shiroishi, K., Shustava, I., Śniecińska, A., Stalchenko, E., Staroń, A., Stromboni, M., Studzińska, W., Sugisaki, H., Sukegawa, T., Sumida, M., Suzuki, Y., Suzuki, K., Suzuki, R., Suzuki, H., Świderski, W., Szudejko, M., Szymaszek, M., Tada, J., Taguchi, H., Takahashi, K., Tanaka, D., Tanaka, G., Tanaka, S., Tanino, K., Tazbir, K., Tcesnokova, N., Tgawa, N., Toda, N., Tsuchiya, H., Tsukamoto, H., Tsushima, T., Tsutsumi, K., Umemura, H., Uno, M., Usui, A., Utsumi, H., Vaucelle, M., Wada, Y., Watanabe, K., Watanabe, S., Watase, K., Witkowski, M., Yamaki, T., Yamamoto, J., Yamamoto, T., Yamashita, M., Yanai, M., Yasuda, K., Yoshida, Y., Yoshida, A., Yoshimura, K., Żmijewska, M., and Zuclarelli, E.

Subjects
Physics - Medical Physics
Abstract

Twelve high schools in Japan (of which six are in Fukushima Prefecture), four in France, eight in Poland and two in Belarus cooperated in the measurement and comparison of individual external doses in 2014. In total 216 high-school students and teachers participated in the study. Each participant wore an electronic personal dosimeter "D-shuttle" for two weeks, and kept a journal of his/her whereabouts and activities. The distributions of annual external doses estimated for each region overlap with each other, demonstrating that the personal external individual doses in locations where residence is currently allowed in Fukushima Prefecture and in Belarus are well within the range of estimated annual doses due to the background radiation level of other regions/countries.

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2015
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3. Search for correlations of the arrival directions of ultra-high energy cosmic ray with extragalactic objects as observed by the telescope array experiment

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Abu-Zayyad, T., Aida, R., Allen, M., Anderson, R., Azuma, R., Barcikowski, E., Belz, J. W., Bergman, D. R., Blake, S. A., Cady, R., Cheon, B. G., Chiba, J., Chikawa, M., Cho, E. J., Cho, W. R., Fujii, H., Fujii, T., Fukuda, T., Fukushima, M., Hanlon, W., Hayashi, K., Hayashi, Y., Hayashida, N., Hibino, K., Hiyama, K., Honda, K., Iguchi, T., Ikeda, D., Ikuta, K., Inoue, N., Ishii, T., Ishimori, R., Ito, H., Ivanov, D., Iwamoto, S., Jui, C. C. H., Kadota, K., Kakimoto, F., Kalashev, O., Kanbe, T., Kasahara, K., Kawai, H., Kawakami, S., Kawana, S., Kido, E., Kim, H. B., Kim, H. K., Kim, J. H., Kitamoto, K., Kitamura, S., Kitamura, Y., Kobayashi, K., Kobayashi, Y., Kondo, Y., Kuramoto, K., Kuzmin, V., Kwon, Y. J., Lan, J., Lim, S. I., Lundquist, J. P., Machida, S., Martens, K., Matsuda, T., Matsuura, T., Matsuyama, T., Matthews, J. N., Minamino, M., Miyata, K., Murano, Y., Myers, I., Nagasawa, K., Nagataki, S., Nakamura, T., Nam, S. W., Nonaka, T., Ogio, S., Ohnishi, M., Ohoka, H., Oki, K., Oku, D., Okuda, T., Ono, M., Oshima, A., Ozawa, S., Park, I. H., Pshirkov, M. S., Rodriguez, D. C., Roh, S. Y., Rubtsov, G., Ryu, D., Sagawa, H., Sakurai, N., Sampson, A. L., Scott, L. M., Shah, P. D., Shibata, F., Shibata, T., Shimodaira, H., Shin, B. K., Shin, J. I., Shirahama, T., Smith, J. D., Sokolsky, P., Springer, R. W., Stokes, B. T., Stratton, S. R., Stroman, T., Suzuki, S., Takahashi, Y., Takeda, M., Taketa, A., Takita, M., Tameda, Y., Tanaka, H., Tanaka, K., Tanaka, M., Thomas, S. B., Thomson, G. B., Tinyakov, P., Tkachev, I., Tokuno, H., Tomida, T., Troitsky, S., Tsunesada, Y., Tsutsumi, K., Tsuyuguchi, Y., Uchihori, Y., Udo, S., Ukai, H., Urban, F., Vasiloff, G., Wada, Y., Wong, T., Yamakawa, Y., Yamane, R., Yamaoka, H., Yamazaki, K., Yang, J., Yoneda, Y., Yoshida, S., Yoshii, H., Zhou, X., Zollinger, R., and Zundel, Z.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

We search for correlations between positions of extragalactic objects and arrival directions of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) with primary energy $E \ge 40$ EeV as observed by the surface detector array of the Telescope Array (TA) experiment during the first 40 months of operation. We examined several public astronomical object catalogs, including the Veron-Cetty and Veron catalog of active galactic nuclei. We counted the number of TA events correlated with objects in each catalog as a function of three parameters: the maximum angular separation between a TA event and an object, the minimum energy of the events, and the maximum redshift of the objects. We determine combinations of these parameters which maximize the correlations, and calculate the chance probabilities of having the same levels of correlations from an isotropic distribution of UHECR arrival directions. No statistically significant correlations are found when penalties for scanning over the above parameters and for searching in several catalogs are taken into account.

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2013
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4. Energy Spectrum of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays Observed with the Telescope Array Using a Hybrid Technique

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Abu-Zayyad, T., Aida, R., Allen, M., Anderson, R., Azuma, R., Barcikowski, E., Belz, J. W., Bergman, D. R., Blake, S. A., Cady, R., Cheon, B. G., Chiba, J., Chikawa, M., Cho, E. J., Cho, W. R., Fujii, H., Fujii, T., Fukuda, T., Fukushima, M., Hanlon, W., Hayashi, K., Hayashi, Y., Hayashida, N., Hibino, K., Hiyama, K., Honda, K., Iguchi, T., Ikeda, D., Ikuta, K., Inoue, N., Ishii, T., Ishimori, R., Ito, H., Ivanov, D., Iwamoto, S., Jui, C. C. H., Kadota, K., Kakimoto, F., Kalashev, O., Kanbe, T., Kasahara, K., Kawai, H., Kawakami, S., Kawana, S., Kido, E., Kim, H. B., Kim, H. K., Kim, J. H., Kitamoto, K., Kitamura, S., Kitamura, Y., Kobayashi, K., Kobayashi, Y., Kondo, Y., Kuramoto, K., Kuzmin, V., Kwon, Y. J., Lan, J., Lim, S. I., Lundquist, J. P., Machida, S., Martens, K., Matsuda, T., Matsuura, T., Matsuyama, T., Matthews, J. N., Minamino, M., Miyata, K., Murano, Y., Myers, I., Nagasawa, K., Nagataki, S., Nakamura, T., Nam, S. W., Nonaka, T., Ogio, S., Ohnishi, M., Ohoka, H., Oki, K., Oku, D., Okuda, T., Ono, M., Oshima, A., Ozawa, S., Park, I. H., Pshirkov, M. S., Rodriguez, D. C., Roh, S. Y., Rubtsov, G., Ryu, D., Sagawa, H., Sakurai, N., Sampson, A. L., Scott, L. M., Shah, P. D., Shibata, F., Shibata, T., Shimodaira, H., Shin, B. K., Shin, J. I., Shirahama, T., Smith, J. D., Sokolsky, P., Springer, R. W., Stokes, B. T., Stratton, S. R., Stroman, T., Suzuki, S., Takahashi, Y., Takeda, M., Taketa, A., Takita, M., Tameda, Y., Tanaka, H., Tanaka, K., Tanaka, M., Thomas, S. B., Thomson, G. B., Tinyakov, P., Tkachev, I., Tokuno, H., Tomida, T., Troitsky, S., Tsunesada, Y., Tsutsumi, K., Tsuyuguchi, Y., Uchihori, Y., Udo, S., Ukai, H., Urban, F., Vasiloff, G., Wada, Y., Wong, T., Yamakawa, Y., Yamane, R., Yamaoka, H., Yamazaki, K., Yang, J., Yoneda, Y., Yoshida, S., Yoshii, H., Zhou, X., Zollinger, R., and Zundel, Z.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
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., Comment: 28 pages, 12 figures, submitted to Astroparticle Physics

Published
2013

5. The Energy Spectrum of Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays Measured by the Telescope Array FADC Fluorescence Detectors in Monocular Mode

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The Telescope Array Collaboration, Abu-Zayyad, T., Aida, R., Allen, M., Anderson, R., Azuma, R., Barcikowski, E., Belz, J. W., Bergman, D. R., Blake, S. A., Cady, R., Cheon, B. G., Chiba, J., Chikawa, M., Cho, E. J., Cho, W. R., Fujii, H., Fujii, T., Fukuda, T., Fukushima, M., Hanlon, W., Hayashi, K., Hayashi, Y., Hayashida, N., Hibino, K., Hiyama, K., Honda, K., Iguchi, T., Ikeda, D., Ikuta, K., Inoue, N., Ishii, T., Ishimori, R., Ito, H., Ivanov, D., Iwamoto, S., Jui, C. C. H., Kadota, K., Kakimoto, F., Kalashev, O., Kanbe, T., Kasahara, K., Kawai, H., Kawakami, S., Kawana, S., Kido, E., Kim, H. B., Kim, H. K., Kim, J. H., Kitamoto, K., Kitamura, S., Kitamura, Y., Kobayashi, K., Kobayashi, Y., Kondo, Y., Kuramoto, K., Kuzmin, V., Kwon, Y. J., Lan, J., Lim, S. I., Lundquist, J. P., Machida, S., Martens, K., Matsuda, T., Matsuura, T., Matsuyama, T., Matthews, J. N., Myers, I., Minamino, M., Miyata, K., Murano, Y., Nagataki, S., Nakamura, T., Nam, S. W., Nonaka, T., Ogio, S., Ogura, J., Ohnishi, M., Ohoka, H., Oki, K., Oku, D., Okuda, T., Ono, M., Oshima, A., Ozawa, S., Park, I. H., Pshirkov, M. S., Rodriguez, D. C., Roh, S. Y., Rubtsov, G., Ryu, D., Sagawa, H., Sakurai, N., Sampson, A. L., Scott, L. M., Shah, P. D., Shibata, F., Shibata, T., Shimodaira, H., Shin, B. K., Shin, J. I., Shirahama, T., Smith, J. D., Sokolsky, P., Sonley, T. J., Springer, R. W., Stokes, B. T., Stratton, S. R., Stroman, T. A., Suzuki, S., Takahashi, Y., Takeda, M., Taketa, A., Takita, M., Tameda, Y., Tanaka, H., Tanaka, K., Tanaka, M., Thomas, S. B., Thomson, G. B., Tinyakov, P., Tkachev, I., Tokuno, H., Tomida, T., Troitsky, S., Tsunesada, Y., Tsutsumi, K., Tsuyuguchi, Y., Uchihori, Y., Udo, S., Ukai, H., Vasiloff, G., Wada, Y., Wong, T., Yamakawa, Y., Yamane, R., Yamaoka, H., Yamazaki, K., Yang, J., Yoneda, Y., Yoshida, S., Yoshii, H., Zollinger, R., and Zundel, Z.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
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 (Abu-Zayyad {\it et al.}, {Astropart. Phys.} 39 (2012), 109). This combined spectrum corroborates the recently published Telescope Array surface detector spectrum (Abu-Zayyad {\it et al.}, {Astrophys. Journ.} 768 (2013), L1) with independent systematic uncertainties., Comment: 10 pages, 10 figures, submitted to Astroparticle Physics

Published
2013

6. Upper limit on the flux of photons with energies above 10^19 eV using the Telescope Array surface detector

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Abu-Zayyad, T., Aida, R., Allen, M., Anderson, R., Azuma, R., Barcikowski, E., Belz, J. W., Bergman, D. R., Blake, S. A., Cady, R., Cheon, B. G., Chiba, J., Chikawa, M., Cho, E. J., Cho, W. R., Fujii, H., Fujii, T., Fukuda, T., Fukushima, M., Gorbunov, D., Hanlon, W., Hayashi, K., Hayashi, Y., Hayashida, N., Hibino, K., Hiyama, K., Honda, K., Iguchi, T., Ikeda, D., Ikuta, K., Inoue, N., Ishii, T., Ishimori, R., Ivanov, D., Iwamoto, S., Jui, C. C. H., Kadota, K., Kakimoto, F., Kalashev, O., Kanbe, T., Kasahara, K., Kawai, H., Kawakami, S., Kawana, S., Kido, E., Kim, H. B., Kim, H. K., Kim, J. H., Kitamoto, K., Kitamura, S., Kitamura, Y., Kobayashi, K., Kobayashi, Y., Kondo, Y., Kuramoto, K., Kuzmin, V., Kwon, Y. J., Lan, J., Lim, S. I., Machida, S., Martens, K., Matsuda, T., Matsuura, T., Matsuyama, T., Matthews, J. N., Minamino, M., Miyata, K., Murano, Y., Myers, I., Nagasawa, K., Nagataki, S., Nakamura, T., Nam, S. W., Nonaka, T., Ogio, S., Ohnishi, M., Ohoka, H., Oki, K., Oku, D., Okuda, T., Oshima, A., Ozawa, S., Park, I. H., Pshirkov, M. S., Rodriguez, D. C., Roh, S. Y., Rubtsov, G. I., Ryu, D., Sagawa, H., Sakurai, N., Sampson, A. L., Scott, L. M., Shah, P. D., Shibata, F., Shibata, T., Shimodaira, H., Shin, B. K., Shin, J. I., Shirahama, T., Smith, J. D., Sokolsky, P., Stokes, B. T., Stratton, S. R., Stroman, T., Suzuki, S., Takahashi, Y., Takeda, M., Taketa, A., Takita, M., Tameda, Y., Tanaka, H., Tanaka, K., Tanaka, M., Thomas, S. B., Thomson, G. B., Tinyakov, P., Tkachev, I., Tokuno, H., Tomida, T., Troitsky, S., Tsunesada, Y., Tsutsumi, K., Tsuyuguchi, Y., Uchihori, Y., Udo, S., Ukai, H., Vasiloff, G., Wada, Y., Wong, T., Wood, M., Yamakawa, Y., Yamane, R., Yamaoka, H., Yamazaki, K., Yang, J., Yoneda, Y., Yoshida, S., Yoshii, H., Zhou, X., Zollinger, R., and Zundel, Z.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract

We search for ultra-high energy photons by analyzing geometrical properties of shower fronts of events registered by the Telescope Array surface detector. By making use of an event-by-event statistical method, we derive upper limits on the absolute flux of primary photons with energies above 10^19, 10^19.5 and 10^20 eV based on the first three years of data taken., Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures

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2013
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7. Search for Anisotropy of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays with the Telescope Array Experiment

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Abu-Zayyad, T., Aida, R., Allen, M., Anderson, R., Azuma, R., Barcikowski, E., Belz, J. W., Bergman, D. R., Blake, S. A., Cady, R., Cheon, B. G., Chiba, J., Chikawa, M., Cho, E. J., Cho, W. R., Fujii, H., Fujii, T., Fukuda, T., Fukushima, M., Hanlon, W., Hayashi, K., Hayashi, Y., Hayashida, N., Hibino, K., Hiyama, K., Honda, K., Iguchi, T., Ikeda, D., Ikuta, K., Inoue, N., Ishii, T., Ishimori, R., Ivanov, D., Iwamoto, S., Jui, C. C. H., Kadota, K., Kakimoto, F., Kalashev, O., Kanbe, T., Kasahara, K., Kawai, H., Kawakami, S., Kawana, S., Kido, E., Kim, H. B., Kim, H. K., Kim, J. H., Kitamoto, K., Kitamura, S., Kitamura, Y., Kobayashi, K., Kobayashi, Y., Kondo, Y., Kuramoto, K., Kuzmin, V., Kwon, Y. J., Lim, S. I., Machida, S., Martens, K., Martineau, J., Matsuda, T., Matsuura, T., Matsuyama, T., Matthews, J. N., Minamino, M., Miyata, K., Murano, Y., Myers, I., Nagasawa, K., Nagataki, S., Nakamura, T., Nam, S. W., Nonaka, T., Ogio, S., Ohnishi, M., Ohoka, H., Oki, K., Oku, D., Okuda, T., Oshima, A., Ozawa, S., Park, I. H., Pshirkov, M. S., Rodriguez, D. C., Roh, S. Y., Rubtsov, G., Ryu, D., Sagawa, H., Sakurai, N., Sampson, A. L., Scott, L. M., Shah, P. D., Shibata, F., Shibata, T., Shimodaira, H., Shin, B. K., Shin, J. I., Shirahama, T., Smith, J. D., Sokolsky, P., Sonley, T. J., Springer, R. W., Stokes, B. T., Stratton, S. R., Stroman, T., Suzuki, S., Takahashi, Y., Takeda, M., Taketa, A., Takita, M., Tameda, Y., Tanaka, H., Tanaka, K., Tanaka, M., Thomas, S. B., Thomson, G. B., Tinyakov, P., Tkachev, I., Tokuno, H., Tomida, T., Troitsky, S., Tsunesada, Y., Tsutsumi, K., Tsuyuguchi, Y., Uchihori, Y., Udo, S., Ukai, H., Vasiloff, G., Wada, Y., Wong, T., Wood, M., Yamakawa, Y., Yamane, R., Yamaoka, H., Yamazaki, K., Yang, J., Yoneda, Y., Yoshida, S., Yoshii, H., Zhou, X., Zollinger, R., and Zundel, Z.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

We study the anisotropy of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray (UHECR) events collected by the Telescope Array (TA) detector in the first 40 months of operation. Following earlier studies, we examine event sets with energy thresholds of 10 EeV, 40 EeV, and 57 EeV. We find that the distributions of the events in right ascension and declination are compatible with an isotropic distribution in all three sets. We then compare with previously reported clustering of the UHECR events at small angular scales. No significant clustering is found in the TA data. We then check the events with E>57 EeV for correlations with nearby active galactic nuclei. No significant correlation is found. Finally, we examine all three sets for correlations with the large-scale structure of the Universe. We find that the two higher-energy sets are compatible with both an isotropic distribution and the hypothesis that UHECR sources follow the matter distribution of the Universe (the LSS hypothesis), while the event set with E>10 EeV is compatible with isotropy and is not compatible with the LSS hypothesis at 95% CL unless large deflection angles are also assumed. We show that accounting for UHECR deflections in a realistic model of the Galactic magnetic field can make this set compatible with the LSS hypothesis., Comment: 10 pages, 9 figures

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2012
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8. The Cosmic Ray Energy Spectrum Observed with the Surface Detector of the Telescope Array Experiment

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Abu-Zayyad, T., Aida, R., Allen, M., Anderson, R., Azuma, R., Barcikowski, E., Belz, J. W., Bergman, D. R., Blake, S. A., Cady, R., Cheon, B. G., Chiba, J., Chikawa, M., Cho, E. J., Cho, W. R., Fujii, H., Fujii, T., Fukuda, T., Fukushima, M., Hanlon, W., Hayashi, K., Hayashi, Y., Hayashida, N., Hibino, K., Hiyama, K., Honda, K., Iguchi, T., Ikeda, D., Ikuta, K., Inoue, N., Ishii, T., Ishimori, R., Ivanov, D., Iwamoto, S., Jui, C. C. H., Kadota, K., Kakimoto, F., Kalashev, O., Kanbe, T., Kasahara, K., Kawai, H., Kawakami, S., Kawana, S., Kido, E., Kim, H. B., Kim, H. K., Kim, J. H., Kitamoto, K., Kitamura, S., Kitamura, Y., Kobayashi, K., Kobayashi, Y., Kondo, Y., Kuramoto, K., Kuzmin, V., Kwon, Y. J., Lan, J., Lim, S. I., Machida, S., Martens, K., Matsuda, T., Matsuura, T., Matsuyama, T., Matthews, J. N., Minamino, M., Miyata, K., Murano, Y., Myers, I., Nagasawa, K., Nagataki, S., Nakamura, T., Nam, S. W., Nonaka, T., Ogio, S., Ohnishi, M., Ohoka, H., Oki, K., Oku, D., Okuda, T., Oshima, A., Ozawa, S., Park, I. H., Pshirkov, M. S., Rodriguez, D. C., Roh, S. Y., Rubtsov, G., Ryu, D., Sagawa, H., Sakurai, N., Sampson, A. L., Scott, L. M., Shah, P. D., Shibata, F., Shibata, T., Shimodaira, H., Shin, B. K., Shin, J. I., Shirahama, T., Smith, J. D., Sokolsky, P., Stokes, B. T., Stratton, S. R., Stroman, T. A., Suzuki, S., Takahashi, Y., Takeda, M., Taketa, A., Takita, M., Tameda, Y., Tanaka, H., Tanaka, K., Tanaka, M., Thomas, S. B., Thomson, G. B., Tinyakov, P., Tkachev, I., Tokuno, H., Tomida, T., Troitsky, S., Tsunesada, Y., Tsutsumi, K., Tsuyuguchi, Y., Uchihori, Y., Udo, S., Ukai, H., Vasiloff, G., Wada, Y., Wong, T., Wood, M., Yamakawa, Y., Yamane, R., Yamaoka, H., Yamazaki, K., Yang, J., Yoneda, Y., Yoshida, S., Yoshii, H., Zhou, X., Zollinger, R., and Zundel, Z.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

The Telescope Array (TA) collaboration has measured the energy spectrum of ultra-high energy cosmic rays with primary energies above 1.6 x 10^(18) eV. This measurement is based upon four years of observation by the surface detector component of TA. The spectrum shows a dip at an energy of 4.6 x 10^(18) eV and a steepening at 5.4 x 10^(19) eV which is consistent with the expectation from the GZK cutoff. We present the results of a technique, new to the analysis of ultra-high energy cosmic ray surface detector data, that involves generating a complete simulation of ultra-high energy cosmic rays striking the TA surface detector. The procedure starts with shower simulations using the CORSIKA Monte Carlo program where we have solved the problems caused by use of the "thinning" approximation. This simulation method allows us to make an accurate calculation of the acceptance of the detector for the energies concerned., Comment: Accepted for publication by Astrophysical Journal Letters

Published
2012
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9. The Energy Spectrum of Telescope Array's Middle Drum Detector and the Direct Comparison to the High Resolution Fly's Eye Experiment

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Abu-Zayyad, T., Aida, R., Allen, M., Anderson, R., Azuma, R., Barcikowski, E., Belz, J. W., Bergman, D. R., Blake, S. A., Cady, R., Cheon, B. G., Chiba, J., Chikawa, M., Cho, E. J., Cho, W. R., Fujii, H., Fujii, T., Fukuda, T., Fukushima, M., Gorbunov, D., Hanlon, W., Hayashi, K., Hayashi, Y., Hayashida, N., Hibino, K., Hiyama, K., Honda, K., Iguchi, T., Ikeda, D., Ikuta, K., Inoue, N., Ishii, T., Ishimori, R., Ivanov, D., Iwamoto, S., Jui, C. C. H., Kadota, K., Kakimoto, F., Kalashev, O., Kanbe, T., Kasahara, K., Kawai, H., Kawakami, S., Kawana, S., Kido, E., Kim, H. B., Kim, H. K., Kim, J. H., Kitamoto, K., Kitamura, S., Kitamura, Y., Kobayashi, K., Kobayashi, Y., Kondo, Y., Kuramoto, K., Kuzmin, V., Kwon, Y. J., Lim, S. I., Machida, S., Martens, K., Martineau, J., Matsuda, T., Matsuura, T., Matsuyama, T., Matthews, J. N., Minamino, M., Miyata, K., Murano, Y., Nagataki, S., Nakamura, T., Nam, S. W., Nonaka, T., Ogio, S., Ohnishi, M., Ohoka, H., Oki, K., Oku, D., Okuda, T., Oshima, A., Ozawa, S., Park, I. H., Pshirkov, M. S., Rodriguez, D. C., Roh, S. Y., Rubtsov, G., Ryu, D., Sagawa, H., Sakurai, N., Sampson, A. L., Scott, L. M., Shah, P. D., Shibata, F., Shibata, T., Shimodaira, H., Shin, B. K., Shin, J. I., Shirahama, T., Smith, J. D., Sokolsky, P., Sonley, T. J., Springer, R. W., Stokes, B. T., Stratton, S. R., Stroman, T., Suzuki, S., Takahashi, Y., Takeda, M., Taketa, A., Takita, M., Tameda, Y., Tanaka, H., Tanaka, K., Tanaka, M., Thomas, S. B., Thomson, G. B., Tinyakov, P., Tkachev, I., Tokuno, H., Tomida, T., Troitsky, S., Tsunesada, Y., Tsutsumi, K., Tsuyuguchi, Y., Uchihori, Y., Udo, S., Ukai, H., Vasiloff, G., Wada, Y., Wong, T., Wood, M., Yamakawa, Y., Yamane, R., Yamaoka, H., Yamazaki, K., Yang, J., Yoneda, Y., Yoshida, S., Yoshii, H., Zollinger, R., and Zundel, Z.

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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
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The Telescope Array's Middle Drum fluorescence detector was instrumented with telescopes refurbished from the High Resolution Fly's Eye's HiRes-1 site. The data observed by Middle Drum in monocular mode was analyzed via the HiRes-1 profile-constrained geometry reconstruction technique and utilized the same calibration techniques enabling a direct comparison of the energy spectra and energy scales between the two experiments. The spectrum measured using the Middle Drum telescopes is based on a three-year exposure collected between December 16, 2007 and December 16, 2010. The calculated difference between the spectrum of the Middle Drum observations and the published spectrum obtained by the data collected by the HiRes-1 site allows the HiRes-1 energy scale to be transferred to Middle Drum. The HiRes energy scale is applied to the entire Telescope Array by making a comparison between Middle Drum monocular events and hybrid events that triggered both Middle Drum and the Telescope Array's scintillator Ground Array., Comment: 27 pages, 21 figures

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2012
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10. Pressure suppression of unconventional charge-density-wave state in PrRu4P12 studied by optical conductivity

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Okamura, H., Ohta, N., Takigawa, A., Matsutori, I., Shoji, K., Miyata, K., Matsunami, M., Sugawara, H., Sekine, C., Shirotani, I., Sato, H., Moriwaki, T., Ikemoto, Y., Liu, Z., and Carr, G. L.

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Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons
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Optical conductivity s(w) of PrRu4P12 has been studied under high pressure to 14 GPa, at low temperatures to 8 K, and at photon energies 12 meV-1.1 eV. The energy gap in s(w) at ambient pressure, caused by a metal-insulator transition due to an unconventional charge-density-wave formation at 63 K, is gradually filled in with increasing pressure to 10 GPa. At 14 GPa and below 30 K, s(w) exhibits a pronounced Drude-type component due to free carriers. This indicates that the initial insulating ground state at zero pressure has been turned into a metallic one at 14 GPa. This is consistent with a previous resistivity study under pressure, where the resistivity rapidly decreased with cooling below 30 K at 14 GPa. The evolution of electronic structure with pressure is discussed in terms of the hybridization between the 4f and conduction electrons., Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures

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2012
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11. The surface detector array of the Telescope Array experiment

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Abu-Zayyad, T., Aida, R., Allen, M., Anderson, R., Azuma, R., Barcikowski, E., Belz, J. W., Bergman, D. R., Blake, S. A., Cady, R., Cheon, B. G., Chiba, J., Chikawa, M., Cho, E. J., Cho, W. R., Fujii, H., Fujii, T., Fukuda, T., Fukushima, M., Gorbunov, D., Hanlon, W., Hayashi, K., Hayashi, Y., Hayashida, N., Hibino, K., Hiyama, K., Honda, K., Iguchi, T., Ikeda, D., Ikuta, K., Inoue, N., Ishii, T., Ishimori, R., Ivanov, D., Iwamoto, S., Jui, C. C. H., Kadota, K., Kakimoto, F., Kalashev, O., Kanbe, T., Kasahara, K., Kawai, H., Kawakami, S., Kawana, S., Kido, E., Kim, H. B., Kim, H. K., Kim, J. H., Kitamoto, K., Kobayashi, K., Kobayashi, Y., Kondo, Y., Kuramoto, K., Kuzmin, V., Kwon, Y. J., Lim, S. I., Machida, S., Martens, K., Martineau, J., Matsuda, T., Matsuura, T., Matsuyama, T., Matthews, J. N., Myers, I., Minamino, M., Miyata, K., Miyauchi, H., Murano, Y., Nakamura, T., Nam, S. W., Nonaka, T., Ogio, S., Ohnishi, M., Ohoka, H., Oki, K., Oku, D., Okuda, T., Oshima, A., Ozawa, S., Park, I. H., Pshirkov, M. S., Rodriguez, D., Roh, S. Y., Rubtsov, G., Ryu, D., Sagawa, H., Sakurai, N., Sampson, A. L., Scott, L. M., Shah, P. D., Shibata, F., Shibata, T., Shimodaira, H., Shin, B. K., Shin, J. I., Shirahama, T., Smith, J. D., Sokolsky, P., Sonley, T. J., Springer, R. W., Stokes, B. T., Stratton, S. R., Stroman, T. A., Suzuki, S., Takahashi, Y., Takeda, M., Taketa, A., Takita, M., Tameda, Y., Tanaka, H., Tanaka, K., Tanaka, M., Thomas, S. B., Thomson, G. B., Tinyakov, P., Tkachev, I., Tokuno, H., Tomida, T., Troitsky, S., Tsunesada, Y., Tsutsumi, K., Tsuyuguchi, Y., Uchihori, Y., Udo, S., Ukai, H., Vasiloff, G., Wada, Y., Wong, T., Wood, M., Yamakawa, Y., Yamaoka, H., Yamazaki, K., Yang, J., Yoshida, S., Yoshii, H., Zollinger, R., and Zundel, Z.

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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
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The Telescope Array (TA) experiment, located in the western desert of Utah,USA, is designed for observation of extensive air showers from extremely high energy cosmic rays. The experiment has a surface detector array surrounded by three fluorescence detectors to enable simultaneous detection of shower particles at ground level and fluorescence photons along the shower track. The TA surface detectors and fluorescence detectors started full hybrid observation in March, 2008. In this article we describe the design and technical features of the TA surface detector., Comment: 32 pages, 17 figures

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2012
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12. New air fluorescence detectors employed in the Telescope Array experiment

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Tokuno, H., Tameda, Y., Takeda, M., Kadota, K., Ikeda, D., Chikawa, M., Fujii, T., Fukushima, M., Honda, K., Inoue, N., Kakimoto, F., Kawana, S., Kido, E., Matthews, J. N., Nonaka, T., Ogio, S., Okuda, T., Ozawa, S., Sagawa, H., Sakurai, N., Shibata, T., Taketa, A., Thomas, S. B., Tomida, T., Tsunesada, Y., Udo, S., Abu-zayyad, T., Aida, R., Allen, M., Anderson, R., Azuma, R., Barcikowski, E., Belz, J. W., Bergman, D. R., Blake, S. A., Cady, R., Cheon, B. G., Chiba, J., Cho, E. J., Cho, W. R., Fujii, H., Fukuda, T., Gorbunov, D., Hanlon, W., Hayashi, K., Hayashi, Y., Hayashida, N., Hibino, K., Hiyama, K., Iguchi, T., Ikuta, K., Ishii, T., Ishimori, R., Ivanov, D., Iwamoto, S., Jui, C. C. H., Kalashev, O., Kanbe, T., Kasahara, K., Kawai, H., Kawakami, S., Kim, H. B., Kim, H. K., Kim, J. H., Kitamoto, K., Kobayashi, K., Kobayashi, Y., Kondo, Y., Kuramoto, K., Kuzmin, V., Kwon, Y. J., Lim, S. I., Machida, S., Martens, K., Martineau, J., Matsuda, T., Matsuura, T., Matsuyama, T., Myers, I., Minamino, M., Miyata, K., Miyauchi, H., Murano, Y., Nakamura, T., Nam, S. W., Ohnishi, M., Ohoka, H., Oki, K., Oku, D., Oshima, A., Park, I. H., Pshirkov, M. S., Rodriguez, D., Roh, S. Y., Rubtsov, G., Ryu, D., Sampson, A. L., Scott, L. M., Shah, P. D., Shibata, F., Shimodaira, H., Shin, B. K., Shin, J. I., Shirahama, T., Smith, J. D., Sokolsky, P., Sonley, T. J., Springer, R. W., Stokes, B. T., Stratton, S. R., Stroman, T., Suzuki, S., Takahashi, Y., Takita, M., Tanaka, H., Tanaka, K., Tanaka, M., Thomson, G. B., Tinyakov, P., Tkachev, I., Troitsky, S., Tsutsumi, K., Tsuyuguchi, Y., Uchihori, Y., Ukai, H., Vasiloff, G., Wada, Y., Wong, T., Wood, M., Yamakawa, Y., Yamaoka, H., Yamazaki, K., Yang, J., Yoshida, S., Yoshii, H., Zollinger, R., and Zundel, Z.

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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
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Since 2007, the Telescope Array (TA) experiment, based in Utah, USA, has been observing ultra high energy cosmic rays to understand their origins. The experiment involves a surface detector (SD) array and three fluorescence detector (FD) stations. FD stations, installed surrounding the SD array, measure the air fluorescence light emitted from extensive air showers (EASs) for precise determination of their energies and species. The detectors employed at one of the three FD stations were relocated from the High Resolution Fly's Eye experiment. At the other two stations, newly designed detectors were constructed for the TA experiment. An FD consists of a primary mirror and a camera equipped with photomultiplier tubes. To obtain the EAS parameters with high accuracies, understanding the FD optical characteristics is important. In this paper, we report the characteristics and installation of new FDs and the performances of the FD components. The results of the monitored mirror reflectance during the observation time are also described in this report., Comment: 44 pages, 23 figures, submitted to NIM-A

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2011
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13. Clinical Courses Of Corneal Endothelial Dysfunction Due To Gomphocarpus physocarpus Milky Latex-Induced Injury: A Case Series

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Ono T, Kinoshita K, Iwasaki T, Mori Y, Nejima R, Nakamura Y, Amano S, Aihara M, and Miyata K

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asclepias physocarpus, corneal endothelial dysfunction, corneal edema, plant toxin, Ophthalmology, RE1-994
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Takashi Ono,1,2 Katsuhito Kinoshita,1 Takuya Iwasaki,1 Yosai Mori,1 Ryohei Nejima,1 Yasuko Nakamura,3 Shiro Amano,4 Makoto Aihara,2 Kazunori Miyata1 1Miyata Eye Hospital, Miyakonojo, Miyazaki, Japan; 2Department of Ophthalmology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; 3Kagoshima Miyata Eye Clinic, Kagoshima, Japan; 4Inouye Eye Hospital, Tokyo, JapanCorrespondence: Takashi OnoMiyata Eye Hospital, 6-3, Kuraharacho, Miyakonojo, Miyazaki 885-0051, JapanTel +81-986-22-1441Fax +81-986-24-2174Email taono-tky@umin.ac.jpPurpose: To investigate the clinical courses of patients with corneal endothelial dysfunction due to Gomphocarpus physocarpus milky latex-induced injury.Patients and methods: In this retrospective case series, we included consecutive patients who visited Miyata Eye Hospital or Kagoshima Miyata Eye Clinic between October 2010 and August 2017 and had corneal edema caused by G. physocarpus milky latex-induced injury. Patient information and data on central corneal thickness (CCT), corneal endothelial cell density (ECD), best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA), and treatment were retrospectively reviewed.Results: Five eyes of four patients were included. The mean age was 79.0 ± 7.1 years. All patients complaining of symptoms visited the hospital 1 or 2 days after the injury. All patients had corneal edema; two of the five eyes showed hyperemia, whereas none showed corneal epithelial defect or blepharitis. The mean CCT was 699.8 ± 95.9 μm at the first visit and decreased to 563.2 ± 74.0 μm 1 week after the injury with treatment with topical steroids and antibiotics. The mean ECD and BCVA were 2695.8 ± 191.3 cells/mm2 and 0.22 ± 0.19 at the first visit and 2826.0 ± 132.9 cells/mm2 and 0.10 ± 0.09 one week after the injury, respectively.Conclusion: G. physocarpus caused transient dysfunction of the corneal endothelium and thereby, corneal edema. Accurate diagnosis with history taking is important to ascertain the types of plants the patient has touched and to exclude other possible diagnoses.Keywords: Asclepias physocarpus, corneal endothelial dysfunction, corneal edema, plant toxin

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2019

16. Collagen fiber changes related to keratoconus with secondary corneal amyloidosis

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Araki-Sasaki K, Osakabe Y, Fujita K, Miyata K, and Hirano K

Subjects
corneal amyloidosis, TGFBIp, lactoferrin, keratoconus, collagen, Medicine (General), R5-920
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Kaoru Araki-Sasaki,1 Yasuhiro Osakabe,2 Koji Fujita,2 Kazunori Miyata,3 Koji Hirano4 1Department of Ophthalmology, Japan Community Health Care Organization, Hoshigaoka Medical Center, Hirakata, Japan; 2Department of Molecular Pathology, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan; 3Department of Ophthalmology, Miyata Eye Hospital, Miyakonojo, Japan; 4Department of Ophthalmology, Ban Buntane Hotokukai Hospital, Fujita Health University, Nagoya, Japan Abstract: We describe the histological changes in the collagen fibers of a 50-year-old male who presented keratoconus with secondary corneal amyloidosis. Corneal tissue from the patient was obtained following a penetrating keratoplasty and was subjected to histochemical analysis using Masson’s trichrome staining, Congo red staining, anti-lactoferrin antibody, and anti-transforming growth factor-beta-induced protein (TGFBIp) antibody. A Congo red-positive region was detected in the anterior half of the stroma in the center and inferior cornea. Although hemotoxylin and eosin staining revealed irregularity in the Congo red-positive region, other parts of the stroma did not show any abnormalities. Positive staining both by anti-TGFBIp and anti-lactoferrin antibodies was observed in the Congo red-positive region. Interestingly, all the layers of the corneal stroma, including the peripheral region, were positively stained by anti-TFGBIp antibody, even in the Congo red-negative area. Masson’s trichrome staining also showed irregular staining throughout the corneal stroma, even outside of the Congo red-positive region. Additionally, Bowman’s layer, which consists of collagen type IV, was damaged. TGFBIp was strongly expressed and Masson’s trichrome staining was reduced throughout the entire keratoconic stroma. The constant qualitative changes in keratoconic collagen fibers, along with the observed abnormality in the Bowman’s membrane, might point to the pathogenesis of secondary corneal amyloidosis in keratoconus. Keywords: cornea, amyloid, stroma, TGFBIp, lactoferrin

Published
2018

18. Evaluation of a novel fluorescent nanobeacon for targeted imaging of Thomsen-Friedenreich associated colorectal cancer

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Nakase H, Sakuma S, Fukuchi T, Yoshino T, Mohri K, Miyata K, Kumagai H, Hiwatari K, Tsubaki K, Ikejima T, Tobita E, Zhu M, Wilson KJ, Washington K, Gore JC, and Pham W

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TF antigen, Nanobeacon, Colorectal cancer, Medicine (General), R5-920
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Hiroshi Nakase,1,2 Shinji Sakuma,3 Takumi Fukuchi,4 Takuya Yoshino,1,5 Kohta Mohri,3 Kohei Miyata,3,6 Hironori Kumagai,6 Ken-Ichiro Hiwatari,6 Kazufumi Tsubaki,6 Tetsuya Ikejima,6 Etsuo Tobita,6 Meiying Zhu,7 Kevin J Wilson,7 Kay Washington,8 John C Gore,7,9–13 Wellington Pham7,9–12,14 1Division of Endoscopy, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan; 2Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan; 3Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Setsunan University, Hirakata, Osaka, Japan; 4Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Osakafu Saiseikai Nakatsu Hospital, Osaka, Japan; 5Division of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Digestive Disease Center, Kitano Hospital, Osaka, Japan; 6Advanced Materials R&D Laboratory, ADEKA Corp., Tokyo, Japan; 7Department of Radiology, Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, 8Division of Gastrointestinal and Hepatic Pathology, Vanderbilt School of Medicine, 9Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, 10Department of Biomedical Engineering, 11Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt School of Medicine, 12Vanderbilt Brain Institute, 13Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, 14Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA Abstract: The Thomsen–Friedenreich (TF) antigen represents a prognostic biomarker of colorectal carcinoma. Here, using a nanobeacon, the surface of which was fabricated with peanut agglutinin as TF-binding molecules, we demonstrate that the nanobeacon is able to detect TF antigen in frozen and freshly biopsied polyps using fluorescence microscopy. Our results provide important clues about how to detect aberrant colonic tissues in the most timely fashion. Given the versatile application method for this topical nanobeacon, the protocol used in this work is amenable to clinical colonoscopy. Moreover, the prospects of clinical translation of this technology are evident. Keywords: TF antigen, fluorescence colonoscopy, nanobeacon, colorectal cancer

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2017

21. Clinical utility of antimicrobial susceptibility measurement plate covering formulated concentrations of various ophthalmic antimicrobial drugs

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Tou N, Nejima R, Ikeda Y, Hori Y, Araki-Sasaki K, Miyata K, Inoue Y, and Tawara A

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ophthalmic antimicrobial agent, drug susceptibility, minimum inhibitory concentration, Clinical Laboratory and Standards Institute, Ophthalmology, RE1-994
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Norihiko Tou,1 Ryohei Nejima,2 Yoshifumi Ikeda,3 Yuichi Hori,4 Kaoru Araki-Sasaki,5 Kazunori Miyata,2 Yoshitsugu Inoue,3 Akihiko Tawara1 1Department of Ophthalmology, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Fukuoka, 2Miyata Eye Hospital, Miyazaki, 3Division of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University, Tottori, 4Department of Ophthalmology, Toho University Sakura Medical Center, Chiba, 5Ideta Eye Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical utility of SG17, an ophthalmic antimicrobial susceptibility measurement plate.Design: This was a multicenter, retrospective, observational study.Patients and methods: Using clinical isolates from patients with ocular infections, drug susceptibility testing using the Clinical Laboratory and Standards Institute standards was routinely conducted at five facilities. The minimum inhibitory concentrations of the isolated strains were determined using SG17 at the Research Foundation for Microbial Diseases of Osaka University. The records of antimicrobial drugs used and the therapeutic course were evaluated for all cases. The susceptibility results from SG17 and routine methods used at each facility were compared.Results: A total of 112 bacterial strains were isolated from 92 patients. Of these cases, keratitis was the most common (52.2%), followed by conjunctivitis (21.7%) and others (26.1%). Principal signs and symptoms resolved in all patients, indicating that therapeutic effects had been achieved. With SG17, drug susceptibility was determined in 98.9% of isolates compared with 30.4% of isolates determined using conventional methods. By adapting the Clinical Laboratory and Standards Institute standards to SG17 results, we found that 91.3% of patients were susceptible and 7.6% were resistant. In five patients, drugs with a resistant evaluation were initially administered with no effect, and the patients were then switched to drugs with a susceptible evaluation with final resolution, indicating agreement of clinical results with SG17.Conclusion: SG17 can be used to determine drug susceptibility to antimicrobial agents currently used in ophthalmic practice. SG17 is useful for selecting antimicrobial drugs. Keywords: ophthalmic antimicrobial agent, drug susceptibility, minimum inhibitory concentration, Clinical Laboratory and Standards Institute

Published
2016

22. Risk factors for corneal endothelial cell loss by cataract surgery in eyes with pseudoexfoliation syndrome

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Hasegawa Y, Nejima R, Mori Y, Sakisaka T, Minami K, Miyata K, and Oshika T

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pseudoexfoliation syndrome, corneal endothelial cell loss, cataract surgery, Ophthalmology, RE1-994
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Yumi Hasegawa,1,2 Ryohei Nejima,1 Yosai Mori,1 Toshihiro Sakisaka,1 Keiichiro Minami,1 Kazunori Miyata,1 Tetsuro Oshika2 1Miyata Eye Hospital, Miyazaki, 2Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the factors associated with decreases in corneal endothelial cell density (ECD) resulting from cataract surgery in eyes with pseudoexfoliation syndrome (PEX). Methods: The clinical records of 78 eyes of 78 patients with PEX who had undergone cataract surgery were reviewed. ECD was measured preoperatively and at 3 months postoperatively with specular microscopy. Multiple regression analysis was used to assess the factors that were significantly related to the rate of ECD loss. Explanatory variables included age, preoperative ECD, pupil diameter, cataract grade, concomitance of glaucoma or diabetes mellitus, preoperative anterior chamber depth, surgery time, total time and power of ultrasound, performance of intraoperative pupillary enlargement manipulation, and postoperative aqueous flare intensity at 1 week and 1 month. Results: ECD before and after surgery was 2,464±337 cells/mm2 and 2,400±347 cells/mm2, respectively, with an ECD loss rate of 2.6%±5.1% (mean ± SD). Multiple regression analysis revealed that ECD loss was significantly associated with the cataract grade (P=0.019) and preoperative anterior chamber depth (P=0.023). Conclusion: With modern small incision cataract surgery, the ECD loss varied with surgical invasions due to severe cataract and shallow anterior chamber, and the presence of PEX was least affected. Keywords: pseudoexfoliation syndrome, corneal endothelial cell loss, cataract surgery

Published
2016

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

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Abu-Zayyad, T., Aida, R., Allen, M., Anderson, R., Azuma, R., Barcikowski, E., Belz, J.W., Bergman, D.R., Blake, S.A., Cady, R., Cheon, B.G., Chiba, J., Chikawa, M., Cho, E.J., Cho, W.R., Fujii, H., Fujii, T., Fukuda, T., Fukushima, M., Hanlon, W., Hayashi, K., Hayashi, Y., Hayashida, N., Hibino, K., Hiyama, K., Honda, K., Iguchi, T., Ikeda, D., Ikuta, K., Inoue, N., Ishii, T., Ishimori, R., Ito, H., Ivanov, D., Iwamoto, S., Jui, C.C.H., Kadota, K., Kakimoto, F., Kalashev, O., Kanbe, T., Kasahara, K., Kawai, H., Kawakami, S., Kawana, S., Kido, E., Kim, H.B., Kim, H.K., Kim, J.H., Kitamoto, K., Kitamura, S., Kitamura, Y., Kobayashi, K., Kobayashi, Y., Kondo, Y., Kuramoto, K., Kuzmin, V., Kwon, Y.J., Lan, J., Lim, S.I., Lundquist, J.P., Machida, S., Martens, K., Matsuda, T., Matsuura, T., Matsuyama, T., Matthews, J.N., Minamino, M., Miyata, K., Murano, Y., Myers, I., Nagasawa, K., Nagataki, S., Nakamura, T., Nam, S.W., Nonaka, T., Ogio, S., Ohnishi, M., Ohoka, H., Oki, K., Oku, D., Okuda, T., Ono, M., Oshima, A., Ozawa, S., Park, I.H., Pshirkov, M.S., Rodriguez, D.C., Roh, S.Y., Rubtsov, G., Ryu, D., Sagawa, H., Sakurai, N., Sampson, A.L., Scott, L.M., Shah, P.D., Shibata, F., Shibata, T., Shimodaira, H., Shin, B.K., Shin, J.I., Shirahama, T., Smith, J.D., Sokolsky, P., Springer, R.W., Stokes, B.T., Stratton, S.R., Stroman, T., Suzuki, S., Takahashi, Y., Takeda, M., Taketa, A., Takita, M., Tameda, Y., Tanaka, H., Tanaka, K., Tanaka, M., Thomas, S.B., Thomson, G.B., Tinyakov, P., Tkachev, I., Tokuno, H., Tomida, T., Troitsky, S., Tsunesada, Y., Tsutsumi, K., Tsuyuguchi, Y., Uchihori, Y., Udo, S., Ukai, H., Urban, F., Vasiloff, G., Wada, Y., Wong, T., Yamakawa, Y., Yamane, R., Yamaoka, H., Yamazaki, K., Yang, J., Yoneda, Y., Yoshida, S., Yoshii, H., Zhou, X., Zollinger, R., and Zundel, Z.

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2015
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27. Gain monitoring of telescope array photomultiplier cameras for the first 4 years of operation

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Shin, B.K., Tokuno, H., Tsunesada, Y., Abu-Zayyad, T., Aida, R., Allen, M., Anderson, R., Azuma, R., Barcikowski, E., Belz, J.W., Bergman, D.R., Blake, S.A., Cady, R., Cheon, B.G., Chiba, J., Chikawa, M., Cho, E.J., Cho, W.R., Fujii, H., Fujii, T., Fukuda, T., Fukushima, M., Hanlon, W., Hayashi, K., Hayashi, Y., Hayashida, N., Hibino, K., Hiyama, K., Honda, K., Iguchi, T., Ikeda, D., Ikuta, K., Inoue, N., Ishii, T., Ishimori, R., Ivanov, D., Iwamoto, S., Jui, C.C.H., Kadota, K., Kakimoto, F., Kalashev, O., Kanbe, T., Kasahara, K., Kawai, H., Kawakami, S., Kawana, S., Kido, E., Kim, H.B., Kim, H.K., Kim, J.H., Kitamoto, K., Kitamura, S., Kitamura, Y., Kobayashi, K., Kobayashi, Y., Kondo, Y., Kuramoto, K., Kuzmin, V., Kwon, Y.J., Lim, S.I., Machida, S., Martens, K., Martineau, J., Matsuda, T., Matsuura, T., Matsuyama, T., Matthews, J.N., Myers, I., Minamino, M., Miyata, K., Murano, Y., Nagasawa, K., Nagataki, S., Nakamura, T., Nam, S.W., Nonaka, T., Ogio, S., Ohnishi, M., Ohoka, H., Oki, K., Oku, D., Okuda, T., Oshima, A., Ozawa, S., Park, I.H., Pshirkov, M.S., Rodriguez, D.C., Roh, S.Y., Rubtsov, G., Ryu, D., Sagawa, H., Sakurai, N., Sampson, A.L., Scott, L.M., Shah, P.D., Shibata, F., Shibata, T., Shimodaira, H., Shin, J.I., Shirahama, T., Smith, J.D., Sokolsky, P., Sonley, T.J., Springer, R.W., Stokes, B.T., Stratton, S.R., Stroman, T., Suzuki, S., Takahashi, Y., Takeda, M., Taketa, A., Takita, M., Tameda, Y., Tanaka, H., Tanaka, K., Tanaka, M., Thomas, S.B., Thomson, G.B., Tinyakov, P., Tkachev, I., Tomida, T., Troitsky, S., Tsutsumi, K., Tsuyuguchi, Y., Uchihori, Y., Udo, S., Ukai, H., Vasiloff, G., Wada, Y., Wong, T., Wood, M., Yamakawa, Y., Yamane, R., Yamaoka, H., Yamazaki, K., Yang, J., Yoneda, Y., Yoshida, S., Yoshii, H., Zhou, X., Zollinger, R., and Zundel, Z.

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2014
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29. Vaccine targeting ANGPTL3 ameliorates dyslipidemia and associated diseases in mouse models of obese dyslipidemia and familial hypercholesterolemia

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Fukami, H, primary, Morinaga, J, additional, Nakagami, H, additional, Hayashi, H, additional, Okadome, Y, additional, Matsunaga, E, additional, Kadomatsu, T, additional, Horiguchi, H, additional, Sato, M, additional, Sugizaki, T, additional, Kuwabara, T, additional, Miyata, K, additional, Mukoyama, M, additional, Morishita, R, additional, and Oike, Y, additional

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2022
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30. The energy spectrum of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays measured by the Telescope Array FADC fluorescence detectors in monocular mode

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Abu-Zayyad, T., Aida, R., Allen, M., Anderson, R., Azuma, R., Barcikowski, E., Belz, J.W., Bergman, D.R., Blake, S.A., Cady, R., Cheon, B.G., Chiba, J., Chikawa, M., Cho, E.J., Cho, W.R., Fujii, H., Fujii, T., Fukuda, T., Fukushima, M., Hanlon, W., Hayashi, K., Hayashi, Y., Hayashida, N., Hibino, K., Hiyama, K., Honda, K., Iguchi, T., Ikeda, D., Ikuta, K., Inoue, N., Ishii, T., Ishimori, R., Ito, H., Ivanov, D., Iwamoto, S., Jui, C.C.H., Kadota, K., Kakimoto, F., Kalashev, O., Kanbe, T., Kasahara, K., Kawai, H., Kawakami, S., Kawana, S., Kido, E., Kim, H.B., Kim, H.K., Kim, J.H., Kitamoto, K., Kitamura, S., Kitamura, Y., Kobayashi, K., Kobayashi, Y., Kondo, Y., Kuramoto, K., Kuzmin, V., Kwon, Y.J., Lan, J., Lim, S.I., Lundquist, J.P., Machida, S., Martens, K., Matsuda, T., Matsuura, T., Matsuyama, T., Matthews, J.N., Myers, I., Minamino, M., Miyata, K., Murano, Y., Nagataki, S., Nakamura, T., Nam, S.W., Nonaka, T., Ogio, S., Ogura, J., Ohnishi, M., Ohoka, H., Oki, K., Oku, D., Okuda, T., Ono, M., Oshima, A., Ozawa, S., Park, I.H., Pshirkov, M.S., Rodriguez, D.C., Roh, S.Y., Rubtsov, G., Ryu, D., Sagawa, H., Sakurai, N., Sampson, A.L., Scott, L.M., Shah, P.D., Shibata, F., Shibata, T., Shimodaira, H., Shin, B.K., Shin, J.I., Shirahama, T., Smith, J.D., Sokolsky, P., Sonley, T.J., Springer, R.W., Stokes, B.T., Stratton, S.R., Stroman, T.A., Suzuki, S., Takahashi, Y., Takeda, M., Taketa, A., Takita, M., Tameda, Y., Tanaka, H., Tanaka, K., Tanaka, M., Thomas, S.B., Thomson, G.B., Tinyakov, P., Tkachev, I., Tokuno, H., Tomida, T., Troitsky, S., Tsunesada, Y., Tsutsumi, K., Tsuyuguchi, Y., Uchihori, Y., Udo, S., Ukai, H., Vasiloff, G., Wada, Y., Wong, T., Yamakawa, Y., Yamane, R., Yamaoka, H., Yamazaki, K., Yang, J., Yoneda, Y., Yoshida, S., Yoshii, H., Zollinger, R., and Zundel, Z.

Published
2013
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45. Telescope Array Experiment

Author

Kawai, H., Yoshida, S., Yoshii, H., Tanaka, K., Cohen, F., Fukushima, M., Hayashida, N., Hiyama, K., Ikeda, D., Kido, E., Kondo, Y., Nonaka, T., Ohnishi, M., Ohoka, H., Ozawa, S., Sagawa, H., Sakurai, N., Shibata, T., Shimodaira, H., Takeda, M., Taketa, A., Takita, M., Tokuno, H., Torii, R., Udo, S., Yamakawa, Y., Fujii, H., Matsuda, T., Tanaka, M., Yamaoka, H., Hibino, K., Benno, T., Doura, K., Chikawa, M., Nakamura, T., Teshima, M., Kadota, K., Uchihori, Y., Hayashi, K., Hayashi, Y., Kawakami, S., Matsuyama, T., Minamino, M., Ogio, S., Ohshima, A., Okuda, T., Shimizu, N., Tanaka, H., Bergman, D.R., Hughes, G., Stratton, S., Thomson, G.B., Endo, A., Inoue, N., Kawana, S., Wada, Y., Kasahara, K., Azuma, R., Iguchi, T., Kakimoto, F., Machida, S., Misumi, K., Murano, Y., Tameda, Y., Tsunesada, Y., Chiba, J., Miyata, K., Abu-Zayyad, T., Belz, J.W., Cady, R., Cao, Z., Huentemeyer, P., Jui, C.C.H., Martens, K., Matthews, J.N., Mostofa, M., Smith, J.D., Sokolsky, P., Springer, R.W., Thomas, J.R., Thomas, S.B., Wiencke, L.R., Doyle, T., Taylor, M.J., Wickwar, V.B., Wilkerson, T.D., Hashimoto, K., Honda, K., Ikuta, K., Ishii, T., Kanbe, T., and Tomida, T.

Published
2008
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47. Comparison of postoperative surface light scattering of different intraocular lenses

Author

Miyata, K., Otani, S., Nejima, R., Miyai, T., Samejima, T., Honbo, M., Minami, K., and Amano, S.

Subjects
Intraocular lenses -- Physiological aspects, Intraocular lenses -- Comparative analysis, Light scattering -- Comparative analysis, Cataract -- Care and treatment, Cataract -- Patient outcomes, Cataract -- Research, Phacoemulsification -- Patient outcomes, Phacoemulsification -- Research, Health
Published
2009

48. Association of varicella zoster virus load in the aqueous humor with clinical manifestations of anterior uveitis in herpes zoster ophthalmicus and zoster sine herpete

Author

Kido, S., Sugita, S., Horie, S., Miyanaga, M., Miyata, K., Shimizu, N., Morio, T., and Mochizuki, M.

Subjects
Varicella-zoster virus -- Physiological aspects, Shingles (Disease) -- Physiological aspects, Uveitis -- Development and progression, Uveitis -- Physiological aspects, Uveitis -- Research, Aqueous humor -- Analysis, Viremia -- Measurement, Viremia -- Analysis, Health
Published
2008

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