1. The present status of the Telescope Array experiment
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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
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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.
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- 2009