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1. First High‐Speed Video Camera Observations of a Lightning Flash Associated With a Downward Terrestrial Gamma‐Ray Flash

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R. U. Abbasi, M. M. F. Saba, J. W. Belz, P. R. Krehbiel, W. Rison, N. Kieu, D. R. daSilva, M. A. Stanley, Dan Rodeheffer, J. Remington, J. Mazich, R. LeVon, K. Smout, A. Petrizze, T. Abu‐Zayyad, M. Allen, R. Arimura, E. Barcikowski, D. R. Bergman, S. A. Blake, I. Buckland, B. G. Cheon, M. Chikawa, T. Fujii, K. Fujisue, K. Fujita, R. Fujiwara, M. Fukushima, G. Furlich, N. Globus, R. Gonzalez, W. Hanlon, N. Hayashida, H. He, K. Hibino, R. Higuchi, K. Honda, D. Ikeda, N. Inoue, T. Ishii, H. Ito, D. Ivanov, H. Iwakura, A. Iwasaki, H. M. Jeong, S. Jeong, C. C. H. Jui, K. Kadota, F. Kakimoto, O. Kalashev, K. Kasahara, S. Kasami, S. Kawakami, K. Kawata, I. Kharuk, E. Kido, H. B. Kim, J. H. Kim, S. W. Kim, Y. Kimura, I. Komae, Y. Kubota, M. Kuznetsov, Y. J. Kwon, K. H. Lee, B. Lubsandorzhiev, J. P. Lundquist, T. Matsuyama, J. N. Matthews, R. Mayta, I. Myers, S. Nagataki, K. Nakai, R. Nakamura, T. Nakamura, A. Nakazawa, E. Nishio, T. Nonaka, S. Ogio, M. Ohnishi, H. Ohoka, Y. Oku, T. Okuda, Y. Omura, M. Ono, A. Oshima, S. Ozawa, I. H. Park, M. Potts, M. S. Pshirkov, D. C. Rodriguez, C. Rott, G. I. Rubtsov, D. Ryu, H. Sagawa, N. Sakaki, T. Sako, N. Sakurai, K. Sato, T. Seki, K. Sekino, P. D. Shah, Y. Shibasaki, N. Shibata, T. Shibata, J. Shikita, H. Shimodaira, B. K. Shin, H. S. Shin, D. Shinto, J. D. Smith, P. Sokolsky, B. T. Stokes, T. A. Stroman, K. Takahashi, M. Takamura, M. Takeda, R. Takeishi, A. Taketa, M. Takita, Y. Tameda, K. Tanaka, M. Tanaka, S. B. Thomas, G. B. Thomson, P. Tinyakov, I. Tkachev, H. Tokuno, T. Tomida, S. Troitsky, R. Tsuda, Y. Tsunesada, S. Udo, T. Uehama, F. Urban, D. Warren, T. Wong, M. Yamamoto, K. Yamazaki, K. Yashiro, F. Yoshida, Y. Zhezher, and Z. Zundel

Subjects
lightning, terrestrial gamma‐ray flashes, cosmic ray detectors, Geophysics. Cosmic physics, QC801-809
Abstract

Abstract In this paper, we present the first high‐speed video observation of a cloud‐to‐ground lightning flash and its associated downward‐directed Terrestrial Gamma‐ray Flash (TGF). The optical emission of the event was observed by a high‐speed video camera running at 40,000 frames per second in conjunction with the Telescope Array Surface Detector, Lightning Mapping Array, interferometer, electric‐field fast antenna, and the National Lightning Detection Network. The cloud‐to‐ground flash associated with the observed TGF was formed by a fast downward leader followed by a very intense return stroke peak current of −154 kA. The TGF occurred while the downward leader was below cloud base, and even when it was halfway in its propagation to ground. The suite of gamma‐ray and lightning instruments, timing resolution, and source proximity offer us detailed information and therefore a unique look at the TGF phenomena.

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2023
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2. Observations of the Crab Nebula and Pulsar with the Large-sized Telescope Prototype of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

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H. Abe, K. Abe, S. Abe, A. Aguasca-Cabot, I. Agudo, N. Alvarez Crespo, L. A. Antonelli, C. Aramo, A. Arbet-Engels, C. Arcaro, M. Artero, K. Asano, P. Aubert, A. Baktash, A. Bamba, A. Baquero Larriva, L. Baroncelli, U. Barres de Almeida, J. A. Barrio, I. Batkovic, J. Baxter, J. Becerra González, E. Bernardini, M. I. Bernardos, J. Bernete Medrano, A. Berti, P. Bhattacharjee, N. Biederbeck, C. Bigongiari, E. Bissaldi, O. Blanch, G. Bonnoli, P. Bordas, A. Borghese, A. Bulgarelli, I. Burelli, M. Buscemi, M. Cardillo, S. Caroff, A. Carosi, F. Cassol, D. Cauz, G. Ceribella, Y. Chai, K. Cheng, A. Chiavassa, M. Chikawa, L. Chytka, A. Cifuentes, J. L. Contreras, J. Cortina, H. Costantini, G. D’Amico, M. Dalchenko, A. De Angelis, M. de Bony de Lavergne, B. De Lotto, R. de Menezes, G. Deleglise, C. Delgado, J. Delgado Mengual, D. della Volpe, M. Dellaiera, D. Depaoli, A. Di Piano, F. Di Pierro, R. Di Tria, L. Di Venere, C. Díaz, R. M. Dominik, D. Dominis Prester, A. Donini, D. Dorner, M. Doro, D. Elsässer, G. Emery, J. Escudero, V. Fallah Ramazani, G. Ferrara, F. Ferrarotto, A. Fiasson, L. Freixas Coromina, S. Fröse, S. Fukami, Y. Fukazawa, E. Garcia, R. Garcia López, C. Gasbarra, D. Gasparrini, F. Geyer, J. Giesbrecht Paiva, N. Giglietto, F. Giordano, E. Giro, P. Gliwny, N. Godinovic, R. Grau, D. Green, J. Green, S. Gunji, J. Hackfeld, D. Hadasch, A. Hahn, K. Hashiyama, T. Hassan, K. Hayashi, L. Heckmann, M. Heller, J. Herrera Llorente, K. Hirotani, D. Hoffmann, D. Horns, J. Houles, M. Hrabovsky, D. Hrupec, D. Hui, M. Hütten, M. Iarlori, R. Imazawa, T. Inada, Y. Inome, K. Ioka, M. Iori, K. Ishio, Y. Iwamura, M. Jacquemont, I. Jimenez Martinez, J. Jurysek, M. Kagaya, V. Karas, H. Katagiri, J. Kataoka, D. Kerszberg, Y. Kobayashi, A. Kong, H. Kubo, J. Kushida, M. Lainez, G. Lamanna, A. Lamastra, T. Le Flour, M. Linhoff, F. Longo, R. López-Coto, M. López-Moya, A. López-Oramas, S. Loporchio, A. Lorini, P. L. Luque-Escamilla, P. Majumdar, M. Makariev, D. Mandat, M. Manganaro, G. Manicò, K. Mannheim, M. Mariotti, P. Marquez, G. Marsella, J. Martí, O. Martinez, G. Martínez, M. Martínez, P. Marusevec, A. Mas-Aguilar, G. Maurin, D. Mazin, E. Mestre Guillen, S. Micanovic, D. Miceli, T. Miener, J. M. Miranda, R. Mirzoyan, T. Mizuno, M. Molero Gonzalez, E. Molina, T. Montaruli, I. Monteiro, A. Moralejo, D. Morcuende, A. Morselli, K. Mrakovcic, K. Murase, A. Nagai, S. Nagataki, T. Nakamori, L. Nickel, M. Nievas, K. Nishijima, K. Noda, D. Nosek, S. Nozaki, M. Ohishi, Y. Ohtani, T. Oka, N. Okazaki, A. Okumura, R. Orito, J. Otero-Santos, M. Palatiello, D. Paneque, F. R. Pantaleo, R. Paoletti, J. M. Paredes, M. Pech, M. Pecimotika, M. Peresano, A. Pérez, E. Pietropaolo, G. Pirola, C. Plard, F. Podobnik, V. Poireau, M. Polo, E. Pons, E. Prandini, J. Prast, G. Principe, C. Priyadarshi, M. Prouza, R. Rando, W. Rhode, M. Ribó, V. Rizi, G. Rodriguez Fernandez, J. E. Ruiz, T. Saito, S. Sakurai, D. A. Sanchez, T. Šarić, Y. Sato, F. G. Saturni, B. Schleicher, F. Schmuckermaier, J. L. Schubert, F. Schussler, T. Schweizer, M. Seglar Arroyo, R. Silvia, J. Sitarek, V. Sliusar, A. Spolon, J. Strišković, M. Strzys, Y. Suda, Y. Sunada, H. Tajima, H. Takahashi, M. Takahashi, J. Takata, R. Takeishi, P. H. T. Tam, S. J. Tanaka, D. Tateishi, L. A. Tejedor, P. Temnikov, Y. Terada, K. Terauchi, T. Terzic, M. Teshima, M. Tluczykont, F. Tokanai, D. F. Torres, P. Travnicek, S. Truzzi, A. Tutone, G. Uhlrich, M. Vacula, P. Vallania, J. van Scherpenberg, M. Vázquez Acosta, V. Verguilov, I. Viale, A. Vigliano, C. F. Vigorito, V. Vitale, G. Voutsinas, I. Vovk, T. Vuillaume, R. Walter, M. Will, T. Yamamoto, R. Yamazaki, T. Yoshida, T. Yoshikoshi, N. Zywucka, K. Bernlöhr, O. Gueta, K. Kosack, G. Maier, and J. Watson

Subjects
Gamma-ray astronomy, Gamma-ray sources, Astronomy data analysis, Pulsar wind nebulae, Pulsars, Astrophysics, QB460-466
Abstract

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a next-generation ground-based observatory for gamma-ray astronomy at very high energies. The Large-Sized Telescope prototype (LST-1) is located at the CTA-North site, on the Canary Island of La Palma. LSTs are designed to provide optimal performance in the lowest part of the energy range covered by CTA, down to ≃20 GeV. LST-1 started performing astronomical observations in 2019 November, during its commissioning phase, and it has been taking data ever since. We present the first LST-1 observations of the Crab Nebula, the standard candle of very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy, and use them, together with simulations, to assess the performance of the telescope. LST-1 has reached the expected performance during its commissioning period—only a minor adjustment of the preexisting simulations was needed to match the telescope’s behavior. The energy threshold at trigger level is around 20 GeV, rising to ≃30 GeV after data analysis. Performance parameters depend strongly on energy, and on the strength of the gamma-ray selection cuts in the analysis: angular resolution ranges from 0.°12–0.°40, and energy resolution from 15%–50%. Flux sensitivity is around 1.1% of the Crab Nebula flux above 250 GeV for a 50 hr observation (12% for 30 minutes). The spectral energy distribution (in the 0.03–30 TeV range) and the light curve obtained for the Crab Nebula agree with previous measurements, considering statistical and systematic uncertainties. A clear periodic signal is also detected from the pulsar at the center of the Nebula.

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2023
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3. Multimessenger Characterization of Markarian 501 during Historically Low X-Ray and γ-Ray Activity

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H. Abe, S. Abe, V. A. Acciari, I. Agudo, T. Aniello, S. Ansoldi, L. A. Antonelli, A. Arbet-Engels, C. Arcaro, M. Artero, K. Asano, D. Baack, A. Babić, A. Baquero, U. Barres de Almeida, J. A. Barrio, I. Batković, J. Baxter, J. Becerra González, W. Bednarek, E. Bernardini, M. Bernardos, A. Berti, J. Besenrieder, W. Bhattacharyya, C. Bigongiari, A. Biland, O. Blanch, G. Bonnoli, Ž. Bošnjak, I. Burelli, G. Busetto, R. Carosi, M. Carretero-Castrillo, A. J. Castro-Tirado, G. Ceribella, Y. Chai, A. Chilingarian, S. Cikota, E. Colombo, J. L. Contreras, J. Cortina, S. Covino, G. D’Amico, V. D’Elia, P. Da Vela, F. Dazzi, A. De Angelis, B. De Lotto, A. Del Popolo, M. Delfino, J. Delgado, C. Delgado Mendez, D. Depaoli, F. Di Pierro, L. Di Venere, E. Do Souto Espiñeira, D. Dominis Prester, A. Donini, D. Dorner, M. Doro, D. Elsaesser, G. Emery, J. Escudero, V. Fallah Ramazani, L. Fariña, A. Fattorini, L. Foffano, L. Font, C. Fruck, S. Fukami, Y. Fukazawa, R. J. García López, M. Garczarczyk, S. Gasparyan, M. Gaug, J. G. Giesbrecht Paiva, N. Giglietto, F. Giordano, P. Gliwny, N. Godinović, R. Grau, D. Green, J. G. Green, D. Hadasch, A. Hahn, T. Hassan, L. Heckmann, J. Herrera, D. Hrupec, M. Hütten, R. Imazawa, T. Inada, R. Iotov, K. Ishio, I. Jiménez Martínez, J. Jormanainen, D. Kerszberg, Y. Kobayashi, H. Kubo, J. Kushida, A. Lamastra, D. Lelas, F. Leone, E. Lindfors, L. Linhoff, S. Lombardi, F. Longo, R. López-Coto, M. López-Moya, A. López-Oramas, S. Loporchio, A. Lorini, E. Lyard, B. Machado de Oliveira Fraga, P. Majumdar, M. Makariev, G. Maneva, N. Mang, M. Manganaro, S. Mangano, K. Mannheim, M. Mariotti, M. Martínez, A. Mas-Aguilar, D. Mazin, S. Menchiari, S. Mender, S. Mićanović, D. Miceli, T. Miener, J. M. Miranda, R. Mirzoyan, E. Molina, H. A. Mondal, A. Moralejo, D. Morcuende, V. Moreno, T. Nakamori, C. Nanci, L. Nava, V. Neustroev, M. Nievas Rosillo, C. Nigro, K. Nilsson, K. Nishijima, T. Njoh Ekoume, K. Noda, S. Nozaki, Y. Ohtani, T. Oka, A. Okumura, J. Otero-Santos, S. Paiano, M. Palatiello, D. Paneque, R. Paoletti, J. M. Paredes, L. Pavletić, M. Persic, M. Pihet, G. Pirola, F. Podobnik, P. G. Prada Moroni, E. Prandini, G. Principe, C. Priyadarshi, W. Rhode, M. Ribó, J. Rico, C. Righi, A. Rugliancich, N. Sahakyan, T. Saito, S. Sakurai, K. Satalecka, F. G. Saturni, B. Schleicher, K. Schmidt, F. Schmuckermaier, J. L. Schubert, T. Schweizer, J. Sitarek, V. Sliusar, D. Sobczynska, A. Spolon, A. Stamerra, J. Strišković, D. Strom, M. Strzys, Y. Suda, T. Surić, H. Tajima, M. Takahashi, R. Takeishi, F. Tavecchio, P. Temnikov, K. Terauchi, T. Terzić, M. Teshima, L. Tosti, S. Truzzi, A. Tutone, S. Ubach, J. van Scherpenberg, M. Vazquez Acosta, S. Ventura, V. Verguilov, I. Viale, C. F. Vigorito, V. Vitale, I. Vovk, R. Walter, M. Will, C. Wunderlich, T. Yamamoto, D. Zarić, The MAGIC Collaboration, M. Cerruti, J. A. Acosta-Pulido, G. Apolonio, R. Bachev, M. Baloković, E. Benítez, I. Björklund, V. Bozhilov, L. F. Brown, A. Bugg, W. Carbonell, M. I. Carnerero, D. Carosati, C. Casadio, W. Chamani, W. P. Chen, R. A. Chigladze, G. Damljanovic, K. Epps, A. Erkenov, M. Feige, J. Finke, A. Fuentes, K. Gazeas, M. Giroletti, T. S. Grishina, A. C. Gupta, M. A. Gurwell,, E. Heidemann, D. Hiriart, W. J. Hou, T. Hovatta, S. Ibryamov, M. D. Joner, S. G. Jorstad, J. Kania, S. Kiehlmann, G. N. Kimeridze, E. N. Kopatskaya, M. Kopp, M. Korte, B. Kotas, S. Koyama, J. A. Kramer, L. Kunkel, S. O. Kurtanidze, O. M. Kurtanidze, A. Lähteenmäki, J. M. López, V. M. Larionov, E. G. Larionova, L. V. Larionova, C. Leto, C. Lorey, R. Mújica, G. M. Madejski, N. Marchili, A. P. Marscher, M. Minev, A. Modaressi, D. A. Morozova, T. Mufakharov, I. Myserlis, A. A. Nikiforova, M. G. Nikolashvili, E. Ovcharov, M. Perri, C. M. Raiteri, A. C. S. Readhead, A. Reimer, D. Reinhart, S. Righini, K. Rosenlehner, A. C. Sadun, S. S. Savchenko, A. Scherbantin, L. Schneider, K. Schoch, D. Seifert, E. Semkov, L. A. Sigua, C. Singh, P. Sola, Y. Sotnikova, M. Spencer, R. Steineke, M. Stojanovic, A. Strigachev, M. Tornikoski, E. Traianou, A. Tramacere, Yu. V. Troitskaya, I. S. Troitskiy, J. B. Trump, A. Tsai, A. Valcheva, A. A. Vasilyev, F. Verrecchia, M. Villata, O. Vince, K. Vrontaki, Z. R. Weaver, E. Zaharieva, and N. Zottmann

Subjects
Active galaxies, BL Lacertae objects, Markarian galaxies, Active galactic nuclei, Blazars, Astrophysics, QB460-466
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We study the broadband emission of Mrk 501 using multiwavelength observations from 2017 to 2020 performed with a multitude of instruments, involving, among others, MAGIC, Fermi's Large Area Telescope (LAT), NuSTAR, Swift, GASP-WEBT, and the Owens Valley Radio Observatory. Mrk 501 showed an extremely low broadband activity, which may help to unravel its baseline emission. Nonetheless, significant flux variations are detected at all wave bands, with the highest occurring at X-rays and very-high-energy (VHE) γ -rays. A significant correlation (>3 σ ) between X-rays and VHE γ -rays is measured, supporting leptonic scenarios to explain the variable parts of the emission, also during low activity. This is further supported when we extend our data from 2008 to 2020, and identify, for the first time, significant correlations between the Swift X-Ray Telescope and Fermi-LAT. We additionally find correlations between high-energy γ -rays and radio, with the radio lagging by more than 100 days, placing the γ -ray emission zone upstream of the radio-bright regions in the jet. Furthermore, Mrk 501 showed a historically low activity in X-rays and VHE γ -rays from mid-2017 to mid-2019 with a stable VHE flux (>0.2 TeV) of 5% the emission of the Crab Nebula. The broadband spectral energy distribution (SED) of this 2 yr long low state, the potential baseline emission of Mrk 501, can be characterized with one-zone leptonic models, and with (lepto)-hadronic models fulfilling neutrino flux constraints from IceCube. We explore the time evolution of the SED toward the low state, revealing that the stable baseline emission may be ascribed to a standing shock, and the variable emission to an additional expanding or traveling shock.

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2023
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4. Measurement of High-energy Cosmic-Ray Proton Spectrum from the ISS-CREAM Experiment

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G. H. Choi, E. S. Seo, S. Aggarwal, Y. Amare, D. Angelaszek, D. P. Bowman, Y. C. Chen, M. Copley, L. Derome, L. Eraud, C. Falana, A. Gerrety, J. H. Han, H. G. Huh, A. Haque, Y. S. Hwang, H. J. Hyun, H. B. Jeon, J. A. Jeon, S. Jeong, S. C. Kang, H. J. Kim, K. C. Kim, M. H. Kim, H. Y. Lee, J. Lee, M. H. Lee, L. Lu, J. P. Lundquist, L. Lutz, A. Menchaca-Rocha, O. Ofoha, H. Park, I. H. Park, J. M. Park, N. Picot-Clemente, R. Scrandis, J. R. Smith, R. Takeishi, N. Vedenkin, P. Walpole, R. P. Weinmann, H. Wu, J. Wu, Z. Yin, Y. S. Yoon, and H. G. Zhang

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2022
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5. The energy spectrum of cosmic rays measured by the Telescope Array using 10 years of fluorescence detector data

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R.U. Abbasi, Y. Abe, T. Abu-Zayyad, M. Allen, Y. Arai, R. Arimura, E. Barcikowski, J.W. Belz, D.R. Bergman, S.A. Blake, I. Buckland, B.G. Cheon, M. Chikawa, A. Fedynitch, T. Fujii, K. Fujisue, K. Fujita, R. Fujiwara, M. Fukushima, G. Furlich, Z. Gerber, N. Globus, W. Hanlon, N. Hayashida, H. He, R. Hibi, K. Hibino, R. Higuchi, K. Honda, D. Ikeda, N. Inoue, T. Ishii, H. Ito, D. Ivanov, A. Iwasaki, H.M. Jeong, S. Jeong, C.C.H. Jui, K. Kadota, F. Kakimoto, O. Kalashev, K. Kasahara, S. Kasami, S. Kawakami, K. Kawata, I. Kharuk, E. Kido, H.B. Kim, J.H. Kim, S.W. Kim, Y. Kimura, I. Komae, K. Komori, Y. Kusumori, M. Kuznetsov, Y.J. Kwon, K.H. Lee, M.J. Lee, B. Lubsandorzhiev, J.P. Lundquist, T. Matsuyama, J.A. Matthews, J.N. Matthews, R. Mayta, K. Miyashita, K. Mizuno, M. Mori, M. Murakami, I. Myers, S. Nagataki, K. Nakai, T. Nakamura, E. Nishio, T. Nonaka, S. Ogio, H. Ohoka, N. Okazaki, Y. Oku, T. Okuda, Y. Omura, M. Onishi, M. Ono, A. Oshima, H. Oshima, S. Ozawa, I.H. Park, K.Y. Park, M. Potts, M.S. Pshirkov, J. Remington, D.C. Rodriguez, C. Rott, G.I. Rubtsov, D. Ryu, H. Sagawa, R. Saito, N. Sakaki, T. Sako, N. Sakurai, D. Sato, K. Sato, S. Sato, K. Sekino, P.D. Shah, N. Shibata, T. Shibata, J. Shikita, H. Shimodaira, B.K. Shin, H.S. Shin, D. Shinto, J.D. Smith, P. Sokolsky, B.T. Stokes, T.A. Stroman, Y. Takagi, K. Takahashi, M. Takamura, M. Takeda, R. Takeishi, A. Taketa, M. Takita, Y. Tameda, K. Tanaka, M. Tanaka, S.B. Thomas, G.B. Thomson, P. Tinyakov, I. Tkachev, H. Tokuno, T. Tomida, S. Troitsky, R. Tsuda, Y. Tsunesada, S. Udo, F. Urban, I.A. Vaiman, D. Warren, T. Wong, K. Yamazaki, K. Yashiro, F. Yoshida, Y. Zhezher, and Z. Zundel

Subjects
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Published
2023

6. Cherenkov Telescope Array : the World’s largest VHE gamma-ray observatory

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Roberta Zanin, H. Abdalla, H. Abe, S. Abe, A. Abusleme, F. Acero, A. Acharyya, V. Acin Portella, K. Ackley, R. Adam, C. Adams, S.S. Adhikari, I. Aguado Ruesga, I. Agudo, R. Aguilera, A. Aguirre Santaella, F. Aharonian, A. Alberdi, R. Alfaro, J. Alfaro, C. Alispach, R. Aloisio, R. Alves Batista, J.P. Amans, L. Amati, E. Amato, L. Ambrogi, G. Ambrosi, M. Ambrosio, R. Ammendola, J. Anderson, M. Anduze, E.O. Anguner, L.A. Antonelli, V. Antonuccio, P. Antoranz, R. Anutarawiramkul, J. Aragunde Gutierrez, C. Aramo, A. Araudo, M. Araya, A. Arbet Engels, C. Arcaro, V. Arendt, C. Armand, T. Armstrong, F. Arqueros, L. Arrabito, B. Arsioli, M. Artero, K. Asano, Y. Ascasibar, J. Aschersleben, M. Ashley, P. Attina, P. Aubert, C. B. Singh, D. Baack, A. Babic, M. Backes, V. Baena, S. Bajtlik, A. Baktash, C. Balazs, M. Balbo, O. Ballester, J. Ballet, B. Balmaverde, A. Bamba, R. Bandiera, A. Baquero Larriva, P. Barai, C. Barbier, V. Barbosa Martins, M. Barcelo, M. Barkov, M. Barnard, L. Baroncelli, U. Barres de Almeida, J.A. Barrio, D. Bastieri, P.I. Batista, I. Batkovic, C. Bauer, R. Bautista González, J. Baxter, U. Becciani, J. Becerra González, Y. Becherini, G. Beck, J. Becker Tjus, W. Bednarek, A. Belfiore, L. Bellizzi, R. Belmont, W. Benbow, D. Berge, E. Bernardini, M.I. Bernardos, K. Bernlöhr, A. Berti, M. Berton, B. Bertucci, V. Beshley, N. Bhatt, S. Bhattacharyya, W. Bhattacharyya, B. Y. Bi, G. Bicknell, N. Biederbeck, C. Bigongiari, A. Biland, R. Bird, E. Bissaldi, J. Biteau, M. Bitossi, O. Blanch, M. Blank, J. Blazek, J. Bobin, C. Boccato, F. Bocchino, C. Boehm, M. Bohacova, C. Boisson, J. Boix, J.P. Bolle, J. Bolmont, G. Bonanno, C. Bonavolontà, L. Bonneau Arbeletche, G. Bonnoli, P. Bordas, J. Borkowski, R. Bose, D. Bose, Z. Bosnjak, E. Bottacini, Markus Böttcher, M.T. Botticella, C. Boutonnet, F. Bouyjou, V. Bozhilov, E. Bozzo, L. Brahimi, C. Braiding, S. Brau Nogue, S. Breen, J. Bregeon, M. Breuhaus, A. Brill, W. Brisken, E. Brocato, A.M. Brown, K. Brügge, P. Brun, F. 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Wakazono, S.P. Wakely, M. Ward, D. Warren, J. Watson, M. Wechakama, P. Wegner, A. Weinstein, C. Weniger, F. Werner, H. Wetteskind, M. L. White, A. Wierzcholska, S. Wiesand, R. Wijers, M. Wilkinson, M. Will, J. Williams, T. J. Williamson, A. Wolter, Y.W. Wong, M. Wood, T. Yamamoto, H. Yamamoto, Y. Yamane, R. Yamazaki, S. Yanagita, L. Yang, S. Yoo, T. Yoshida, T. Yoshikoshi, P. Yu, A. Yusafzai, Michael Zacharias, B. Zaldivar, L. Zampieri, R. Zanin, R. Zanmar Sanchez, D. Zaric, M. Zavrtanik, D. Zavrtanik, Andrzej Zdziarski, A. Zech, H. Zechlin, A. Zenin, A. Zerwekh, K. Ziętara, A. Zink, J. Ziolkowski, M. Zivec, A. Zmija, Współautorami artykułu są członkowie CTA Observatory, CTA Consortium i LST Collaboration w liczbie 1139, Astronomy, Research unit Nuclear & Hadron Physics, and Research unit Astroparticle Physics

Subjects
Physics, Observatory, Gamma ray, Astronomy
Abstract

Very-high Energy (VHE) gamma-ray astroparticle physics is a relatively young field, and observations over the past decade have surprisingly revealed almost two hundred VHE emitters which appear to act as cosmic particle accelerators. These sources are an important component of the Universe, influencing the evolution of stars and galaxies. At the same time, they also act as a probe of physics in the most extreme environments known - such as in supernova explosions, and around or after the merging of black holes and neutron stars. However, the existing experiments have provided exciting glimpses, but often falling short of supplying the full answer. A deeper understanding of the TeV sky requires a significant improvement in sensitivity at TeV energies, a wider energy coverage from tens of GeV to hundreds of TeV and a much better angular and energy resolution with respect to the currently running facilities. The next generation gamma-ray observatory, the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO), is the answer to this need. In this talk I will present this upcoming observatory from its design to the construction, and its potential science exploitation. CTAO will allow the entire astronomical community to explore a new discovery space that will likely lead to paradigm-changing breakthroughs. In particular, CTA has an unprecedented sensitivity to short (sub-minute) timescale phenomena, placing it as a key instrument in the future of multi-messenger and multi-wavelength time domain astronomy. I will conclude the talk presenting the first scientific results obtained by the LST-1, the prototype of one CTAO telescope type - the Large-Sized Telescope, that is currently under commission., PoS: Proceedings of Science, 395, ISSN:1824-8039, Proceedings of 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2021)

Published
2022

7. Cosmic-ray Heavy Nuclei Spectra Using the ISS-CREAM Instrument

Author

A. Haque, C. Falana, L. Eraud, Z. Yin, Joowon Lee, P. Walpole, R. Takeishi, R. Scrandis, H G. Zhang, Y. Amare, L. Dermoe, Y.C. Chen, G.H. Choi, Eun-Suk Seo, J.A. Jeon, D. P. Bowman, S.C. Kang, L. Lu, J. R. Smith, N. Picot-Clemente, S. Aggarwal, J. Wu, H. Park, Inkyu Park, L. Lutz, Kwangmoo Kim, Y. S. Yoon, M. H. Lee, D. Angelaszek, O. Ofoha, H. J. Kim, Hyeyoung Lee, H.G. Huh, M.H. Kim, R.P. Weinmann, M. Copley, A. Menchaca-Rocha, H. B. Jeon, J. H. Han, Jon Paul Lundquist, S. Jeong, Y.S. Hwang, HyoJung Hyun, A. Gerrety, Jong Moon Park, and H. Wu

Subjects
Physics, Calorimeter (particle physics), Silicon, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, chemistry.chemical_element, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Tungsten, Scintillator, Spectral line, Photodiode, law.invention, Nuclear physics, chemistry, law
Abstract

Cosmic Ray Energetics And Mass for the International Space Station (ISS-CREAM) was designed to study high-energy cosmic rays up to PeV and recorded data from August 22nd, 2017 to February 12th, 2019 on the ISS. In this analysis, the Silicon Charge Detector (SCD), CALorimeter (CAL), and Top and Bottom Counting Detectors (TCD/BCD) are used. The SCD is composed of four layers and provides the measurement of cosmic-ray charges with a resolution of $\sim$0.2e. The CAL comprises 20 interleaved tungsten plates and scintillators, measures the incident cosmic-ray particles' energies, and provides a high energy trigger. The TCD/BCDs consist of photodiode arrays and plastic scintillators and provide a low-energy trigger. In this analysis, the SCD top layer is used for charge determination. Here, we present the heavy nuclei analysis using the ISS-CREAM instrument.

Published
2021

8. Study of Backscattering Effects on the Particle Identification

Author

H. Park, Inkyu Park, O. Ofoha, Junghwi Lee, Jon Paul Lundquist, S. Jeong, R. Scrandis, Y.S. Hwang, J. Wu, J. H. Han, Kwangmoo Kim, N. Picot-Clemente, Arturo Alejandro Menchaca-Rocha, L. Eraud, HyoJung Hyun, Z. Yin, Jong Moon Park, H. B. Jeon, A. Gerrety, H. J. Kim, Y. S. Yoon, Hyeyoung Lee, H G. Zhang, A. Haque, P. Walpole, C. Falana, J. R. Smith, L. Lutz, R. Takeishi, D. Angelaszek, G.H. Choi, J.A. Jeon, D. P. Bowman, L. Derome, M. H. Lee, M.H. Kim, R.P. Weinmann, M. Copley, S C. Kang, H.G. Huh, Eun-Suk Seo, L. Lu, S. Aggarwal, Y.C. Chen, Hongyi Wu, E. S. Seo, and Y. Amare

Subjects
Physics, Calorimeter (particle physics), Backscatter, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Detector, Hadron, Particle, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Charge (physics), Tracking (particle physics), Particle identification, Computational physics
Abstract

One of the consequences of having a high-density calorimeter as part of an experiment is a large number of secondary shower particles generated in the calorimeter -- some of which scatter back up towards the charge measurement devices. This so-called "backscatter effect" can interfere severely with accurate charge measurement of the primary nucleus, especially at high energies, as the number of backscattered particles increases with the incident energy. In this analysis, we study the effect of backscattered particles on particle identification by simulating the ISS-CREAM instrument model detector response using the GEANT3 simulation package [1] with the FLUKA hadronic model [2]. Our study shows the importance of the fine segmentation of charge detectors above the calorimeter. It can minimize backscattered particle contamination in the same charge detector segment as the incident particle to avoid its charge misidentification. We present simulation results regarding charge measurements, including the tracking resolution, backscattering effects, and charge determination efficiency.

Published
2021

9. Analysis Result of the High-Energy Cosmic-Ray Proton Spectrum from the ISS-CREAM Experiment

Author

Hak Jun Kim, L. Lu, Y. Amare, Ki Chun Kim, O. Ofoha, Y.C. Chen, I. H. Park, S. Jeong, D. P. Bowman, A. Menchaca-Rocha, H. B. Jeon, Eun-Suk Seo, L. Derome, Z. Yin, S. Aggarwal, J. R. Smith, Gwangho Choi, L. Eraud, HyoJung Hyun, Y. S. Yoon, Hyeyoung Lee, H.G. Huh, H. Wu, A. Gerrety, J. Wu, H G. Zhang, J. H. Han, R.P. Weinmann, M. Copley, S C. Kang, A. Haque, J.P. Lundquist, Jong Moon Park, C. Falana, Hun Kuk Park, M. H. Lee, R. Takeishi, L. Lutz, Y.S. Hwang, P. Walpole, J.A. Jeon, N. Picot-Clemente, R. Scrandis, Ji Lee, D. Angelaszek, and Min-Hyeok Kim

Subjects
Physics, Range (particle radiation), Spectral index, Proton, Calorimeter (particle physics), Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Scintillator, Nuclear physics, Nucleon
Abstract

The Cosmic Ray Energetics And Mass for the International Space Station (ISS-CREAM) experiment successfully recorded the data for about 539 days from August 2017 to February 2019. In this talk, we report the measurement of the cosmic-ray proton energy spectrum from the ISS-CREAM experiment in the energy range of 2.5 TeV - 650 TeV. For the analysis, we used the silicon charge detector (SCD) placed at the top of the ISS-CREAM payload to identify the incoming cosmic-ray charge. The SCD is finely segmented to minimize charge misidentification due to backscatter effects. The four-layer SCD consists of 10,752 silicon pixels, each of which is 1.37×1.57×0.05 cm^3 in size. The calorimeter (CAL) consists of 20 layers of tungsten/scintillating fibers preceded by carbon targets. It provided cosmic-ray tracking, energy determination, and the high-energy trigger. The Top and Bottom Counting detectors (T/BCD) are above and below the CAL, respectively, and provided the low energy trigger. Each T/BCD is composed of an array of 20×20 photodiodes on plastic scintillators. The measured proton spectral index of 2.67±0.02 between 2.5 and 12.5 TeV is consistent with prior CREAM measurements. The spectrum softens above∼10 TeV consistent with the bump-like structure as reported by CREAM-I+III, DAMPE, and NUCLEON, but ISS-CREAM extends measurements to higher energies than those prior measurement

Published
2021

10. Observation of Variations in Cosmic Ray Single Count Rates During Thunderstorms and Implications for Large-Scale Electric Field Changes

Author

R. U. Abbasi, T. Abu-Zayyad, M. Allen, Y. Arai, R. Arimura, E. Barcikowski, J. W. Belz, D. R. Bergman, S. A. Blake, I. Buckland, R. Cady, B. G. Cheon, J. Chiba, M. Chikawa, T. Fujii, K. Fujisue, K. Fujita, R. Fujiwara, M. Fukushima, R. Fukushima, G. Furlich, N. Globus, R. Gonzalez, W. Hanlon, M. Hayashi, N. Hayashida, K. Hibino, R. Higuchi, K. Honda, N. Husseini, D. Ikeda, T. Inadomi, N. Inoue, T. Ishii, H. Ito, D. Ivanov, H. Iwakura, A. Iwasaki, H. M. Jeong, S. Jeong, H. Johnson, C. C. H. Jui, K. Kadota, F. Kakimoto, O. Kalashev, K. Kasahara, S. Kasami, H. Kawai, S. Kawakami, S. Kawana, K. Kawata, I. Kharuk, E. Kido, H. B. Kim, J. H. Kim, M. H. Kim, S. W. Kim, Y. Kimura, S. Kishigami, Y. Kubota, S. Kurisu, V. Kuzmin, M. Kuznetsov, Y. J. Kwon, K. H. Lee, R. LeVon, B. Lubsandorzhiev, J. P. Lundquist, K. Machida, H. Matsumiya, T. Matsuyama, J. N. Matthews, R. Mayta, J. Mazich, M. Minamino, K. Mukai, I. Myers, P. Myers, S. Nagataki, K. Nakai, R. Nakamura, T. Nakamura, Y. Nakamura, A. Nakazawa, E. Nishio, T. Nonaka, K. O’Brien, H. Oda, S. Ogio, M. Ohnishi, H. Ohoka, Y. Oku, T. Okuda, Y. Omura, M. Ono, R. Onogi, A. Oshima, S. Ozawa, I. H. Park, M. Potts, M. S. Pshirkov, J. Remington, D. C. Rodriguez, G. I. Rubtsov, D. Ryu, H. Sagawa, R. Sahara, Y. Saito, N. Sakaki, T. Sako, N. Sakurai, K. Sano, K. Sato, T. Seki, K. Sekino, P. D. Shah, Y. Shibasaki, F. Shibata, N. Shibata, T. Shibata, H. Shimodaira, B. K. Shin, H. S. Shin, D. Shinto, J. D. Smith, P. Sokolsky, N. Sone, B. T. Stokes, T. A. Stroman, Y. Takagi, Y. Takahashi, M. Takamura, M. Takeda, R. Takeishi, A. Taketa, M. Takita, Y. Tameda, H. Tanaka, K. Tanaka, M. Tanaka, Y. Tanoue, S. B. Thomas, G. B. Thomson, P. Tinyakov, I. Tkachev, H. Tokuno, T. Tomida, S. Troitsky, R. Tsuda, Y. Tsunesada, Y. Uchihori, S. Udo, T. Uehama, F. Urban, T. Wong, M. Yamamoto, K. Yamazaki, J. Yang, K. Yashiro, F. Yoshida, Y. Yoshioka, Y. Zhezher, and Z. Zundel

Subjects
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics - Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

We present the first observation by the Telescope Array Surface Detector (TASD) of the effect of thunderstorms on the development of cosmic ray single count rate intensity over a 700 km$^{2}$ area. Observations of variations in the secondary low-energy cosmic ray counting rate, using the TASD, allow us to study the electric field inside thunderstorms, on a large scale, as it progresses on top of the 700 km$^{2}$ detector, without dealing with the limitation of narrow exposure in time and space using balloons and aircraft detectors. In this work, variations in the cosmic ray intensity (single count rate) using the TASD, were studied and found to be on average at the $\sim(0.5-1)\%$ and up to 2\% level. These observations were found to be both in excess and in deficit. They were also found to be correlated with lightning in addition to thunderstorms. These variations lasted for tens of minutes; their footprint on the ground ranged from 6 to 24 km in diameter and moved in the same direction as the thunderstorm. With the use of simple electric field models inside the cloud and between cloud to ground, the observed variations in the cosmic ray single count rate were recreated using CORSIKA simulations. Depending on the electric field model used and the direction of the electric field in that model, the electric field magnitude that reproduces the observed low-energy cosmic ray single count rate variations was found to be approximately between 0.2-0.4 GV. This in turn allows us to get a reasonable insight on the electric field and its effect on cosmic ray air showers inside thunderstorms.

Published
2021
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11. 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

12. Author Correction: Proton acceleration in thermonuclear nova explosions revealed by gamma rays

Author

V. A. Acciari, S. Ansoldi, L. A. Antonelli, A. Arbet Engels, M. Artero, K. Asano, D. Baack, A. Babić, A. Baquero, U. Barres de Almeida, J. A. Barrio, I. Batković, J. Becerra González, W. Bednarek, L. Bellizzi, E. Bernardini, M. Bernardos, A. Berti, J. Besenrieder, W. Bhattacharyya, C. Bigongiari, A. Biland, O. Blanch, H. Bökenkamp, G. Bonnoli, Ž. Bošnjak, G. Busetto, R. Carosi, G. Ceribella, M. Cerruti, Y. Chai, A. Chilingarian, S. Cikota, S. M. Colak, E. Colombo, J. L. Contreras, J. Cortina, S. Covino, G. D’Amico, V. D’Elia, P. Da Vela, F. Dazzi, A. De Angelis, B. De Lotto, A. Del Popolo, M. Delfino, J. Delgado, C. Delgado Mendez, D. Depaoli, F. Di Pierro, L. Di Venere, E. Do Souto Espiñeira, D. Dominis Prester, A. Donini, D. Dorner, M. Doro, D. Elsaesser, V. Fallah Ramazani, L. Fariña Alonso, A. Fattorini, M. V. Fonseca, L. Font, C. Fruck, S. Fukami, Y. Fukazawa, R. J. García López, M. Garczarczyk, S. Gasparyan, M. Gaug, N. Giglietto, F. Giordano, P. Gliwny, N. Godinović, J. G. Green, D. Green, D. Hadasch, A. Hahn, T. Hassan, L. Heckmann, J. Herrera, J. Hoang, D. Hrupec, M. Hütten, T. Inada, K. Ishio, Y. Iwamura, I. Jiménez Martínez, J. Jormanainen, L. Jouvin, D. Kerszberg, Y. Kobayashi, H. Kubo, J. Kushida, A. Lamastra, D. Lelas, F. Leone, E. Lindfors, L. Linhoff, S. Lombardi, F. Longo, R. López-Coto, M. López-Moya, A. López-Oramas, S. Loporchio, B. Machado de Oliveira Fraga, C. Maggio, P. Majumdar, M. Makariev, M. Mallamaci, G. Maneva, M. Manganaro, K. Mannheim, L. Maraschi, M. Mariotti, M. Martínez, A. Mas Aguilar, D. Mazin, S. Menchiari, S. Mender, S. Mićanović, D. Miceli, T. Miener, J. M. Miranda, R. Mirzoyan, E. Molina, A. Moralejo, D. Morcuende, V. Moreno, E. Moretti, T. Nakamori, L. Nava, V. Neustroev, M. Nievas Rosillo, C. Nigro, K. Nilsson, K. Nishijima, K. Noda, S. Nozaki, Y. Ohtani, T. Oka, J. Otero-Santos, S. Paiano, M. Palatiello, D. Paneque, R. Paoletti, J. M. Paredes, L. Pavletić, P. Peñil, M. Persic, M. Pihet, P. G. Prada Moroni, E. Prandini, C. Priyadarshi, I. Puljak, W. Rhode, M. Ribó, J. Rico, C. Righi, A. Rugliancich, N. Sahakyan, T. Saito, S. Sakurai, K. Satalecka, F. G. Saturni, B. Schleicher, K. Schmidt, T. Schweizer, J. Sitarek, I. Šnidarić, D. Sobczynska, A. Spolon, A. Stamerra, J. Strišković, D. Strom, M. Strzys, Y. Suda, T. Surić, M. Takahashi, R. Takeishi, F. Tavecchio, P. Temnikov, T. Terzić, M. Teshima, L. Tosti, S. Truzzi, A. Tutone, S. Ubach, J. van Scherpenberg, G. Vanzo, M. Vazquez Acosta, S. Ventura, V. Verguilov, C. F. Vigorito, V. Vitale, I. Vovk, M. Will, C. Wunderlich, T. Yamamoto, D. Zarić, F. Ambrosino, M. Cecconi, G. Catanzaro, C. Ferrara, A. Frasca, M. Munari, L. Giustolisi, J. Alonso-Santiago, M. Giarrusso, U. Munari, and P. Valisa

Subjects
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Published
2022

13. 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

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2020
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14. On-orbit Performance of the ISS-CREAM Calorimeter

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Ki Chun Kim, J P. Lundquist, L. Derome, T. Mernik, Min-Hyeok Kim, J. Wu, N. Anthony, H. B. Jeon, Jong Moon Park, HyoJung Hyun, Y. Amare, S. Jeong, L. Eraud, Hak Jun Kim, Y. S. Yoon, G.H. Choi, J. R. Smith, A. Gerrety, R. Takeishi, H.G. Huh, Z. Yin, H G. Zhang, L. Lutz, Ji Lee, M. Chung, L. Lu, J. F. Liang, I. H. Park, L. Hagenau, Y.S. Hwang, J. H. Han, J. A. Jeon, D. Angelaszek, B. Mark, A. Mechaca-Rocha, N. Picot-Clemente, O. Ofoha, M. H. Lee, R.P. Weinmann, Hun Kuk Park, M. Copley, S C. Kang, M. Nester, S. Rostsky, Hyeyoung Lee, P. Walpole, T. Tatoli, C. Lamb, C. Falana, Eun-Suk Seo, Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), and CREAM

Subjects
Materials science, Calorimeter (particle physics), Silicon, business.industry, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, chemistry.chemical_element, Cosmic ray, Scintillator, Tungsten, Tracking (particle physics), 7. Clean energy, Optics, chemistry, Fiber, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], business, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract

International audience; Cosmic Ray Energetics And Mass for the International Space Station (ISS-CREAM) experi-ment is designed to study the composition and energy spectra of cosmic-ray particles from 10^12 to 10^15 eV. ISS-CREAM was launched and deployed to the ISS in August 2017. The ISS-CREAM payload employs a Silicon Charge Detector for charge measurements, Top and Bot-tom Counting Detector for electron-hadron separation and a low-energy trigger, a Boronated Scintillator Detector for additional electron-hadron separation, and a Calorimeter (CAL) for en-ergy measurements and a high-energy trigger. The CAL is constructed of 20 layers of tungsten plates interleaved with scintillating fiber ribbons read out by hybrid-photodiodes (HPDs) and densified carbon targets. Each CAL layer is made of 3.5 mm (1 X_0) thick tungsten plates alter-nating with fifty 0.5 mm thick and 1 cm wide scintillating fiber ribbons. Consecutive layers of fiber ribbons are installed orthogonal to each other. Energy deposition in the CAL determines the particle energy and provides tracking information to determine which segment(s) of the charge detectors to use for the charge measurement. Tracking for showers is accomplished by extrapolating each shower axis back to the charge detectors. The performance of the ISS-CREAM CAL during flight is presented.

Published
2019

15. e/p Separation Study Using the ISS-CREAM Top and Bottom Counting Detectors

Author

B. Mark, M. Chung, M.H. Kim, R.P. Weinmann, M. Copley, M. Nester, Hyeyoung Lee, Jon Paul Lundquist, Y. Amare, S. Jeong, S. Rostsky, HyoJung Hyun, O. Ofoha, G.H. Choi, D. Angelaszek, Y.S. Hwang, A. Gerrety, L. Eraud, J. R. Smith, L. Hagenau, J. Wu, J.A. Jeon, R. Takeishi, Inkyu Park, M. H. Lee, C. Falana, H.G. Huh, J. H. Han, P. Walpole, Y. S. Yoon, L. Lutz, H. J. Kim, L. Derome, H. B. Jeon, S.C. Kang, Eun-Suk Seo, J. F. Liang, L. Lu, T. Mernik, Jong Moon Park, Z. Yin, Kwangmoo Kim, H G. Zhang, A. Mechaca-Rocha, N. Picot-Clemente, C. Lamb, T. Tatoli, H. Park, Joowon Lee, N. Anthony, Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), and ISS-CREAM

Subjects
Physics, Spacecraft, Proton, business.industry, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, Electron, Scintillator, 7. Clean energy, Photodiode, law.invention, Nuclear physics, law, International Space Station, business, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract

International audience; Cosmic Ray Energetics And Mass for the International Space Station (ISS-CREAM) is an experiment for studying the origin, acceleration, and propagation mechanisms of high-energy cosmic rays. The ISS-CREAM instrument was launched on the 14th of August 2017 to the ISS aboard the SpaceX-12 Dragon spacecraft. The Top and Bottom Counting Detectors (TCD/BCD) are parts of the ISS-CREAM instrument and designed for studying electron and gamma-ray physics. The TCD/BCD each consist of an array of 20 × 20 photodiodes on a plastic scintillator. The TCD/BCD can separate electrons from protons by using the difference between the shapes of electromagnetic and hadronic showers in the high energy region. The Boosted Decision Tree (BDT) method, which is a deep learning method, is used in this separation study. We will present results of the electron/proton separation study and rejection power in various energy ranges.

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2019

16. ISS-CREAM Flight Operation

Author

Ji Lee, M. Chung, D. Angelaszek, T. Mernik, S. Jeong, J. F. Liang, Jong Moon Park, Y. S. Yoon, J. A. Jeon, O. Ofoha, H.G. Huh, B. Mark, Hun Kuk Park, Ki Chun Kim, M. Nester, I. H. Park, J. R. Smith, L. Derome, M. H. Lee, R.P. Weinmann, P. Walpole, M. Copley, Y. Amare, Hyeyoung Lee, S C. Kang, HyoJung Hyun, Y.S. Hwang, J P. Lundquist, S. Rostsky, Hak Jun Kim, A. Gerrety, Min-Hyeok Kim, A. Mechaca-Rocha, G.H. Choi, Eun-Suk Seo, L. Lutz, N. Picot-Clemente, Z. Yin, H G. Zhang, R. Takeishi, L. Eraud, L. Lu, L. Hagenau, C. Falana, J. H. Han, H. B. Jeon, J. Wu, N. Anthony, C. Lamb, T. Tatoli, Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), and CREAM

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Ethernet, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, business.industry, Computer science, Payload, Cosmic ray, Satellite system, 01 natural sciences, Software, 0103 physical sciences, International Space Station, Telecommunications link, Aerospace engineering, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], business, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Flight computer, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract

International audience; The Cosmic Ray Energetics And Mass experiment for the International Space Station (ISS-CREAM) is designed and built to measure the elemental energy spectra of cosmic-ray particles (1 ≤ Z ≤ 26) and electrons. It measures the energy of incident cosmic rays from 10^12 to 10^15 eV. ISS-CREAM was launched and deployed to the ISS in August 2017. The Science Operations Center (SOC) at the University of Maryland has been operating the payload on the Interna-tional Space Station (ISS) in coordination with the Payload Operations Integration Center (POIC) at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. The SOC has been responsible for sending commands to and receiving data from the Science Flight Computer (SFC) on board ISS-CREAM. The ISS-CREAM data taking program interfaces with the POIC using the Telescience Resources Kit through the Software Toolkit for Ethernet Lab-Like Architecture developed by the Boeing Company. The command uplink and data downlink have been through the Track-ing and Data Relay Satellite System. We present the ISS-CREAM flight operations including ISS communications, SFC performance, etc.

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2019

17. Monte Carlo Simulations of the ISS-CREAM Instrument

Author

C. Falana, R. Takeishi, Y.S. Hwang, O. Ofoha, Eun-Suk Seo, J. Wu, M. H. Lee, L. Hagenau, L. Lu, Joowon Lee, J. F. Liang, Arturo Alejandro Menchaca-Rocha, J.A. Jeon, L. Derome, Kwangmoo Kim, Z. Yin, Y. S. Yoon, Hun Kuk Park, L. Lutz, Y. Amare, N. Anthony, M. Nester, L. Eraud, G.H. Choi, H G. Zhang, Hyeyoung Lee, P. Walpole, Inkyu Park, J. H. Han, H. B. Jeon, N. Picot-Clemente, M. Chung, D. Angelaszek, T. Mernik, Jong Moon Park, HyoJung Hyun, A. Gerrety, S. Jeong, J P. Lundquist, J. R. Smith, H.G. Huh, M.H. Kim, R.P. Weinmann, M. Copley, S C. Kang, S. Rostsky, T. Tatoli, C. Lamb, Hak Jun Kim, B. Mark, Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), and CREAM

Subjects
Physics, Range (particle radiation), Proton, Calorimeter (particle physics), Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Monte Carlo method, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, Electron, Scintillator, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Computational physics, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics
Abstract

International audience; Cosmic Ray Energetics and Mass for the International Space Station (ISS-CREAM) is designed to directly measure the energy spectra of high-energy cosmic rays, encompassing proton to iron nuclei, over the energy range from 1012 to 1015 eV [1]. The capability to measure an extended energy range enables us to probe the origin and acceleration mechanisms of cosmic rays. The ISS-CREAM instrument is configured with the balloon-borne CREAM calorimeter (CAL) for energy measurements and four layers of a finely segmented Silicon Charge Detector (SCD) for charge measurements. In addition, two new compact detectors have been developed for electron/proton separation: Top and Bottom scintillator-based counting detectors (TCD/BCD) and a boronated scintillator detector (BSD). Simulations use the GEANT3 package [2] with the FLUKA hadronic model [3]. An isotropic event generator was developed for the ISS-CREAM geometry with particles incident from the upper hemisphere. We will present simulation results regarding ISS-CREAM performance, including trigger rates, energy resolution, energy response, tracking resolution, charge efficiency, etc.

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2019

18. 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

19. On-orbit performance of the top and bottom counting detectors for the ISS-CREAM experiment on the international space station

Author

J.A. Jeon, Hyunghoon Kim, N. Picot-Clemente, Inkyu Park, R. Takeishi, R. Quinn, S. L. Nutter, Hyeyoung Lee, J. F. Liang, S. Morton, J.R. Smith, J. T. Link, Kwangmoo Kim, P. Walpole, O. Ofoha, L. Lutz, L. Eraud, S. I. Mognet, L. Hagenau, M. Nester, K. Cheryian, S. Im, G.H. Choi, J P. Lundquist, J. Wu, L. Derome, Y. Amare, Y. S. Yoon, S.C. Kang, M. H. Lee, Eun-Suk Seo, L. Lu, Arturo Alejandro Menchaca-Rocha, H. Park, Joowon Lee, S. Coutu, D. Angelaszek, M.H. Kim, HyoJung Hyun, R.P. Weinmann, N. Anthony, M. Copley, H.G. Huh, S. Jeong, John Mitchell, J. H. Han, H. B. Jeon, Y.S. Hwang, T. Mernik, Jong Moon Park, T. Anderson, Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), and Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)

Subjects
Atmospheric Science, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Physics::Medical Physics, Aerospace Engineering, Cosmic ray, Electron, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Acceleration, Computer Science::Hardware Architecture, Optics, 0103 physical sciences, International Space Station, 010306 general physics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Cosmic rays, Physics, Elemental composition, Calorimeter (particle physics), business.industry, Detector, TCD/BCD, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, ISS-CREAM, Geophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Orbit (dynamics), General Earth and Planetary Sciences, business, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], CREAM
Abstract

International audience; The Cosmic Ray Energetics And Mass (CREAM) instrument on the International Space Station (ISS) is an experiment to study origin, propagation, acceleration and elemental composition of cosmic rays. The Top Counting Detector (TCD) and Bottom Counting Detector (BCD) are parts of the detector suite of the ISS-CREAM experiment and are designed to separate electrons and protons for studying electron and gamma-ray physics. In addition, the TCD/BCD provide a redundant trigger to that of the calorimeter and a low energy trigger to the ISS-CREAM instrument. After launching, the TCD/BCD trigger was found to be working well. Also, the TCD/BCD have been stable and their hit positions were confirmed to be well matched with other detectors on board. We present the performance and status of the TCD/BCD in flight.

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2019

20. 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

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2019
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21. The Auger@TA Project: Phase II Progress and Plans

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Fred Sarazin, Jeffrey A. Johnsen, Sean Quinn, Ryan Lorek, R. Takeishi, Toshiyuki Nonaka, Ricardo Sato, Hiroyuki Sagawa, Takashi Sako, David Schmidt, Corbin Covault, Toshihiro Fujii, and R. Halliday

Subjects
Pierre Auger Observatory, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Physics, QC1-999, Detector, 01 natural sciences, Auger, law.invention, Telescope, Data acquisition, Observatory, law, 0103 physical sciences, Environmental science, Central Laser Facility, 010306 general physics, Cherenkov radiation, Remote sensing
Abstract

The Auger@TA project is a combined effort involving members of both the Pierre Auger Observatory and the Telescope Array experiment (TA) to cross-calibrate detectors and compare results on air showers detected at one location. We have recently reported results from Phase I of the project, during which we collected and presented data from two Auger water Cherenkov surface detector stations deployed into the TA experiment near the Central Laser Facility. For Phase II, we will deploy a micro-array of six or seven single-PMT Auger surface detector stations co-located with TA scintillator surface detector stations. The Auger micro-array will trigger and collect data independently from the TA allowing for a complete end-to-end comparison of detector data, calibration, and reconstructed event quantities on a shower-by-shower basis between the TA and Auger detector systems. We describe progress towards development of the micro-array for Phase II including the preparation of surface detector water tanks, station electronics, wireless communications, triggers, and data acquisition. We also outline plans for deploying the Auger@TA micro-array into the TA experiment in 2019 with preliminary estimates for coincident air-shower rates.

Published
2019

22. Evidence for a Supergalactic Structure of Magnetic Deflection Multiplets of Ultra-high-energy Cosmic Rays

Author

R. U. Abbasi, M. Abe, T. Abu-Zayyad, M. Allen, R. Azuma, E. Barcikowski, J. W. Belz, D. R. Bergman, S. A. Blake, R. Cady, B. G. Cheon, J. Chiba, M. Chikawa, A. di Matteo, T. Fujii, K. Fujisue, K. Fujita, R. Fujiwara, M. Fukushima, G. Furlich, W. Hanlon, M. Hayashi, N. Hayashida, K. Hibino, R. Higuchi, K. Honda, D. Ikeda, T. Inadomi, N. Inoue, T. Ishii, R. Ishimori, H. Ito, D. Ivanov, H. Iwakura, H. M. Jeong, S. Jeong, C. C. H. Jui, K. Kadota, F. Kakimoto, O. Kalashev, K. Kasahara, S. Kasami, H. Kawai, S. Kawakami, S. Kawana, K. Kawata, E. Kido, H. B. Kim, J. H. Kim, M. H. Kim, S. W. Kim, S. Kishigami, V. Kuzmin, M. Kuznetsov, Y. J. Kwon, K. H. Lee, B. Lubsandorzhiev, J. P. Lundquist, K. Machida, H. Matsumiya, T. Matsuyama, J. N. Matthews, R. Mayta, M. Minamino, K. Mukai, I. Myers, S. Nagataki, K. Nakai, R. Nakamura, T. Nakamura, Y. Nakamura, T. Nonaka, H. Oda, S. Ogio, M. Ohnishi, H. Ohoka, Y. Oku, T. Okuda, Y. Omura, M. Ono, R. Onogi, A. Oshima, S. Ozawa, I. H. Park, M. S. Pshirkov, J. Remington, D. C. Rodriguez, G. Rubtsov, D. Ryu, H. Sagawa, R. Sahara, Y. Saito, N. Sakaki, T. Sako, N. Sakurai, K. Sano, T. Seki, K. Sekino, P. D. Shah, F. Shibata, T. Shibata, H. Shimodaira, B. K. Shin, H. S. Shin, J. D. Smith, P. Sokolsky, N. Sone, B. T. Stokes, T. A. Stroman, T. Suzawa, Y. Takagi, Y. Takahashi, M. Takamura, R. Takeishi, A. Taketa, M. Takita, Y. Tameda, H. Tanaka, K. Tanaka, M. Tanaka, Y. Tanoue, S. B. Thomas, G. B. Thomson, P. Tinyakov, I. Tkachev, H. Tokuno, T. Tomida, S. Troitsky, Y. Tsunesada, Y. Uchihori, S. Udo, T. Uehama, F. Urban, T. Wong, K. Yada, M. Yamamoto, K. Yamazaki, J. Yang, K. Yashiro, M. Yosei, Y. Zhezher, and Z. Zundel

Subjects
Physics, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, High-energy astronomy, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, media_common.quotation_subject, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Galaxy, Spectral line, Magnetic field, Space and Planetary Science, Sky, 0103 physical sciences, Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray, Anisotropy, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, media_common
Abstract

Evidence for a large-scale supergalactic cosmic-ray multiplet (arrival directions correlated with energy) structure is reported for ultra-high-energy cosmic-ray (UHECR) energies above 1019 eV using 7 years of data from the Telescope Array (TA) surface detector and updated to 10 years. Previous energy–position correlation studies have made assumptions regarding magnetic field shapes and strength, and UHECR composition. Here the assumption tested is that, because the supergalactic plane is a fit to the average matter density of the local large-scale structure, UHECR sources and intervening extragalactic magnetic fields are correlated with this plane. This supergalactic deflection hypothesis is tested by the entire field-of-view (FOV) behavior of the strength of intermediate-scale energy–angle correlations. These multiplets are measured in spherical cap section bins (wedges) of the FOV to account for coherent and random magnetic fields. The structure found is consistent with supergalactic deflection, the previously published energy spectrum anisotropy results of the TA (the Hotspot and Coldspot), and toy-model simulations of a supergalactic magnetic sheet. The seven year data posttrial significance of this supergalactic structure of multiplets appearing by chance, on an isotropic sky, is found by Monte Carlo simulation to be 4.2σ. The 10 years of data posttrial significance is 4.1σ. Furthermore, the starburst galaxy M82 is shown to be a possible source of the TA Hotspot, and an estimate of the supergalactic magnetic field using UHECR measurements is presented.

Published
2020

23. 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

24. 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.

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2018

25. 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

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2018
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26. Evidence of Intermediate-Scale Energy Spectrum Anisotropy of Cosmic Rays E$\geq$10$^{19.2}$ eV with the Telescope Array Surface Detector

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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$$E$$

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2018
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27. Constraints on the diffuse photon flux with energies above $10^{18}$ eV using the surface detector of the Telescope Array experiment

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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

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2018
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28. Mass composition of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays with the Telescope Array Surface Detector Data

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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

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2018
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29. The hybrid energy spectrum of Telescope Array’s Middle Drum Detector and surface array

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R.U. Abbasi, M. Abe, T. Abu-Zayyad, M.G. Allen, R. Anderson, R. Azuma, E. Barcikowski, J.W. Belz, D.R. Bergman, S.A. Blake, R. Cady, M.J. Chae, B.G. Cheon, J. Chiba, M. Chikawa, W.R. Cho, T. Fujii, M. Fukushima, T. Goto, W. Hanlon, Y. Hayashi, N. Hayashida, K. Hibino, K. Honda, D. Ikeda, N. Inoue, T. Ishii, R. Ishimori, H. Ito, D. Ivanov, C.C.H. Jui, K. Kadota, F. Kakimoto, O. Kalashev, K. Kasahara, H. Kawai, S. Kawakami, S. Kawana, K. Kawata, E. Kido, H.B. Kim, J.H. Kim, S. Kitamura, Y. Kitamura, V. Kuzmin, Y.J. Kwon, J. Lan, S.I. Lim, J.P. Lundquist, K. Machida, K. Martens, T. Matsuda, T. Matsuyama, J.N. Matthews, M. Minamino, K. Mukai, I. Myers, K. Nagasawa, S. Nagataki, T. Nakamura, T. Nonaka, A. Nozato, S. Ogio, J. Ogura, M. Ohnishi, H. Ohoka, K. Oki, T. Okuda, M. Ono, A. Oshima, S. Ozawa, I.H. Park, M.S. Pshirkov, D.C. Rodriguez, G. Rubtsov, D. Ryu, H. Sagawa, N. Sakurai, A.L. Sampson, L.M. Scott, P.D. Shah, F. Shibata, T. Shibata, H. Shimodaira, B.K. Shin, H.S. Shin, J.D. Smith, P. Sokolsky, R.W. Springer, B.T. Stokes, S.R. Stratton, T.A. Stroman, T. Suzawa, M. Takamura, M. Takeda, R. Takeishi, A. Taketa, M. Takita, Y. Tameda, H. Tanaka, K. Tanaka, M. Tanaka, S.B. Thomas, G.B. Thomson, P. Tinyakov, I. Tkachev, H. Tokuno, T. Tomida, S. Troitsky, Y. Tsunesada, K. Tsutsumi, Y. Uchihori, S. Udo, F. Urban, G. Vasiloff, T. Wong, R. Yamane, H. Yamaoka, K. Yamazaki, J. Yang, K. Yashiro, Y. Yoneda, S. Yoshida, H. Yoshii, R. Zollinger, and Z. Zundel

Subjects
Physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, business.industry, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, Drum, Scintillator, law.invention, Telescope, Optics, Air shower, law, Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray, business, Energy (signal processing)
Abstract

The Telescope Array experiment studies ultra high energy cosmic rays using a hybrid detector. Fluorescence telescopes measure the longitudinal development of the extensive air shower generated when a primary cosmic ray particle interacts with the atmosphere. Meanwhile, scintillator detectors measure the lateral distribution of secondary shower particles that hit the ground. The Middle Drum (MD) fluorescence telescope station consists of 14 telescopes from the High Resolution Fly’s Eye (HiRes) experiment, providing a direct link back to the HiRes measurements. Using the scintillator detector data in conjunction with the telescope data improves the geometrical reconstruction of the showers significantly, and hence, provides a more accurate reconstruction of the energy of the primary particle. The Middle Drum hybrid spectrum is presented and compared to that measured by the Middle Drum station in monocular mode. Further, the hybrid data establishes a link between the Middle Drum data and the surface array. A comparison between the Middle Drum hybrid energy spectrum and scintillator Surface Detector (SD) spectrum is also shown.

Published
2015

30. 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

31. Study of muons in extensive air showers from ultra-high energy cosmic rays measured with the Telescope Array experiment

Author

R. Takeishi

Subjects
Physics, Muon, Particle number, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, QC1-999, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Hadron, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Nuclear physics, Telescope, Air shower, law, 0103 physical sciences, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray, Anisotropy, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics
Abstract

The origin of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) has been a long-standing mystery. One of the uncertainties in UHECR observation derives from the hadronic interaction model used for air shower Monte-Carlo (MC) simulations. The number of muons observed at ground level from UHECR induced air showers is expected to depend upon the composition of primary cosmic rays. The MC prediction also depends on hadronic interaction models. One may test the hadronic interaction models by comparing the measured number of muons with the MC prediction. The Telescope Array (TA) is the largest experiment in the northern hemisphere observing UHECR in Utah, USA. It aims to reveal the origin of UHECR by studying the energy spectrum, mass composition and anisotropy of cosmic rays by utilizing an array of surface detectors (SDs) and fluorescence detectors. We studied muon densities in the UHE extensive air showers by analyzing the signal of TA SD stations for highly inclined showers which should have high muon purity. A high muon purity condition is imposed that requires the geometry of the shower and relative position of the given station and implies that muons dominate the signal. On condition that the muons contribute about 65% of the total signal, the number of particles from air showers is typically 1.88 ± 0.08(stat:) ± 0.42(syst:) times larger than the MC prediction with the QGSJET II-03 model for protons. The same feature was also obtained for other hadronic models, such as QGSJET II-04.

Published
2019

32. Overview of the Auger@TA project and preliminary results from Phase I

Author

Corbin Covault, Takashi Sako, Fred Sarazin, Ryan Lorek, Jeffrey Johnsen, R. Takeishi, Hiroyuki Sagawa, Toshiyuki Nonaka, David Schmidt, Sean Quinn, Ricardo Sato, Telescope Array, Toshihiro Fujii, and R. Halliday

Subjects
Pierre Auger Observatory, Physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, QC1-999, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Phase (waves), 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Auger, Telescope, Optics, law, 0103 physical sciences, business, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics
Abstract

We report on the first results of a unique in-situ experimental cross-calibration effort of the surface detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory and of the Telescope Array experiment (Auger@TA). In the first phase of Auger@TA, we performed surface detector station-to-station comparisons for a collection of extensive air showers landing near the experimental setup and detected by Telescope Array. Beyond the deduced cross-calibration curve between the Water-Cherenkov-based Auger and Scintillator-based TA Surface Detector stations, we also investigate the consistency of their response for individual reconstructed showers. The dataset is currently too small to draw firm conclusions as-of-yet. Hence, phase I data taking will continue even as we gear up for the deployment of an Auger micro-array within Telescope Array as part of Phase II of this work.

Published
2019

33. Auger at the Telescope Array: Recent Progress Toward a Direct Cross-Calibration of Surface-Detector Stations

Author

R. Cady, P. Mantsch, R. Halliday, Toshiyuki Nonaka, L. Guglielmi, Corbin Covault, John Matthews, T. Trung, Fred Sarazin, Ryan Lorek, P. Lebrun, S. Colognes, B. Genolini, Hiroyuki Sagawa, E. Rauly, Ricardo Sato, B. Courty, John N. Matthews, Shoichi Ogio, M. Marton, O. Wolf, R. Takeishi, P.O. Mazur, Jeffrey A. Johnsen, S. Quinn, Toshihiro Fujii, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Pierre Auger, Telescope Array, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, and PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)

Subjects
air, data acquisition, Auger, law.invention, detector: fluorescence, Telescope, Data acquisition, Observatory, law, Calibration, hardware, (cross) calibration, Remote sensing, Pierre Auger Observatory, Physics, instrumentation, cosmic radiation: energy spectrum, hybrid, showers: atmosphere, detector: surface, Detector, sensitivity, calibration, laser, observatory, Central Laser Facility, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract

International audience; Since 2007 the Telescope Array Project (TA) and the Pierre Auger Observatory (Auger) have collected extensive data sets spanning several orders of magnitude in energy of the cosmic-ray spectrum. In both experiments the bulk of data is generated from the surface-detector (SD) array, which is energetically calibrated with fluorescence detectors using a hybrid approach. However, each experiment has implemented a different SD station design, resulting in different sensitivities of extensive air-shower channels. Understanding these differences and any potential unforeseen systematic errors is essential for future joint analyses. In this paper we present an update on the progress of an in-situ cross-calibration program. We focus on recent hardware installations which enable the read out of co-located Auger and TA SD stations at the TA central laser facility (CLF). We also present a preliminary analysis of event signals observed at the CLF.

Published
2016

34. 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

37. Initial results of a direct comparison between the Surface Detectors of the Pierre Auger Observatory and of the Telescope Array

Author

Jeffrey A. Johnsen, R. Takeishi, B. Genolini, C. Covault, P. Mantsch, T. Trung, Fred Sarazin, R. Sato, S. Ogio, P. Mazur, R. Cady, E. Rauly, P. Lebrun, B. Courty, J.N. Matthews, O. Wolf, T. Nonaka, L. Smith, M. Marton, S. Collonges, Ryan Lorek, T. Fujii, J.A.J. Matthews, H. Sagawa, L. Guglielmi, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Telescope Array, Pierre Auger, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), and Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])

Subjects
Pierre Auger Observatory, Physics, Cherenkov detector, detector: surface, Telescope Array Experiment, Detector, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Coincidence, Auger, law.invention, Telescope, observatory, 13. Climate action, law, Observatory, muon, cosmic radiation: UHE, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract

The Pierre Auger Observatory (Auger) in Mendoza, Argentina and the Telescope Array (TA) in Utah, USA aim at unraveling the origin and nature of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR). At present, there appear to be subtle differences between Auger and TA results and interpretations. Joint working groups have been established and have already reported preliminary findings. From an experimental standpoint, the Surface Detectors (SD) of both experiments makes use of different detection processes not equally sensitive to the components of the extensive air showers making it to the ground. In particular, the muonic component of the shower measured at ground level can be traced back to the primary composition, which is critical for understanding the origin of UHECRs. In order to make direct comparisons between the SD detection techniques used by Auger and TA, a two-phase approach is followed. First, one water Cherenkov detector (“Auger North” design) was deployed and operated locally at the TA Central Laser Facility. After a couple of months of operation before the summer, we expect to observe about 20 Auger SD events in coincidence with nearby TA stations. And a regular Auger station and a TA station will be added to the setup to allow for station-level comparisons. In a second phase, event-level comparisons of relatively low-energy showers with energies in the 1018 eV range will be possible as a result of co-locating six additional Auger North stations contiguous to TA surface detector stations. In this contribution, we present the status and prospects of this joint research project, including the first Auger SD data that were recorded in coincidence with the TA SD shower triggers.

Published
2015

38. Effects of isometric training at different knee angles on the muscle-tendon complex in vivo

Author

K. Ohgo, Hiroaki Kanehisa, Naoya Tsunoda, K. Yoshinaga, Tetsuo Fukunaga, Keitaro Kubo, and R. Takeishi

Subjects
Adult, Male, musculoskeletal diseases, Contraction (grammar), Knee Joint, Vastus lateralis muscle, Muscle Relaxation, Neuromuscular Junction, Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation, Isometric exercise, Electromyography, Muscle hypertrophy, Tendons, In vivo, Isometric Contraction, Humans, Medicine, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Muscle, Skeletal, Ultrasonography, Anatomy, Cross-Sectional, medicine.diagnostic_test, business.industry, Stiffness, Hypertrophy, Anatomy, musculoskeletal system, Adaptation, Physiological, Elasticity, Biomechanical Phenomena, Tendon, medicine.anatomical_structure, Torque, Stress, Mechanical, medicine.symptom, business, Biomedical engineering
Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the influences of isometric training at different joint angles on the muscle size and function of the human muscle-tendon complex in vivo. Furthermore, we tried to gain a better understanding of the mechanisms involved in angle specificity after isometric training from the aspect of neuromuscular adaptation and the changes in the properties of the muscle-tendon complex. Nine males completed 12-week unilateral training program (70% of maximal voluntary contraction (MVC) x 15 s x six sets) on the knee extensors at 50 degrees (shorter muscle length: ST) and 100 degrees (longer muscle length: LT). The internal muscle force (mechanical stress) is higher at 100 degrees than at 50 degrees because of the difference in the moment arm length, although there were no difference in the relative torque level, contraction and relaxation times, and repetition between ST and LT. Before and after training, isometric strength at eight angles and muscle volume were determined. Tendon elongation of knee extensors was measured by ultrasonography. There was no significant difference in the rate of increment of muscle volume between the protocols. Tendon stiffness increased significantly for LT, but not for ST. Although significant gain was limited to angles at or near the training angle for ST, increases in MVC at all angles were found for LT. These results suggest that only mechanical stress (internal muscle force imposed on muscle and tendon) contributes to adaptation in the tendon stiffness, although metabolic (relative torque level, etc.) and mechanical stress relate to muscle hypertrophy. Furthermore, increment of tendon stiffness for LT might contribute to increase torque output at smaller angles other than the training angle.

Published
2006

39. [Untitled]

Author

C Kanda, R Takeishi, J Magara, T Tsujimura, and M Inoue

Published
2016

40. Role of chemical bonding in the epitaxial growth of noble metals on ionic crystal substrates

Author

Y. Kasukabe, R. Takeishi, Toshiaki Osaka, and K. Yamamoto

Subjects
Materials science, chemistry.chemical_element, Ionic crystal, Surfaces and Interfaces, Electronic structure, Condensed Matter Physics, Epitaxy, Surfaces, Coatings and Films, Crystallography, Chemical bond, chemistry, Electron diffraction, Transmission electron microscopy, Thin film, Palladium
Abstract

Thin films of Au were deposited onto MgO substrates cleaved in ultrahigh vacuum. The films, which were examined by transmission electron microscopy and electron diffraction, did not grow with a (111) orientation observed in a Au/NaCl system but with a (100) orientation which had been observed in a Pd/MgO system. In order to obtain some insight into the differences in the epitaxial orientations, we studied interfacial chemical bonding states in Au/MgO(100), Pd/MgO(100), and Au/NaCl(100) systems using total pair‐potential calculations and discrete variational Xα calculations. The results show that interfacial interaction in both the Au/MgO and the Pd/MgO system is stronger than that in the Au/NaCl system. The relation between the strength of the interfacial chemical bond and the epitaxial orientation in the above systems is discussed.

Published
1996

41. High-speed photography of prebreakdown process in mixtures of hydrocarbon liquid and carbon tetrachloride

Author

K. Tamada, R. Takeishi, Hiroshi Yamada, Y. Oishi, and T. Fujiwara

Subjects
chemistry.chemical_classification, chemistry.chemical_compound, Hydrocarbon, Chemical substance, chemistry, Polarity (physics), High-speed photography, Electrical breakdown, Carbon tetrachloride, Analytical chemistry, Electron, Current (fluid)
Abstract

The electrical breakdown phenomena in mixtures of hydrocarbon liquid and carbon tetrachloride have been studied using an image converter camera in conjunction with a photooptical current measuring system. Addition of carbon tetrachloride is shown to assist the development of the negative streamer. The negative streamer in mixtures with 1% carbon tetrachloride is more filamentary than that in plain hydrocarbon liquid and resembles the positive streamer. The results are consistent with the model of a breakdown mechanism based on an Auger-like electron emission process for negative polarity.

Published
2002

42. Cosmic ray energetics and mass for the international space station (ISS-CREAM)

Author

H. B. Jeon, L. Lu, L. Lutz, M. Nester, L. Hagenau, Jong Moon Park, M. Chung, J P. Lundquist, M.H. Kim, HyoJung Hyun, S. Jeong, D. Angelaszek, J. Wu, A. Gerrety, Y. S. Yoon, R.P. Weinmann, M. Copley, S C. Kang, L. Eraud, S. Rostsky, J. F. Liang, J. R. Smith, Y.S. Hwang, A. Mechaca-Rocha, H. J. Kim, N. Picot-Clemente, Kwangmoo Kim, T. Mernik, P. Walpole, L. Derome, H. Park, Inkyu Park, C. Falana, H.G. Huh, J. H. Han, Z. Yin, Joowon Lee, H Y. Lee, Y. Amare, J A. Jeon, H G. Zhang, Eun-Suk Seo, R. Takeishi, G.H. Choi, O. Ofoha, M. H. Lee, N. Anthony, B. Mark, T. Tatoli, C. Lamb, Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), and CREAM

Subjects
Physics, Range (particle radiation), Calorimeter (particle physics), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Payload, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, Electron, Scintillator, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, Ionization, 0103 physical sciences, International Space Station, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics
Abstract

International audience; The ISS-CREAM payload was launched on the SpaceX-12 Commercial Resupply Service mission to the International Space Station (ISS) from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on August 14, 2017. It was successfully installed and activated on the ISS Japanese Experiment Module Exposed Facility as an attached payload on August 22, 2017. The ISS-CREAM instrument is configured with complementary particle detectors capable of measuring elemental spectra for Z = 1 - 26 nuclei in the energy range ~10^12 – 10^15 eV; as well as electrons at multi-TeV energies. The four layers of its finely segmented Silicon Charge Detectors provide precise charge measurements, and its ionization Calorimeter provides energy measurements. In addition, scintillator-based Top and Bottom Counting Detectors and a Boronated Scintillator Detector distinguish electrons from nuclei. The goal is to understand cosmic ray origin, acceleration and propagation by extending direct measurements of cosmic rays to the highest practical energy. On-orbit performance of the instrument and preliminary results from the ongoing analysis are presented.

43. Searches for Large-Scale Anisotropy in the Arrival Directions of Cosmic Rays Detected above Energy of $10^{19}$ eV at the Pierre Auger Observatory and the Telescope Array

Author

Telescope, Array, Pierre Auger Collaborations (Alexander Aab, Pedro, Abreu, Marco, Aglietta, Eun Joo Ahn, Imen Al Samarai, Ivone, Albuquerque, Ingomar, Allekotte, Jeff, Allen, Patrick, Allison, Alejandro, Almela, Jesus Alvarez Castillo, Jaime Alvarez Muñiz, Rafael Alves Batista, Michelangelo, Ambrosio, Amin, Aminaei, Luis, Anchordoqui, Sofia, Andringa, Carla, Aramo, Victor Manuel Aranda, Fernando, Arqueros, Hernán Gonzalo Asorey, Pedro, Assis, Julien, Aublin, Maximo, Ave, Michel, Avenier, Gualberto, Avila, Nafiun, Awal, Alina Mihaela Badescu, Barber, Kerri B., Julia, Bäuml, Colin, Baus, Jim, Beatty, Karl Heinz Becker, Bellido, Jose A., Corinne, Berat, Mario Edoardo Bertania, Xavier, Bertou, Peter, Biermann, Pierre, Billoir, Blaess, Simon G., Miguel, Blanco, Carla, Bleve, Hans, Blümer, Martina, Boháčová, Denise, Boncioli, Carla, Bonifazi, Raffaella, Bonino, Nataliia, Borodai, Jeffrey, Brack, Iliana, Brancus, Ariel, Bridgeman, Pedro, Brogueira, Brown, William C., Peter, Buchholz, Antonio, Bueno, Stijn, Buitink, Buscemi, Mario, Caballero Mora, Karen S., Barbara, Caccianiga, Lorenzo, Caccianiga, Marina, Candusso, Laurentiu, Caramete, Caruso, Rossella, Antonella, Castellina, Gabriella, Cataldi, Lorenzo, Cazon, Rosanna, Cester, Chavez, Alan G., Andrea, Chiavassa, Jose Augusto Chinellato, Jiri, Chudoba, Marco, Cilmo, Clay, Roger W., Giuseppe, Cocciolo, Roberta, Colalillo, Alan, Coleman, Laura, Collica, Maria Rita Coluccia, Ruben, Conceição, Fernando, Contreras, Cooper, Mathew J., Alain, Cordier, Stephane, Coutu, Corbin, Covault, James, Cronin, Alex, Curutiu, Richard, Dallier, Bruno, Daniel, Sergio, Dasso, Kai, Daumiller, Dawson, Bruce R., de Almeida, Rogerio M., Manlio De Domenico, de Jong, Sijbrand J., Joao de Mello Neto, Ivan De Mitri, Jaime de Oliveira, Vitor de Souza, Luis del Peral, Olivier, Deligny, Hans, Dembinski, Niraj, Dhital, Claudio Di Giulio, Armando Di Matteo, Johana Chirinos Diaz, Mary Lucia Díaz Castro, Francisco, Diogo, Carola, Dobrigkeit, Wendy, Docters, Juan Carlos D'Olivo, Alexei, Dorofeev, Qader Dorosti Hasankiadeh, Maria Teresa Dova, Jan, Ebr, Ralph, Engel, Martin, Erdmann, Mona, Erfani, Escobar, Carlos O., Joao, Espadanal, Alberto, Etchegoyen, Pedro Facal San Luis, Heino, Falcke, Fang, Ke, Glennys, Farrar, Anderson, Fauth, Norberto, Fazzini, Ferguson, Andrew P., Mateus, Fernandes, Brian, Fick, Juan Manuel Figueira, Alberto, Filevich, Andrej, Filipčič, Brendan, Fox, Octavian, Fratu, Uwe, Fröhlich, Benjamin, Fuchs, Toshihiro, Fujii, Romain, Gaior, Beatriz, García, Sayri Tupac Garcia Roca, Diego Garcia Gamez, Diego Garcia Pinto, Gianpaolo, Garilli, Alberto Gascon Bravo, Florian, Gate, Hartmut, Gemmeke, Piera Luisa Ghia, Ugo, Giaccari, Marco, Giammarchi, Maria, Giller, Christian, Glaser, Henry, Glass, Mariano Gómez Berisso, Gómez Vitale, Primo F., Patrícia, Gonçalves, Gonzalez, Javier G., Nicolás, González, Ben, Gookin, Jacob, Gordon, Alessio, Gorgi, Peter, Gorham, Philippe, Gouffon, Stefan, Grebe, Nathan, Griffith, Aurelio, Grillo, Grubb, Trent D., Fausto, Guarino, Germano, Guedes, Matías Rolf Hampel, Patricia, Hansen, Diego, Harari, Harrison, Thomas A., Sebastian, Hartmann, John, Harton, Andreas, Haungs, Thomas, Hebbeker, Dieter, Heck, Philipp, Heimann, Herve, Alexander E., Hill, Gary C., Carlos, Hojvat, Nicholas, Hollon, Ewa, Holt, Piotr, Homola, Jörg, Hörandel, Pavel, Horvath, Miroslav, Hrabovský, Daniel, Huber, Tim, Huege, Antonio, Insolia, Paula Gina Isar, Ingolf, Jandt, Stefan, Jansen, Cecilia, Jarne, Mariela, Josebachuili, Alex, Kääpä, Olga, Kambeitz, Karl Heinz Kampert, Peter, Kasper, Igor, Katkov, Balazs, Kégl, Bianca, Keilhauer, Azadeh, Keivani, Ernesto, Kemp, Roger, Kieckhafer, Hans, Klages, Matthias, Kleifges, Jonny, Kleinfeller, Raphael, Krause, Nicole, Krohm, Oliver, Krömer, Daniel Kruppke Hansen, Daniel, Kuempel, Norbert, Kunka, Danielle, Lahurd, Luca, Latronico, Robert, Lauer, Markus, Lauscher, Pascal, Lautridou, Sandra Le Coz, Milton, Leão, Didier, Lebrun, Paul, Lebrun, Marcelo Augusto Leigui de Oliveira, Antoine Letessier Selvon, Isabelle Lhenry Yvon, Katrin, Link, Rebeca, López, Angeles Lopez Agüera, Karim, Louedec, Julio Lozano Bahilo, Lu, Lu, Agustin, Lucero, Marianne, Ludwig, Max, Malacari, Simone, Maldera, Manuela, Mallamaci, Jennifer, Maller, Dusan, Mandat, Paul, Mantsch, Analisa, Mariazzi, Vincent, Marin, Ioana, Mariş, Giovanni, Marsella, Daniele, Martello, Lilian, Martin, Humberto, Martinez, Oscar Martínez Bravo, Diane, Martraire, Jimmy Masías Meza, Hermann Josef Mathes, Sebastian, Mathys, James, Matthews, John, Matthews, Giorgio, Matthiae, Detlef, Maurel, Daniela, Maurizio, Eric, Mayotte, Peter, Mazur, Carlos, Medina, Gustavo Medina Tanco, Rebecca, Meissner, Maximilien, Melissas, Diego, Melo, Alexander, Menshikov, Stefano, Messina, Rishi, Meyhandan, Saša, Mićanović, Maria Isabel Micheletti, Lukas, Middendorf, Minaya, Ignacio A., Lino, Miramonti, Bogdan, Mitrica, Laura Molina Bueno, Silvia, Mollerach, Maria, Monasor, Delphine Monnier Ragaigne, François, 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Troitsky, Y. Tsunesada, K. Tsutsumi, Y. Uchihori, S. Udo, F. Urban, G. Vasiloff, T. Wong, R. Yamane, H. Yamaoka, K. Yamazaki, J. Yang, K. Yashiro, Y. Yoneda, S. Yoshida, H. Yoshii, R. Zollinger, Z. Zundel, T. T. Array, and Research unit Astroparticle Physics

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Ciencias Físicas, Astronomy, Rays, Astrophysics, Astroparticle physics, Cosmic rays, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Pierre, law, Anisotropy, Telescope, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Energy, [SDU.ASTR.HE]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, astroparticle physic, Radiación cósmica, Auger, Cosmic, Arrival, ComputingMethodologies_DOCUMENTANDTEXTPROCESSING, Física nuclear, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, CIENCIAS NATURALES Y EXACTAS, High, [PHYS.ASTR.HE]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], [PHYS.ASTR.IM]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, SURFACE DETECTOR, ICECUBE, AIR-SHOWER ARRAY, Directions, cosmic rays, 0103 physical sciences, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Ciencias Exactas, Pierre Auger Observatory, SPECTRUM, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Array, Spectral density, Spherical harmonics, Física, Astronomy and Astrophysics, ASTROFÍSICA, Ultra, [SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Astronomía, Dipole, RESOLUTION, Space and Planetary Science, Experimental High Energy Physics, Quadrupole, Observatory, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract

Spherical harmonic moments are well-suited for capturing anisotropy at any scale in the flux of cosmic rays. An unambiguous measurement of the full set of spherical harmonic coefficients requires full-sky coverage. This can be achieved by combining data from observatories located in both the northern and southern hemispheres. To this end, a joint analysis using data recorded at the Telescope Array and the Pierre Auger Observatory above 1019 eV is presented in this work. The resulting multipolar expansion of the flux of cosmic rays allows us to perform a series of anisotropy searches, and in particular to report on the angular power spectrum of cosmic rays above 1019 eV. No significant deviation from isotropic expectations is found throughout the analyses performed. Upper limits on the amplitudes of the dipole and quadrupole moments are derived as a function of the direction in the sky, varying between 7% and 13% for the dipole and between 7% and 10% for a symmetric quadrupole., Facultad de Ciencias Exactas

Published
2014

44. Search for Spatial Correlations of Neutrinos with Ultra-high-energy Cosmic Rays

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Subjects
Astrofísica, interaction [cosmic radiation], POINT-LIKE, Neutrino astronomy, High energy astrophysics, Ultra-high-energy cosmic radiation, Astronomy, magnetic field, cosmic radiation: interaction, Astrophysics, neutrino: flux, Astronomical observatories, IceCube, Ultra-high-energy cosmic, Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi, 330, High-Energy Phenomena and Fundamental Physics, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), astro-ph.HE, Physics, OBSERVATÓRIOS, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, neutrino: UHE, Auger, UHE [neutrino], ddc, observatory, statistics, Observatoris astronòmics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FLUX, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, UHE [cosmic radiation], FOS: Physical sciences, SURFACE DETECTOR, High energy astrophysic, ddc:530, ARRIVAL DIRECTIONS, High Energy Physics, Neutrins, cosmic radiation: UHE, Neutrinos, ANTARES, Telescopis, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Astronomy and Astrophysics, flux [neutrino], SCALE ANISOTROPY, Neutrino astrophysics, radiation, PATTERN, Physics and Astronomy, RESOLUTION, Space and Planetary Science, FISICA APLICADA, Física::Astronomia i astrofísica [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC], correlation, Experimental High Energy Physics, ddc:520, ARRAY, High Energy Physics::Experiment, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Neutrino astronomy, High energy astrophysics, Ultra-high-energy cosmic radiation, Telescopes
Abstract

For several decades, the origin of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) has been an unsolved question of highenergy astrophysics. One approach for solving this puzzle is to correlate UHECRs with high-energy neutrinos, since neutrinos are a direct probe of hadronic interactions of cosmic rays and are not deflected by magnetic fields. In this paper, we present three different approaches for correlating the arrival directions of neutrinos with the arrival directions of UHECRs. The neutrino data are provided by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and ANTARES, while the UHECR data with energies above ∼50 EeV are provided by the Pierre Auger Observatory and the Telescope Array. All experiments provide increased statistics and improved reconstructions with respect to our previous results reported in 2015. The first analysis uses a high-statistics neutrino sample optimized for pointsource searches to search for excesses of neutrino clustering in the vicinity of UHECR directions. The second analysis searches for an excess of UHECRs in the direction of the highest-energy neutrinos. The third analysis searches for an excess of pairs of UHECRs and highest-energy neutrinos on different angular scales. None of the analyses have found a significant excess, and previously reported overfluctuations are reduced in significance. Based on these results, we further constrain the neutrino flux spatially correlated with UHECRs., Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Commission Européenne (FEDER fund and Marie Curie Program), Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), LabEx UnivEarthS (ANR-10- LABX-0023 and ANR-18-IDEX-0001), Région Île-de-France (DIM-ACAV), Région Alsace (contrat CPER), Région Provence- Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Département du Var and Ville de La Seyne-sur-Mer, France, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), Germany, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Italy, Nederlandse organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO), the Netherlands, Council of the President of the Russian Federation for young scientists and leading scientific schools supporting grants, Russia, Executive Unit for Financing Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation (UEFISCDI), Romania, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación, Investigación y Universidades (MCIU): Programa Estatal de Generación de Conocimiento (refs. PGC2018-096663-B-C41, -A-C42, -BC43, -B-C44) (MCIU/FEDER), Generalitat Valenciana: Prometeo (PROMETEO/2020/019), Grisolía (refs. GRISOLIA/ 2018/119, /2021/192) and GenT (refs. CIDEGENT/2018/ 034, /2019/043, /2020/049, /2021/023) programs, Junta de Andalucía (ref. A-FQM-053-UGR18), La Caixa Foundation (ref. LCF/BQ/IN17/11620019), EU: MSC program (ref. 101025085), Spain, Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation, Morocco, and the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, Kuwait, U.S. National Science Foundation-Office of Polar Programs, U.S. National Science Foundation-Physics Division, U.S. National Science Foundation-EPSCoR, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC) at the University of Wisconsin−Madison, Open Science Grid (OSG), Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), Frontera computing project at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, U.S. Department of Energy−National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, Particle astrophysics research computing center at the University of Maryland, Institute for Cyber-Enabled Research at Michigan State University, and Astroparticle physics computational facility at Marquette University, Belgium—Funds for Scientific Research (FRS-FNRS and FWO), FWO Odysseus and Big Science programmes, and Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (Belspo), Germany—Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Helmholtz Alliance for Astroparticle Physics (HAP), Initiative and Networking Fund of the Helmholtz Association, Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY), and High Performance Computing cluster of the RWTH Aachen, Sweden—Swedish Research Council, Swedish Polar Research Secretariat, Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC), and Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Australia—Australian Research Council, Canada— Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Calcul Québec, Compute Ontario, Canada Foundation for Innovation, WestGrid, and Compute Canada, Denmark—Villum Fonden and Carlsberg Foundation, New Zealand—Marsden Fund, Japan—Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) and Institute for Global Prominent Research (IGPR) of Chiba University, Korea—National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), Switzerland—Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), United Kingdom—Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Argentina—Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica; Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica (ANPCyT); Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET); Gobierno de la Provincia de Mendoza; Municipalidad de Malargüe; NDM Holdings and Valle Las Leñas; in gratitude for their continuing cooperation over land access; Australia—the Australian Research Council, Belgium—Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS); Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), Brazil—Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (FINEP), Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ); São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) Grants No. 2019/10151-2, No. 2010/07359-6 and No. 1999/ 05404-3; Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia, Inovações e Comunicações (MCTIC), Czech Republic—Grant No. MSMT CR LTT18004, LM2015038, LM2018102, CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/ 16_013/0001402, CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/18_046/0016010, and CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/17_049/0008422, France—Centre de Calcul IN2P3/CNRS, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Conseil Régional Ile-de-France; Département Physique Nucléaire et Corpusculaire (PNC-IN2P3/CNRS); Département Sciences de l’Univers (SDU-INSU/CNRS); Institut Lagrange de Paris (ILP) Grant No. LABEX ANR-10-LABX-63 within the Investissements d’Avenir Programme Grant No. ANR-11-IDEX- 0004-02, Germany—Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF); Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG); Finanzministerium Baden-Württemberg; Helmholtz Alliance for Astroparticle Physics (HAP); Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (HGF); Ministerium für Innovation, Wissenschaft und Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen; Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst des Landes Baden-Württemberg, Italy—Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN); Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF); Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Universitá e della Ricerca (MIUR); CETEMPS Center of Excellence; Ministero degli Affari Esteri (MAE), México—Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT) No. 167733; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), PAPIIT DGAPA-UNAM, The Netherlands— Ministry of Education, Culture and Science; Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO); Dutch national e-infrastructure with the support of SURF Cooperative, Poland —Ministry of Education and Science, grant No. DIR/WK/ 2018/11, National Science Centre, Grants No. 2016/22/M/ ST9/00198, 2016/23/B/ST9/01635, and 2020/39/B/ST9/ 01398, Portugal—Portuguese national funds and FEDER funds within Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade through Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (COMPETE), Romania—Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitization, CNCS/CCCDI—UEFISCDI, projects PN19150201/16N/ 2019, PN1906010, TE128 and PED289, within PNCDI III, Slovenia—Slovenian Research Agency, grants P1-0031, P1- 0385, I0-0033, N1-0111, Spain—Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad (FPA2017-85114-P and PID2019- 104676GB-C32), Xunta de Galicia (ED431C 2017/07), Junta de Andalucía (SOMM17/6104/UGR, P18-FR-4314) Feder Funds, RENATA Red Nacional Temática de Astropartículas (FPA2015-68783-REDT) and María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence (MDM-2016-0692), USA—Department of Energy, Contracts No. DE-AC02-07CH11359, No. DE-FR02-04ER41 300, No. DE-FG02-99ER41107, and No. DE-SC0011689; National Science Foundation, Grant No. 0450696; The Grainger Foundation; Marie Curie-IRSES/EPLANET; European Particle Physics Latin American Network; and UNESCO., Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) through Grants-in- Aid for Priority Area 431, for Specially Promoted Research JP21000002, for Scientific Research (S) JP19104006, for Specially Promoted Research JP15H05693, for Scientific Research (S) JP15H05741, for Science Research (A) JP18H03705, for Young Scientists (A) JPH26707011, and for Fostering Joint International Research (B) JP19KK0074, by the joint research program of the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR), The University of Tokyo; by the Pioneering Program of RIKEN for the Evolution of Matter in the Universe (r-EMU), U.S. National Science Foundation awards PHY-1404495, PHY-1404502, PHY-1607727, PHY-1712517, PHY-1806797, PHY-2012934, and PHY-2112904, National Research Foundation of Korea (2017K1A4A3015188, 2020R1A2C1 008230, and 2020R1A2C2102800), Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation under the contract 075-15-2020-778, IISN project No. 4.4501.18, Belgian Science Policy under IUAP VII/37 (ULB)

Published
2022

45. Isotropy of Cosmic Rays beyond 10^{20}  eV Favors Their Heavy Mass Composition.

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Abbasi RU, Abe Y, Abu-Zayyad T, Allen M, Arai Y, Arimura R, Barcikowski E, Belz JW, Bergman DR, Blake SA, Buckland I, Cheon BG, Chikawa M, Fujii T, Fujisue K, Fujita K, Fujiwara R, Fukushima M, Furlich G, Globus N, Gonzalez R, Hanlon W, Hayashida N, He H, Hibi R, Hibino K, Higuchi R, Honda K, Ikeda D, Inoue N, Ishii T, Ito H, Ivanov D, Iwasaki A, Jeong HM, Jeong S, Jui CCH, Kadota K, Kakimoto F, Kalashev O, Kasahara K, Kasami S, Kawakami S, Kawata K, Kharuk I, Kido E, Kim HB, Kim JH, Kim JH, Kim SW, Kimura Y, Komae I, Kuzmin V, Kuznetsov M, Kwon YJ, Lee KH, Lubsandorzhiev B, Lundquist JP, Matsumiya H, Matsuyama T, Matthews JN, Mayta R, Mizuno K, Murakami M, Myers I, Lee KH, Nagataki S, Nakai K, Nakamura T, Nishio E, Nonaka T, Oda H, Ogio S, Onishi M, Ohoka H, Okazaki N, Oku Y, Okuda T, Omura Y, Ono M, Oshima A, Oshima H, Ozawa S, Park IH, Park KY, Potts M, Pshirkov MS, Remington J, Rodriguez DC, Rott C, Rubtsov GI, Ryu D, Sagawa H, Saito R, Sakaki N, Sako T, Sakurai N, Sato D, Sato K, Sato S, Sekino K, Shah PD, Shibata N, Shibata T, Shikita J, Shimodaira H, Shin BK, Shin HS, Shinto D, Smith JD, Sokolsky P, Stokes BT, Stroman TA, Takagi Y, Takahashi K, Takamura M, Takeda M, Takeishi R, Taketa A, Takita M, Tameda Y, Tanaka K, Tanaka M, Tanoue Y, Thomas SB, Thomson GB, Tinyakov P, Tkachev I, Tokuno H, Tomida T, Troitsky S, Tsuda R, Tsunesada Y, Udo S, Urban F, Warren D, Wong T, Yamazaki K, Yashiro K, Yoshida F, Zhezher Y, and Zundel Z

Abstract

We report an estimation of the injected mass composition of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) at energies higher than 10 EeV. The composition is inferred from an energy-dependent sky distribution of UHECR events observed by the Telescope Array surface detector by comparing it to the Large Scale Structure of the local Universe. In the case of negligible extragalactic magnetic fields (EGMFs), the results are consistent with a relatively heavy injected composition at E∼10  EeV that becomes lighter up to E∼100  EeV, while the composition at E>100  EeV is very heavy. The latter is true even in the presence of highest experimentally allowed extragalactic magnetic fields, while the composition at lower energies can be light if a strong EGMF is present. The effect of the uncertainty in the galactic magnetic field on these results is subdominant.

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2024
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46. Search for Gamma-Ray Spectral Lines from Dark Matter Annihilation up to 100 TeV toward the Galactic Center with MAGIC.

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Abe H, Abe S, Acciari VA, Aniello T, Ansoldi S, Antonelli LA, Arbet Engels A, Arcaro C, Artero M, Asano K, Baack D, Babić A, Baquero A, Barres de Almeida U, Barrio JA, Batković I, Baxter J, Becerra González J, Bednarek W, Bernardini E, Bernardos M, Berti A, Besenrieder J, Bhattacharyya W, Bigongiari C, Biland A, Blanch O, Bonnoli G, Bošnjak Ž, Burelli I, Busetto G, Carosi R, Carretero-Castrillo M, Ceribella G, Chai Y, Chilingarian A, Cikota S, Colombo E, Contreras JL, Cortina J, Covino S, D'Amico G, D'Elia V, Da Vela P, Dazzi F, De Angelis A, De Lotto B, Del Popolo A, Delfino M, Delgado J, Delgado Mendez C, Depaoli D, Di Pierro F, Di Venere L, Do Souto Espiñeira E, Dominis Prester D, Donini A, Dorner D, Doro M, Elsaesser D, Emery G, Fallah Ramazani V, Fariña L, Fattorini A, Font L, Fruck C, Fukami S, Fukazawa Y, García López RJ, Garczarczyk M, Gasparyan S, Gaug M, Giesbrecht Paiva JG, Giglietto N, Giordano F, Gliwny P, Godinović N, Green JG, Green D, Hadasch D, Hahn A, Hassan T, Heckmann L, Herrera J, Hrupec D, Hütten M, Imazawa R, Inada T, Iotov R, Ishio K, Jiménez Martínez I, Jormanainen J, Kerszberg D, Kobayashi Y, Kubo H, Kushida J, Lamastra A, Lelas D, Leone F, Lindfors E, Linhoff L, Lombardi S, Longo F, López-Coto R, López-Moya M, López-Oramas A, Loporchio S, Lorini A, Lyard E, Machado de Oliveira Fraga B, Majumdar P, Makariev M, Maneva G, Mang N, Manganaro M, Mangano S, Mannheim K, Mariotti M, Martínez M, Mas Aguilar A, Mazin D, Menchiari S, Mender S, Mićanović S, Miceli D, Miener T, Miranda JM, Mirzoyan R, Molina E, Mondal HA, Moralejo A, Morcuende D, Moreno V, Nakamori T, Nanci C, Nava L, Neustroev V, Nievas Rosillo M, Nigro C, Nilsson K, Nishijima K, Njoh Ekoume T, Noda K, Nozaki S, Ohtani Y, Oka T, Otero-Santos J, Paiano S, Palatiello M, Paneque D, Paoletti R, Paredes JM, Pavletić L, Persic M, Pihet M, Podobnik F, Prada Moroni PG, Prandini E, Principe G, Priyadarshi C, Puljak I, Rhode W, Ribó M, Rico J, Righi C, Rugliancich A, Sahakyan N, Saito T, Sakurai S, Satalecka K, Saturni FG, Schleicher B, Schmidt K, Schmuckermaier F, Schubert JL, Schweizer T, Sitarek J, Sliusar V, Sobczynska D, Spolon A, Stamerra A, Strišković J, Strom D, Strzys M, Suda Y, Surić T, Takahashi M, Takeishi R, Tavecchio F, Temnikov P, Terauchi K, Terzić T, Teshima M, Tosti L, Truzzi S, Tutone A, Ubach S, van Scherpenberg J, Vazquez Acosta M, Ventura S, Verguilov V, Viale I, Vigorito CF, Vitale V, Vovk I, Walter R, Will M, Wunderlich C, Yamamoto T, Zarić D, Hiroshima N, and Kohri K

Abstract

Linelike features in TeV γ rays constitute a "smoking gun" for TeV-scale particle dark matter and new physics. Probing the Galactic Center region with ground-based Cherenkov telescopes enables the search for TeV spectral features in immediate association with a dense dark matter reservoir at a sensitivity out of reach for satellite γ-ray detectors, and direct detection and collider experiments. We report on 223 hours of observations of the Galactic Center region with the MAGIC stereoscopic telescope system reaching γ-ray energies up to 100 TeV. We improved the sensitivity to spectral lines at high energies using large-zenith-angle observations and a novel background modeling method within a maximum-likelihood analysis in the energy domain. No linelike spectral feature is found in our analysis. Therefore, we constrain the cross section for dark matter annihilation into two photons to ⟨σv⟩≲5×10^{-28}  cm^{3} s^{-1} at 1 TeV and ⟨σv⟩≲1×10^{-25}  cm^{3} s^{-1} at 100 TeV, achieving the best limits to date for a dark matter mass above 20 TeV and a cuspy dark matter profile at the Galactic Center. Finally, we use the derived limits for both cuspy and cored dark matter profiles to constrain supersymmetric wino models.

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2023
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47. Acute myocardial infarction caused by Kawasaki disease requires more intensive therapy: Insights from the Japanese registry of All Cardiac and Vascular Diseases-Diagnosis Procedure combination.

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Anzai F, Yoshihisa A, Takeishi R, Hotsuki Y, Sato Y, Sumita Y, Nakai M, Misaka T, and Takeishi Y

Subjects
Humans, Registries, Treatment Outcome, Japan, Atherosclerosis, Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome complications, Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome diagnosis, Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome therapy, Myocardial Infarction diagnosis, Myocardial Infarction etiology, Myocardial Infarction therapy
Abstract

Background: Kawasaki disease (KD) induces coronary arteritis, which causes subsequent coronary aneurysms, and contributes to acute myocardial infarction (AMI). However, the differences regarding real-world treatment selection and mortality between AMI-complicated KD and AMI due to typical atherosclerosis (AMI-non KD) are unknown., Aim: The aim of the present study was to examine the current treatment strategy and prognosis of AMI-complicated KD compared with AMI due to typical atherosclerosis., Method: We used data from 2012 to 2019 from a nationwide claim database, the Japanese Registry of All Cardiac and Vascular Diseases-Diagnosis Procedure Combination., Results: Compared to the AMI-non KD patients (n = 70,227), the AMI-complicated KD patients (n = 73): (1) underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) less often and more coronary artery bypass grafting, intracoronary thrombolysis or intravenous coronary thrombolysis more often; (2) underwent stentless PCI using old balloon angioplasty or rotablator, when they underwent PCI; and (3) needed in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation and intensive mechanical therapy such as intra-aortic balloon pump, percutaneous cardiopulmonary support or a respirator. Both the AMI-non KD and AMI-complicated KD patients had similar in-hospital mortality rates., Conclusions: Compared with AMI-non KD patients, AMI-complicated KD patients underwent non-PCI strategies such as bypass surgery or thrombolysis, and required intensive therapy with mechanical supports more often, but presented similar in-hospital mortality. When the AMI-complicated KD patients underwent PCI, stentless PCI using balloon angioplasty or rotablator was performed more often compared with the AMI-non KD patients., (© 2022 Wiley Periodicals LLC.)

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2022
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48. Prognostic Effects of Changes in Right Ventricular Fractional Area Change in Patients With Heart Failure.

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Sugawara Y, Yoshihisa A, Takeishi R, Ohara H, Anzai F, Hotsuki Y, Watanabe K, Sato Y, Abe S, Misaka T, Sato T, Oikawa M, Kobayashi A, Nakazato K, and Takeishi Y

Subjects
Humans, Prognosis, Aftercare, Patient Discharge, Ventricular Function, Right, Stroke Volume, Ventricular Dysfunction, Right diagnosis, Heart Failure
Abstract

Background: It is still unclear whether changes in right ventricular function are associated with prognosis in heart failure (HF) patients. This study aimed to examine the prognostic effect of changes in right ventricular fractional area change (RVFAC)., Methods and results: This study enrolled 480 hospitalized patients with decompensated HF, and measured RVFAC with echocardiography at discharge (first examination) and post-discharge in the outpatient setting (second examination). RVFAC was divided into 3 categories: >35% in 314 patients, 25-35% in 108 patients, and <25% in 58 patients. Next, based on changes in RVFAC from the first to the second examination, the patients were further classed into 4 groups: (1) Preserved/Unchanged (preserved and unchanged RVFAC, n=235); (2) Reduced/Improved (improved RVFAC in at least 1 category, n=106); (3) Reduced/Unchanged (reduced and unchanged RVFAC, n=47); and (4) Preserved or Reduced/Worsened (deteriorated RVAFC in at least 1 category, n=92). Multivariate logistic regression analysis revealed that chronic kidney disease and anemia were the predictors of the preserved or reduced/worsened RVFAC. In the Kaplan-Meier analysis, changes in RVFAC were associated with the cardiac event rate and all-cause mortality. In the multivariable Cox proportional hazard analysis, the preserved or reduced/worsened RVFAC was an independent predictor of cardiac events and all-cause mortality., Conclusions: Changes in RVFAC were associated with post-discharge prognosis in hospitalized heart failure patients.

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2022
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49. Temporal Trends in the Practice Pattern for Sleep-Disordered Breathing in Patients With Cardiovascular Diseases in Japan　- Insights From the Japanese Registry of All Cardiac and Vascular Diseases - Diagnosis Procedure Combination.

Author

Takeishi R, Yoshihisa A, Hotsuki Y, Anzai F, Sato Y, Sumita Y, Nakai M, Misaka T, and Takeishi Y

Subjects
Humans, Japan epidemiology, Registries, Atrial Fibrillation, Cardiovascular Diseases complications, Cardiovascular Diseases diagnosis, Cardiovascular Diseases epidemiology, Heart Failure complications, Heart Failure diagnosis, Heart Failure epidemiology, Myocardial Infarction, Sleep Apnea Syndromes diagnosis, Sleep Apnea Syndromes epidemiology, Sleep Apnea Syndromes therapy
Abstract

Background: After the publication of the Japanese Circulation Society guideline of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) in 2010, with new evidence and changes to the health insurance system, trends in the practice pattern for SDB in patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) might have changed., Methods and results: This study evaluated the temporal changes in the practice pattern for SDB by using a nationwide claim database, the Japanese Registry of All Cardiac and Vascular Diseases - Diagnosis Procedure Combination (JROAD-DPC), from 2012 to 2019. The main findings were: (1) the number of CVD patients diagnosed with SDB increased (especially those with atrial fibrillation [AF] and heart failure [HF]); (2) the number of diagnostic tests for SDB performed during hospitalization increased for AF patients (from 1.3% in 2012 to 1.8% in 2019), whereas it decreased for other CVD patients; (3) the number of patients diagnosed with SDB increased in each type of CVD, except for patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI); (4) continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment increased for AF patients (from 15.2% to 17.5%); (5) CPAP treatment decreased for patients with angina pectoris (AP) and AMI, and any treatment decreased for HF patients (from 46.1% to 39.7%); and (6) SDB was treated more often in HF patients than in AF, AP, and AMI patients (41.7% vs. 17.2%, 19.1% and 20.4%, respectively)., Conclusions: The practice pattern for SDB in CVD patients has changed from 2012 to 2019.

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2022
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50. B-type natriuretic peptide is associated with the occurrence of bleeding events in heart failure patients with a history of coronary artery disease.

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Sato Y, Yoshihisa A, Takeishi R, Ohara H, Sugawara Y, Ichijo Y, Hotsuki Y, Watanabe K, Abe S, Misaka T, Sato T, Oikawa M, Kobayashi A, Nakazato K, and Takeishi Y

Subjects
Aftercare, Hemorrhage complications, Humans, Natriuretic Peptide, Brain, Patient Discharge, Prognosis, Stroke Volume, Ventricular Function, Left, Coronary Artery Disease complications, Heart Failure complications
Abstract

Background: Bleeding risk in heart failure (HF) patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) has not yet been fully investigated., Methods: We analyzed the data of 677 patients with a previous history of CAD who were hospitalized for HF. The patients were divided into three groups based on the tertiles of B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels: Low, Middle, and High BNP groups (n = 225, 226, and 226, respectively). The primary endpoint was post-discharge bleeding events, which was defined as hemorrhagic stroke and gastrointestinal bleeding., Results: The High BNP group was the oldest (Low, Middle, High, 67.0, 74.0, and 75.0 years, respectively; p < 0.001), showed the lowest left ventricular ejection fraction (56.0%, 50.7%, and 40.3%, respectively; p < 0.001), and contained more patients at high bleeding risk (HBR) defined by the simplified version of the Academic Research Consortium for High Bleeding Risk (ARC-HBR) definition (65.3%, 85.4%, and 93.8%, respectively, p < 0.001). Kaplan-Meier analysis demonstrated that post-discharge bleeding events occurred most frequently in the High BNP group (log-rank p = 0.008). In the Cox proportional hazard analysis, compared to the Low BNP group as a reference, the High BNP group was independently associated with bleeding events after adjustment for age, sex, simplified ARC-HBR definition, and left ventricular ejection fraction (hazard ratio 3.208, 95% confidence interval 1.078-9.544, p = 0.036)., Conclusions: High BNP is associated with bleeding events in HF patients with a history of CAD., (Copyright © 2022. Published by Elsevier Ltd.)

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2022
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