Title: | The JEM-EUSO mission: An introduction |
Authors: | Adams, J. H. Ahmad, S. Albert, J. -N. Allard, D. Anchordoqui, L. Andreev, V. ANZALONE, ANNA Arai, Y. Asano, K. Ave Pernas, M. Baragatti, P. Mot, B. Murakami, T. Nagano, M. Nagata, M. Nagataki, S. Ronga, F. Nakamura, T. Napolitano, T. Naumov, D. Vankova, G. Falk, S. Nava, R. Bellotti, R. Neronov, A. Nomoto, K. Nonaka, T. Ogawa, T. Ogio, S. Roth, M. Ohmori, H. Olinto, A. V. Fang, K. Karus, M. Orleański, P. Osteria, G. Panasyuk, M. I. Belov, K. Parizot, E. Park, I. H. Park, H. W. Pastircak, B. Rothkaehl, H. Fenu, F. Patzak, T. Piotrowski, L. W. Paul, T. Pennypacker, C. Perez Cano, S. Peter, T. Picozza, P. Berlind, A. A. Pierog, T. Roudil, G. Fernández-Gómez, I. Rusinov, I. Rybczyński, M. Vigorito, C. Judd, E. G. Biermann, P. L. Sabau, M. D. Sáez Cano, G. Sagawa, H. Saito, A. Sakaki, N. Ferrarese, S. Sakata, M. Salazar, H. Sánchez, S. Villaseñor, L. Santangelo, A. Jung, A. Santiago Crúz, L. Biktemerova, S. Sanz Palomino, M. Saprykin, O. Kim, Jeong-Sook Sarazin, F. Sato, H. Sato, M. Schanz, T. von Ballmoos, P. Schieler, H. Scotti, V. Kajino, F. SEGRETO, ALBERTO Selmane, S. Finco, D. Blaksley, C. Semikoz, D. Serra, M. Sharakin, S. Shibata, T. Wada, S. Shimizu, H. M. Shinozaki, K. Shirahama, T. Kajino, T. Flamini, M. Siemieniec-Oziȩbło, G. Silva López, H. H. Sledd, J. Blanc, N. Słomińska, K. Sobey, A. Watanabe, J. Sugiyama, T. Supanitsky, D. Suzuki, M. Fornaro, C. Szabelska, B. Kaneko, I. Szabelski, J. Tajima, F. Tajima, N. Tajima, T. Błȩcki, J. Watanabe, S. Takahashi, Y. Takami, H. Reardon, P. Takeda, M. Takizawa, Y. Tenzer, C. Karadzhov, Y. Tibolla, O. Tkachev, L. Tokuno, H. Tomida, T. Watts, J. Tone, N. Tymieniecka, T. Blin-Bondil, S. Toscano, S. Trillaud, F. Tsenov, R. Tsunesada, Y. Karczmarczyk, J. Tsuno, K. Bobik, P. Weber, M. Weiler, T. J. Franceschi, A. PIRAINO, SANTINA Katahira, K. Wibig, T. Wiencke, L. Wille, M. Wilms, J. Włodarczyk, Z. Yamamoto, T. Yamamoto, Y. Yang, J. Fujimoto, J. Bogomilov, M. Plebaniak, Z. Yano, H. Barrillon, P. Yashin, I. V. Yonetoku, D. Yoshida, K. Yoshida, S. Young, R. Zotov, M. Yu. Fukushima, M. Zuccaro Marchi, A. Bonamente, M. Pollini, A. Briggs, M. S. Briz, S. Kawai, K. Bruno, A. Cafagna, F. Campana, D. Capdevielle, J. -N. Galeotti, P. Caruso, R. Casolino, M. Cassardo, C. Prat, P. Castellini, G. Catalano, C. CATALANO, OSVALDO Kawasaki, Y. CELLINO, Alberto Chikawa, M. Garipov, G. Christl, M. J. Cline, D. Connaughton, V. Conti, L. Prévôt, G. Cordero, G. Crawford, H. J. Cremonini, R. Csorna, S. Keilhauer, B. Geary, J. Dagoret-Campagne, S. de Castro, A. J. De Donato, C. de la Taille, C. De Santis, C. Prieto, H. del Peral, L. DELL'ORO, Aldo De Simone, N. Di Martino, M. Gelmini, G. Distratis, G. Khrenov, B. A. Dulucq, F. Dupieux, M. Ebersoldt, A. Ebisuzaki, T. Putis, M. Engel, R. Kim, Soon-Wook Giraudo, G. Gonchar, M. Uchihori, Y. Bertaina, M. González Alvarado, C. Gorodetzky, P. Guarino, F. Guzmán, A. Hachisu, Y. Harlov, B. Haungs, A. Hernández Carretero, J. Kim, Sug-Whan Unger, M. Higashide, K. Joven, E. Ikeda, D. Ikeda, H. Inoue, N. Inoue, S. Insolia, A. Isgrò, F. Itow, Y. Kleifges, M. Vaduvescu, O. Klimov, P. A. Kolev, D. Reyes, M. Batsch, T. Kreykenbohm, I. Kudela, K. Kurihara, Y. Kusenko, A. Kuznetsov, E. Lacombe, M. Valdés-Galicia, J. F. Lachaud, C. Lee, J. Licandro, J. Ricci, M. Lim, H. Bayer, J. López, F. MACCARONE, MARIA CONCETTA Mannheim, K. Maravilla, D. Blümer, J. Marcelli, L. Marini, A. Martinez, O. Masciantonio, G. Rodríguez, I. Mase, K. Matev, R. Bechini, R. Medina-Tanco, G. Mernik, T. VALLANIA, PIERO Miyamoto, H. Miyazaki, Y. Mizumoto, Y. Modestino, G. Monaco, A. Frías, M. D. Rodríguez Monnier-Ragaigne, D. Morales de los Ríos, J. A. Moretto, C. Belenguer, T. Valore, L. Morozenko, V. S. |
Issue Date: | 2015 |
Journal: | EXPERIMENTAL ASTRONOMY |
Number: | 40 |
Issue: | 1 |
First Page: | 3 |
Abstract: | The Extreme Universe Space Observatory on board the Japanese Experiment Module of the International Space Station, JEM-EUSO, is being designed to search from space ultra-high energy cosmic rays. These are charged particles with energies from a few 10<SUP>19</SUP> eV to beyond 10<SUP>20</SUP> eV, at the very end of the known cosmic ray energy spectrum. JEM-EUSO will also search for extreme energy neutrinos, photons, and exotic particles, providing a unique opportunity to explore largely unknown phenomena in our Universe. The mission, principally based on a wide field of view (60 degrees) near-UV telescope with a diameter of ̃ 2.5 m, will monitor the earth's atmosphere at night, pioneering the observation from space of the ultraviolet tracks (290-430 nm) associated with giant extensive air showers produced by ultra-high energy primaries propagating in the earth's atmosphere. Observing from an orbital altitude of ̃ 400 km, the mission is expected to reach an instantaneous geometrical aperture of A <SUB> g e o </SUB> ≥ 2 × 10<SUP>5</SUP> km<SUP>2</SUP> sr with an estimated duty cycle of ̃ 20 %. Such a geometrical aperture allows unprecedented exposures, significantly larger than can be obtained with ground-based experiments. In this paper we briefly review the history of space-based search for ultra-high energy cosmic rays. We then introduce the special issue of Experimental Astronomy devoted to the various aspects of such a challenging enterprise. We also summarise the activities of the on-going JEM-EUSO program. <P /> |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/23505 |
URL: | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10686-015-9482-x |
ISSN: | 0922-6435 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s10686-015-9482-x |
Bibcode ADS: | 2015ExA....40....3A |
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