Detection of ultra-high energy cosmic ray showers with a single-pixel fluorescence telescope

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/61989592:15310/16:33158855

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2015.10.006" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2015.10.006</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2015.10.006" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.astropartphys.2015.10.006</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Detection of ultra-high energy cosmic ray showers with a single-pixel fluorescence telescope

Original language description

We present a concept for large-area, low-cost detection of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) with a Fluorescence detector Array of Single-pixel Telescopes (FAST), addressing the requirements for the next generation of UHECR experiments. In the FAST design, a large field of view is covered by a few pixels at the focal plane of a mirror or Fresnel lens. We report first results of a FAST prototype installed at the Telescope Array site, consisting of a single 200 mm photomultiplier tube at the focal plane of a 1 m(2) Fresnel lens system taken from the prototype of the JEM-EUSO experiment. The FAST prototype took data for 19 nights, demonstrating remarkable operational stability. We detected laser shots at distances of several kilometers as well as 16 highly significant UHECR shower candidates.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10303 - Particles and field physics

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Astroparticle Physics

ISSN

0927-6505

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

74

Issue of the periodical within the volume

Feb

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

64-72

UT code for WoS article

000366784200009

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84946422700