Space experiment TUS on board the Lomonosov satellite as pathfinder of JEM-EUSO

J H Adams,B Keilhauer,Z Plebaniak,M D Rodríguez Frías,M Di Martino,Y Miyazaki,Y Takizawa,G Vankova,S Biktemerova,M Takeda,M C Maccarone,M Lacombe,R Matev,M Wille,G Castellinic,T Mernik,C González Alvarado,P Von Ballmoos,P Galeotti,G Osteria,L Del Peral,N De Simone,M Sakata,S Selmane,C De Donato,J Karczmarczyk,I Rusinov,C Tenzer,D Monnier-Ragaigne,J Szabelski,P Baragatti,M Sanz Palomino,J Bayer,T Paul,A Haungs,M I Panasyuk,A Guzmán,K Mase,F Dulucq,T Tymieniecka,J Sledd,Y Uchihori,T Patzak,B Harlov,B Mot,T Shirahama,A Segreto,E Parizot,O Martinez,A Dell’Oro,V S Morozenko,L Marcelli,J A Morales De Los Ríos,M Dupieux,A Franceschi,O Tibolla,M Bogomilov,L Santiago Crúz,P Prat,G Masciantonio,K Shinozaki,A Bruno,M Unger,L Villaseñor,A Anzalone,G Sáez-Cano,G Modestino,S Dagoret-Campagne,M Yu Zotov,J Geary,M Serra,H J Crawford,D Campana,T Napolitano,S Blin-Bondil,L Conti,K Higashide,F Guarino,A Insolia,K Słomińska,V Connaughton,R Bechini,R Tsenov,N Inoue,C De La Taille,D Supanitsky,N Tajima,C Blaksley,G Cordero,J F Valdés-Galicia,P Vallania,P Barrillon,A Pollini,M Kleifges,H Tokuno,R Engel,Y Tsunesada,A Ebersoldt,G Distratis,F Kajino,L Valore,I V Yashin,G Roudil,T Batsch,I Kreykenbohm,D Maravilla,M D Sabau,E G Judd,S Perez Cano,N Tone,P Picozza,A Sobey,F Sarazin,D Kolev,T Pierog,Y Karadzhov,C Lachaud,F Cafagna,C De Santis,B A Khrenov,Y Hachisu,H Prieto,J Blümer,E Joven,H Schieler,I Fernández-Gómez,M Karus,O Saprykin,Y Itow,J Licandro,D Semikoz,S Piraino,C Vigorito,M Rybczyński,G Giraudo,M Sato,L Wiencke,F Ronga,Y Arai,C Pennypacker,H H Silva López,P Orleański,H Takami,S Briz,M Weber,C Catalano,M Nagata,Z Włodarczyk,Y Yamamoto,T Tajima,T Tomida,S Ahmad,J Wilms,T Belenguer,V Andreev,D Cline,Y Mizumoto,D Naumov,M Bertaina,M J Christl,S Sharakin,Y Kawasaki,R Bellotti,S Falk,R Cremonini,A Marini,M Reyes,I Rodríguez,J Lee,T Shibata,E Kuznetsov,Y Kurihara,C Fornaro,M Chikawa,T Sugiyama,L W Piotrowski,H W Park,H Sato,M Gonchar,A Neronov,K Kawai,Alexander Kusenko ,Rodrigo Nava ,Patrick J Reardon ,Sergio Sánchez ,B Pastirčák ,P Bobík ,Claudio Cassardo ,G K Garipov ,J N Capdevielle ,Satoshi Wada ,Toshikazu Ebisuzaki ,J S Kim ,S E Csorna ,Fumiko Tajima ,Hajime Yano ,Denis Allard ,Hideyuki Shimizu ,Tatsuhiko Ogawa ,Hitoshi Ohmori ,M Putiš ,Graciela B Gelmini ,Angela V Olinto ,Kazutoshi Katahira ,Ke Fang ,Massimiliano Bonamente ,Antonio Castro ,Toshitaka Kajino ,Luis A Anchordoqui ,J W Watts ,J Błęcki ,J Albert ,Shigeru Yoshida ,Daisuke Yonetoku ,S W Kim ,Fernando Martínez López ,T Weiler ,Susumu Inoue ,Marta Flamini ,Takeshi Murakami ,П А Климов ,Hanna Rothkaehl ,Shigehiro Nagataki ,Kenji Yoshida ,Shigeto Watanabe ,Francesco Isgrò ,G Siemieniec‐Oziȩbło ,Л Ткачев ,G Medina‐Tanco ,Nicolas Blanc ,Ken’ichi Nomoto ,Akinori Saito ,Gelsomina Catalano ,Hirokazu Ikeda ,Jun Watanabe ,Francesco Fenu ,Andreas A Berlind ,Masao Murakami ,Tôru Nakamura ,O Văduvescu ,Ichiro Kaneko ,Thomas Peter ,Katsuaki Asano ,B Szabelska,J Yang,M Fukushima,M Roth,K Kudela,M Suzuki,D Finco,M S Briggs,R Young,T Wibig,C Moretto,T Nonaka,V Scotti,M Ricci,S Ogio,A Zuccaro Marchi,I H Park,T Schanz,F Trillaud,K Mannheim,A Jung,A Monaco,H Miyamoto,H Sagawa,D Ikeda,J Hernández Carretero,R Caruso,G Prévôt,Y Takahashi,J Fujimoto,A Santangelo,M Casolino,T Yamamoto,A Cellino,H Salazar,P Gorodetzky,S Toscano,S Ferrarese,K Tsuno,P L Biermann,H Lim,M Ave Pernas,K Belov,N Sakaki

doi:10.1007/s10686-015-9465-y

Abstract

Space-based detectors for the study of extreme energy cosmic rays (EECR) are being prepared as a promising new method for detecting highest energy cosmic rays. A pioneering space device – the “tracking ultraviolet set-up” (TUS) – is in the last stage of its construction and testing. The TUS detector will collect preliminary data on EECR in the conditions of a space environment, which will be extremely useful for planning the major JEM-EUSO detector operation.

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