End-to-end absolute energy calibration of atmospheric fluorescence telescopes by an electron linear accelerator

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 597, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 61-66

  Shibata, T ^a   Enomoto, A ^b   Fukuda, S ^b   Fukushima, M ^a   Furukawa, K ^b   Ikeda, D ^a   Ikeda, M ^b   Kakihara, K ^b   Ohsawa, S ^b   Sagawa, H ^a   Satoh, M ^b   Shidara, T ^b   Sugimura, T ^b   Yoshida, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION KEK   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cosmic ray; End to end calibration; Fluorescence light; LINAC

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; CALIBRATION; COSMIC RAYS; COSMOLOGY; DETECTORS; DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC POWER MEASUREMENT; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON GUNS; ELECTRONS; FLUORESCENCE; INSTRUMENTS; IONIZING RADIATION; LIGHT EMISSION; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOGRAPHY; TELESCOPES;

AIR SHOWERS; BEAM CURRENTS; BEAM ENERGIES; BEAM SIMULATIONS; DETECTOR RESPONSES; ELECTRON BEAM DYNAMICS; ELECTRON ENERGIES; ELECTRON LINEAR ACCELERATORS; END-TO-END CALIBRATION; ENERGY CALIBRATIONS; ENERGY MEASUREMENTS; FLUORESCENCE TELESCOPES; HYBRID DETECTORS; LINAC; PRECISE ENERGY MEASUREMENTS; TELESCOPE ARRAYS; ULTRA HIGHS;

LUMINESCENCE;

EID: 56049097646     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2008.08.048     Document Type: Article

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