Trigger electronics of the new Fluorescence Detectors of the Telescope Array Experiment

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

Volumn 609, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 227-234

  Tameda, Yuichiro ^a   Taketa, Akimichi ^b   Smith, Jeremy D ^c   Tanaka, Manobu ^d   Fukushima, Masaki ^b   Jui, Charles C H ^c   Kadota, Ken'ichi ^f   Kakimoto, Fumio ^a   Matsuda, Takeshi ^d   Matthews, John N ^c   Ogio, Shoichi ^e   Sagawa, Hiroyuki ^b   Sakurai, Nobuyuki ^b   Shibata, Tatsunobu ^b   Takeda, Masahiro ^b   Thomas, Stanton B ^c   Tokuno, Hisao ^b   Tsunesada, Yoshiki ^a   Udo, Shigeharu ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF PARTICLE AND NUCLEAR STUDIES   (Japan)

^e Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^f TOKYO CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Event trigger; Extensive air shower; Fluorescence light; Monte Carlo technique; Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays

Indexed keywords

EVENT TRIGGER; EXTENSIVE AIR SHOWER; EXTENSIVE AIR SHOWERS; MONTE CARLO TECHNIQUES; ULTRA HIGH-ENERGY COSMIC RAYS;

COSMIC RAYS; COSMOLOGY; DETECTORS; DIFFUSERS (OPTICAL); FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; LIGHT; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PARTICLE DETECTORS; TELESCOPES;

FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 71749115444     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2009.07.093     Document Type: Article

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