New air fluorescence detectors employed in the Telescope Array experiment

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

Volumn 676, Issue , 2012, Pages 54-65

  Tokuno, H ^a   Tameda, Y ^b   Takeda, M ^b   Kadota, K ^c   Ikeda, D ^b   Chikawa, M ^d   Fujii, T ^e   Fukushima, M ^b   Honda, K ^f   Inoue, N ^g   Kakimoto, F ^a   Kawana, S ^g   Kido, E ^b   Matthews, J N ^h   Nonaka, T ^b   Ogio, S ^e   Okuda, S ^e   Ozawa, S ⁱ   Sagawa, H ^b   Sakurai, N ^e   Shibata, T ^b   Taketa, A ^b   Thomas, S B ^h   Tomida, T ^f   Tsunesada, Y ^a   Udo, S ^j   Abu Zayyad, T ^h   Aida, R ^f   Allen, M ^h   Anderson, R ^h   Azuma, R ^a   Barcikowski, E ^h   Belz, J W ^h   Bergman, D R ^h   Blake, S A ^h   Cady, R ^h   Cheon, B G ^k   Chiba, J ^l   Cho, E J ^k   Cho, W R ^m   Fujii, H ⁿ   Fukuda, T ^a   Gorbunov, D ^o   Hanlon, W ^h   Hayashi, K ^a   Hayashi, Y ^e   Hayashida, N ^j   Hibino, K ^j   Hiyama, K ^b   Iguchi, T ^a   Ikuta, K ^f   Ishii, T ^f   Ishimori, R ^a   Ivanov, D ^h,p   Iwamoto, S ^f   Jui, C C H ^h   Kalashev, O ^o   Kanbe, T ^f   Kasahara, K ⁱ   Kawai, H ^q   Kawakami, S ^e   Kim, H B ^k   Kim, H K ^m   Kim, J H ^k,r   Kitamoto, K ^d   Kobayashi, K ^l   Kobayashi, Y ^a   Kondo, Y ^b   Kuramoto, K ^e   Kuzmin, V ^o   Kwon, Y J ^m   Lim, S I ^t   MacHida, S ^a   Martens, K ^b   Martineau, J ^h   Matsuda, T ⁿ   Matsuura, T ^a   Matsuyama, T ^e   Myers, I ^h   Minamino, M ^e   Miyata, K ^l   Miyauchi, H ^e   Murano, Y ^a   Nakamura, T ^s   Nam, S W ^t   Ohnishi, M ^b   Ohoka, H ^b   Oki, K ^b   Oku, D ^f   Oshima, A ^e   Park, I H ^t   Pshirkov, M S ^u   Rodriguez, D ^h   Roh, S Y ^r   Rubtsov, G ^o   Ryu, D ^r   Sampson, A L ^h   Scott, L M ^p   Shah, P D ^h   Shibata, F ^f   Shimodaira, H ^b   Shin, B K ^k   Shin, J I ^m   Shirahama, T ^g   Smith, J D ^h   Sokolsky, P ^h   Sonley, T J ^h   Springer, R W ^h   Stokes, B T ^h   Stratton, S R ^h,p   Stroman, T ^h   Suzuki, S ⁿ   Takahashi, Y ^b   Takita, M ^b   Tanaka, H ^e   Tanaka, K ^v   Tanaka, M ⁿ   Thomson, G B ^h   Tinyakov, P ^o,u   Tkachev, I ^o   Troitsky, S ^o   Tsutsumi, K ^a   Tsuyuguchi, Y ^f   Uchihori, Y ^w   Ukai, H ^f   Vasiloff, G ^h   Wada, Y ^g   Wong, T ^h   Wood, M ^h   Yamakawa, Y ^b   Yamaoka, H ⁿ   Yamazaki, K ^e   Yang, J ^t   Yoshida, S ^q   Yoshii, H ^x   Zollinger, R ^h   Zundel, Z ^h   more..

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c TOKYO CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^g SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

ⁱ WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^j KANAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^k Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^l TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^m Yonsei University   (South Korea)

ⁿ INSTITUTE OF PARTICLE AND NUCLEAR STUDIES   (Japan)

^o INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^p RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^q CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^r Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

^s KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^t Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

^u UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^v HIROSHIMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^w NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^x EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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Author keywords

Air fluorescence light detectors; Extensive air showers; Ultra high energy cosmic rays

Indexed keywords

EXTENSIVE AIR SHOWERS; FLUORESCENCE DETECTOR; HIGH RESOLUTION; MIRROR REFLECTANCE; OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; PHOTO MULTIPLIER TUBE; PRIMARY MIRRORS; SURFACE DETECTORS; TELESCOPE ARRAYS; ULTRA HIGH-ENERGY COSMIC RAYS; UTAH , USA;

DETECTORS; EXPERIMENTS; FLUORESCENCE; MIRRORS; TELESCOPES;

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

EID: 84862777537     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2012.02.044     Document Type: Article

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