PoS - Proceedings of Science
Volume 444 - 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2023) - Highlight Talks
Highlights from the Telescope Array Experiment
J. Kim*,  Telescope Array Collaboration, R.U. Abbasi, Y. Abe, T. Abu-Zayyad, Y. Arai, R. Arimura, M. Allen, E. Barcikowski, J.W. Belz, D.R. Bergman, S.A. Blake, I. Buckland, B.G. Cheon, M. Chikawa, A. Fedynitch, T. Fujii, K. Fujisue, K. Fujita, R. Fujiwara, M. Fukushima, G. Furlich, Z. Gerber, N. Globus, W. Hanlon, N. Hayashida, H. He, R. Hibi, K. Hibino, R. Higuchi, K. Honda, D. Ikeda, N. Inoue, T. Ishii, H. Ito, D.Y. Ivanov, A. Iwasaki, H.M. Jeong, S. Jeong, C.C.H. Jui, K. Kadota, F. Kakimoto, O. Kalashev, K. Kasahara, S. Kasami, Y. Kawachi, S. Kawakami, K. Kawata, E. Kido, H.B. Kim, J.H. Kim, S.W. Kim, Y. Kimura, I.V. Kharuk, I. Komae, K. Komori, Y. Kusumori, M. Kuznetsov, Y.J. Kwon, K.H. Lee, M.J. Lee, B. Lubsandorzhiev, J.P. Lundquist, T. Matsuyama, J.A. Matthews, J.N. Matthews, R. Mayta, K. Miyashita, K. Mizuno, M. Mori, M. Murakami, I. Myers, M. Nakahara, S. Nagataki, K. Nakai, T. Nakamura, E. Nishio, T. Nonaka, S. Ogio, M. Onishi, H. Ohoka, Y. Oku, N. Okazaki, T. Okuda, Y. Omura, M. Ono, A. Oshima, H. Oshima, S. Ozawa, I.H. Park, K.Y. Park, M. Potts, M. Przybylak, M.S. Pshirkov, J. Remington, D.C. Rodriguez, C. Rott, G.I. Rubtsov, D. Ryu, H. Sagawa, R. Saito, N. Sakaki, T.K. Sako, N. Sakurai, D. Sato, K. Sato, S. Sato, K. Sekino, P.D. Shah, N. Shibata, T. Shibata, J. Shikita, H. Shimodaira, B.K. Shin, H.S. Shin, K. Shinozaki, D. Shinto, J.D. Smith, P. Sokolsky, B.T. Stokes, T.A. Stroman, Y. Takagi, K. Takahashi, M. Takamura, M. Takeda, R. Takeishi, A. Taketa, M. Takita, Y. Tameda, K. Tanaka, M. Tanaka, S.B. Thomas, G.B. Thomson, P. Tinyakov, I. Tkachev, H. Tokuno, T. Tomida, S. Troitsky, R. Tsuda, Y. Tsunesada, S. Udo, F. Urban, M. Vrabel, I.A. Vaiman, D. Warren, T. Wong, K. Yamazaki, K. Yashiro, F. Yoshida, Y. Zhezher and Z. Zundelet al. (click to show)
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Abstract
The Telescope Array (TA) is the largest ultra-high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) observatory in the Northern Hemisphere. Together with the TA Low Energy Extension (TALE), TA$\times$4, and TALE infill detector, the TA measures the properties of UHECR-induced extensive air showers (EAS) in the energy region from 10$^{15}$ eV to over 10$^{20}$ eV. Each of these uses a hybrid system with an array of scintillators to sample the footprint of the EAS at the Earth's surface along with telescopes that measure the fluorescence and Cherenkov light from the EAS. The statistics at the highest energies are being enhanced with the TA$\times$4 detector, half completed but still under construction, which will quadruple the surface detector area with telescopes. The TALE infill surface detectors were recently deployed to further lower the hybrid energy threshold of TALE. We present the status of the experiment and recent results on the energy spectrum, mass composition, and anisotropy, including new features in the energy spectrum at about 10$^{19.2}$ eV and in the UHECR arrival direction anisotropy.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.444.0008
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