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Highlights from the Telescope Array Experiments
by Hiroyuki Sagawa
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Submission summary
| Submission information |
| Preprint Link: |
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.03591v4
(pdf)
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| Date accepted: |
2023-06-22 |
| Date submitted: |
2023-05-16 08:44 |
| Submitted by: |
Sagawa, Hiroyuki |
| Submitted to: |
SciPost Physics Proceedings |
| Proceedings issue: |
21st International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions (ISVHECRI2022) |
| Ontological classification |
| Academic field: |
Physics |
| Specialties: |
- Gravitation, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
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| Approach: |
Observational |
Abstract
The Telescope Array (TA) is the largest hybrid cosmic ray detector in the Northern Hemisphere, which observes primary particles in the energy range from 2 PeV to 100 EeV. The main TA detector consists of 507 plastic scintillation counters on a 1.2-km spacing square grid and fluorescence detectors at three stations overlooking the sky above the surface detector array. The TA Low energy Extension (TALE) hybrid detectors, which consists of ten fluorescence telescopes, and 80 infill surface detectors with 400-m and 600-m spacing, has continued to provide stable observations since its construction completion in 2018. The TAx4, a plan to quadruple the detection area of TA is also ongoing. About half of the planned detectors have been deployed, and the current TAx4 continues to operate stably as a hybrid detector. I review the present status of the TA experiment and the recent results on the cosmic-ray anisotropy, mass composition and energy spectrum.
