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Publication Status: Published
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2015
Publisher: SPRINGER
Book Volume: 40
Pages Range: 3-17
Journal Issue: 1
DOI: 10.1007/s10686-015-9482-x
The Extreme Universe Space Observatory on board the Japanese Experiment Module of the International Space Station, JEM-EUSO, is being designed to search from space ultra-high energy cosmic rays. These are charged particles with energies from a few 10(19) eV to beyond 10(20) eV, at the very end of the known cosmic ray energy spectrum. JEM-EUSO will also search for extreme energy neutrinos, photons, and exotic particles, providing a unique opportunity to explore largely unknown phenomena in our Universe. The mission, principally based on a wide field of view (60 degrees) near-UV telescope with a diameter of similar to 2.5 m, will monitor the earth's atmosphere at night, pioneering the observation from space of the ultraviolet tracks (290-430 nm) associated with giant extensive air showers produced by ultra-high energy primaries propagating in the earth's atmosphere. Observing from an orbital altitude of similar to 400 km, the mission is expected to reach an instantaneous geometrical aperture of A (g e o) a parts per thousand yen 2 x 10(5) km(2) sr with an estimated duty cycle of similar to 20 %. Such a geometrical aperture allows unprecedented exposures, significantly larger than can be obtained with ground-based experiments. In this paper we briefly review the history of space-based search for ultra-high energy cosmic rays. We then introduce the special issue of Experimental Astronomy devoted to the various aspects of such a challenging enterprise. We also summarise the activities of the on-going JEM-EUSO program.
APA:
Adams, J.H., Ahmad, S., Albert, J.-N., Allard, D., Anchordoqui, L., Andreev, V.,... Marchi, A.Z. (2015). The JEM-EUSO mission: An introduction. Experimental Astronomy, 40(1), 3-17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10686-015-9482-x
MLA:
Adams, J. H., et al. "The JEM-EUSO mission: An introduction." Experimental Astronomy 40.1 (2015): 3-17.
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