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Adams, J. H.; Ahmad, S.; Albert, J.-N.; Allard, D.; Anchordoqui, L.; Andreev, V.; Anzalone, A.; Arai, Y.; Asano, K.; Ave Pernas, M.; Baragatti, P.; Barrillon, P.; Batsch, T.; Bayer, J.; Bechini, R.; Belenguer, T.; Bellotti, R.; Belov, K.; Berlind, A. A.; Bertaina, M.; Biermann, P. L.; Biktemerova, S.; Blaksley, C.; Blanc, N.; Błȩcki, J.; Blin-Bondil, S.; Blümer, J.; Bobik, P.; Bogomilov, M.; Bonamente, M.; Briggs, M. S.; Briz, S.; Bruno, A.; Cafagna, F.; Campana, D.; Capdevielle, J.-N.; Caruso, R.; Casolino, M.; Cassardo, C.; Castellini, G.; Catalano, C.; Catalano, O.; Cellino, A.; Chikawa, M.; Christl, M. J.; Cline, D.; Connaughton, V.; Conti, L.; Cordero, G.; Crawford, H. J.; Cremonini, R.; Csorna, S.; Dagoret-Campagne, S.; de Castro, A. J.; De Donato, C.; de la Taille, C.; De Santis, C.; del Peral, L.; Dell'Oro, A.; De Simone, N.; Di Martino, M.; Distratis, G.; Dulucq, F.; Dupieux, M.; Ebersoldt, A.; Ebisuzaki, T.; Engel, R.; Falk, S.; Fang, K.; Fenu, F.; Fernández-Gómez, I.; Ferrarese, S.; Finco, D.; Flamini, M.; Fornaro, C.; Franceschi, A.; Fujimoto, J.; Fukushima, M.; Galeotti, P.; Garipov, G.; Geary, J.; Gelmini, G.; Giraudo, G.; Gonchar, M.; González Alvarado, C.; Gorodetzky, P.; Guarino, F.; Guzmán, A.; Hachisu, Y.; Harlov, B.; Haungs, A.; Hernández Carretero, J.; Higashide, K.; Ikeda, D.; Ikeda, H.; Inoue, N.; Inoue, S.; Insolia, A.; Isgrò, F.; Itow, Y. et al.
Bibliographical reference
Experimental Astronomy, Volume 40, Issue 1, pp.3-17
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2015
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Description
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 1019 eV to beyond
1020 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 ˜ 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 ˜ 400 km, the mission is expected to reach
an instantaneous geometrical aperture of A g e o ≥ 2
× 105 km2 sr with an estimated duty cycle of
˜ 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.
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