1. Implementation of the first level trigger for ultra-high-energy cosmic ray (UHECR) detection from space with JEM-EUSO: Initial test results
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H. Miyamoto, G. Contino, O. Larsson, G. Osteria, Francesco Fenu, M. Rezazadeh, P. Hunt, R. Gregg, J. Bayer, S. Dagoret-Campagne, S. Blin-Bondil, P. Gorodetzky, M. Manfrin, Lawrence Wiencke, Yoshiya Kawasaki, Austin Cummings, Marco Mignone, M. E. Bertaina, R. Forza, Marco Casolino, Claudio Fornaro, G. Cotto, J. Rabanal, S. Bacholle, G. Suino, F. Perfetto, A. Jung, Pierre Barrillon, Lech Wiktor Piotrowski, E. Parizot, Guillaume Prévôt, S. Cambursano, H. Krantz, Johannes Eser, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Organisation de Micro-Électronique Générale Avancée (OMEGA), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), JEM-EUSO, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), and École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)
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data acquisition ,central data acquisition system ,readout electronics ,Aerospace electronics ,photomultipliers ,JEM-EUSO Collaboration ,cosmic radiation: interaction ,Space (mathematics) ,01 natural sciences ,nuclear electronics ,Data acquisition ,Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray ,cosmic ray apparatus ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics ,FPGA ,field programmable gate arrays ,Physics ,photomultiplier ,cosmic ray showers ,UHECR ,Detector ,MAPMT ,statistics ,photodetectors ,position sensitive ,Cosmic ray ,high-energy cosmic ray interactions ,cosmic ray generated air-showers ,first-level trigger ,ultrahigh-energy cosmic ray detection ,0103 physical sciences ,Electronics ,cosmic radiation: UHE ,[PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det] ,Aerospace engineering ,Cosmic rays ,Simulation ,showers: atmosphere ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,business.industry ,nucleus ,trigger ,position sensitive particle detectors ,Collaboration ,photodetection module board ,electronics: readout ,Level trigger ,photon: detector ,business ,high altitude balloons ,Telescopes - Abstract
International audience; The JEM-EUSO Collaboration aims to study Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Ray (UHECR) using a novel approach of looking down from space and using the atmosphere as a large detector to achieve a large effective area and therefore high-statistics on these events for the first time. For this purpose we have been developing a series of pathfinders operating from the ground, high altitude balloons and space, all sharing the same electronics, in particular the central data acquisition system. We report on the implementation and successful testing of the first-level trigger (L1) within the FPGA of the photo-detection module (PDM) board, which processes the signals from 36 64-pixel MAPMTs with a time unit of 2.5 μs to detect the passage of light from cosmic ray generated air-showers.
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- 2016