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Energy spectrum of ultra-high energy cosmic rays observed with the Telescope Array using a hybrid technique

Authors :
S. Y. Roh
S. Yoshida
T. Kanbe
John Belz
Y. Murano
Thomas Stroman
Akitoshi Oshima
R. Zollinger
S. Kitamura
K. Nagasawa
Takayuki Tomida
Michiyuki Chikawa
Isaac Myers
H. Tokuno
K. Kitamoto
R. W. Springer
Igor Tkachev
R. Cady
Elliott Barcikowski
R. Aida
Eiji Kido
Toshiyuki Nonaka
Dmitri Ivanov
H. Fujii
H. Tanaka
Byung Gu Cheon
Yukio Uchihori
J. H. Kim
Pierre Sokolsky
Naoya Inoue
T. Fujii
Mayuko Minamino
Tatsunobu Shibata
Tomohiro Matsuda
Ross Anderson
Peter Tinyakov
Yasunori Kitamura
Samuel Blake
Shoichi Ogio
Toshio Matsuyama
K. Kobayashi
X. Zhou
Y. Yoneda
K. Tsutsumi
S. I. Lim
Zach Zundel
Sergey Troitsky
S. Machida
K. Martens
Hirotaka Ito
Younghoon Kwon
Shunsuke Ozawa
Mark Allen
S. Udo
C. C. H. Jui
Hiroyuki Sagawa
S. Kawana
H. Kawai
E. J. Cho
H. Shimodaira
M. Tanaka
S. Iwamoto
Y. Kondo
K. Oki
Tomoyuki Nakamura
S. Kawakami
Masaomi Ono
S. B. Thomas
S. Nagataki
Naoaki Hayashida
K. Miyata
R. Azuma
T. Matsuura
Fumiya Shibata
Y. Tsuyuguchi
Jon Paul Lundquist
Yoji Kobayashi
Kiyoshi Kuramoto
T. Shirahama
Takaaki Ishii
Gordon Thomson
B. T. Stokes
Yoshiki Tsunesada
K. Hibino
R. Ishimori
Daisuke Ikeda
S. R. Stratton
H. Yamaoka
Grigory Rubtsov
K. Hayashi
Hang Bae Kim
Katsuaki Kasahara
Akimichi Taketa
Tiffany Wong
T. Fukuda
Kenichi Tanaka
Masaki Fukushima
A. L. Sampson
S. Suzuki
Hyun-Il Kim
Douglas Bergman
Federico R. Urban
Masato Takita
Nobuyuki Sakurai
D. Oku
K. Hiyama
H. Yoshii
William Hanlon
Yukio Takahashi
G. Vasiloff
K. Ikuta
J. I. Shin
T. Okuda
Jyunsei Chiba
Maxim Pshirkov
Dongsu Ryu
Fumio Kakimoto
Y. Yamakawa
S. W. Nam
H. Ukai
Priti Shah
T. Iguchi
J. D. Smith
D. Rodriguez
Masahiro Takeda
Ken Honda
Yuichiro Tameda
John N. Matthews
M. Ohnishi
L. M. Scott
Y. Hayashi
V.A. Kuzmin
B. K. Shin
K. Yamazaki
Tareq Abu-Zayyad
R. Yamane
H. Ohoka
J. Yang
J. Lan
W. R. Cho
Kenichi Kadota
Il Hung Park
Y. Wada
Oleg Kalashev
Source :
Astroparticle Physics. 61:93-101
Publication Year :
2015

Abstract

We measure the spectrum of cosmic rays with energies greater than 10 18.2 eV with the fluorescence detectors (FDs) and the surface detectors (SDs) of the Telescope Array Experiment using the data taken in our first 2.3-year observation from May 27, 2008 to September 7, 2010. A hybrid air shower reconstruction technique is employed to improve accuracies in determination of arrival directions and primary energies of cosmic rays using both FD and SD data. The energy spectrum presented here is in agreement with our previously published spectra and the HiRes results.

Details

Language :
English
Volume :
61
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Astroparticle Physics
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....c6820851604d4b66cd5c4424d1262759