Back to Search Start Over

Highlights from the Telescope Array Experiment

Authors :
Hiroyuki Sagawa for the Telescope Array Collaboration
Source :
SciPost Physics Proceedings, Iss 13, p 041 (2023)
Publication Year :
2023
Publisher :
SciPost, 2023.

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) detector, which consists of ten fluorescence telescopes, and 80 infill surface detectors with 400m 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 surface 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.

Subjects

Subjects :
Physics
QC1-999

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
26664003
Issue :
13
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
SciPost Physics Proceedings
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.2e6cd3cc3624f7fafaa587b3baebde6
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.21468/SciPostPhysProc.13.041