Current status of the TAx4 surface detectors
Telescope Array (TA) is the largest ultrahigh-energy cosmic-ray (UHECR) observatory in the northern hemisphere. It explores the origin of UHECRs using a surface detector (SD) array, covering approximately 700 km2, and a fluorescence detector (FD) stations viewing the skies above the array. TA has fo...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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EDP Sciences
2023-01-01
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| Series: | EPJ Web of Conferences |
| Online Access: | https://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/pdf/2023/09/epjconf_uhecr2023_06003.pdf |
| Summary: | Telescope Array (TA) is the largest ultrahigh-energy cosmic-ray (UHECR) observatory in the northern hemisphere. It explores the origin of UHECRs using a surface detector (SD) array, covering approximately 700 km2, and a fluorescence detector (FD) stations viewing the skies above the array. TA has found evidence for a cluster of cosmic rays with energies greater than 57 EeV known as a HotSpot. Recently, TA has obtained additional evidence for an excess of cosmic rays with energies above 1019.4 eV and also found implications of spectrum anisotropy. An expanded SD array and FD stations called TAx4 experiment was designed to increase the data collection rate at the highest energies to confirm the anisotropies with more data. We have constructed and deployed more than half of the SDs for the TAx4 experiment and began stable data taking operations. We present TAx4 SD’s current status. |
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| ISSN: | 2100-014X |