The trigger and DAQ system of the surface detector array of the telescope array experiment

By T. Abu-Zayyad, R. Aida, M. Allen, R. Anderson, R. Azuma, E. Barcikowski, J. Belz, D. Bergman, S. Blake, R. Cady and 127 more. 2012

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Abstract The Telescope Array (TA) experiment, located in the western desert of Utah, USA, is designed for the observation of extensive air showers from extremely high energy cosmic rays. The experiment has a surface detector array surrounded by three fluorescence detectors to enable simultaneous detection of shower particles at ground level and fluorescence photons along the shower track. The TA surface detectors and fluorescence detectors started full hybrid observation in March, 2008. In this article we describe the design and technical features of the TA surface detector.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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• THE COSMIC-RAY ENERGY SPECTRUM OBSERVED WITH THE SURFACE DETECTOR OF THE TELESCOPE ARRAY EXPERIMENT (2012, background): “Direct comparisons between data and Monte Carlo show that the result closely resembles the data (Abu-Zayyad et al. 2012a).”
• An Indication of Anisotropy in Arrival Directions of Ultra-high-energy Cosmic Rays through Comparison to the Flux Pattern of Extragalactic Gamma-Ray Sources (2018, background): “As noted, e.g., by Fang et al. (2014) and He et al. (2016), the excess of events observed at the Telescope Array(Abbasi et al. 2014) has some overlap with the position of M82, as well as with the position of the blazar Mkn421 that would be a bright northern source in a low-attenuation scenario.”
• INDICATIONS OF INTERMEDIATE-SCALE ANISOTROPY OF COSMIC RAYS WITH ENERGY GREATER THAN 57 EeV IN THE NORTHERN SKY MEASURED WITH THE SURFACE DETECTOR OF THE TELESCOPE ARRAY EXPERIMENT (2014, methodology): “The Telescope Array has also searched for UHECR anisotropies such as autocorrelations, correlations with AGNs, and correlations with the LSS of the universe using the first 40 months of scintillator surface detector (SD) data (Abu-Zayyad et al. 2012b; Abu-Zayyad et al. 2013b).”