| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 283, 2023
Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR 2022)
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| Article Number | 06007 | |
| Number of page(s) | 9 | |
| Section | Present and Future Detection and Analysis Techniques | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202328306007 | |
| Published online | 28 April 2023 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202328306007
The JEM-EUSO Program for UHECR Studies from Space
1 Université Paris Cité, CNRS, Astroparticule et Cosmologie, F-75013 Paris, France
2 INFN Section of Rome Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133 Rome, Italy
3 Department of Physics, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133 Rome, Italy
4 RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
5 Department of Physics, University of Turin, V. P. Giuria 1, 10125 Turin, Italy
6 INFN Section of Turin, Via P. Giuria 1, 10125 Turin, Italy
7 KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Brinellvg¨en 8, 114 28 Stockholm, Sweden
8 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute for Astroparticle Physics, Karlsruhe, Germany
9 Department of Physics, Konan University, 8 Chome-9-1 Okamoto, Higashinada Ward Kobe, Hyogo 658-8501, Japan
10 Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State Univ., ul. Kolmogorova 1(2), 119991 Moscow, Russia
11 Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago, 5640 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago IL 60637, US
12 INFN National Laboratories of Frascati, Via Enrico Fermi 54, 00044 Frascati, Italy
13 Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR), University of Tokyo, Chiba 277-8582, Japan
14 National Centre for Nuclear Research, ul. Pasteura 7, 02-093 Warszawa, Poland
15 Department of Physics, Colorado School of Mines, 1523 Illinois St., Golden CO 80401, US
* Corresponding author: parizot@apc.in2p3.fr
Published online: 28 April 2023
To take up the challenge of understanding the origin of the ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs), new observational means appear necessary. The JEM-EUSO Collaboration has undertaken to open the space road to UHECR studies. For more than a decade, it has been developing a realistic program to measure the UHECRs from space with unprecedented aperture, together with complementary scientific objectives in a broader multidisciplinary context. Several intermediate missions have already been completed (on the ground: EUSO-TA; under stratospheric ballons: EUSO-Balloon and EUSO-SPB1; in space: TUS, and on-board the ISS: MINI-EUSO), and others are in preparation for flight (EUSO-SPB2), under review (K-EUSO: currently on hold), or proposed for the next decade (POEMMA). We report on the general status of the JEM-EUSO program, underlining that its technology has now reached operational maturity, and is ready for actual cosmic-ray shower detection from above.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2023
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