8–12 oct. 2018
Ecole Supérieure de Chimie, Paris
Fuseau horaire Europe/Paris

Status and prospects of the TAx4 experiment

12 oct. 2018, 09:00
20m
Friedel Amphitheater (Ecole Supérieure de Chimie, Paris)

Friedel Amphitheater

Ecole Supérieure de Chimie, Paris

Chimie ParisTech École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris 11, rue Pierre et Marie Curie 75231 PARIS Cedex 05
INVITED Sessions

Orateur

Dr Eiji Kido (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo)

Description

The TAx4 experiment is a project to observe highest energy cosmic rays by expanding the detection area of the TA experiment with newly constructed surface detectors (SDs) and fluorescence detectors (FDs). The construction of both SDs and FDs is ongoing. New SDs are arranged in a square grid with 2.08 km spacing at the north east and south east of the TA SD array. Field of view of new FDs overlaps the detection area of new SDs to observe SD FD hybrid events. New SDs are planning to be deployed early next year. The first light with new FDs was already observed on February 2018. The prospects of the detectors will be shown in this talk. Especially the hotspot and energy spectrum anisotropy are expected to be understood in more detail from the implications obtained by the TA experiment. The expectation of the physics will be also shown in this talk.

Auteur principal

Dr Eiji Kido (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo)

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