First observations of speed of light tracks by a fluorescence detector looking down on the atmosphere

Abdellaoui G, Abe S, Adams JH, Ahriche A, Allard D, Allen L, Alonso G, Anchordoqui L, Anzalone A, Arai Y, Asano K, Attallah R, Attoui H, Ave Pernas M, Bacholle S, Bakiri M, Baragatti P, Barrillon P, Bartocci S, Bayer J, Beldjilali B, Belenguer T, Belkhalfa N, Bellotti R, Belov A, Belov K, Benmessai K, Bertainaek M, Biermann PL, Biktemerova S, Bisconti F, Blanc N, Blecki J, Blin-Bondil S, Bobik P, Bogomilov M, Bozzo E, Bruno A, Caballero KS, Cafagna F, Campana D, Capdevielle JN, Capel F, Caramete A, Caramete L, Carlson P, Caruso R, Casolino M, Cassardo C, Castellina A, Catalano C, Catalano O, Cellino A, Chikawa M, Chiritoi G, Christl MJ, Connaughton , Conti L, Cordero G, Cotto G, Crawford HJ, Cremonini R, Csorna S, Cummings A, Dagoret-Campagne S, De Donato C, De La Taille C, De Santis C, Del Peral L, Di Martino M, Damian AD, Djemil T, Dutan , Ebersoldt A, Ebisuzaki T, Engel R, Eser J, Fenuek F, Fernandez-Gonzalez S, Fernandez-Soriano J, Ferrarese S, Flamini M, Fornaro C, Fouka M, Franceschi A, Franchini S, Fuglesang C, Fujii T, Fujimoto J, Fukushima M, Galeotti P, Garcia-Ortega E, Garipov G, Gascon E, Genci J, Giraudo G, Gonzalez Alvarado C, Gorodetzky P, Greg R, Guarino F, Guzman A, Hachisu Y, Haiduc M, Harlov B, Haungs A, Hernandez Carretero J, Hidber Cruz W, Ikeda D, Inoue N, Inoue S, Isgro F, Itow Y, Jammer T, Jeong S, Joven E, Judd EG, Jung A, Jochum J, Kajino F, Kajino T, Kalli S, Kaneko , Karadzhov Y, Karczmarczyk J, Katahira K, Kawai K, Kawasaki Y, Kedadra A, Khales H, Khrenov BA, Kim JS, Kim SW, Kleifges M, Klimov PA, Kolev D, Krantz H, Kreykenbohm I, Kudela K, Kurihara Y, Kusenko A, Kuznetsov E, La Barbera A, Lachaud C, Lahmar H, Lakhdari F, Larson R, Larsson O, Lee J, Licandro J, Lopez Campano L, Maccarone MC, Mackovjak S, Mahdi M, Maravilla D, Marcelli L, Marcos JL, Marini A, Marszal W, Martens K, Martin Y, Martinez O, Martucci M, Masciantonio G, Mase K, Mastafa M, Matev R, Matthews JN, Mebarki N, Medina-Tanco G, Mendoza MA, Menshikov A, Merino A, Meseguer J, Meyer SS, Mimouni J, Miyamoto H, Mizumoto Y, Monaco A, Morales De Los Rios JA, Moretto C, Nagataki S, Naitamor S, Napolitano T, Naslund W, Nava R, Neronov A, Nomoto K, Nonaka T, Ogawa T, Ogio S, Ohmori H, Olinto A, Orleanski P, Osteria G, Pagliaro A, Painter W, Panasyuk M, Panico B, Pasqualino G, Parizot E, Park IH, Pastircak B, Patzak T, Paul T, Perez-Grande , Perfetto F, Peter T, Picozza P, Pindado S, Piotrowski LW, Piraino S, Placidi L, Plebaniak Z, Pliego S, Pollini A, Polonski Z, Popescu EM, Prat P, Prevot G, Prieto H, Pühlhofer G, Putis M, Rabanal J, Radu AA, Reyes M, Rezazadeh M, Ricci M, Rodriguez Frias MD, Rodencal M, Ronga F, Roudil G, Rusinov , Rybczynski M, Sabau MD, Saez Cano G, Sagawa H, Sahnoune Z, Saito A, Sakaki N, Salazar H, Sanchez Balanzar JC, Sanchez JL, Santangelo A, Sanz-Andres A, Sanz Palomino M, Saprykin O, Sarazin F, Sato M, Schanz T, Schieler H, Scotti , Selmane S, Semikoz D, Serra M, Sharakin S, Shimizu HM, Shinozaki K, Shirahama T, Spataro B, Stan , Sugiyama T, Supanitsky D, Suzuki M, Szabelska B, Szabelski J, Tajima N, Tajima T, Takahashi Y, Takami H, Takeda M, Takizawa Y, Talai MC, Tenzer C, Thomas SB, Tibolla O, Tkachev L, Tokuno H, Tomida T, Tone N, Toscano S, Traiche M, Tsenov R, Tsunesada Y, Tsuno K, Tubbs J, Turriziani S, Uchihori Y, Vaduvescu O, Valdes-Galicia JF, Vallania P, Vankova G, Vigorito C, Villasenor L, Vlcek B, Von Ballmoos P, Vrabel M, Wada S, Watanabe J, Watts J, Weber M, Weigand Munoz R, Weindl A, Wiencke L, Wille M, Wilms J, Wlodarczyk Z, Yamamoto T, Yang J, Yano H, Yashin I, Yonetoku D, Yoshida S, Young R, Zgura IS, Zotov MY, Marchi AZ (2018)


Publication Status: Published

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2018

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Publisher: IOP PUBLISHING LTD

Book Volume: 13

Article Number: ARTN P05023

DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/13/05/P05023

Abstract

EUSO-Balloon is a pathfinder mission for the Extreme Universe Space Observatory onboard the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM-EUSO). It was launched on the moonless night of the 25(th) of August 2014 from Timmins, Canada. The flight ended successfully after maintaining the target altitude of 38 km for five hours. One part of the mission was a 2.5 hour underflight using a helicopter equipped with three UV light sources (LED, xenon flasher and laser) to perform an inflight calibration and examine the detectors capability to measure tracks moving at the speed of light. We describe the helicopter laser system and details of the underflight as well as how the laser tracks were recorded and found in the data. These are the first recorded laser tracks measured from a fluorescence detector looking down on the atmosphere. Finally, we present a first reconstruction of the direction of the laser tracks relative to the detector.

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APA:

Abdellaoui, G., Abe, S., Adams, J.H., Ahriche, A., Allard, D., Allen, L.,... Marchi, A.Z. (2018). First observations of speed of light tracks by a fluorescence detector looking down on the atmosphere. Journal of Instrumentation, 13. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/13/05/P05023

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Abdellaoui, G., et al. "First observations of speed of light tracks by a fluorescence detector looking down on the atmosphere." Journal of Instrumentation 13 (2018).

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