Energy Spectrum of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays Observed with the Telescope Array Using a Hybrid Technique
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2013-06-03 v1
Abstract
We measure the spectrum of cosmic rays with energies greater than eV with the Fluorescence Detectors (FDs) and the Surface Detectors (SDs) of the Telescope Array Experiment using the data taken in our first 2.3-year observation from May 27 2008 to September 7 2010. A hybrid air shower reconstruction technique is employed to improve accuracies in determination of arrival directions and primary energies of cosmic rays using both FD and SD data. The energy spectrum presented here is in agreement with our previously published spectra and the HiRes results.
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@article{arxiv.1305.7273,
title = {Energy Spectrum of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays Observed with the Telescope Array Using a Hybrid Technique},
author = {T. Abu-Zayyad and R. Aida and M. Allen and R. Anderson and R. Azuma and E. Barcikowski and J. W. Belz and D. R. Bergman and S. A. Blake and R. Cady and B. G. Cheon and J. Chiba and M. Chikawa and E. J. Cho and W. R. Cho and H. Fujii and T. Fujii and T. Fukuda and M. Fukushima and W. Hanlon and K. Hayashi and Y. Hayashi and N. Hayashida and K. Hibino and K. Hiyama and K. Honda and T. Iguchi and D. Ikeda and K. Ikuta and N. Inoue and T. Ishii and R. Ishimori and H. Ito and D. Ivanov and S. Iwamoto and C. C. H. Jui and K. Kadota and F. Kakimoto and O. Kalashev and T. Kanbe and K. Kasahara and H. Kawai and S. Kawakami and S. Kawana and E. Kido and H. B. Kim and H. K. Kim and J. H. Kim and J. H. Kim and K. Kitamoto and S. Kitamura and Y. Kitamura and K. Kobayashi and Y. Kobayashi and Y. Kondo and K. Kuramoto and V. Kuzmin and Y. J. Kwon and J. Lan and S. I. Lim and J. P. Lundquist and S. Machida and K. Martens and T. Matsuda and T. Matsuura and T. Matsuyama and J. N. Matthews and M. Minamino and K. Miyata and Y. Murano and I. Myers and K. Nagasawa and S. Nagataki and T. Nakamura and S. W. Nam and T. Nonaka and S. Ogio and M. Ohnishi and H. Ohoka and K. Oki and D. Oku and T. Okuda and M. Ono and A. Oshima and S. Ozawa and I. H. Park and M. S. Pshirkov and D. C. Rodriguez and S. Y. Roh and G. Rubtsov and D. Ryu and H. Sagawa and N. Sakurai and A. L. Sampson and L. M. Scott and P. D. Shah and F. Shibata and T. Shibata and H. Shimodaira and B. K. Shin and J. I. Shin and T. Shirahama and J. D. Smith and P. Sokolsky and R. W. Springer and B. T. Stokes and S. R. Stratton and T. Stroman and S. Suzuki and Y. Takahashi and M. Takeda and A. Taketa and M. Takita and Y. Tameda and H. Tanaka and K. Tanaka and M. Tanaka and S. B. Thomas and G. B. Thomson and P. Tinyakov and I. Tkachev and H. Tokuno and T. Tomida and S. Troitsky and Y. Tsunesada and K. Tsutsumi and Y. Tsuyuguchi and Y. Uchihori and S. Udo and H. Ukai and F. Urban and G. Vasiloff and Y. Wada and T. Wong and Y. Yamakawa and R. Yamane and H. Yamaoka and K. Yamazaki and J. Yang and Y. Yoneda and S. Yoshida and H. Yoshii and X. Zhou and R. Zollinger and Z. Zundel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.7273},
year = {2013}
}
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28 pages, 12 figures, submitted to Astroparticle Physics