Large scale anisotropy of UHECRs for the Telescope Array

Details Large scale anisotropy of UHECRs for the Telescope Array Large scale anisotropy of UHECRs for the Telescope Array

Sep 2011

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INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE RECENT PROGRESS OF ULTRA-HIGH ENERGY COSMIC RAY OBSERVATION. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume

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Cosmic Rays, Telescopes, Scintillators, Redshift, Cosmic Rays, Neutrino, Muon, Pion, And Other Elementary Particle Detectors, Cosmic Ray Detectors, Scintillation Detectors, Distances, Redshifts, Radial Velocities, Spatial Distribution Of Galaxies

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The origin of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) is one of the most interesting questions in astroparticle physics. Despite of the efforts by other previous measurements, there is no consensus of both of the origin and the mechanism of UHECRs generation and propagation yet. In this context, Telescope Array (TA) experiment is expected to play an important role as the largest detector in the northern hemisphere which consists of an array of surface particle detectors (SDs) and fluorescence detectors (FDs) and other important calibration devices. We searched for large scale anisotropy using SD data of TA. UHECRs are expected to be restricted in GZK horizon when the composition of UHECRs is proton, so the observed arrival directions are expected to exhibit local large scale anisotropy if UHECR sources are some astrophysical objects. We used the SD data set from 11 May 2008 to 7 September 2010 to search for large-scale anisotropy. The discrimination power between LSS and isotropy is not enough yet, but the statistics in TA is expected to discriminate between those in about 95% confidence level on average in near future.

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