The JEM-EUSO mission to explore the extreme Universe

Details The JEM-EUSO mission to explore the extreme Universe The JEM-EUSO mission to explore the extreme Universe

Nov 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010nimpa.623..422k&link_type=abstract

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, Volume 623, Issue 1, p. 422-424.

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Accommodated on the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) of the International Space Station (ISS), the Extreme Universe Space Observatory JEM-EUSO will utilize the Earth’s atmosphere as a giant detector of the extreme energy cosmic rays; the most energetic particles coming from the Universe. Looking downward the Earth from Space, JEM-EUSO will detect such particles by observing the fluorescence and Cherenkov photons produced during their pass in the atmosphere. The main objective of JEM-EUSO is doing astronomy and astrophysics through the particle channel with extreme energies above several times 1019 eV with a significant statistics beyond the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin (GZK) cut-off. Moreover, JEM-EUSO could observe extremely high energy neutrinos. JEM-EUSO has been designed to operate for more than 3 years onboard the ISS orbiting around the Earth every 90 min at an altitude of about 400 km. JAXA has selected JEM-EUSO as one of the mission candidates of the second phase utilization of JEM/EF for the launch in mid 2010s.

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