{"id":915,"date":"2014-08-05T09:49:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T00:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kmi.nagoya-u.ac.jp\/eng\/seminar\/915\/"},"modified":"2014-08-05T09:49:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T00:49:00","slug":"results_from_the_telescope_array_experiment_-_exploring_the_origin_of_highest-energy_cosmic_rays","status":"publish","type":"seminar","link":"https:\/\/www.kmi.nagoya-u.ac.jp\/eng\/seminar\/915\/","title":{"rendered":"Results from the Telescope Array experiment  &#8211; Exploring the origin of highest-energy cosmic rays-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe nature and origin of highest-energy cosmic rays (cosmic rays with<br \/>\nenergies of around 10<sup>20<\/sup> eV) are outstanding mysteries in physics: How<br \/>\ndid they gain such extreme energies? Where did they come from? What<br \/>\nparticles are they? The Telescope Array (TA) experiment challenges<br \/>\nthese questions by measuring the energy, composition, and arrival<br \/>\ndirection anisotropy of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays with energies<br \/>\nexceeding 10<sup>18<\/sup> eV. TA is located in the desert in Utah, USA, and the<br \/>\nlargest extensive-air-shower cosmic-ray detector in the northern<br \/>\nhemisphere. It consists of a surface array of 507 scintillation<br \/>\ncounters covering approximately 700 km<sup>2<\/sup> and 38 fluorescence telescopes<br \/>\nlocated at three sites looking inward over the surface array. Its<br \/>\nhybrid operation started in March, 2008. Here I present the results<br \/>\nfrom TA using data collected over a 5-year period and the prospect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[],"seminar_category":[55],"acf":{"s_now_accepting":true,"s_date_order":"2014-07-30 17:00:00","s_date_end":null,"s_date_text":"","s_text":"Hiroyuki Sagawa","s_place":"KMI Science Symposia (ES635)","s_place_other":"","s_categoryother":"","s_poster":"<form mt:asset-id=\"772\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-file\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"\/eng\/seminar\/files\/images\/20140730poster.pdf\">20140730poster.pdf<\/a><\/form>","s_poster2":"<form mt:asset-id=\"771\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"\/eng\/seminar\/files\/images\/20140730b.jpg\">\u8868\u793a<\/a><\/form>","s_slide":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Results from the Telescope Array experiment - Exploring the origin of highest-energy cosmic rays- KMI - Nagoya University<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kmi.nagoya-u.ac.jp\/eng\/seminar\/915\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Results from the Telescope Array experiment - Exploring the origin of highest-energy cosmic rays- KMI - Nagoya University\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The nature and origin of highest-energy cosmic rays (cosmic rays with energies of around 1020 eV) are outstanding mysteries in physics: How did they gain such extreme energies? 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