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Cosmic ray oriented performance studies for the JEM-EUSO first level trigger

  • G. Abdellaoui
  • , S. Abe
  • , A. Acheli
  • , J. H. Adams
  • , S. Ahmad
  • , A. Ahriche
  • , J. N. Albert
  • , D. Allard
  • , G. Alonso
  • , L. Anchordoqui
  • , V. Andreev
  • , A. Anzalone
  • , W. Aouimeur
  • , Y. Arai
  • , N. Arsene
  • , K. Asano
  • , R. Attallah
  • , H. Attoui
  • , M. Ave Pernas
  • , S. Bacholle
  • M. Bakiri, P. Baragatti, P. Barrillon, S. Bartocci, T. Batsch, J. Bayer, R. Bechini, T. Belenguer, R. Bellotti, A. Belov, K. Belov, B. Benadda, K. Benmessai, A. A. Berlind, M. Bertaina, P. L. Biermann, S. Biktemerova, F. Bisconti, N. Blanc, J. Błȩcki, S. Blin-Bondil, P. Bobik, M. Bogomilov, M. Bonamente, R. Boudaoud, E. Bozzo, M. S. Briggs, A. Bruno, K. S. Caballero, F. Cafagna, D. Campana, J. N. Capdevielle, F. Capel, A. Caramete, L. Caramete, P. Carlson, R. Caruso, M. Casolino, C. Cassardo, A. Castellina, G. Castellini, C. Catalano, O. Catalano, A. Cellino, M. Chikawa, G. Chiritoi, M. J. Christl, V. Connaughton, L. Conti, G. Contino, G. Cordero, G. Cotto, H. J. Crawford, R. Cremonini, S. Csorna, S. Dagoret-Campagne, C. De Donato, C. de la Taille, C. De Santis, L. del Peral, M. Di Martino, T. Djemil, S. A. Djenas, F. Dulucq, M. Dupieux, I. Dutan, A. Ebersoldt, T. Ebisuzaki, R. Engel, J. Eser, K. Fang, F. Fenu, S. Fernández-González, J. Fernández-Soriano, S. Ferrarese, D. Finco, M. Flamini, C. Fornaro, R. Forza, M. Fouka, A. Franceschi, S. Franchini, C. Fuglesang, J. Fujimoto, M. Fukushima, P. Galeotti, E. García-Ortega, G. Garipov, E. Gascón, J. Geary, G. Gelmini, J. Genci, G. Giraudo, M. Gonchar, C. González Alvarado, P. Gorodetzky, N. Guardone, F. Guarino, R. Guehaz, A. Guzmán, Y. Hachisu, M. Haiduc, B. Harlov, A. Haungs, J. Hernández Carretero, W. Hidber, K. Higashide, D. Ikeda, H. Ikeda, N. Inoue, S. Inoue, A. Insolia, F. Isgrò, Y. Itow, T. Jammer, E. Joven, E. G. Judd, A. Jung, J. Jochum, F. Kajino, T. Kajino, S. Kalli, I. Kaneko, D. Kang, F. Kanouni, Y. Karadzhov, J. Karczmarczyk, M. Karus, K. Katahira, K. Kawai, Y. Kawasaki, A. Kedadra, H. Khales, B. A. Khrenov, Jeong Sook Kim, Soon Wook Kim, Sug Whan Kim, M. Kleifges, P. A. Klimov, D. Kolev, I. Kreykenbohm, K. Kudela, Y. Kurihara, A. Kusenko, E. Kuznetsov, M. Lacombe, C. Lachaud, H. Lahmar, F. Lakhdari, O. Larsson, J. Lee, J. Licandro, H. Lim, L. López Campano, M. C. Maccarone, S. Mackovjak, M. Mahdi, M. Manfrin, D. Maravilla, L. Marcelli, J. L. Marcos, A. Marini, K. Martens, Y. Martín, O. Martinez, G. Masciantonio, K. Mase, R. Matev, J. N. Matthews, N. Mebarki, G. Medina-Tanco, L. Mehrad, M. A. Mendoza, A. Merino, T. Mernik, J. Meseguer, S. Messaoud, O. Micu, M. Mignone, J. Mimouni, H. Miyamoto, Y. Miyazaki, Y. Mizumoto, G. Modestino, A. Monaco, D. Monnier-Ragaigne, J. A. Morales de los Ríos, C. Moretto, V. S. Morozenko, B. Mot, T. Murakami, B. Nadji, M. Nagano, M. Nagata, S. Nagataki, T. Nakamura, T. Napolitano, D. Naumov, R. Nava, A. Neronov, K. Nomoto, T. Nonaka, T. Ogawa, S. Ogio, H. Ohmori, A. V. Olinto, P. Orleański, G. Osteria, W. Painter, M. I. Panasyuk, B. Panico, E. Parizot, I. H. Park, H. W. Park, B. Pastircak, T. Patzak, T. Paul, C. Pennypacker, I. Pérez-Grande, F. Perfetto, T. Peter, P. Picozza, T. Pierog, S. Pindado, L. W. Piotrowski, S. Piraino, L. Placidi, Z. Plebaniak, S. Pliego, A. Pollini, E. M. Popescu, P. Prat, G. Prévôt, H. Prieto, M. Putis, J. Rabanal, A. A. Radu, M. Rahmani, P. Reardon, M. Reyes, M. Rezazadeh, M. Ricci, M. D. Rodríguez Frías, F. Ronga, M. Roth, H. Rothkaehl, G. Roudil, I. Rusinov, M. Rybczyński, M. D. Sabau, G. Sáez Cano, H. Sagawa, Z. Sahnoune, A. Saito, N. Sakaki, M. Sakata, H. Salazar, J. C. Sanchez, J. L. Sánchez, A. Santangelo, L. Santiago Crúz, A. Sanz-Andrés, M. Sanz Palomino, O. Saprykin, F. Sarazin, H. Sato, M. Sato, T. Schanz, H. Schieler, V. Scotti, A. Segreto, S. Selmane, D. Semikoz, M. Serra, S. Sharakin, T. Shibata, H. M. Shimizu, K. Shinozaki, T. Shirahama, G. Siemieniec-Oziȩbło, J. Sledd, K. Słomińska, A. Sobey, I. Stan, T. Sugiyama, D. Supanitsky, M. Suzuki, B. Szabelska, J. Szabelski, H. Tahi, F. Tajima, N. Tajima, T. Tajima, Y. Takahashi, H. Takami, M. Takeda, Y. Takizawa, M. C. Talai, C. Tenzer, O. Tibolla, L. Tkachev, H. Tokuno, T. Tomida, N. Tone, S. Toscano, M. Traïche, R. Tsenov, Y. Tsunesada, K. Tsuno, T. Tymieniecka, Y. Uchihori, M. Unger, O. Vaduvescu, J. F. Valdés-Galicia, P. Vallania, G. Vankova, C. Vigorito, L. Villaseñor, B. Vlcek, P. von Ballmoos, M. Vrabel, S. Wada, J. Watanabe, S. Watanabe, J. Watts, M. Weber, R. Weigand Muñoz, A. Weindl, T. J. Weiler, T. Wibig, L. Wiencke, M. Wille, J. Wilms, Z. Włodarczyk, T. Yamamoto, Y. Yamamoto, J. Yang, H. Yano, I. V. Yashin, D. Yonetoku, S. Yoshida, R. Young, I. S. Zgura, M. Yu Zotov, A. Zuccaro Marchi
  • Tlemcen University
  • Nihon University
  • Centre de Développement des Technologies Avancées
  • University of Alabama in Huntsville
  • Centre national de la recherche scientifique
  • Université de Jijel
  • Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire
  • Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires
  • Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
  • Lehman College
  • University of California, Los Angeles
  • INAF Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Palermo
  • INFN Sezione di Catania
  • High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)
  • Institute of Space Sciences
  • University of Tokyo
  • Université Badji Mokhtar - Annaba
  • Universidad de Alcalá
  • UTIU
  • Astrophysics Division
  • University of Tübingen
  • University of Turin
  • Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (CSIC/INTA)
  • INFN Sezione di Bari
  • Università degli studi di Bari Aldo Moro
  • Moscow State University
  • Vanderbilt University
  • INFN Sezione di Torino
  • Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna
  • Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique SA
  • Polish Academy of Sciences
  • Institute of Experimental Physics Slovak Academy of Sciences
  • University of Sofia
  • University of Geneva
  • Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas
  • INFN Sezione di Napoli
  • KTH Royal Institute of Technology
  • Università degli Studi di Catania
  • INFN Roma Tor Vergata
  • Riken
  • Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (IAPS)
  • Istituto Di Fisica Applicata Nello Carrara
  • IRAP/CNRS
  • Kindai University
  • NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
  • Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
  • University of California, Space Sciences Laboratory
  • Colorado School of Mines
  • University of Chicago
  • University of León
  • Algiers Observatory
  • LNF-INFN
  • Technical University of Kosice
  • Universita’ di Napoli Federico II - Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche
  • TsNIIMash
  • Saitama University
  • ISAS/JAXA
  • University of Naples Federico II
  • Nagoya University
  • Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias
  • Konan University
  • National Astronomical Observatory
  • University of M’sila
  • Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute
  • Yonsei University
  • Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen
  • Sungkyunkwan University
  • University of Rome “Tor Vergata”
  • Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla
  • Chiba University
  • University of Utah
  • Univ. Mentouri de Constantine
  • Centro de Desarrollo Aeroespacial - Instituto Politécnico National (CDA-IPN)
  • Fukui University of Technology
  • Kanazawa University
  • Kobe University
  • Kyoto University
  • Osaka City University
  • ETH Zurich
  • Institute of Physics Swietokrzyska Academy
  • Hokkaido University
  • Aoyama Gakuin University
  • Jagiellonian University
  • Hiroshima University
  • Centro Mesoamericano de Física Teórica (MCTP)
  • Tokyo Institute of Technology
  • Shinshu University
  • National Institute of Radiological Sciences Chiba
  • Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo
  • Ewha Womans University

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Abstract

JEM-EUSO is a space mission designed to investigate Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos (E>5⋅1019eV) from the International Space Station (ISS). Looking down from above its wide angle telescope is able to observe their air showers and collect such data from a very wide area. Highly specific trigger algorithms are needed to drastically reduce the data load in the presence of both atmospheric and human activity related background light, yet retain the rare cosmic ray events recorded in the telescope. We report the performance in offline testing of the first level trigger algorithm on data from JEM-EUSO prototypes and laboratory measurements observing different light sources: data taken during a high altitude balloon flight over Canada, laser pulses observed from the ground traversing the real atmosphere, and model landscapes reproducing realistic aspect ratios and light conditions as would be seen from the ISS itself. The first level trigger logic successfully kept the trigger rate within the permissible bounds when challenged with artificially produced as well as naturally encountered night sky background fluctuations and while retaining events with general air-shower characteristics.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)150-163
Number of pages14
JournalNuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Volume866
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 11 Sept 2017

Keywords

  • FPGA
  • JEM-EUSO
  • Nightglow background
  • Trigger system

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