The EUSO-SPB2 Cherenkov Telescope - Flight Performance and Preliminary Results

JEM-EUSO Collaboration

The EUSO-SPB2 Cherenkov Telescope - Flight Performance and Preliminary Results

JEM-EUSO Collaboration

École Polytechnique

College of Computing
Nihon University
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Astroparticule and Cosmol APC
Gran Sasso Science Institute
Lehman College
INFN Sezione di Catania
INAF Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Palermo
INFN Sezione di Torino
University of Turin
Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (IAPS)
INFN Sezione di Bari
Università degli studi di Bari Aldo Moro
Moscow State University
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
INFN Roma Tor Vergata
Riken
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
University of Chicago
University of Rome “Tor Vergata”
INFN Sezione di Napoli
Max-Planck-Institut für Physik
Università degli Studi di Catania
Joint Laboratory of Optics
University of Naples Federico II
UTIU
University of California, Space Sciences Laboratory
Pennsylvania State University
Science and Research Directorate
Colorado School of Mines
University of Tokyo
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research
Konan University
Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
National Centre for Nuclear Research
University of Utah
Univ. Mentouri de Constantine
National Astronomical Observatory
University of Iowa
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna
Institut Universitaire de France
Sungkyunkwan University
University of Warsaw
LNF-INFN
Space Regatta Consortium
Hokkaido University
Shinshu University
University of Geneva
Centre de Développement des Technologies Avancées
Fairfield University

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Abstract

Astrophysical Very-High-Energy (VHE, >10 PeV) neutrinos deliver crucial information about the sources of Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs), the composition of UHECRs, and neutrino/particle physics at highest energies. UHE-tau neutrinos skimming the Earth’s surface produce tau leptons, which can emerge from the ground, decay, and start an upward-going extensive air shower (EAS) in the Earth’s atmosphere. The tau neutrino can be reconstructed by imaging the EAS. We developed an atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope flying on the Extreme Universe Space Observatory Super Pressure Balloon 2 (EUSO-SPB2) mission to test the air-shower imaging concept at high altitudes. The EUSO-SPB2 ultra-long-duration balloon mission is a precursor of the Probe of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (POEMMA), a candidate for an astrophysics probe-class mission. The telescope implements Schmidt optics with a 0.785 m² light collection area and a 512-pixel SiPM camera covering a 12.8° x 6.4° (Horizontal x Vertical) field-of-view with 0.4° resolution. The camera signals are sampled with 100 MSa/s and digitized with 12-bit resolution. The objectives of the EUSO-SPB2 Cherenkov telescope include a search for UHE neutrinos below Earth’s limb, UHECRs above the limb, the study of the night sky background, and studying the telescope’s performance. In this presentation, I will present an overview of the Cherenkov telescope and discuss the in-flight performance of the telescope.

Original language	English
Article number	1029
Journal	Proceedings of Science
Volume	444
Publication status	Published - 27 Sept 2024
Event	38th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2023 - Nagoya, Japan Duration: 26 Jul 2023 → 3 Aug 2023

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The EUSO-SPB2 Cherenkov Telescope - Flight Performance and Preliminary Results

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