https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-12090-w
Experimental Physics
Developments and results in the context of the JEM-EUSO program obtained with the ESAF simulation and analysis framework
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Nihon University, Funabashi, Chiba, Japan
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University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, USA
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Université de Paris, CNRS, AstroParticule et Cosmologie, 75013, Paris, France
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Lehman College, City University of New York (CUNY), New York, NY, USA
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INAF-Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy
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Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
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Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Torino, Via Pietro Giuria 1, 10125, Turin, Italy
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Institut universitaire de France (IUF), Paris, France
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Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Kepler Center, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
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Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, USA
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Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
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Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
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RIKEN, Wako, Japan
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Slovak Academy of Science, Institute of Experimental Physics, Kosice, Slovakia
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KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
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Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Sezione di Napoli, Naples, Italy
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Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich, Germany
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Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia “Ettore Majorana”, Università di Catania, Catania, Italy
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Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Pino Torinese, Italy
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Joint Laboratory of Optics, Faculty of Science, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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Dipartimento di Fisica “Ettore Pancini”, Università di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy
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Uninettuno University, Rome, Italy
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Space Science Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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Omega, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS/IN2P3, Palaiseau, France
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Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, USA
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Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan
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Universidad de Alcalá (UAH), Madrid, Spain
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Konan University, Kobe, Japan
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ECAP, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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National Centre for Nuclear Research, Otwock, Poland
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University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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Lab. of Math. and Sub-Atomic Phys. (LPMPS), Univ. Constantine I, Constantine, Algeria
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National Astronomical Observatory, Mitaka, Japan
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University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
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Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
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Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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Space Regatta Consortium, Korolev, Russia
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Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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Shinshu University, Nagano, Japan
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ISDC Data Centre for Astrophysics, Versoix, Switzerland
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Centre for Development of Advanced Technologies (CDTA), Algiers, Algeria
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Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT, USA
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Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Via del Politecnico, 00133, Rome, Italy
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IRAP, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, Toulouse, France
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Center for Pulsed Lasers (CLPU), Salamanca, Spain
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Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, USA
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, USA
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Received:
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June
2023
Accepted:
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September
2023
Published online:
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November
2023
JEM-EUSO is an international program for the development of space-based Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray observatories. The program consists of a series of missions which are either under development or in the data analysis phase. All instruments are based on a wide-field-of-view telescope, which operates in the near-UV range, designed to detect the fluorescence light emitted by extensive air showers in the atmosphere. We describe the simulation software ESAF in the framework of the JEM-EUSO program and explain the physical assumptions used. We present here the implementation of the JEM-EUSO, POEMMA, K-EUSO, TUS, Mini-EUSO, EUSO-SPB1 and EUSO-TA configurations in ESAF. For the first time ESAF simulation outputs are compared with experimental data.
Y. Kawasaki: Deceased.
This paper is dedicated to Yoshiya Kawasaki who contributed significantly to the ESAF developments during the JEM-EUSO mission.
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