Speaker
Prof.
Rossella Caruso
(Department of Physics and Astronomy - University of Catania and INFN Section of Catania)
Description
JEM-EUSO is a space mission devoted to the investigation of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos (E>5x10^19 eV), using the atmosphere as a giant detector, which is also the source of the largest fraction of noise (nightsky background). The EUSO@TurLab project is an on-going activity aiming to reproduce atmospheric and luminous conditions that JEM-EUSO will encounter on its orbits around the Earth, once it will be installed to the International Space Station. The TurLab facility, part of the Department of Physics - University of Torino, is equipped with a rotating tank, used to perform fluid-dynamics studies. In EUSO@Turlab project the facility is used to simulate different surface conditions (with different optical characteristics, like snow, oceans, forests, glaciers, deserts, savanna) in a very dark and rotating environment in order to test the response of JEM-EUSO's sensors and its sensitivity. Moreover, it is possible to produce "replica" of other kind of glowing phenomena such as cosmic rays, meteors, city lights, lightnings, etc. by using artificially controlled luminous intensities. The detector is a simplified system consisting of a 25 pixel Multianode Photomultiplier, a lens and a read-out electronics using conventional modules. The experimental setup currently in operation has been used to check the potential of the TurLab facility for the above purposes, and the acquired data are used to test the concept of JEM-EUSO's trigger system. In this presentation we will report on the description of the EUSO@TurLab project, examples of the luminous conditions produced so far, as well as the results of the tests of the JEM-EUSO first level trigger applied to the data taken at TurLab.
| Registration number following "ICRC2015-I/" | 914 |
|---|---|
| Collaboration | JEM-EUSO |
Primary author
Dr
Giovanni Contino
(Department of Physics and Astronomy - University of Catania and INFN Section of Catania)
Co-authors
Mr
Giorgio Cotto
(Department of Physics - University of Torino and INFN Section of Torino)
Dr
Gregorio Suino
(Department of Physics - University of Torino and INFN Section of Torino)
Dr
Hiroko Miyamoto
(Department of Physics - University of Torino and INFN Section of Torino)
Mr
Marco Mignone
(INFN Section of Torino)
Prof.
Mario Bertaina
(Department of Physics - University of Torino and INFN Section of Torino)
Dr
Massimiliano Manfrin
(Department of Physics - University of Torino and INFN Section of Torino)
Mr
Nunzio Guardone
(Department of Physics and Astronomy - University of Catania)
Dr
Piersilvio Tibaldi
(Department of Physics - University of Torino)
Dr
Renato Forza
(Department of Physics - University of Torino and INFN Section of Torino)
Dr
Roberta Mulas
(Department of Physics - University of Torino and INFN Section of Torino)
Prof.
Rossella Caruso
(Department of Physics and Astronomy - University of Catania and INFN Section of Catania)
