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The performance of the TA4 surface detector array: 4.3 years of the first-half expansion
Telescope Array Collaboration, R. U. Abbasi, T. Abu-Zayyad +126
The Telescope Array (TA) experiment aims to reveal the origin of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) by observing air showers using surface detectors (SDs), which spread over an…
Searching for EeV photons with Telescope Array Surface Detector and neural networks
Telescope Array Collaboration, R. U. Abbasi, T. Abu-Zayyad +126
Ultra-high-energy photons play an important role in probing astrophysical models and beyond-Standard-Model scenarios. We report updated limits on the diffuse photon flux using Tele…
Isotropy of cosmic rays beyond eV favors their heavy mass composition
Telescope Array Collaboration, R. U. Abbasi, Y. Abe +138
We report an estimation of the injected mass composition of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) at energies higher than 10 EeV. The composition is inferred from an energy-depend…
Mass composition of ultra-high energy cosmic rays from distribution of their arrival directions with the Telescope Array
Telescope Array Collaboration, R. U. Abbasi, Y. Abe +138
We use a new method to estimate the injected mass composition of ultrahigh cosmic rays (UHECRs) at energies higher than 10 EeV. The method is based on comparison of the energy-depe…
Observation of Declination Dependence in the Cosmic Ray Energy Spectrum
The Telescope Array Collaboration, R. U. Abbasi, T. Abu-Zayyad +122
We report on an observation of the difference between northern and southern skies of the ultrahigh energy cosmic ray energy spectrum with a significance of . We use measu…
An extremely energetic cosmic ray observed by a surface detector array
Telescope Array Collaboration
Cosmic rays are energetic charged particles from extraterrestrial sources, with the highest energy events thought to come from extragalactic sources. Their arrival is infrequent, s…
First High-speed Video Camera Observations of a Lightning Flash Associated with a Downward Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flash
R. U. Abbasi, M. M. F. Saba, J. W. Belz +146
In this paper, we present the first high-speed video observation of a cloud-to-ground lightning flash and its associated downward-directed Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flash (TGF). The op…
Observation of Variations in Cosmic Ray Single Count Rates During Thunderstorms and Implications for Large-Scale Electric Field Changes
R. U. Abbasi, T. Abu-Zayyad, M. Allen +160
We present the first observation by the Telescope Array Surface Detector (TASD) of the effect of thunderstorms on the development of cosmic ray single count rate intensity over a 7…
Indications of a Cosmic Ray Source in the Perseus-Pisces Supercluster
Telescope Array Collaboration, R. U. Abbasi, T. Abu-Zayyad +155
The Telescope Array Collaboration has observed an excess of events with in the data which is centered at (RA, dec) = (, ). This is n…
Surface detectors of the TAx4 experiment
Telescope Array Collaboration, R. U. Abbasi, M. Abe +145
Telescope Array (TA) is the largest ultrahigh energy cosmic-ray (UHECR) observatory in the Northern Hemisphere. It explores the origin of UHECRs by measuring their energy spectrum,…
The Cosmic-Ray Composition between 2 PeV and 2 EeV Observed with the TALE Detector in Monocular Mode
Telescope Array Collaboration
We report on a measurement of the cosmic ray composition by the Telescope Array Low-Energy Extension (TALE) air fluorescence detector (FD). By making use of the Cherenkov light sig…
Observations of the Origin of Downward Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes
J. W. Belz, P. R. Krehbiel, J. Remington +137
In this paper we report the first close, high-resolution observations of downward-directed terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs) detected by the large-area Telescope Array cosmic ra…
Evidence for a Supergalactic Structure of Magnetic Deflection Multiplets of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays
Telescope Array Collaboration, R. U. Abbasi, M. Abe +140
Evidence for a large-scale supergalactic cosmic ray multiplet (arrival directions correlated with energy) structure is reported for ultra-high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) energies ab…
Measurement of the Proton-Air Cross Section with Telescope Array's Black Rock Mesa and Long Ridge Fluorescence Detectors, and Surface Array in Hybrid Mode
R. U. Abbasi, M. Abe, T. Abu-Zayyad +140
Ultra high energy cosmic rays provide the highest known energy source in the universe to measure proton cross sections. Though conditions for collecting such data are less controll…
Using Deep Learning to Enhance Event Geometry Reconstruction for the Telescope Array Surface Detector
D. Ivanov, O. E. Kalashev, M. Yu. Kuznetsov +4
The extremely low flux of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) makes their direct observation by orbital experiments practically impossible. For this reason all current and planne…
Constraining superheavy decaying dark matter with directional ultra-high energy gamma-ray limits
Oleg Kalashev, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Yana Zhezher
Dwarf spheroidal galaxies are compact stellar objects with small or negligible astrophysical backgrounds, widely considered as promising targets to search for a signal from the dar…
Search for Ultra-High-Energy Neutrinos with the Telescope Array Surface Detector
R. U. Abbasi, M. Abe, T. Abu-Zayyad +133
We present an upper limit on the flux of ultra-high-energy down-going neutrinos for $E > 10^{18}\ \mbox{eV}$ derived with the nine years of data collected by the Telescope Array su…
Report on Tests and Measurements of Hadronic Interaction Properties with Air Showers
H. P. Dembinski, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez, L. Cazon +18
We present a summary of recent tests and measurements of hadronic interaction properties with air showers. This report has a special focus on muon density measurements. Several exp…
Testing a reported correlation between arrival directions of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays and a flux pattern from nearby starburst galaxies using Telescope Array data
Telescope Array Collaboration, R. U. Abbasi, M. Abe +138
The Pierre Auger Collaboration (Auger) recently reported a correlation between the arrival directions of cosmic rays with energies above 39 EeV and the flux pattern of 23 nearby st…
Mass composition of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays with the Telescope Array Surface Detector Data
Telescope Array Collaboration, R. U. Abbasi, M. Abe +139
The results on ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECR) mass composition obtained with the Telescope Array surface detector are presented. The analysis employs the boosted decision tr…
Lower limit on the ultra-high-energy proton-to-helium ratio from the measurements of the tail of distribution
Ivan S. Karpikov, Grigory I. Rubtsov, Yana V. Zhezher
There are multiple techniques to determine the chemical composition of the ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. While most of the methods are primarily sensitive to the average atomic ma…
Study of muons from ultra-high energy cosmic ray air showers measured with the Telescope Array experiment
Telescope Array Collaboration, R. U. Abbasi, M. Abe +138
One of the uncertainties in interpretation of ultra-high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) data comes from the hadronic interaction models used for air shower Monte Carlo (MC) simulations.…
The Cosmic-Ray Energy Spectrum between 2 PeV and 2 EeV Observed with the TALE detector in monocular mode
R. U. Abbasi, M. Abe, T. Abu-Zayyad +137
We report on a measurement of the cosmic ray energy spectrum by the Telescope Array Low-Energy Extension (TALE) air fluorescence detector. The TALE air fluorescence detector is als…
Evidence of Intermediate-Scale Energy Spectrum Anisotropy of Cosmic Rays E10 eV with the Telescope Array Surface Detector
R. U. Abbasi, M. Abe, T. Abu-Zayyad +136
An intermediate-scale energy spectrum anisotropy has been found in the arrival directions of ultra-high energy cosmic rays of energies above eV in the northern hemisphe…