The FAST Project - a next generation UHECR Observatory

Fujii, T.; Malacari, M.; Bellido, J.A.; Horváth, P.; Hrabovský, M.; Jiang, J.; Mandát, Dušan; Matalon, A.; Matthews, J.N.; Motloch, P.; Palatka, Miroslav; Pech, Miroslav; Privitera, P.; Schovánek, Petr; Thomas, S.B.; Trávníček, Petr

doi:https://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201713602015

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The FAST Project - a next generation UHECR Observatory

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SYSNO ASEP	0479318
Document Type	C - Proceedings Paper (int. conf.)
R&D Document Type	Conference Paper
Title	The FAST Project - a next generation UHECR Observatory
Author(s)	Fujii, T. (JP) Malacari, M. (US) Bellido, J.A. (AU) Horváth, P. (CZ) Hrabovský, M. (CZ) Jiang, J. (US) Mandát, Dušan (FZU-D)_{RID, ORCID} Matalon, A. (US) Matthews, J.N. (US) Motloch, P. (US) Palatka, Miroslav (FZU-D)_{RID, ORCID, SAI} Pech, Miroslav (FZU-D)_{RID, ORCID} Privitera, P. (US) Schovánek, Petr (FZU-D)_{RID, ORCID} Thomas, S.B. (US) Trávníček, Petr (FZU-D)_{RID, ORCID}
Article number	02015
Source Title	EPJ Web of Conferences, 136. - Les Ulis : EDP Sciences, 2017 / Morselli A. ; Capone A. ; Fernandez G.R. - ISSN 2100-014X
Pages	s. 1-4
Number of pages	4 s.
Publication form	Online - E
Action	6th Roma International Conference on Astroparticle Physics (RICAP)
Event date	21.06.2016 - 24.06.2016
VEvent location	Rome
Country	IT - Italy
Event type	WRD
Language	eng - English
Country	FR - France
Keywords	FAST project ; UHECR Observatory
Subject RIV	BF - Elementary Particles and High Energy Physics
OECD category	Particles and field physics
R&D Projects	LG15014 GA MŠMT - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS)
	LE13012 GA MŠMT - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS)
Institutional support	FZU-D - RVO:68378271
UT WOS	000405958300026
DOI	10.1051/epjconf/201713602015
Annotation	We present a concept for large-area, low-cost detection of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) with a Fluorescence detector Array of Single-pixel Telescopes (FAST)(b), addressing the requirements for the next generation of UHECR experiments. In the FAST design, a large field of view is covered by a few pixels at the focal plane of a mirror or Fresnel lens. We report on the first results of a FAST prototype installed at the Telescope Array (TA) site, consisting of a single 200 mm photomultiplier tube (PMT) at the focal plane of a 1 m(2) Fresnel lens system taken from the prototype of the JEM-EUSO experiment. We also report on the status of the full-scale FAST prototype soon to be installed at the TA site, comprising a segmented spherical mirror of 1.6 m diameter and a 2 x 2 PMT camera.
Workplace	Institute of Physics
Contact	Kristina Potocká, potocka@fzu.cz, Tel.: 220 318 579
Year of Publishing	2018

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