A Review of the EUSO-Balloon Pathfinder for the JEM-EUSO Program

Adams, J. H.; Ahmad, S.; Allard, Denis; Anzalone, A.; Bacholle, S.; Barrillon, P.; Bayer, J.; Bertaina, M.; Bisconti, Francesca; Blaksley, C.; Blin-Bondil, S.; Bobík, P.; Cafagna, F.; Campana, D.; Capel, Francesca; Casolino, M.; Cassardo, Claudio; Catalano, C.; Cremonini, R.; Dagoret-Campagne, S.; Danto, Pascale; Peral, L. del; Taille, C. De La; Damian, A. Díaz; Dupieux, M.; Ebersoldt, A.; Ebisuzaki, Toshikazu; Eser, Johannes; Evrard, Jean; Fenu, Francesco; Ferrarese, S.; Fornaro, C.; Fouka, M.; Gorodetzky, P.; Guarino, F.; Guzmán, A.; Hachisu, Y.; Haungs, A.; Judd, E. G.; Jung, A.; Karczmarczyk, J.; Kawasaki, Y.; Климов, П. А.; Kuznetsov, E.; Mackovjak, Š.; Manfrin, M.; Marcelli, L.; Medina‐Tanco, G.; Mercier, K.; Merino, Andrés; Mernik, T.; Miyamoto, H.; Ríos, J. A. Morales de los; Moretto, C.; Mot, B.; Neronov, A.; Ohmori, Hitoshi; Olinto, Angela V.; Osteria, G.; Panico, B.; Parizot, E.; Paul, T.; Picozza, P.; Piotrowski, L. W.; Plebaniak, Z.; Pliego, S.; Prat, P.; Prévôt, G.; Prieto, H.; Putiš, M.; Rabanal, J.; Ricci, M.; Rojas, Jimena; Frías, M. D. Rodríguez; Roudil, G.; Sáez-Cano, G.; Sahnoun, Z.; Sakaki, N.; Medina-Sánchez, Javier; Santangelo, A.; Sarazin, F.; Scotti, V.; Shinozaki, K.; Silva, H.; Soriano, Jorge F.; Suino, G.; Szabelski, J.; Toscano, S.; Tabone, Ilaria; Takizawa, Y.; Ballmoos, P. von; Wiencke, L.; Wille, M.; Zotov, M. Yu.

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“…In the last decades, development of the technologies and production techniques has resulted in the convergence on specific systems capable of meeting these requirements, offering ample margin of improvement for future missions. Most of these systems have flown on space-born detectors (Tatiana [863], TUS [864], Mini-EUSO [47]), or on balloon-borne detectors (EUSO-Balloon [865][866][867], EUSO-SPB1 [868], EUSO-SPB2 [869], launch foreseen in 2023) and are thus in various stages of Technical Readiness Level. Optics design for UHECR detection fall in two broad categories: lens (refractive) and mirror (reflective).…”

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“…The main disadvantage is the high ( 1000 V ) voltage needed and the higher mass of these detectors. MAPMTs focal surfaces (PDMs) have been extensively employed in several detectors: in the ground telescope of EUSO-TA [870], in the first two balloon flights, EUSO-Balloon [865][866][867] and EUSO-SPB1 [868], and in Mini-EUSO [47]. A more complex setup, involving three PDMs side-by-side, will be used in the upcoming EUSO-SPB2 flight [871].…”

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Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays: The Intersection of the Cosmic and Energy Frontiers

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Pin down the shower energy observable to use μ as a composition-only Reduce hadronic uncertainties interaction model E threshold (TBD) Other messengers Galactic * μ / em separation † * depending on analysis progress † depending on detector configuration• At least one next-generation experiment needs to be able to make high-precision measurements to explore new particle physics and measure particle rigidity on an event-by-event basis. Of the planned next-generation experiments, GCOS is the best positioned to meet this recommendation.• As a complementary effort, experiments with sufficient exposure ( 5 × 10 5 km 2 sr yr) are needed to search for Lorentz-invariance violation (LIV), SHDM, and other BSM physics at the Cosmic and Energy Frontiers, and to identify UHECR sources at the highest energies.• Full-sky coverage with low cross-hemisphere systematic uncertainties is critical for astrophysical studies. To this end, next generation experiments should be space-based or multi-site. Common sites between experiments are encouraged.• Based on the productive results from inter-collaboration and inter-disciplinary work, we recommend the continued progress/formation of joint analyses between experiments and with other intersecting fields of research (e.g., magnetic fields).• The UHECR community should continue its efforts to advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. It also needs to take steps to reduce its environmental impacts and improve open access to its data to reduce the scientific gap between countries.vi

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“…First tests and future missions are described in e.g. [11,12], but not discussed here for its atmospheric monitoring concepts.…”

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Atmospheric Monitoring for Astroparticle Physics Observatories

Keilhauer

2023

Proceedings of 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2023)

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For many observatories recording high-energy cosmic rays, gamma rays, or neutrinos, the Earth's atmosphere is either an integral part or at least a considerable aspect of the detector setup. After giving an overview of the influence of the atmosphere and its variability on the development of the observed particle cascades and the signals detected from them, atmospheric monitoring strategies implemented by the different observatories are described. Examples of the impact of atmospheric parameters and profiles on the core data of these observatories are given and technical aspects of long-term and partially very laborious monitoring efforts of the Earth's atmosphere are discussed. Due to the per se interdisciplinary character of atmospheric monitoring in astroparticle physics, several new projects beyond the core physics of the astroparticle physics observatories have evolved and some are reviewed in this presentation.

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“…Several pathfinder missions designed to establish the technologies and techniques to realize this objective have been completed or are in preparation. EUSO-Balloon, a first prototype instrument flew on a short duration (one night) high-altitude (40 km) balloon flight in 2014 [4]. In 2017, a long duration super pressure balloon flight was launched but gathered only limited data owing to an apparent flaw in the balloon [5].…”

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EUSO-Offline: A comprehensive simulation and analysis framework

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Adams,

Allard

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The complexity of modern cosmic ray observatories and the rich data sets they capture often require a sophisticated software framework to support the simulation of physical processes, detector response, as well as reconstruction and analysis of real and simulated data. Here we present the EUSO-Offline framework. The code base was originally developed by the Pierre Auger Collaboration, and portions of it have been adopted by other collaborations to suit their needs. We have extended this software to fulfill the requirements of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray detectors and very high energy neutrino detectors developed for the Joint Exploratory Missions for an Extreme Universe Observatory (JEM-EUSO). These path-finder instruments constitute a program to chart the path to a future space-based mission like POEMMA. For completeness, we describe the overall structure of the framework developed by the Auger collaboration and continue with a description of the JEM-EUSO simulation and reconstruction capabilities. The framework is written predominantly in modern C++ (compliled against C++17) and incorporates third-party libraries chosen based on functionality and our best judgment regarding support and longevity. Modularity is a central notion in the framework design, a requirement for large collaborations in which many individuals contribute to a common code base and often want to compare different approaches to a given problem. For the same reason, the framework is designed to be highly configurable, which allows us to contend with a variety of JEM-EUSO missions and observation scenarios. We also discuss how we incorporate broad, industry-standard testing coverage which is necessary to ensure quality and maintainability of a relatively large code base, and the tools we employ to support a multitude of computing platforms and enable fast, reliable installation of external packages. Finally, we provide a few examples of simulation and reconstruction applications using EUSO-Offline.

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A Review of the EUSO-Balloon Pathfinder for the JEM-EUSO Program

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Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays: The Intersection of the Cosmic and Energy Frontiers

Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays: The Intersection of the Cosmic and Energy Frontiers

Atmospheric Monitoring for Astroparticle Physics Observatories

EUSO-Offline: A comprehensive simulation and analysis framework

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