The JEM-EUSO Project: Observing Extremely High Energy Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos from the International Space Station

T. Ebisuzaki , Y. Uehara , H. Ohmori , K. Kawai , Y. Kawasaki , M. Sato , Y. Takizawa , M. E. Bertaina , F. Kajino , T. Sawabe , K. Inoue , A. Sasaki , M. Sakata , Y. Yamamoto , M. Nagano , N. Inoue , T. Shibata , N. Sakaki , Y. Uchihori , Y. Takahashi , H. Shimizu (1) , Y. Arai , Y. Kurihara , H. Fujimoto , S. Yoshida , Y. Mizumoto , S. Inoue , K. Asano , T. Sugiyama , J. Watanabe , H. Ikeda , M. Suzuki , T. Imamura (2) , H. Yano , T. Murakami , D. Yonetoku , Y. Itow , M. Taguchi , M. Nagata , S. Nagataki , S. Abe , T. Tajima , J. H. Adams , S. Mitchell , M. J. Christl , J. Watts , A. English , K. Pitalo , J. Hadaway , J. Geary , P. Readon , H. Crawford , C. Pennypacker , K. Arisaka , D. Cline , P. Gorodetzky (3) , P. Salin (4) , T. Patzak (5) , A. Maurissen , M. Valentin

1 High energy accelerator research organization - KEK
2 ISAS - Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
3 APC - AHE - APC - Astrophysique des Hautes Energies
4 APC (UMR_7164) - AstroParticule et Cosmologie
5 APC - Neutrinos

The motivations, characteristics and potential performance of the JEM-EUSO project are briefly discussed.

Domaines: Phénomènes cosmiques de haute energie [astro-ph.HE]; Phénomènes cosmiques de haute energie [astro-ph.HE]

T. Ebisuzaki, Y. Uehara, H. Ohmori, K. Kawai, Y. Kawasaki, et al.. The JEM-EUSO Project: Observing Extremely High Energy Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos from the International Space Station. Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements, 2008, 175, pp.237-240. ⟨10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSBPS.2007.11.005⟩. ⟨in2p3-00731509⟩