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 International Workshop on Topics in Astroparticle and Undeground, TAUP 2003, Seattle : United States
 Status report on the EUSO project at the end of phase A
 For the EUSO collaboration(s)
 (2005)
 EUSO is 2.5 m diameter telescope to be installed on the International Space Station (ISS) to observe from above ($\sim$400 km altitude), very high energy ($10^10-21$eV) cosmic rays by detecting the UV light generated by the billions of electrons in the shower ionizing the atmosphere nitrogen. The European and Japanese parts of the collaboration depend on ESA for the mission and the results of phase A should be examined in November 2003.The US part of the collaboration has already been approved for phase B by NASA, to the condition of an OK by ESA.
 Subject(s) : Physics/High Energy Physics - Experiment
 in2p3-00024527, version 1 http://hal.in2p3.fr/in2p3-00024527 oai:hal.in2p3.fr:in2p3-00024527 From: Simone Lantz <> Submitted on: Monday, 5 September 2005 16:39:31 Updated on: Tuesday, 6 September 2005 10:51:16