Cosmic-ray Research Division
Institute for Space–Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University

Annual Research Report of FY2020


Publications

  1. Paula J Reimer, William E N Austin, Edouard Bard, et al. “The IntCal20 Northern Hemisphere Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curve (0–55 cal kBP)” Radiocarbon 62, 725–757 (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.1017/rdc.2020.41

  2. L Wacker, E M Scott, A Bayliss, et al. “Findings from an in-Depth Annual Tree-Ring Radiocarbon Intercomparison” Radiocarbon 62, 873–882 (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.1017/rdc.2020.49

  3. Weicheng Zang, Yossi Shvartzvald, Tianshu Wang, et al. “Spitzer Microlensing Parallax Reveals Two Isolated Stars in the Galactic Bulge” The Astrophysical Journal 891, 3 (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab6ff8

  4. Cheongho Han, Chung-Uk Lee, Andrzej Udalski, et al. “Candidate Brown-dwarf Microlensing Events with Very Short Timescales and Small Angular Einstein Radii” The Astronomical Journal 159, 134 (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ab6f66

  5. R. Poleski, Daisuke Suzuki, A. Udalski, et al. “A Wide-orbit Exoplanet OGLE-2012-BLG-0838Lb” The Astronomical Journal 159, 261 (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ab8a49

  6. Cheongho Han, Doeon Kim, Youn Kil Jung, et al. “One Planet or Two Planets? The Ultra-sensitive Extreme-magnification Microlensing Event KMT-2019-BLG-1953” The Astronomical Journal 160, 17 (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ab91ac

  7. David P. Bennett, Andrzej Udalski, Ian A. Bond, et al. “A Gas Giant Planet in the OGLE-2006-BLG-284L Stellar Binary System” The Astronomical Journal 160, 72 (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ab9cb9

  8. Yuki Hirao, David P. Bennett, Yoon-Hyun Ryu, et al. “OGLE-2017-BLG-0406: Spitzer Microlens Parallax Reveals Saturn-mass Planet Orbiting M-dwarf Host in the Inner Galactic Disk” The Astronomical Journal 160, 74 (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ab9ac3

  9. Youn Kil Jung, Andrew Gould, Andrzej Udalski, et al. “OGLE-2018-BLG-1269Lb: A Jovian Planet with a Bright I = 16 Host” The Astronomical Journal 160, 148 (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/abacc8

  10. Youn Kil Jung, Andrzej Udalski, Weicheng Zang, et al. “KMT-2019-BLG-0842Lb: A Cold Planet below the Uranus/Sun Mass Ratio” The Astronomical Journal 160, 255 (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/abbe93

  11. O. Adriani, “Measurement of energy flow, cross section and average inelasticity of forward neutrons produced in \(\sqrt{s}\) = 13 TeV proton-proton collisions with the LHCf Arm2 detector” Journal of High Energy Physics 2020, 16 (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep07(2020)016

  12. K. Abe, C. Bronner, Y. Haga, et al. “Indirect search for dark matter from the Galactic Center and halo with the Super-Kamiokande detector” Physical Review D 102, 29698 (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.102.072002

  13. M. H. Kim, O. Adriani, E. Berti, et al. “Transverse Single-Spin Asymmetry for Very Forward Neutral Pion Production in Polarized p+p Collisions at s=510  GeV” Physical Review Letters 124, 252501 (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.124.252501

  14. Hiroaki Menjo, Oscar Adriani, Eugenio Berti, et al. “The results and future prospects of the LHCf experiment” Proceedings of 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2019) (2019)
    https://doi.org/10.22323/1.358.0349

  15. Ken Ohashi, Hiroaki Menjo, Yoshitaka Itow, Takashi Sako & Katsuaki Kasahara “A simulation study for the effect of diffractive collisions on the air shower developments” Proceedings of 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2019) (2019)
    https://doi.org/10.22323/1.358.0376

  16. C. Adams, G. Ambrosi, M. Ambrosio, et al. “Status of the development of NUV SiPMs for INFN optical modules for the SCT medium sized telescope proposed for the CTA observatory” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 982, 164486 (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2020.164486

  17. Colin Adams, Ruben Alfaro, Giovanni Ambrosi, et al. “Verification of the optical system of the 9.7-m prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope” Optical System Alignment, Tolerancing, and Verification XIII (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2568134

  18. Kazufumi Sato, Masaki Yamashita, Koichi Ichimura, et al. “Development of a dual-phase xenon TPC with a quartz chamber for direct dark matter searches” Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics 2020 (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.1093/ptep/ptaa141

  19. E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini, et al. “Excess electronic recoil events in XENON1T” Physical Review D 102, 29700 (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.102.072004

  20. E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini, et al. “Projected WIMP sensitivity of the XENONnT dark matter experiment” Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2020, 031–031 (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2020/11/031

  21. E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini, et al. “Energy resolution and linearity of XENON1T in the MeV energy range” The European Physical Journal C 80, 785 (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-8284-0

  22. K. Abe, Y. Chen, K. Hiraide, et al. “Search for exotic neutrino-electron interactions using solar neutrinos in XMASS-I” Physics Letters B 809, 135741 (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135741

  23. M. Anzorena, R. Garcia, J.F. Valdés-Galicia, et al. “Simulation and experimental validation of optimum read-out electronics design for scintillator bar cosmic ray telescope” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 991, 165019 (2021)
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2021.165019

  24. A. Takenaka, K. Abe, C. Bronner, et al. “Search for proton decay via p→e+π0 and p→μ+π0 with an enlarged fiducial volume in Super-Kamiokande I-IV” Physical Review D 102, 112011 (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.102.112011

  25. K. Abe, C. Bronner, Y. Hayato, et al. “Neutron-antineutron oscillation search using a 0.37 megaton-years exposure of Super-Kamiokande” Physical Review D 103, 012008 (2021)
    https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.103.012008

  26. K. Abe, Y. Chen, K. Hiraide, et al. “Development of low-background photomultiplier tubes for liquid xenon detectors” Journal of Instrumentation 15, P09027–P09027 (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/15/09/p09027

  27. K. Okamoto, Y. Nakano, S. Masuda, et al. “Development of a Method for Determining the Search Window for Solar Flare Neutrinos” Solar Physics 295, 133 (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-020-01706-z

  28. Ken Ohashi, Hiroaki Menjo, Yoshitaka Itow, Takashi Sako & Katsuaki Kasahara “Simulation study on the effects of diffractive collisions on the prediction of the observables in ultra-high-energy cosmic-ray experiments” Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics 2021 (2021)
    https://doi.org/10.1093/ptep/ptab013

  29. C.B. Adams, R. Alfaro, G. Ambrosi, et al. “Detection of the Crab Nebula with the 9.7 m prototype Schwarzschild-Couder telescope” Astroparticle Physics 128, 102562 (2021)
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2021.102562

  30. The Fermi-LAT Collaboration “High-energy emission from a magnetar giant flare in the Sculptor galaxy” Nature Astronomy (2021)
    https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-020-01287-8

  31. Kouichi Hagino, Hirokazu Odaka, Goro Sato, et al. “Origin of the in-orbit instrumental background of the Hard X-ray Imager onboard Hitomi” Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 6 (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.1117/1.jatis.6.4.046003