JEM-EUSO PCC

aims at developing the study of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) and high-energy neutrinos from space, with unprecedented instantaneous aperture, integrated exposure and full-sky coverage.

To this end, the JEM-EUSO Collaboration develops innovative technology to detect high-energy showers using both the fluorescence technique and the Cherenkov technique. This technology is implemented in a series of balloon-borne, space-based and ground missions:

– EUSO-Balloon (2014): CNES mission under a stratospheric balloon

– EUSO-TA (since 2014): ground detector in Delta (Utah, USA), on the site of the Telescope Array

– EUSO-SPB (2017): NASA mission under a stratospheric super pressure balloon

– MINI-EUSO (since 2019): ASI and ROSCOSMOS mission onboard the International Space Station

– EUSO-SPB2 (2023): NASA mission under a stratospheric super pressure balloon

NB: the developed technology is also used for complementary scientific objectives, such as the study of high-energy atmospheric phenomena (ELVES, etc.), meteors, strange quark matter, nightly Earth observation in the UV, ionospheric waves, etc.