26-30 October 2015
Asia/Tokyo timezone

Lens manufacturing for the near future missions of ultra high energy cosmic rays

29 Oct 2015, 14:55
15m
Room 3.4 ()

Room 3.4

Oral presentation Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays Cosmic Rays

Speaker

Dr Yoshiyuki Takizawa (RIKEN)

Description

We present the lens manufacturing for the near future missions of ultra high energy cosmic rays. The EUSO ultra long duration balloon flight mission and the K-EUSO project have been planed. The balloon optics is compose of two Fresnel lenses and a diffractive lens. The K-EUSO optics is composed of a primary aspherical mirror and a Fresnel lens as a corrector lens. RIKEN will provide Fresnel lenses for both projects.

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