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Status of EUSO-Italy

Status of EUSO-Italy. Marco Pallavicini INFN Genova. Introduction. The italian EUSO consortium Institutions IASF ISAC INAF INFN University of Catania, Firenze, Genova, Pisa, Roma, Palermo, Torino, Trieste INOA CARSO ENEA. Phase A finance.

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Status of EUSO-Italy

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  1. Status of EUSO-Italy Marco Pallavicini INFN Genova

  2. Introduction • The italian EUSO consortium • Institutions • IASF • ISAC • INAF • INFN • University of Catania, Firenze, Genova, Pisa, Roma, Palermo, Torino, Trieste • INOA • CARSO • ENEA

  3. Phase A finance • ASI has approved the phase A studies and financed it with • 100 k€ in 2001 for pre-studies • 400 k€ for industrial contracts (2002) • 350 k€ for scientific institutions (2002) • INFN has financed an R/D program • 200 k€/year in 2001, 2002 and 2003 • Institutions have also payed salaries and infrastructure for the whole EUSO consortium (nobody gets his salary from the aforementioned money)

  4. Recent developments • A proposal has been submitted to ASI for the Euso project (within a program called High Energy Astrophysics in response to “Nuove proposte per l’osservazione dell’Universo”) • 20 M€ fresh money • 16 M€ for man power and infrastructures provided by all other institutions • On April 1st, there has been a workshop organized by ASI to discuss all the submitted proposals with the Science of the Universe community: • The URGENT projects (those that were already in phase B or beyond) have been financed • EUSO has been the only new mission explicitly mentioned and considered to have a different “kind of urgency”: they are aware that phase B is behind the corner and that need to be financed.

  5. INFN Contribution • INFN has a strong interest in the EUSO project, which naturally falls among its traditional fields of interest (cosmic rays and neutrinos). • INFN is contributing with its own personnel, structures, laboratories, services as wellas its own funding. • INFN and ASI coordinate themselves with a joint dedicated Committee. • INFN has approved (for 2001, 2002 and 2003) an R&D program for the development of the photo-detector (and related electronics) for an experiment to observe EAS from space, and for related support activities. • The total funding is about 600 k€ for the following activities (most of them will be a cooperation with industry): • Development and functional design of the photo-detector elementary cell; Functional design and engineering of the photo-detector; Development and design of the front-end electronics; Support activities: background and Cherenkov reflected/diffused light measurements; Development of the simulation code of the experimental apparatus; Phenomenological study of astrophysical models for the acceleration to extreme energies; Study of the propagation of EHE particles in the Earth or atmosphere.

  6. Future • There are good indications • ASI review process is expected to be completed within July • INFN President has referenced to Euso as one of the possible future programs on Astroparticle Physics • IASF-CNR and INFN have jointly contributed to the proposal submitted to ASI

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