Upper limit on the flux of photons with energies above 10^19 eV using the Telescope Array surface detector
Creators: name: Abu-Zayyad, T.
name: Aida, R.
name: Allen, M.
name: Anderson, R.
name: Azuma, R.
name: Barcikowski, E.
name: Belz, J. W.
name: Bergman, D. R.
name: Blake, S. A.
name: Cady, R.
name: Cheon, B. G.
name: Chiba, J.
name: Chikawa, M.
name: Cho, E. J.
name: Cho, W. R.
name: Fujii, H.
name: Fujii, T.
name: Fukuda, T.
name: Fukushima, M.
name: Gorbunov, D.
name: Hanlon, W.
name: Hayashi, K.
name: Hayashi, Y.
name: Hayashida, N.
name: Hibino, K.
name: Hiyama, K.
name: Honda, K.
name: Iguchi, T.
name: Ikeda, D.
name: Ikuta, K.
name: Inoue, N.
name: Ishii, T.
name: Ishimori, R.
name: Ivanov, D.
name: Iwamoto, S.
name: Jui, C. C. H.
name: Kadota, K.
name: Kakimoto, F.
name: Kalashev, O.
name: Kanbe, T.
name: Kasahara, K.
name: Kawai, H.
name: Kawakami, S.
name: Kawana, S.
name: Kido, E.
name: Kim, H. B.
name: Kim, H. K.
name: Kim, J. H.
name: Kim, J. H.
name: Kitamoto, K.
name: Kitamura, S.
name: Kitamura, Y.
name: Kobayashi, K.
name: Kobayashi, Y.
name: Kondo, Y.
name: Kuramoto, K.
name: Kuzmin, V.
name: Kwon, Y. J.
name: Lan, J.
name: Lim, S. I.
name: Machida, S.
name: Martens, K.
name: Matsuda, T.
name: Matsuura, T.
name: Matsuyama, T.
name: Matthews, J. N.
name: Minamino, M.
name: Miyata, K.
name: Murano, Y.
name: Myers, I.
name: Nagasawa, K.
name: Nagataki, S.
name: Nakamura, T.
name: Nam, S. W.
name: Nonaka, T.
name: Ogio, S.
name: Ohnishi, M.
name: Ohoka, H.
name: Oki, K.
name: Oku, D.
name: Okuda, T.
name: Oshima, A.
name: Ozawa, S.
name: Park, I. H.
name: Pshirkov, M. S.
name: Rodriguez, D. C.
name: Roh, S. Y.
name: Rubtsov, G. I.
name: Ryu, D.
name: Sagawa, H.
name: Sakurai, N.
name: Sampson, A. L.
name: Scott, L. M.
name: Shah, P. D.
name: Shibata, F.
name: Shibata, T.
name: Shimodaira, H.
name: Shin, B. K.
name: Shin, J. I.
name: Shirahama, T.
name: Smith, J. D.
name: Sokolsky, P.
name: Stokes, B. T.
name: Stratton, S. R.
name: Stroman, T.
name: Suzuki, S.
name: Takahashi, Y.
name: Takeda, M.
name: Taketa, A.
name: Takita, M.
name: Tameda, Y.
name: Tanaka, H.
name: Tanaka, K.
name: Tanaka, M.
name: Thomas, S. B.
name: Thomson, G. B.
name: Tinyakov, P.
name: Tkachev, I.
name: Tokuno, H.
name: Tomida, T.
name: Troitsky, S.
name: Tsunesada, Y.
name: Tsutsumi, K.
name: Tsuyuguchi, Y.
name: Uchihori, Y.
name: Udo, S.
name: Ukai, H.
name: Vasiloff, G.
name: Wada, Y.
name: Wong, T.
name: Wood, M.
name: Yamakawa, Y.
name: Yamane, R.
name: Yamaoka, H.
name: Yamazaki, K.
name: Yang, J.
name: Yoneda, Y.
name: Yoshida, S.
name: Yoshii, H.
name: Zhou, X.
name: Zollinger, R.
name: Zundel, Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We search for ultra-high energy photons by analyzing geometrical properties of shower fronts of events registered by the Telescope Array surface detector. By making use of an event-by-event statistical method, we derive upper limits on the absolute flux of primary photons with energies above 10^19, 10^19.5 and 10^20 eV based on the first three years of data taken.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures