Talk detail

Participant	Parizot, Etienne
Institution	APC - Université Paris Diderot - 10, rue A. Domon et L. Duquet - Paris - Ile-de-France - France

Session	AP3	Accepted	Yes	Order	8	Time	17:40 - 18:10	25' + 5'
Talk	Oral abstract	Title	The JEM-EUSO mission: objectives, performance and status
Co-authors	JEM-EUSO Collaboration
Abstract	In the last decade, the science of ultra-high-energy cosmic-rays (UHECRs) has made significant progress thanks to a wealth of new, high-quality experimental data, as well as a broader understanding of UHECR phenomenology. However, it appears that further progress in the understanding of their origin and of the associated acceleration process and environment requires a large increase in statistics at the highest energies, around 10^20 eV. In this context, space detectors to detect UHECR-induced atmospheric showers offer a remarkable opportunity to observed a huge volume of atmosphere at once and achieve the required statistics in a few years. Intense instrumental efforts and developments in the last decade has made this dream an accessible reality. The JEM-EUSO mission, to be installed on the Japanese module of the International Space Station in 2017, is the result of this international effort. In this talk, we review the science objectives of the mission and give an update of the instrument definition, performances and status.