30TH INTERNATIONAL COSMIC RAY CONFERENCE Revised Energy Spectra for Primary Elements (H – Si) above 50 GeV from the

• Main Authors: Atic- Science Flight, J. P. Wefel, J. H. Adams, H. S. Ahn, G. Bashindzhagyan, J. Chang, M. Christl, A. R. Fazely, O. Ganel, R. M. Gunashingha, T. G. Guzik, J. B. Isbert, K. C. Kim, E. N. Kouznetsov, M. Panasyuk, A. Panov, W. K. H. Schmidt, E. S. Seo, N. Sokolskaya, J. Watts, J. Wu, V. I. Zatsepin
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.553.642

Abstract: The Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter (ATIC) long duration balloon experiment had a successful science flight (12/02-1/03) accumulating 18 days of data during a single circumnavigation of Antarctica. ATIC measures the energy spectra of elements from H to Fe in primary cosmic rays us-ing a fully active Bismuth Germanate calorimeter preceded by a carbon target, with embedded scintil-lator hodoscopes, and a silicon matrix charge detector at the top. Preliminary results from ATIC have been reported in previous conferences. The revised results reported here are derived from a new analysis of the data with improved charge resolution, lower background and revised energy calibra-tion. The raw energy deposit spectra are de-convolved into primary energy spectra and extrapolated to the top of the atmosphere. We compare these revised results to previous data.