30TH INTERNATIONAL COSMIC RAY CONFERENCE The TRACER Project: Instrument Concept, Balloon Flights, and Analysis Procedures
Abstract: Accurate measurements of the composition and energy spectra of cosmic rays beyond the TeV energy region have been an experimental challenge for years. TRACER (“Transition Radiation Array for Cosmic Energetic Radiation”), is currently the largest cosmic-ray detector for direct measurements,...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.68.1575 2023-05-15T13:58:45+02:00 30TH INTERNATIONAL COSMIC RAY CONFERENCE The TRACER Project: Instrument Concept, Balloon Flights, and Analysis Procedures D. Müller M. Ave P. J. Boyle F. Gahbauer C. Höppner J. Hörandel A M. Ichimura B Müller A. Romero-wolf The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.68.1575 http://ik1au1.fzk.de/~joerg/pub/icrc07-1188.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.68.1575 http://ik1au1.fzk.de/~joerg/pub/icrc07-1188.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://ik1au1.fzk.de/~joerg/pub/icrc07-1188.pdf The TRACER instrument (“Transition Radiation text ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T17:48:41Z Abstract: Accurate measurements of the composition and energy spectra of cosmic rays beyond the TeV energy region have been an experimental challenge for years. TRACER (“Transition Radiation Array for Cosmic Energetic Radiation”), is currently the largest cosmic-ray detector for direct measurements, and has been developed for long-duration balloon flights. The instrument is unconventional in that it uses only electromagnetic processes, such as measurements of ionization energy loss, Cherenkov light, and transition radiation, to make precision measurements that span more than four decades in energy, from 1 GeV/nucleon to energies beyond 10 TeV/nucleon. In its first long-duration balloon flight from Antarctica in December 2003, TRACER measured the energy spectra of the primary galactic cosmic-ray nuclei from oxygen (Z = 8) to iron (Z = 26). For a second LDB flight from Sweden in July 2006, the instrument was modified and upgraded in order to include the important light nuclei from boron (Z = 5) to nitrogen (Z = 7). We discuss the performance of TRACER in these two flights, review the response of the individual detector components, and the techniques employed in the data analysis. Text Antarc* Antarctica Unknown |
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Abstract: Accurate measurements of the composition and energy spectra of cosmic rays beyond the TeV energy region have been an experimental challenge for years. TRACER (“Transition Radiation Array for Cosmic Energetic Radiation”), is currently the largest cosmic-ray detector for direct measurements, and has been developed for long-duration balloon flights. The instrument is unconventional in that it uses only electromagnetic processes, such as measurements of ionization energy loss, Cherenkov light, and transition radiation, to make precision measurements that span more than four decades in energy, from 1 GeV/nucleon to energies beyond 10 TeV/nucleon. In its first long-duration balloon flight from Antarctica in December 2003, TRACER measured the energy spectra of the primary galactic cosmic-ray nuclei from oxygen (Z = 8) to iron (Z = 26). For a second LDB flight from Sweden in July 2006, the instrument was modified and upgraded in order to include the important light nuclei from boron (Z = 5) to nitrogen (Z = 7). We discuss the performance of TRACER in these two flights, review the response of the individual detector components, and the techniques employed in the data analysis. |
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