The first flight of the CREAM silicon charge detector

The CREAM (Cosmic Ray Energetics And Mass) experiment was constructed for the measurement of high-energy cosmic rays in the energy range between 10(12) and 10(15) eV. As a long duration balloon payload, the CREAM had its first successful flight in December 2004 from McMurdo Station, Antarctica. For...

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Main Authors: Park, NH, Nam, SW, Han, JH, Hyun, JH, Jeon, JA, Lee, JK, Park, IH, Yang, J, Ahn, HS, Ganel, O, Kim, KC, Lee, MH, Lutz, L, Mallnine, A, Seo, ES, Sina, R, Wu, J, Yoon, YS, Zinn, SY, Allison, P, Beatty, JJ, Bagliesi, MG, Bigongjari, G, Maestro, P, Marrocchesi, PS, Zei, R, Boyle, P, Swordy, S, Wakely, S, Childers, JT, DuVernois, MA, Conklin, NB, Coutu, S, Mognet, SI, Kim, HJ, Kim, YJ, Park, H, Minnick, S, Nutter, S, Min, KW Min, KyoungWook, Han, W, Nam, UW, Seon, KI
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: KOREAN PHYSICAL SOC 2006
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10203/92243
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Summary:The CREAM (Cosmic Ray Energetics And Mass) experiment was constructed for the measurement of high-energy cosmic rays in the energy range between 10(12) and 10(15) eV. As a long duration balloon payload, the CREAM had its first successful flight in December 2004 from McMurdo Station, Antarctica. For the charge measurement of incident cosmic-ray particles entering the calorimeter module, a layer of the SCD (Silicon Charge Detector) made of 2912 silicon pixels was built with an active area of 779 x 795 mm(2). This paper describes the performance of the SCD during the 2004-2005 flight. 물리학과