Design and performance in the first flight of the transition radiation detector and charge detector of the CREAM balloon instrument
Abstract The Cosmic Ray Energetics And Mass (CREAM) instrument flew on a high altitude balloon in Antarctica in 2004–2005 for a record breaking 42 days. An array of detectors was deployed to identify cosmic rays and measure their energies up to several hundred TeV. A major science goal is the measur...
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ftopenaccessrep:oai:zenodo.org:136343 2023-10-29T02:32:10+01:00 Design and performance in the first flight of the transition radiation detector and charge detector of the CREAM balloon instrument Patrick Allison H. S. Ahn K. C. Kim Gabriele Bigongiari Paolo Maestro O. Ganel Jung-Suk Han P. S. Marrocchesi J. K. Lee S. Coutu N. B. Conklin P. J. Boyle S. L. Nutter S. I. Mognet T. J. Brandt H. Park S. Minnick Eun-Suk Seo J. J. Beatty N. H. Park M. H. Lee Maria Grazia Bagliesi S. P. Swordy S. P. Wakely Inkyu Park J. Yang J. Wu S. Y. Zinn Michael DuVernois J. T. Childers A. Malinine R. Sina J. A. Jeon Y. S. Yoon L. Lutz H. J. Hyun Riccardo Zei 2007-03-01 https://www.openaccessrepository.it/record/136343 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2006.10.241 eng eng url:https://www.openaccessrepository.it/communities/itmirror https://www.openaccessrepository.it/record/136343 doi:10.1016/j.nima.2006.10.241 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Instrumentation Nuclear and High Energy Physics info:eu-repo/semantics/article publication-article 2007 ftopenaccessrep https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2006.10.241 2023-10-03T22:20:08Z Abstract The Cosmic Ray Energetics And Mass (CREAM) instrument flew on a high altitude balloon in Antarctica in 2004–2005 for a record breaking 42 days. An array of detectors was deployed to identify cosmic rays and measure their energies up to several hundred TeV. A major science goal is the measurement of secondary nuclei at high energy (produced by spallation reactions of heavier cosmic rays in the interstellar medium). This is done with a transition radiation detector using xenon-filled proportional tubes, and charge identification devices comprising plastic scintillator and Cherenkov counters. Accurate and stable performance of these detectors is necessary for the reliable identification of the secondary nuclei. The design of these detectors and their performance in flight are discussed, and preliminary data presented. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN): Open Access Repository Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 572 1 485 487 |
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Instrumentation Nuclear and High Energy Physics Patrick Allison H. S. Ahn K. C. Kim Gabriele Bigongiari Paolo Maestro O. Ganel Jung-Suk Han P. S. Marrocchesi J. K. Lee S. Coutu N. B. Conklin P. J. Boyle S. L. Nutter S. I. Mognet T. J. Brandt H. Park S. Minnick Eun-Suk Seo J. J. Beatty N. H. Park M. H. Lee Maria Grazia Bagliesi S. P. Swordy S. P. Wakely Inkyu Park J. Yang J. Wu S. Y. Zinn Michael DuVernois J. T. Childers A. Malinine R. Sina J. A. Jeon Y. S. Yoon L. Lutz H. J. Hyun Riccardo Zei Design and performance in the first flight of the transition radiation detector and charge detector of the CREAM balloon instrument |
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Abstract The Cosmic Ray Energetics And Mass (CREAM) instrument flew on a high altitude balloon in Antarctica in 2004–2005 for a record breaking 42 days. An array of detectors was deployed to identify cosmic rays and measure their energies up to several hundred TeV. A major science goal is the measurement of secondary nuclei at high energy (produced by spallation reactions of heavier cosmic rays in the interstellar medium). This is done with a transition radiation detector using xenon-filled proportional tubes, and charge identification devices comprising plastic scintillator and Cherenkov counters. Accurate and stable performance of these detectors is necessary for the reliable identification of the secondary nuclei. The design of these detectors and their performance in flight are discussed, and preliminary data presented. |
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Patrick Allison H. S. Ahn K. C. Kim Gabriele Bigongiari Paolo Maestro O. Ganel Jung-Suk Han P. S. Marrocchesi J. K. Lee S. Coutu N. B. Conklin P. J. Boyle S. L. Nutter S. I. Mognet T. J. Brandt H. Park S. Minnick Eun-Suk Seo J. J. Beatty N. H. Park M. H. Lee Maria Grazia Bagliesi S. P. Swordy S. P. Wakely Inkyu Park J. Yang J. Wu S. Y. Zinn Michael DuVernois J. T. Childers A. Malinine R. Sina J. A. Jeon Y. S. Yoon L. Lutz H. J. Hyun Riccardo Zei |
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Patrick Allison H. S. Ahn K. C. Kim Gabriele Bigongiari Paolo Maestro O. Ganel Jung-Suk Han P. S. Marrocchesi J. K. Lee S. Coutu N. B. Conklin P. J. Boyle S. L. Nutter S. I. Mognet T. J. Brandt H. Park S. Minnick Eun-Suk Seo J. J. Beatty N. H. Park M. H. Lee Maria Grazia Bagliesi S. P. Swordy S. P. Wakely Inkyu Park J. Yang J. Wu S. Y. Zinn Michael DuVernois J. T. Childers A. Malinine R. Sina J. A. Jeon Y. S. Yoon L. Lutz H. J. Hyun Riccardo Zei |
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Design and performance in the first flight of the transition radiation detector and charge detector of the CREAM balloon instrument |
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