Measurement of H, He, C and O Cosmic Ray Primaries: Preliminary Results from the CREAM II Experiment

• Main Author: Mognet, Samuel Adam Isaac
• Other Authors: Stephane Coutu, Paul Sommers, Richard Robinett, John Nousek
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Penn State 2009
• Subjects: Physics; Antarctic; McMurdo Station; Williams Field; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://etda.libraries.psu.edu/theses/approved/WorldWideIndex/ETD-4581/index.html

The direct measurement of the energy spectrum and composition of the incoming cosmic-ray flux at multi-TeV energies is of great interest. A feature located somewhere between 1000-10,000 TeV in the all-particle spectrum, referred to as the knee characterized by a steepening of the power-law flux, has...