Detecting High-Energy Cosmic Ray Electrons With CREST (the Cosmic Ray Electron Synchrotron Telescope).

• Main Author: Gennaro, Joseph C.
• Other Authors: Tarle, Gregory, Fisk, Lennard A., Schubnell, Michael S G, Akerlof, Carl W., McMahon, Jeffrey John
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Cosmic ray; Electron; Positron; Synchrotron; High-energy; CREST; Physics; Science; McMurdo Station; Crest The; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/113331

The Cosmic Ray Electron Synchrotron Telescope (CREST) was a balloon-borne detector designed to measure the high-energy cosmic ray all-electron energy spectrum. It utilized a novel indirect technique proposed in 1983 by Stephens and Balasubrahmanyan to detect electrons by means of the synchrotron rad...