Performance of the BACCUS Transition Radiation Detector

• Published in: Proceedings of 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2017)
• Main Authors: Picot-Clémente, Nicolas, Amare, Y, Anderson, T, Angelaszek, D, Anthony, N, Cheryian, K, Choi, G.H., Copley, M, Coutu, S, Derome, L., Eraud, L., Hagenau, L, Han, J.H., Huh, H.G., Im, S., Jeon, J.A., Jeong, S, Kim, K.C., Kim, M.H., Lee, H.Y., Lee, J, Lee, M.H., Liang, J, Link, J.T., Lu, L, Lutz, L, Menchaca-Rocha, A, Mernik, T, Mitchell, J.W., Mognet, S.I., Morton, S, Nester, M, Nutter, S, Ofoha, O, Park, I.H., Quinn, R, Seo, E.S., Smith, J.R., Walpole, P, Weinmann, R.P., Wu, J, Yoon, Y.S.
• Other Authors: Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2017
• Subjects: [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det]; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-01890833; https://doi.org/10.22323/1.301.0246

International audience The Boron And Carbon Cosmic rays in the Upper Stratosphere (BACCUS) balloon-borne exper-iment flew for 30 days over Antarctica in December 2016. It is the successor of the CREAMballoon program in Antarctica which recorded a total cumulative exposure of 161 days. BAC-CUS is primarily aimed to measure cosmic-ray boron and carbon fluxes at the highest energiesreachable with a balloon or satellite experiment, in order to provide essential information for abetter understanding of cosmic-ray propagation in the Galaxy. The payload is made of multipleparticle physics detectors which measure the charge up to Z=26 and energy of incident particlesfrom a few hundred GeV to a few PeV. The newly designed Transition Radiation Detector (TRD)measures signals that are a function of the charge and Lorentz factor. In April 2016, BACCUSwas taken to CERN in its flight configuration to characterize its detectors’ response to beams ofelectrons and pions. The performance of the TRD using beam test data are reported in this paper.