A detector for cosmic-ray nuclei at very high energies

Details A detector for cosmic-ray nuclei at very high energies A detector for cosmic-ray nuclei at very high energies

Oct 1990

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Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, Volume 295, Issue 1-2, p. 246-260.

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We discuss the design and performance of a detector system that was developed to measure the elemental abundance distribution of cosmic-ray nuclei with energies up to several TeV/amu. The low flux of high-energy cosmic rays requires an instrument with large geometric factor, but of reasonably low weight to be carried on the Space Shuttle. To meet these conditions we designed a counter telescope with gas Cherenkov counters and transition radiation detectors for particle energy measurements. Scintillation counters determine the particle's atomic number. We describe design and performance of these individual detectors and their interplay in the instrument. The instrument was flown for eight days in the Spacelab-2 configuration on the Space Shuttle in July/August 1985.

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