Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Dec 1991
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991ncimc..14..639a&link_type=abstract
Nuovo Cimento C, Serie 1 (ISSN 0390-5551), vol. 14 C, Nov.-Dec. 1991, p. 639-648.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Galactic Cosmic Rays, Quarks, Radiation Detectors, Strangeness, Balloon-Borne Instruments, Ground State, Nuclear Astrophysics, Quantum Chromodynamics, Scintillation Counters
Scientific paper
A technique is described which incorporates a novel balloon-borne detector to investigate strange-quark matter (SQM) interactions in the terrestrial atmosphere. The quark-matter telescope is a hybrid system designed to determine the masses of anomalous nuclei and identify particles. A schematic illustration shows the arrangement of its counter system and photosensitive passive detectors. The Cerenkov counters are set at 0.5 minimum-ionization particles so that candidates of massive helium nuclei can be detected. The selection procedure involves the elimination of cosmic rays, mass measurements, measurements of secondaries, and finally particle identification. The instrument is intended to measure charges and energies per nucleon as well as rigidities, and the results can distinguish between SQM and Centauro-type particles.
Aglietta Marco
Castagnoli Carlo
Castellina Antonella
Fuji Masaru
Fujimoto Yukihiro
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