Th/U/Pu/Cm dating of GCR nuclei with the Extremely-heavy Cosmic-ray Composition Observer (ECCO)

Details Th/U/Pu/Cm dating of GCR nuclei with the Extremely-heavy Cosmic-ray Composition Observer (ECCO) Th/U/Pu/Cm dating of GCR nuclei with the Extremely-heavy Cosmic-ray Composition Observer (ECCO)

Apr 2001

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American Physical Society, April Meeting, April 28 - May 1, 2001 Washington, DC Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Vol.

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The ECCO instrument is one of two instruments which make up the HNX mission. The principal goal of ECCO (the Extremely-heavy Cosmic-ray Composition Observer) is to measure the age of galactic cosmic ray nuclei using the actinides (Th, U, Pu, Cm) as clocks. As a bonus, ECCO will search with unprecedented sensitivity for long-lived elements in the superheavy sland of stability. ECCO is an enormous array (23 m^2) of BP-1 glass track-etch detectors, and is based on the successful flight heritage of the Trek detector which was deployed externally on Mir. We present a description of the instrument, estimates of expected performance, and recent calibrations which demonstrate that the actinides can be resolved with good charge resolution.

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