Cosmic Ray Energy Determination by the Reduced-Opening Angle Method

Details Cosmic Ray Energy Determination by the Reduced-Opening Angle Method Cosmic Ray Energy Determination by the Reduced-Opening Angle Method

Feb 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998nasa.reptt....g&link_type=abstract

Technical Report, NASA/CR-1998-207759; NAS 1.26:207759 Cosmic Ray Lab.

Physics

Cosmic Rays, Seismic Energy, Models, Deflection, Sensitivity, Protons, Iron, Fragments, Dissociation, Couples, Calibrating, Actuators

Scientific paper

The reduced opening angle technique offers a simple way with minimal model dependence to measure cosmic ray energies over a broad range with out any normalization uncertainties. The emulsion film and CR39 detectors proposed are well established techniques and should perform adequately. The analysis method depends on accurate automatic scanning of the CR39 plates. UAH have developed such a capability. With the proposed geometry energy measurements to approx. 5 TeV/a can be made. The expected iron event rate (E greater than or equal to 500 GeV/a) is 10/sq m day. The expected energy resolution, from accelerator calibrations at 200 GeV/a, is -50% to +80%. Since the absolute flux has some sensitivity to the assumed power law index it is essential that good energy resolution is obtained. The expected charge resolution is approx. 0.3 charge units for the CNO group falling to approx. 1 charge unit for the iron group. A suitable event trigger would be a measurable (greater than 2 micrometer) deflected heavy (Z greater than 2) fragment. One potential background is electromagnetic dissociation that predominantly couples to individual protons or alphas. Although the cross- sections can be appreciable such events will not pass the event trigger.

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