Published December 11, 2004
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Journal article
Heavy ion beam test results of the silicon charge detector for the CREAM cosmic ray balloon mission
Creators
- 1. Department of Physics, Ewha Womans University, Dae-Hyun-Dong, Seoul 120-750 (Korea, Republic of)
- 2. Inst. for Phys. Sci. and Tech., University of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
- 3. Korea Astronomy Observatory, Daejon (Korea, Republic of)
- 4. Department of Physics, Kyungpook National University, Daegu (Korea, Republic of)
- 5. Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejon (Korea, Republic of)
Description
The Cosmic Ray Energetics And Mass (CREAM) experiment is designed to measure cosmic ray elemental spectra to help understand the source and acceleration mechanisms of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. The payload is planned to launch in December 2004 from McMurdo Station, Antarctica as a balloon mission. A Silicon Charge Detector (SCD) was designed and constructed for the CREAM experiment to provide precision charge measurements of incident cosmic rays with a resolution of 0.2 charge unit or better. The SCD was exposed to heavy ion beams at CERN's H2 beam line in November 2003. The results reported here show the SCD performs as designed
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.nima.2004.07.147;
- PII
- S0168-9002(04)01593-1;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
- Journal Volume
- 535
- Journal Issue
- 1-2
- Journal Page Range
- p. 158-161
- ISSN
- 0168-9002
- CODEN
- NIMAER
Conference
- Title
- 10. international Vienna conference on instrumentation
- Dates
- 16-21 Feb 2004
- Place
- Vienna (Austria)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 37028965
- Subject category
- S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- ACCELERATION; ACCURACY; ANTARCTICA; BALLOONS; BEAMS; CERN; HEAVY IONS; RESOLUTION; SI SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS; SILICON; SPECTRA
- Descriptors DEC
- AIRCRAFT; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; CHARGED PARTICLES; CRYOSPHERE; ELEMENTS; INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; IONS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; POLAR REGIONS; RADIATION DETECTORS; SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS; SEMIMETALS
Optional Information
- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2004 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.