Published April 2004 | Version v1
Journal article

Accelerator beam test of the kinematic lightweight energy meter detector prototype for very high energy cosmic ray measurements in space

  • 1. Moscow State University, Moscow, (Russian Federation)
  • 2. Ewha Womans University, Seoul (Korea, Republic of)

Description

The idea of the KLEM (Kinematic Lightweight Energy Meter) detector is to directly measure the elemental energy spectra of very high-energy cosmic rays in space by determining the angular distribution of secondary particles produced in a target. The first test of the simple KLEM prototype was performed at the CERN SPS test-beam with 180 GeV pions. The results of the first test analysis confirm that, using the KLEM method, the energy of 180 GeV pions can be measured with a relative error of about 67 %, which is very close to the results of the simulation (65 %).

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Journal Title
Journal of the Korean Physical Society
Journal Volume
44
Journal Issue
4
Series
5 refs, 6 figs
Journal Page Range
p. 1007-1011
ISSN
0374-4884