BESS-polar experiment

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1755-1762

  Yoshida, T ^a   Yamamoto, A ^a   Mitchell, J ^b   Abe, K ^c   Fuke, H ^a,c   Haino, S ^a,c   Hams, T ^b   Ikeda, N ^d   Itazaki, A ^d   Izumi, K ^a,c   Lee, M H ^e   Maeno, T ^d   Makida, Y ^a   Matsuda, S ^c   Matsumoto, H ^c   Moiseev, A ^b   Nishimura, J ^c   Nozaki, M ^d   Omiya, H ^a   Ormes, J F ^b   Sasaki, M ^b   Seo, E S ^e   Shikaze, Y ^d   Stephens, A ^b   Streitmatter, R ^b   Suzuki, J ^a   Takasugi, Y ^d   Tanaka, K ^a   Tanizaki, K ^d   Yamagami, T ^f   Yamamoto, Y ^c   Yamato, K ^d   Yoshimura, K ^a   more..

^a HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION KEK   (Japan)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^f JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

BESS polar experiment; Low energy antiprotons; Scientific ballooning; Superconducting spectrometer

Indexed keywords

BALLOONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; GALAXIES; SPECTROMETERS; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES; TRAJECTORIES;

ANTINUCLEI; ANTIPROTONS; SCIENTIFIC BALLOONS;

COSMIC RAYS;

BALLOON OBSERVATION; SPECTROMETER;

EID: 2442584474     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2003.05.017     Document Type: Article

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