Beam tests of the balloon-borne ATIC experiment

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 552, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 409-419

  Ganel, O ^a   Adams Jr , J H ^b   Ahn, H S ^a   Ampe, J ^b   Bashindzhagyan, G ^c   Case, G ^d   Chang, J ^e,h   Ellison, S ^d   Fazely, A ^f   Gould, R ^d   Granger, D ^d   Gunasingha, R ^f   Guzik, T G ^d   Han, Y J ^g   Isbert, J ^d   Kim, H J ^g   Kim, K C ^a   Kim, S K ^g   Kwon, Y ^g   Panasyuk, M ^c   Panov, A ^c   Price, B ^d   Samsonov, G ^c   Schmidt, W K H ^e   Sen, M ^d   Seo, E S ^a   Sina, R ^a   Sokolskaya, N ^c   Stewart, M ^d   Voronin, A ^c   Wagner, D ^b   Wang, J Z ^a   Wefel, J P ^d   Wu, J ^a   Zatsepin, V ^c   more..

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^f SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^h CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Cosmic ray calorimeter; High energy cosmic rays

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAYS; HYDROGEN; IONIZATION; IRON; PROTONS;

ADVANCED THIN IONIZATION CALORIMETER (ATIC); COSMIC-RAY CALORIMETERS; HIGH-ENERGY COSMIC RAYS; LONG-DURATION BALLOON (LDB);

CALORIMETERS;

EID: 26944454401     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2005.06.081     Document Type: Article

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