Performance of the AMS-02 transition radiation detector

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

Volumn 558, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 526-535

  Doetinchem, Ph V ^a   Fopp, S ^a   Karpinski, W ^a   Kirn, Th ^a   Lubelsmeyer K ^a   Orboeck, J ^a   Schael, S ^a   Schultz Von Dratzig, A ^a   Schwering, G ^a   Siedenburg, Th ^a   Siedling, R ^a   Wallraff, W ^a   Becker, U ^b   Burger, J ^b   Henning, R ^b   Kounine, A ^b   Koutsenko, V ^b   Wyatt, J ^b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

AMS; Particle identification; Straw tubes; Transition radiation detector

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CARBON DIOXIDE; COSMIC RAYS; PROTONS; SPACE STATIONS; XENON;

PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION; STRAW TUBES; TRANSITION RADIATION DETECTORS (TRD);

RADIATION DETECTORS;

EID: 33644526221     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2005.12.187     Document Type: Article

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