The energy spectra of protons and helium measured with the ATIC experiment

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1950-1954

  Ahn, H S ^a   Seo, E S ^a   Adams, J H ^b   Bashindzhagyan, G ^c   Batkov, K E ^c   Chang, J ^d   Christl, M ^b   Fazely, A R ^e   Ganel, O ^a   Gunasingha, R M ^e   Guzik, T G ^f   Isbert, J ^f   Kim, K C ^a   Kouznetsov, E ^c   Panasyuk, M ^c   Panov, A ^c   Schmidt, W K H ^d   Sina, R ^a   Sokolskaya, N V ^c   Wang, J Z ^a   Wefel, J P ^f   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 MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^e SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Balloon; Composition; Cosmic rays; Energy spectra

Indexed keywords

CALORIMETERS; COMPOSITION; COSMIC RAYS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; HELIUM; PRODUCT DESIGN; PROTONS;

ADVANCED THIN IONIZATION CALORIMETER (ATIC); BALLOON; ENERGY RANGE; ENERGY SPECTRA;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 33744821125     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2005.09.031     Document Type: Article

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