Study of >100 GeV electrons with BETS detector using a long duration balloon flight in Antarctica

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2095-2102

  Torii, S ^a   Yoshida, K ^a   Tamura, T ^a   Kitamura, H ^b   Yamagami, T ^c   Tateyama, N ^a   Anraku, K ^a,d   Yamashita, T ^a,d   Chang, J ^a,e   Nishimura, J ^c   Saito, Y ^c   Ohta, S ^c   Namiki, M ^c   Matsuzaka, Y ^c   Iijima, I ^c   Yamagishi, H ^f   Kadokura, A ^f   Kasahara, K ^g   Ogawa, S ^g   Fujii, M ^g   Tasaki, Y ^g   Kaiho, H ^g   Shibata, M ^h   Katayose, Y ^h   Inoue, T ^h   Mizutani, K ⁱ   Hirai, Y ⁱ   Murakami, H ^j   Kobayashi, T ^k   Komori, Y ^l   Yuda, T ^m   more..

^a KANAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^d Japan Space Forum ^*  (Japan)

^e CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^g SHIBAURA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^h YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^j RIKKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^k AOYAMA GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^l KANAGAWA UNIVERSITY OF HUMAN SERVICES   (Japan)

^m UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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Author keywords

Cosmic ray electrons; Cosmic ray origin; Long duration balloons

Indexed keywords

BALLOONS; CALORIMETERS; COSMIC RAYS; DETECTORS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOSPHORS;

COSMIC-RAY ELECTRONS; COSMIC-RAY ORIGIN; LONG DURATION BALLOONS;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 33744996270     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2005.06.042     Document Type: Article

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