Current status and future plans for the general antiparticle spectrometer (GAPS)

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2056-2060

  Fuke, H ^a   Koglin, J E ^b   Yoshida, T ^a   Aramaki, T ^b   Craig, W W ^c   Fabris, L ^c   Gahbauer, F ^b,d   Hailey, C J ^b   Jou, F J ^b   Madden, N ^c   Mori, K ^e   Yu, H T ^b   Ziock, K P ^f  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA   (Latvia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^f OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antideuteron; Antiparticle; Cosmic ray detectors; Cosmic rays; Dark matter; Dark matter detectors; Exotic atom; GAPS

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; CHARGED PARTICLES; COSMIC RAY DETECTORS; EXCITATION ENERGY;

COSMIC-RAY ANTIDEUTERONS; DARK MATTER; GENERAL ANTIPARTICLE SPECTROMETER (GAPS);

COSMIC RAYS;

EID: 43149083467     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2007.02.041     Document Type: Article

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