Search for primordial antiparticles with BESS

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 442-449

  Yamamoto, A ^a   Abe, K ^b   Fuke, H ^c   Haino, S ^a   Hams, T ^d   Hasegawa, M ^a   Horikoshi, A ^a   Kim, K C ^e   Kusumoto, A ^b   Lee, M H ^e   Makida, Y ^a   Matsuda, S ^a   Matsukawa, Y ^b   Mitchell, J W ^d   Moiseev, A ^d   Nishimura, J ^f   Nozaki, M ^a   Orito, R ^b   Orito, S ^f   Ormes, J F ^g   Sakai, K ^f   Sanuki, T ^f   Sasaki, M ^d   Seo, E S ^e   Shikaze, Y ^b   Shinoda, R ^f   Streitmatter, R E ^d   Suzuki, J ^a   Tanaka, K ^a   Thakur, N ^g   Yamagami, T ^c   Yoshida, T ^c   Yoshimura, K ^a   more..

^a HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION KEK   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

Antiparticle; Antiproton; BESS; Cosmic ray; Long duration balloon flight; Primordial black hole; Superconducting spectrometer

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAY MEASUREMENT; COSMOLOGY; GERMANIUM COMPOUNDS; METEOROLOGICAL BALLOONS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOUNDING ROCKETS; SPECTROMETERS;

ANTIPARTICLE; ANTIPROTON; BESS; LONG DURATION BALLOONS; PRIMORDIAL BLACK HOLES;

COSMIC RAYS;

EID: 44849133587     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2007.04.069     Document Type: Article

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