BESS-Polar experiment: Progress and future prospects

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1664-1669

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

Antarctica; BESS; Long duration balloon flight; Superconducting spectrometer

Indexed keywords

BALLOONS; COSMIC RAY MEASUREMENT; COSMOLOGY; SPECTROMETERS;

ANTARCTICA; BALLOON-BORNE EXPERIMENT; BESS; FUTURE PROSPECTS; HARDWARE DEVELOPMENT; LONG DURATION BALLOONS; PRECISION MEASUREMENT; SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES;

COSMIC RAYS;

EID: 51649103534     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2007.05.048     Document Type: Article

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