Temperature and pressure conditions for the appropriate performance of charge and mass resolutions in balloon-borne CR-39 track detector for the heavy cosmic rays

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

Volumn 267, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1817-1822

  Kodaira, S ^a   Yasuda, N ^a   Tawara, H ^b   Ogura, K ^c   Doke, T ^d   Hasebe, N ^d   Yamauchi, T ^e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b High Energy Accelerator Organization   (Japan)

^c NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Balloon borne experiment; Charge resolution; Cosmic ray; CR 39; Heavy ion; Mass resolution; Solid state nuclear track detector; Temperature effect; Track registration sensitivity; Vacuum effect

Indexed keywords

BALLOON-BORNE EXPERIMENT; CHARGE RESOLUTION; CR-39; MASS RESOLUTION; SOLID-STATE NUCLEAR TRACK DETECTOR; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TRACK REGISTRATION SENSITIVITY; VACUUM EFFECT;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BALLOONS; COSMIC RAYS; COSMOLOGY; DETECTORS; EXPERIMENTS; HEAVY IONS; IRON COMPOUNDS; TEMPERATURE; VACUUM;

THERMAL EFFECTS;

EID: 65449117263     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2009.03.001     Document Type: Article

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