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Detection of High Energy Cosmic Rays with Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter, ATICThe author presents preliminary results of the first flight of the Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter (ATIC). ATIC is a multiple, long duration balloon flight, investigation for the study of cosmic ray spectra from below 50 GeV to near 100 TeV total energy, using a fully active Bismuth Germanate (BGO) calorimeter. It is equipped with the first large area mosaic of small fully depleted silicon detector pads capable of charge identification of cosmic rays from H to Fe. As a redundancy check for the charge identification and a coarse particle tracking system, three projective layers of x-y scintillator hodoscopes were employed, above, in the center and below a Carbon interaction 'target'.
Document ID
20030054444
Acquisition Source
Marshall Space Flight Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Adams, J. H.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Ahn, E. J.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Ahn, H. S.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Bashindzhagyan, G.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Case, G.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Chang, J.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Christl, M.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Ellison, S.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Fazely, A. R.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Ganel, O.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Date Acquired
August 21, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2002
Subject Category
Instrumentation And Photography
Meeting Information
Meeting: Coral Gables Conference
Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL
Country: United States
Start Date: December 11, 2002
End Date: December 15, 2002
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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