A Large Area High Resolution Cosmic Ray Charge Composition Detector
- 1 June 1970
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
- Vol. 17 (3), 17-23
- https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.1970.4325667
Abstract
A detector designed to study the charge composition of the primary cosmic radiation in the range Z = 3 to 30 has been flown on balloons during 1969. The flight is part of a program to study the charge composition in the energy range 10 to 105 GeV. The telescope consists of a four fold charge measurement using two plastic scintillators, a Cerenkov detector and a mosaic CsI(Tl) detector. The intrinsic limitations on charge resolution due to statistical fluctuations in energy loss are approached by correcting the pulse heights for geometrical effects. This is accomplished by calibrating the detector response in flight using a spark chamber to determine the particle trajectories.Keywords
This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
- Statistical Discrete-Source Model of Local Cosmic RaysPhysical Review Letters, 1970
- A study of the properties of an ionization spectrometer with 10, 20.5 and 28 GeV/c incident protonsNuclear Instruments and Methods, 1969
- Characteristics of plastic scintillators in their use as large area particle detectorsNuclear Instruments and Methods, 1969
- A Method of Measuring the Cosmic Ray Charge Composition between 1010 and 1014 eVIEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 1968
- A magnetic core digitized spark chamber for space science experimentsNuclear Instruments and Methods, 1967