ATIC as a testbed for the ACCESS baseline calorimeter

Journal Article · Fri Jan 22 00:00:00 EST 1999 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.57689· OSTI ID:21202520

Isbert, J; Authement, J; Coleman, J; Guzik, T G; Granger, D; Lockwood, R; McMorris, A; Mock, L; Oubre, C; Panasyuk, M; Peck, J; Wefel, J P ^[1]; Adams, Jr, J H; Boberg, P R; Dion-Schwarz, C; Kroeger, R ^[2]; Bashindzhagyan, G B; Khein, L; Samsonov, G A; Zatsepin, V I ^[3]

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1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803-4001 (United States)
2. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, District of Columbia 20375-5352 (United States)
3. Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow 119899 (Russian Federation)

The Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter (ATIC) balloon experiment is designed to measure the spectrum of individual elements from H through Fe up to a total energy >10{sup 14} eV. To accomplish this goal, ATIC incorporates a Silicon matrix detector composed of more than 4,000 pixels to measure the incident particle charge in the presence of backscatter background, three plastic scintillator hodoscopes to provide an event trigger as well as a backup measurement of the particle charge and trajectory, a 3/4 interaction length carbon target and a fully active ionization calorimeter composed of 22 radiation lengths of Bismuth Germanate (BGO) crystals. This detector complement is very similar to the baseline calorimeter for the Advanced Cosmic Ray Composition Experiment for the Space Station, ACCESS. The ATIC flights can be used to evaluate such a calorimeter in the cosmic ray 'beam.' ATIC integration is currently underway with a first flight expected during 1999. This talk will discuss ATIC as it applies to ACCESS.

• OSTI ID: 21202520
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 458, Issue 1; Conference: Space technology and applications international forum - 1999, Albuquerque, NM (United States), 31 Jan - 4 Feb 1999; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.57689; (c) 1999 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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