The measurement of elemental abundances above 1 TeV/amu by a long duration flight of CRN

Conference · Tue Mar 20 04:00:00 EST 1990 · AIP Conference Proceedings (American Institute of Physics); (USA)

OSTI ID:6942385

Swordy, S P ^[1]

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1. Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago. (US) LASR, 933 E56th St, Chicago, IL 60637

We propose the flight of the Cosmic Ray Nuclei detector (CRN), for a long duration of at least 1 year. The instrument has already flown successfully on the Spacelab-2 mission, using transition radiation detectors to provide individual elemental abundances to energies of 1 TeV/amu for 4{lt}{ital Z}{lt}30. The dynamic range of the instrument permits measurements to much higher energies if a longer exposure time can be facilitated. With a one year flight the number of particles collected would provide data to {approx}10 TeV/amu or beyond.

• OSTI ID: 6942385
• Report Number(s): CONF-8911161--
• Conference Information: Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings (American Institute of Physics); (USA) Journal Volume: 203:1
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
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CHERENKOV COUNTERS
COSMIC RAY DETECTION
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ENERGY RANGE
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
NUCLEI
PEV RANGE
PHOSPHORS
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RADIATION DETECTION
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TEV RANGE 100-1000