Elemental spectra from the first ATIC flight
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
1-1-2005
Abstract
The Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter (ATIC) instrument is a balloon-borne experiment designed to measure the composition and energy spectra of Z = 1 to 26 cosmic rays over the energy range from ̃ 1011 to 10 eV. The instrument consists of a silicon matrix charge detector, plastic scintillator strip hodoscopes interleaved with graphite interaction targets, and a fully active Bismuth Germanate (BGO) calorimeter. ATIC had two successful Long Duration Balloon flights launched from McMurdo Station, Antarctica in 2000 and 2002. In this paper, preliminary energy spectra of C and O measured during the first 16-day flight are presented.
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
29th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2005
First Page
57
Last Page
60
Recommended Citation
Ahn, H., Adams, J., Bashindzhagyan, G., Batkov, K., Changv, J., Christl, M., Fazely, A., Ganel, O., Gunasingha, R., Guzik, T., Isbert, J., Kim, K., Kouznetsov, E., Panasyuk, M., Panov, A., Schmidt, W., Seo, E., Sina, R., Sokolskaya, N., Wang, J., Wefel, J., Wu, J., & Zatsepin, V. (2005). Elemental spectra from the first ATIC flight. 29th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2005, 3, 57-60. Retrieved from https://repository.lsu.edu/physics_astronomy_pubs/2233