The silicon matrix as a charge detector in the ATIC experiment
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-21-2004
Abstract
The Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter (ATIC) was built for series of long-duration balloon flights in Antarctica. Its main goal is to measure energy spectra of cosmic ray nuclei from protons up to iron nuclei over a wide energy range from 30 GeV up to 100 TeV. The ATIC balloon experiment had its first, test flight that lasted for 16 days from 28 December 2000 to 13 January 2001 around the continent. The ATIC spectrometer consists of a fully active BGO calorimeter, scintillator hodoscopes and a silicon matrix. The silicon matrix, consisting of 4480 pixels, was used as a charge detector in the experiment. About 25 million cosmic ray events were detected during the flight. In the paper, the charge spectrum obtained with the silicon matrix is analyzed. © 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
First Page
195
Last Page
207
Recommended Citation
Zatsepin, V., Adams, J., Ahn, H., Bashindzhagyan, G., Batkov, K., Chang, 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., Sokolskaya, N., Wang, J., Wefel, J., & Wu, J. (2004). The silicon matrix as a charge detector in the ATIC experiment. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 524 (1-3), 195-207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2004.01.071