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Flight performance of EXAM -- a balloon-borne detector to search for extragalactic antimatter

dc.contributor.authorAhlen, S. P.en_US
dc.contributor.authorLoomba, D.en_US
dc.contributor.authorMarin, A.en_US
dc.contributor.authorZhou, B.en_US
dc.contributor.authorHe, Y. D.en_US
dc.contributor.authorPrice, P. B.en_US
dc.contributor.authorSnowden-Ifft, D. P.en_US
dc.contributor.authorBower, C. R.en_US
dc.contributor.authorMusser, J. A.en_US
dc.contributor.authorCoan, T. E.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2006-05-10T15:36:14Z
dc.date.available2006-05-10T15:36:14Z
dc.date.issued1994-06-01en_US
dc.identifier.citationAhlen, S. P., Loomba, D., Marin, A., Zhou, B., He, Y. D., Price, P. B., Snowden-Ifft, D. P., Bower, C., Musser, J. A., Coan, T. E. (1994/06/01)."Flight performance of EXAM -- a balloon-borne detector to search for extragalactic antimatter." Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 345(1): 156-178. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/31520>en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6TJM-473FN2R-1HJ/2/a6778ba89e161b102cc4df16c523228een_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/31520
dc.description.abstractWe describe the performance of the EXAM detector during its five hour balloon flight in 1988. EXAM is an experiment designed to search for cosmic rays of extragalactic origin which are made of antimatter. The EXAM technique to identify antinuclei is unique, being based on higher order corrections to electronic stopping power of charged particles, and on the response characteristics of CR-39 track-etch detectors, plastic scintillators, and Cherenkov radiators. Included in the present paper are the completed analysis of the electronic detectors, and preliminary results of the analysis of the track-etch detectors, including a demonstration of our ability to match particles identified with the drift tube tracking elements during the flight with their tracks found in the passive CR-39 detectors. When the CR-39 analysis is complete, we will have approximately 10 000 events for which antimatter analysis can be made.en_US
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dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.titleFlight performance of EXAM -- a balloon-borne detector to search for extragalactic antimatteren_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.rights.robotsIndexNoFollowen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelPhysicsen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelNuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciencesen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelScienceen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelEngineeringen_US
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationotherno department founden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationotherPhysics Department, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USAen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationotherPhysics Department, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USAen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationotherPhysics Department, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USAen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationotherPhysics Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USAen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationotherPhysics Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USAen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationotherPhysics Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USAen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationotherno department founden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationotherPhysics Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USAen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationotherLos Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USAen_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/31520/3/0000442.pdfen_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0168-9002(94)90985-7en_US
dc.identifier.sourceNuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipmenten_US
dc.owningcollnameInterdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed


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