1. The Boronated Scintillator Detector of the ISS-CREAM Experiment
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Y Amare, T Anderson, D J Angelaszek, N Anthony, K Cheryian, G H Choi, M Copley, S Coutu, L Derome, L Eraud, L Hagenau, J H Han, H G Huh, Y S Hwang, H J Hyun, S Im, H B Jeon, J A Jeon, S Jeong, S C Kang, H J Kim, K C Kim, M H Kim, H Y Lee, J Lee, M H Lee, J Liang, J T Link, L Lu, L Lutz, A Menchaca-Rocha, T Mernik, John W Mitchell, S I Mognet, S Morton, M Nester, S Nutter, O Ofoha, H Park, I H Park, J M Park, N Picot-Clemente, R Quinn, E S Seo, J R Smith, P Walpole, R P Weinmann, J Wu, and Y S Yoon
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Astrophysics - Abstract
The Cosmic Ray Energetics And Mass for the International Space Station (ISS-CREAM) instrument is a next-generation experiment for the direct detection and study of cosmic-ray nuclei and electrons. With a long exposure in low Earth orbit, the experiment will determine the particle fluxes and spectral details of cosmic-ray nuclei from hydrogen to iron, over an energy range of about 10(exp 12) eV to > 10(exp 15) eV, and of cosmic-ray electrons over an energy range of about 5x10(exp 10) eV to > 10(exp 13) eV. The instrument was deployed to the ISS in August 2017 on the SpaceX CRS-12 mission. We review the design, implementation and performance of one of the ISS-CREAM detector systems: a boron loaded scintillation detector used in discriminating electron-induced events from the much more abundant cosmic-ray nuclei.
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- 2019
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