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Meaurement of Cosmic Ray elemental composition from the CAKE balloon experiment
- Publication Year :
- 2009
- Publisher :
- arXiv, 2009.
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Abstract
- CAKE (Cosmic Abundances below Knee Energies) was a prototype balloon experiment for the determination of the charge spectra and of abundances of the primary cosmic-rays (CR) with Z$>$10. It was a passive instrument made of layers of CR39 and Lexan nuclear track detectors; it had a geometric acceptance of $\sim$0.7 m$^2$sr for Fe nuclei. Here, the scanning and analysis strategies, the algorithms used for the off-line filtering and for the tracking in automated mode of the primary cosmic rays are presented, together with the resulting CR charge distribution and their abundances.<br />5 pages, 8 figures
- Subjects :
- Physics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
Atmospheric Science
Elemental composition
COSMIC cancer database
Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Aerospace Engineering
Charge density
FOS: Physical sciences
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Cosmic ray
Charge (physics)
Astrophysics
Tracking (particle physics)
Spectral line
Effective nuclear charge
Nuclear physics
Geophysics
Space and Planetary Science
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
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- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a037d320595e790e1d1fd1948ae75e1c
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.0911.3500