Antarctic balloon flight and data analysis of TRACER

A. Romero-Wolf; M. Ave; P. Boyle; F. Gahbauer; C. Höppner; J. Hörandel; M. Ichimura; D. Müller; S. Wakely

Antarctic balloon flight and data analysis of TRACER

A. Romero-Wolf^*
, M. Ave
, P. Boyle
, F. Gahbauer
, C. Höppner
, J. Hörandel
, M. Ichimura
, D. Müller
, S. Wakely

^*Corresponding author for this work

The University of Chicago
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Hirosaki University

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Abstract

The TRACER cosmic-ray detector was successfully flown from McMurdo, Antarctica in December 2003. The instrument has a geometric factor of 5 mfi ster and provided measurements of cosmic ray nuclei from oxygen to iron (Z=8 to Z=26). The analysis of the data begins with the reconstruction of the trajectory of each nucleus through the instrument. Subsequently, the elemental charge Z and the particle energy are measured from 0.5 to 10,000 GeV/amu. This process uses known response functions and fluctuations in response of the individual detector elements, and the procedures are verified with extensive computer simulations. The analysis is able to cleanly select the very rare events at the highest energies without contamination due to low energy background which is more abundant by about a factor of ̃ 10⁴ .

Original language	English
Pages	97-100
Number of pages	4
Publication status	Published - 2005
Externally published	Yes
Event	29th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2005 - Pune, India Duration: 3 Aug 2005 → 10 Aug 2005

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Conference	29th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2005
Country/Territory	India
City	Pune
Period	3/08/05 → 10/08/05

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