The first flight of the CREAM silicon charge detector

  • N. H. Park
  • , S. W. Nam
  • , J. H. Han
  • , J. H. Hyun
  • , J. A. Jeon
  • , J. K. Lee
  • , I. H. Park
  • , J. Yang
  • , H. S. Ahn
  • , O. Ganel
  • , K. C. Kim
  • , M. H. Lee
  • , L. Lutz
  • , A. Malinine
  • , E. S. Seo
  • , R. Sina
  • , J. Wu
  • , Y. S. Yoon
  • , S. Y. Zinn
  • , P. Allison
  • J. J. Beatty, M. G. Bagliesi, G. Bigongiari, P. Maestro, P. S. Marrocchesi, R. Zei, P. Boyle, S. Swordy, S. Wakely, J. T. Childers, M. A. DuVernois, N. B. Conklin, S. Coutu, S. I. Mognet, H. J. Kim, Y. J. Kim, H. Park, S. Minnick, S. Nutter, K. W. Min, W. Han, U. W. Nam, K. I. Seon

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Abstract

The CREAM (Cosmic Ray Energetics And Mass) experiment was constructed for the measurement of high-energy cosmic rays in the energy range between 10 12 and 10 15 eV. As a long duration balloon payload, the CREAM had its first successful flight in December 2004 from McMurdo Station, Antarctica. For the charge measurement of incident cosmic-ray particles entering the calorimeter module, a layer of the SCD (Silicon Charge Detector) made of 2912 silicon pixels was built with an active area of 779 × 795 mm 2. This paper describes the performance of the SCD during the 2004-2005 flight.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)815-818
Number of pages4
JournalJournal of the Korean Physical Society
Volume49
Issue number2 I
StatePublished - Aug 2006

Keywords

  • Balloon payload
  • High energy cosmic ray
  • Knee
  • Silicon charge detector

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