Publication Date:
2019-07-18
Description:
Abstract The Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter (ATIC) had successful Long Duration Balloon flights from McMurdo, Antarctica in both 2000 and 2002. The instrument consists of a Silicon matrix for charge measurement, a flared graphite target to induce nuclear interactions, scintillator strip hodoscopes for triggering and helping reconstruct trajectory, and a BGO calorimeter to measure the energy of incident particles. In this paper, we discuss the second flight, which lasted 20 days, starting on 12/29/02. Preliminary results from the on-going analysis of the data including the proton and helium spectra are reported.
Keywords:
Instrumentation and Photography
Type:
28th International Cosmic Ray Conference; Jul 31, 2003 - Aug 07, 2003; Tsukuba; Japan
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