CAPRICE98: a balloon-borne magnetic spectrometer equipped with a gas RICH and a silicon calorimeter to study cosmic rays

Authors
Barbiellini, G Bartalucci, S Bellotti, R Bergstrom, D Bidoli, V Boezio, M Bonvicini, V Bravar, U Cafagna, F Carlson, P Casolino, M Ciacio, F Circella, M De Marzo, C De Pascale, MP Finetti, N Francke, T Griastein, S Hof, M Khalchukov, F Kremer, J Menn, W Mitchell, JW Morselli, A Ormes, JF Papini, P Piccardi, S Picozza, P Ricci, M Simon, M Schiavon, P Sparvoli, R Spillantini, P Stochaj, SJ Streitmatter, RE Stephens, SA Suffert, M Vacchi, A Weber, N Zampa, N
Citation
G. Barbiellini et al., CAPRICE98: a balloon-borne magnetic spectrometer equipped with a gas RICH and a silicon calorimeter to study cosmic rays, NUCL INST A, 461(1-3), 2001, pp. 269-271
Citations number
4
Categorie Soggetti
Spectroscopy /Instrumentation/Analytical Sciences","Instrumentation & Measurement
Journal title
NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT
ISSN journal
01689002 → ACNP
Volume
461
Issue
1-3
Year of publication
2001
Pages
269 - 271
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(20010401)461:1-3<269:CABMSE>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
CAPRICE98 is a superconducting magnetic spectrometer, equipped with a gas R ICH and a silicon calorimeter, launched from FI. Sumner (USA), on the 28th of May 1998, by the WiZard collaboration. For the first time a gas RICH det ector flew together with a silicon electromagnetic calorimeter, allowing ma ss resolved antiprotons, with E > 18 GeV, to be detected. The detector conf iguration was completed by a time of flight For particle identification, an d a set of three drift chambers for rigidity measurement. The science objec tives are the study of antimatter in cosmic rays and the cosmic ray composi tion in the atmosphere with special focus on muons. (C) 2001 Elsevier Scien ce B,V. All rights reserved.