STUDY OF THE COMBINED PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION CAPABILITY OF A TRANSITION RADIATION DETECTOR AND A SILICON IMAGING CALORIMETER DURING THE TS93 BALLOON FLIGHT

Authors
BELLOTTI R CAFAGNA F CASTELLANO M CIRCELLA M DECATALDO G DEMARZO C GIGLIETTO N MARANGELLI B RAINO A SPINELLI P BRANCACCIO M GRANDI M PAPINI P PEREGO A PICCARDI S SPILLANTINI P BASINI G RICCI M CODINO A FINETTI N GRIMANI C BIDOLI V CANDUSSO M CASOLINO M DEPASCALE MP MORSELLI A PICOZZA P SPARVOLI R AVERSA F BARBIELLINI G BOEZIO M COLAVITA A FRATNIK F SCHIAVON P VACCHI A ZAMPA N MITCHELL JW STREITMATTER RE GOLDEN RL STOCHAJ SJ HOF M MENN W SIMON M STEPHENS SA
Citation
R. Bellotti et al., STUDY OF THE COMBINED PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION CAPABILITY OF A TRANSITION RADIATION DETECTOR AND A SILICON IMAGING CALORIMETER DURING THE TS93 BALLOON FLIGHT, Astroparticle physics, 7(3), 1997, pp. 219-230
Citations number
20
Categorie Soggetti
Astronomy & Astrophysics","Physics, Particles & Fields
Journal title
Astroparticle physics → ACNP
ISSN journal
09276505
Volume
7
Issue
3
Year of publication
1997
Pages
219 - 230
Database
ISI
SICI code
0927-6505(1997)7:3<219:SOTCPI>2.0.ZU;2-S
Abstract
The WiZard Collaboration is involved in a program studying the antimat ter components of the cosmic rays. A transition radiation detector and a silicon-tungsten calorimeter with imaging capabilities have been bu ilt as part of this program. We present the combined performance of th ese two detectors for positron identification during a balloon flight on September 8, 1993. The flight was dedicated to the measurement of t he positron spectrum in the energy range 4-50 GeV and was launched fro m Ft. Sumner, New Mexico. (C) 1997 Elsevier-Science B.V.