Study of the combined particle identification capability of a transition radiation detector and a silicon imaging calorimeter during the TS93 balloon flight
Abstract
The WiZard Collaboration is involved in a program studying the antimatter components of the cosmic rays. A transition radiation detector and a silicon-tungsten calorimeter with imaging capabilities have been built as part of this program. We present the combined performance of these two detectors for positron identification during a balloon flight on September 8, 1993. The flight was dedicated to the measurement of the positron spectrum in the energy range 4-50 GeV and was launched from Ft. Summer, New Mexico.
- Publication:
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Astroparticle Physics
- Pub Date:
- August 1997
- DOI:
- 10.1016/S0927-6505(97)00027-3
- Bibcode:
- 1997APh.....7..219B