An instrument to measure elemental energy spectra of cosmic-ray nuclei up to 1016 eV
Advances in Space Research(2001)
摘要
A longstanding goal of cosmic ray research is to measure the elemental energy spectra of cosmic rays up to and through the knee (approx. equal to 3 x 10 (exp 15) eV. It is not currently feasible to achieve this goal with an ionization calorimeter because the mass required to be deployed in Earth orbit is very large (at least 50 tonnes). An alternative method will be presented. This is based on measuring the primary particle energy by determining the angular distribution of secondaries produced in a target layer using silicon microstrip detector technology. The proposed technique can be used over a wide range of energies (10 (exp 11)- 10 (exp 16) eV) and gives an energy resolution of 60% or better. Based on this technique, a design for a new lightweight instrument with a large aperture (KLEM) will be described.
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elemental energy spectra,nuclei,cosmic-ray
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