On-orbit performance of the top and bottom counting detectors for the ISS-CREAM experiment on the international space station

Kang, Sinchul; Amare, Y.; Anderson, Thomas R.; Angelaszek, D.; Anthony, N.; Cheryian, K.; Choi, Gwan Hyun; Copley, M.; Coutu, S.; Derome, L.; Eraud, L.; Hagenau, L.; Han, Ji Hye; Huh, H.G.; Hwang, Yong Seok; Hyun, H.J.; Im, S.; Jeon, H. B.; Jeon, Jin-A; Jeong, Sang Jin; Kim, H.J.; Kim, K.C.; Kim, M.H.; Lee, H.Y.; Lee, J.; Lee, M.H.; Liang, Jian‐Gang; Link, J. T.; Lu, Lu; Lundquist, Jon Paul; Lutz, L.; Menchaca‐Rocha, A.; Mernik, T.; Mitchell, J. W.; Mognet, S. I.; Morton, S.; Nester, M.; Nutter, S.; Ofoha, O.; PARK, HYUNWOO; Park, I.H.; Park, J.M.; Picot-Clémente, N.; Quinn, Ryan; Seo, E. S.; Smith, Jacob; Takeishi, Ryuji; Walpole, P.; Weinmann, R.; Wu, Jeong Weon; Yoon, Y. S.

doi:10.1016/j.asr.2019.07.030

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“…Each photodiode covers 2 cm × 2 cm area. This segmentation helps electron measurements by distinguishing electrons from protons using different shower profiles between electrons and protons [6]. TCD/BCD also provide a low energy trigger while the CAL provides a high energy trigger.…”

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Results from the Cosmic Ray Energetics And Mass for the International Space Station (ISS-CREAM) experiment

Seo¹,

Aggarwal²,

Amare³

et al. 2021

Proceedings of 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2021)

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Results from the Cosmic Ray Energetics And Mass for the International Space Station (ISS-CREAM) experiment

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Aggarwal²,

Amare³

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Proceedings of 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2021)

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“…The ISS-CREAM calorimeter consisting of a carbon target, twenty tungsten plates and twenty scintillating-fiber ribbons layers (see [1][2][3]), is shown in Fig. 1 with a cross-sectional view.…”

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Beam Test Results of the ISS-CREAM Calorimeter

Zhang¹

2021

Proceedings of 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2021)

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The Cosmic Ray Energetics And Mass experiment for the International Space Station (ISS-CREAM) was installed on the ISS to measure high-energy cosmic-ray elemental spectra for the charge range Z=1 to 26. The ISS-CREAM instrument includes a tungsten scintillatingfiber calorimeter preceded by carbon targets for energy measurements. The carbon targets induces hadronic interactions, and showers of secondary particles develop in the calorimeter. The calorimeter was calibrated with electron beams at CERN. This beam test included position, energy, and angle scans of electron and pion beams together with a high-voltage scan for calibration and characterization. Additionally, an attenuation effect in the scintillating fibers was studied. In this paper, beam test results, including corrections for the attenuation effect, are presented.

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“…ISS-CREAM comprises other detectors not flown on the balloon instrument. The Top and Bottom Counting Detectors, or TCD and BCD, are placed directly above and below the calorimeter, respectively, and give additional shower position measurements as well as providing an instrument trigger [10,11] boronated scintillator detector, or BSD, located underneath the BCD, completes the detector stack, and provides an alternative energy measurement [12].…”

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ISS-CREAM detector performance and tracking algorithms

Sakai¹,

Nutter²,

Anderson³

et al. 2021

Proceedings of 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2021)

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The goal of the ISS-CREAM experiment is to measure spectra of cosmic-ray particles up to 1000 TeV from protons to iron nuclei. The detector was designed to complement other current spacebased cosmic-ray missions, and was installed on the ISS on August 22, 2017. During 539 days of on-orbit operations, ISS-CREAM recorded over 58 million events. The instrument consists of a 4-layer silicon charge detector, a tungsten/scintillating-fiber sampling calorimeter for energy measurement, top and bottom scintillating detectors to create a trigger, and a boronated scintillator detector for additional shower sampling. A variety of subsystem issues developed during on-orbit operations, requiring careful data filtering, the development of extensive calibrations, and multiple tracking algorithms. We report on the performance of the ISS-CREAM instrument and present details of the analysis.

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On-orbit performance of the top and bottom counting detectors for the ISS-CREAM experiment on the international space station

Cited by 13 publications

References 8 publications

Results from the Cosmic Ray Energetics And Mass for the International Space Station (ISS-CREAM) experiment

Results from the Cosmic Ray Energetics And Mass for the International Space Station (ISS-CREAM) experiment

Beam Test Results of the ISS-CREAM Calorimeter

ISS-CREAM detector performance and tracking algorithms

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