CAPRICE98: A balloon borne magnetic spectrometer to study cosmic ray antimatter and composition at different atmospheric depths

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Ambriola, ML
Barbiellini, G
Bartalucci, S
Basini, G
Bellotti, R
Bergstroem, D
Bocciolini, M
Boezio, M
Bravar, U
Cafagna, F [1 ]
Carlson, P
Casolino, M
Castellano, M
Ciacio, F
Circella, M
De Marzo, C
De Pascale, MP
Finetti, N
Francke, T
Hof, M
Kremer, J
Menn, W
Mitchell, JW
Morselli, A
Ormes, JF
Papini, P
Perego, A
Piccardi, S
Picozza, P
Ricci, M
Schiavon, P
Simon, M
Sparvoli, R
Spillantini, P
Stephens, SA
Stochaj, SJ
Streitmatter, RE
Suffert, M
Vacchi, A
Weber, N
Zampa, N
机构
[1] Univ Bari, INFN Sect, Bari, Italy
[2] Univ Bari, Dept Phys, Bari, Italy
[3] Univ Trieste, INFN Sect, Trieste, Italy
[4] Univ Trieste, Dept Phys, Trieste, Italy
[5] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Lab Nazl, Frascati, Italy
[6] Royal Inst Technol, S-10044 Stockholm, Sweden
[7] Univ Florence, INFN Sect, Florence, Italy
[8] Univ Florence, Dept Phys, Florence, Italy
[9] New Mexico State Univ, RL Golden Particle Astrophys Lab, Las Cruces, NM 88003 USA
[10] Univ Roma Tor Vergata, INFN Sect, Rome, Italy
[11] Univ Roma Tor Vergata, Dept Phys, Rome, Italy
[12] Univ Siegen, D-5900 Siegen, Germany
[13] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[14] Tata Inst Fundamental Res, Bombay 400005, Maharashtra, India
[15] Ctr Rech Nucl, Strasbourg, France
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10.1016/S0920-5632(99)00519-8
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O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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CAPRICE98 is a superconducting magnetic spectrometer built by the WiZard collaboration. It was launched from Ft. Sumner, NM, USA on the 28th of May 1998. For the first time a gas RICH detector has been flown together with a silicon electromagnetic calorimeter. The instrument configuration included a time of flight detector and a drift, chamber stack, which were placed in the region of a magnet field, for rigidity measurement. Science objectives for this experiment include the study of antimatter in cosmic rays and that of cosmic ray composition in the atmosphere with special focus on muons.
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