Recent Progress on the GAPS Time of Flight System

2019/12/03 by Quinn, S.
#FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) #Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) #Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1912.01675

Abstract

The General AntiParticle Spectrometer (GAPS) is a balloon-borne cosmic-ray antimatter experiment that uses the exotic atom technique, eliminating the requirement for strong B-fields used by conventional magnetic spectrometers. It will be sensitive to antideuterons with kinetic energies of 0.05-0.25 GeV / nucleon, which are highly motivated candidates for indirect dark matter detection. Moreover, GAPS will provide new information on the antiproton spectrum from 0.07

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