2010/03/24 by Y. S. Yoon, Ho Seok Ahn, Yoon, Y. S. +55
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) #Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) #Particle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers #Particle accelerators and beam dynamics #Superconducting Materials and Applications #astro-ph.HE #astro-ph.IM
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1003.4743
29th International Cosmic Ray Conference Pune (2005) 8, 371-374
arxiv created 2010/03/24 · openalex publication_date 2010/03/24 · arxiv updated 2010/03/26 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The CREAM calorimeter, designed to measure the spectra of cosmic-ray nuclei from under 1 TeV to 1000 TeV, is a 20 radiation length (X0) deep sampling calorimeter. The calorimeter is comprised of 20 layers of tungsten interleaved with 20 layers of scintillating fiber ribbons, and is preceded by a pair of graphite interaction targets providing about 0.42 proton interaction lengths (λint). The calorimeter was placed in one of CERN's SPS accelerator beams for calibration and testing. Beams of 150 GeV electrons were used for calibration, and a variety of electron, proton, and nuclear fragment beams were used to test the simulation model of the detector. In this paper we discuss the performance of the calorimeter in the electron beam and compare electron beam data with simulation results.