2009/11/30 by S. Cecchini, T. Chiarusi, G. Giacomelli +4 · 5 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Astrophysics #COSMIC cancer database #Computer science #Cosmic ray #Cosmic ray spallation #Detector #Line (geometry) #Nuclear Physics and Applications #Optics #Particle Detector Development and Performance #Physics #Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies #Spectral line #Track (disk drive) #Tracking (education) #Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray #astro-ph.HE #astro-ph.IM
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.asr.2010.07.023
published in Advances in Space Research 46(11), 1382-1387 (Elsevier BV) · 5 pages, 8 figures
arxiv created 2009/12/04 · openalex publication_date 2010/08/03 · arxiv updated 2015/05/14 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
CAKE (Cosmic Abundances below Knee Energies) was a prototype balloon experiment for the determination of the charge spectra and of abundances of the primary cosmic-rays (CR) with Z>10. It was a passive instrument made of layers of CR39 and Lexan nuclear track detectors; it had a geometric acceptance of ∼0.7 m2sr for Fe nuclei. Here, the scanning and analysis strategies, the algorithms used for the off-line filtering and for the tracking in automated mode of the primary cosmic rays are presented, together with the resulting CR charge distribution and their abundances.