Tuesday, March 5, 2013

1303.0380 (Hideyuki Fuke et al.)

The pGAPS experiment: an engineering balloon flight of prototype GAPS    [PDF]

Hideyuki Fuke, Rene A One, Tsuguo Aramaki, Nobutaka Bando, Steven E Boggs, Philip v Doetinchem, Florian H Gahbauer, Charles J Hailey, Jason E Koglin, Norm Madden, Samuel Adam I Mognet, Kaya Mori, Shun Okazaki, Kerstin M Perez, Tetsuya Yoshida, Jeffrey Zweerink
The General Anti-Particle Spectrometer (GAPS) project is being carried out to search for primary cosmic-ray antiparticles especially for antideuterons produced by cold dark matter. GAPS plans to realize the science observation by Antarctic long duration balloon flights in late 2010's. In preparation for the Antarctic science flights, an engineering balloon flight using a prototype of the GAPS instrument, "pGAPS", was successfully carried out in June 2012 in Japan to verify the basic performance of each GAPS subsystem. The outline of the pGAPS flight campaign is briefly reported.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.0380

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