TY - JOUR
T1 - Beam test performance of a scintillator-based detector for the charge identification of relativistic ions
AU - Marrocchesi, P. S.
AU - Adriani, O.
AU - Akaike, Y.
AU - Bagliesi, M. G.
AU - Basti, A.
AU - Bigongiari, G.
AU - Bonechi, S.
AU - Bongi, M.
AU - Kim, M. Y.
AU - Lomtadze, T.
AU - Maestro, P.
AU - Niita, T.
AU - Ozawa, S.
AU - Shimizu, Y.
AU - Torii, S.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is part of the R&D program SPIDER funded by the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) in Italy. We are deeply indebted with the GSI laboratory for the very stable beams and efficient experimental facilities and with GSI personnel for their continuous support. In particular, the clean experimental conditions achieved are the result of the effort of Dr. Chiara Nociforo, who provided us with an optimized tuning of the beam throughout the test.
PY - 2011/12/11
Y1 - 2011/12/11
N2 - We report on the measurements performed with relativistic ions from Be to Fe, at the Fragment Separator (FRS) of the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, to test the performance of charge-sensitive detectors that were designed to separate via multiple dE/dx measurements fully stripped nuclei of cosmic origin in the experiment CALET. The latter is a space mission by the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) scheduled to be launched to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2013. The CALET instrument is managed by an international collaboration and it is scheduled to take data for 5 years on the Exposure Facility (JEM-EF) of the Japanese module KIBO on the ISS. The aim of the test was to accurately measure the response of the scintillator to different nuclear species and parametrize the saturation of the scintillation light in order to assess the impact of this effect on the charge resolution of the instrument.
AB - We report on the measurements performed with relativistic ions from Be to Fe, at the Fragment Separator (FRS) of the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, to test the performance of charge-sensitive detectors that were designed to separate via multiple dE/dx measurements fully stripped nuclei of cosmic origin in the experiment CALET. The latter is a space mission by the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) scheduled to be launched to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2013. The CALET instrument is managed by an international collaboration and it is scheduled to take data for 5 years on the Exposure Facility (JEM-EF) of the Japanese module KIBO on the ISS. The aim of the test was to accurately measure the response of the scintillator to different nuclear species and parametrize the saturation of the scintillation light in order to assess the impact of this effect on the charge resolution of the instrument.
KW - Charge identification
KW - Cosmic-ray
KW - Scintillation light saturation
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U2 - 10.1016/j.nima.2011.08.034
DO - 10.1016/j.nima.2011.08.034
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:80455174596
SN - 0168-9002
VL - 659
SP - 477
EP - 483
JO - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
JF - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
IS - 1
ER -