Electron Scattering Effects in Typical Cosmic Ray Telescopes
- Creators
- Lupton, J. E.
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Stone, E. C.
Abstract
Laboratory measurements have been made of the response of two typical cosmic ray detector systems to electrons between 0.2 and 2.0 MeV. The detector systems investigated were included in the Caltech Solar and Galactic Cosmic Ray Experiment aboard NASA's OGO-VI spacecraft and the Chicago/ Caltech Low Energy Cosmic Ray Experiment aboard OGO-IV. Working laboratory versions of each of these particle telescopes were exposed to the monoenergetic electron beam from a magnetic spectrometer. The results of pulse height and counting rate measurements indicate that electrons scattered from the anti-coincidence cup comprise about 25% of the total number arriving at the top of the detector stack. In certain cases, the contribution of these scattered particles to the total number of electrons detected can reach 65%. Suggestions are made for applying these results to other detector systems.
Additional Information
© Copyright 1972 IEEE. This work was supported in part by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under contract NAS5-3095 and NAS5-9312 and Grant Nos. NGR 05-002-160 and NGL 05-002-007. One of us (J.E.L.) has received valuable support from an NDEA Fellowship and a NASA Traineeship.Files
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- 44731
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20140408-090408664
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- NASA
- NAS5-3095
- NASA
- NAS5-9312
- NDEA Fellowship
- NASA Traineeship
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2014-04-08Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2021-11-10Created from EPrint's last_modified field
- Caltech groups
- Space Radiation Laboratory
- Other Numbering System Name
- Space Radiation Laboratory
- Other Numbering System Identifier
- 1971-05