Pizza Seminars

SuperTIGER and the hunt for for Galactic Cosmic-Ray Origins

by Dr John E Ward (IFAE)

Europe/Madrid
Seminar (IFAE)

Seminar

IFAE

Description
SuperTIGER is a large-area (5.4 m^2) instrument that was successfully launched from Williams Field, McMurdo Station, Antarctica, on Dec. 9, 2012 on a long-duration balloon flight and flew for a total of 55 days. It measured cosmic-ray nuclei in the charge interval 29 <= Z <= 42 with individual element resolution and high statistical precision, and made exploratory measurements through Z = 56. These measurements will provide sensitive tests of the emerging model of cosmic-ray origins in OB associations and models of the mechanism for selection of nuclei for acceleration. Particle charge and energy were measured with a combination of plastic scintillators (to measure dE/dX), acrylic and silica-aerogel Cherenkov detectors (to measure particle velocity), and a scintillating fiber hodoscope (to measure particle trajectory). Details of the SuperTIGER science goals, flight, instrument performance and preliminary results will be presented.
Slides
Participants
  • Abelardo Moralejo
  • Abril Florez Oscar
  • Adiv Gonzalez Muñoz
  • Alba Fernández Barral
  • Alex Pomarol
  • Alfonso Garcia
  • Alicia López-Oramas
  • Antonio Pineda
  • Carles Sanchez Alonso
  • Christophe Grojean
  • Clara Peset
  • Daniel Guberman
  • Eduard Masso
  • Ekaterina Mikhaylova
  • Enrique Fernandez
  • Federico Sanchez
  • Francesco Rubbo
  • Garoe Gonzalez
  • Gianluca De Lorenzo
  • Imma Riu
  • Isaac Esparbé
  • Ivan Lopez Paz
  • Javier Caravaca
  • Javier Rico
  • Javier Serra
  • Jelena Aleksic
  • Joan Elias
  • Joaquim Palacio Navarro
  • Joern Lange
  • Juan Cortina
  • Julian Sitarek
  • Lars Hofer
  • Machiel Kolstein
  • Martine Bosman
  • Matteo Cavalli-Sfrorza
  • oriol pujolas
  • Oscar Blanch Bigas
  • Rafel Escribano
  • Raimon Casanova
  • Raquel Castillo Fernandez
  • Roger Caminal Armadans
  • Rubén López-Coto
  • Sergi Gonzalez-Solis
  • Thibaud Vantalon
  • Thorsten Lux
  • Yuan Zhong
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