CREAM Flight Data Processing

Year: 2005

Type: article

Abstract: The Cosmic Ray Energetics And Mass (CREAM) instrument is a balloon-borne experiment designed to measure the composition and energy spectra of cosmic rays up to similar to 10(15) eV. The instrument consists of, from top to bottom, an 8-paddle Timing Charge Detector (TCD), a 512-tube Transition Radiation Detector (TRD), a 2912-pixel Silicon Charge Detector (SCD), 2035 scintillating fibers in 3 hodoscopes interleaved with a pair of graphite targets, and a 20-layer tungsten/scintillating-fiber sampling calorimeter with 1000 fiber ribbons. We have developed the CREAM Data Processing System (CDPS), an object-oriented data processing program based on ROOT. In this paper we describe the data processing scheme used to handle flight data.

Source: CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Institutions: University of Maryland, College Park, The Ohio State University, University of Siena, University of Chicago, University of Minnesota, Pennsylvania State University, Ewha Womans University, Kent State University, Northern Kentucky University, Kyungpook National University

Language: English

Topic: Particle Detector Development and Performance

Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Polar Programs

OpenAlex ID: W3089174598