Date of Award
Winter 1981
Project Type
Dissertation
Program or Major
Physics
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy
Abstract
In 1976, 1977 and 1978, three balloon flights were conducted to measure the energy spectra of cosmic ray nuclei. A gas Cerenkov detector with different gas thresholds of 8.97, 13.12, and 17.94 GeV/nuc was employed to extend these measurements to high energies. The total collection factor for these flights is greater than twenty m('2) ster-hr. Individual charge resolution is achieved over the charge range Z = 4 - 26, and overlapping differential spectra are obtained from the three flights up to (TURN)100GeV/nuc.
Recommended Citation
CHAPPELL, JON H., "HIGH ENERGY COSMIC RAY CHARGE AND ENERGY SPECTRA MEASUREMENTS ABOVE 100 GEV/NUC" (1981). Doctoral Dissertations. 1301.
https://scholars.unh.edu/dissertation/1301