TY - JOUR
T1 - Progress of the BESS Superconducting Spectrometer
AU - Haino, S.
AU - Abe, K.
AU - Anraku, K.
AU - Fuke, H.
AU - Hams, T.
AU - Ikeda, N.
AU - Itasaki, A.
AU - Izumi, K.
AU - Kumazawa, T.
AU - Lee, M. H.
AU - Maeno, T.
AU - Makida, Y.
AU - Matsuda, S.
AU - Matsui, N.
AU - Matsumoto, H.
AU - Matsumoto, K.
AU - Mitchell, J. W.
AU - Moiseev, A. A.
AU - Nishimura, J.
AU - Nozaki, M.
AU - Omiya, H.
AU - Orito, S.
AU - Ormes, J. F.
AU - Sanuki, T.
AU - Sasaki, M.
AU - Seo, E. S.
AU - Shikaze, Y.
AU - Streitmatter, R. E.
AU - Suzuki, J.
AU - Takasugi, Y.
AU - Takeuchi, S.
AU - Tanaka, K.
AU - Taniguchi, T.
AU - Tanizaki, K.
AU - Yamagami, T.
AU - Yamamoto, A.
AU - Yamamoto, Y.
AU - Yamato, K.
AU - Yoshida, T.
AU - Yoshimura, K.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank NASA HQ, WFF BPO and NSBF for their continuous encouragement in this US–Japan cooperative project. We also wish to thank ISAS, KEK and ICEPP for their continuous support and encouragement. BESS experiment has been supported by a Grants-in-Aid from MEXT in Japan and by NASA grants. Development of the thin superconducting magnet had been partially supported by Japan Space Forum.
PY - 2004/2/1
Y1 - 2004/2/1
N2 - Balloon-borne Experiment with a Superconducting Spectrometer (BESS) is a balloon-borne spectrometer to study elementary particle phenomena in the early Universe as well as the origin and the propagation of cosmic radiation. The instrument has a unique feature of a thin superconducting solenoid which enables a large acceptance with a cylindrical configuration. Nine balloon flights have been successfully carried out since 1993. In 2002, the detector was upgraded as the BESS-TeV spectrometer to extend primary cosmic-ray spectra up to 1TeV. For further studies of low-energy antiprotons, a new spectrometer, BESS-Polar, with a ultra-thin superconducting solenoid is being developed for long duration balloon flights in Antarctica.
AB - Balloon-borne Experiment with a Superconducting Spectrometer (BESS) is a balloon-borne spectrometer to study elementary particle phenomena in the early Universe as well as the origin and the propagation of cosmic radiation. The instrument has a unique feature of a thin superconducting solenoid which enables a large acceptance with a cylindrical configuration. Nine balloon flights have been successfully carried out since 1993. In 2002, the detector was upgraded as the BESS-TeV spectrometer to extend primary cosmic-ray spectra up to 1TeV. For further studies of low-energy antiprotons, a new spectrometer, BESS-Polar, with a ultra-thin superconducting solenoid is being developed for long duration balloon flights in Antarctica.
KW - Balloon-borne payload
KW - Cosmic ray
KW - Magnetic-rigidity spectrometer
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U2 - 10.1016/j.nima.2003.10.051
DO - 10.1016/j.nima.2003.10.051
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:0942266487
SN - 0168-9002
VL - 518
SP - 167
EP - 171
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 - 1-2
T2 - Frontier Detectors for Frontier Physics, Proceedings
Y2 - 25 May 2003 through 31 May 2003
ER -