The pGAPS experiment: An engineering balloon flight of prototype GAPS

The General Anti-Particle Spectrometer (GAPS) project is being carried out to search for primary cosmic-ray antiparticles especially for antideuterons produced by cold dark matter. GAPS plans to realize the science observation by Antarctic long duration balloon flights in the late 2010s. In preparat...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Advances in space research 2014-05, Vol.53 (10), p.1432-1437
Main Authors: Fuke, H., Ong, R.A., Aramaki, T., Bando, N., Boggs, S.E., Doetinchem, P.v., Gahbauer, F.H., Hailey, C.J., Koglin, J.E., Madden, N., Mognet, S.A.I., Mori, K., Okazaki, S., Perez, K.M., Yoshida, T., Zweerink, J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cosmic-ray antideuteron
Dark matter
Prototype balloon experiment
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:The General Anti-Particle Spectrometer (GAPS) project is being carried out to search for primary cosmic-ray antiparticles especially for antideuterons produced by cold dark matter. GAPS plans to realize the science observation by Antarctic long duration balloon flights in the late 2010s. In preparation for the Antarctic science flights, an engineering balloon flight using a prototype of the GAPS instrument, “pGAPS”, was successfully carried out in June 2012 in Japan to verify the basic performance of each GAPS subsystem. The outline of the pGAPS flight campaign is briefly reported.
ISSN:0273-1177
1879-1948
DOI:10.1016/j.asr.2013.06.026