@article{65cddf6a59254f618b9caca408f6b894,
title = "Performance of the BACCUS transition radiation detector",
abstract = "The Boron And Carbon Cosmic rays in the Upper Stratosphere (BACCUS) balloon-borne experiment flew for 30 days over Antarctica in December 2016. It is the successor of the CREAM balloon program in Antarctica which recorded a total cumulative exposure of 161 days. BAC-CUS is primarily aimed to measure cosmic-ray boron and carbon fluxes at the highest energies reachable with a balloon or satellite experiment, in order to provide essential information for a better understanding of cosmic-ray propagation in the Galaxy. The payload is made of multiple particle physics detectors which measure the charge up to Z=26 and energy of incident particles from a few hundred GeV to a few PeV. The newly designed Transition Radiation Detector (TRD) measures signals that are a function of the charge and Lorentz factor. In April 2016, BACCUS was taken to CERN in its flight configuration to characterize its detectors' response to beams of electrons and pions. The performance of the TRD using beam test data are reported in this paper.",
author = "N. Picot-Cl{\'e}mente and Y. Amare and T. Anderson and D. Angelaszek and N. Anthony and K. Cheryian and Choi, {G. H.} and M. Copley and S. Coutu and L. Derome and L. Eraud and L. Hagenau and Han, {J. H.} and Huh, {H. G.} and S. Im and Jeon, {J. A.} and S. Jeong and Kim, {K. C.} and Kim, {M. H.} and Lee, {H. Y.} and J. Lee and Lee, {M. H.} and J. Liang and Link, {J. T.} and L. Lu and L. Lutz and A. Menchaca-Rocha and T. Mernik and Mitchell, {J. W.} and Mognet, {S. I.} and S. Morton and M. Nester and S. Nutter and O. Ofoha and Park, {I. H.} and R. Quinn and Seo, {E. S.} and Smith, {J. R.} and P. Walpole and Weinmann, {R. P.} and J. Wu and Yoon, {Y. S.}",
note = "Funding Information: The authors thank the NASA Wallops Flight Facility, Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility, National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs, and Raytheon Polar Services Company for the successful balloon launch, flight operations, and payload recovery for each balloon flight. They also thank CERN for provision of excellent accelerator beams. This work is supported in the U.S. by NASA grants NNX11AC52G, NNX08AC15G, NNX08AC16G and their predecessor grants, as well as directed RTOP funds to the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. It is supported in Korea by the Creative Research Initiatives of MEST/NRF and by National Research Foundation Grants NRF-2014R1A2A2A01002734, NRF-2014R1A1A2006456. It is supported in France by IN2P3/CNRS and CNES and in Mexico by DGAPA-UNAM and CONACYT.; 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2017 ; Conference date: 10-07-2017 Through 20-07-2017",
year = "2017",
doi = "10.22323/1.301.0246",
language = "English (US)",
journal = "Proceedings of Science",
issn = "1824-8039",
publisher = "Sissa Medialab Srl",
}