Particle Astrophysics in NASA's Long Duration Balloon Program
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2015-06-17 v2
Abstract
A century after Victor Hess' discovery of cosmic rays, balloon flights still play a central role in the investigation of cosmic rays over nearly their entire spectrum. We report on the current status of NASA balloon program for particle astrophysics, with particular emphasis on the very successful Antarctic long-duration balloon program, and new developments in the progress toward ultra-long duration balloons.
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@article{arxiv.1308.4700,
title = {Particle Astrophysics in NASA's Long Duration Balloon Program},
author = {Peter W. Gorham},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.4700},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
8 pages, 9 figures, invited contribution to SpacePart12 at CERN; to be published in Nuclear Physics B; minor corrections in this version