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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…

The General AntiParticle Spectrometer experiment (GAPS) is foreseen to carry out a dark matter search using low-energy cosmic ray antideuterons at stratospheric altitudes with a novel detection approach. A prototype flight from Taiki, Japan…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-15 P. von Doetinchem , T. Aramaki , N. Bando , S. E. Boggs , H. Fuke , F. H. Gahbauer , C. J. Hailey , J. E. Koglin , S. A. I. Mognet , N. Madden , S. Okazaki , R. A. Ong , K. M. Perez , T. Yoshida , J. Zweerink

The General AntiParticle Spectrometer (GAPS) is a balloon-borne instrument designed to detect cosmic-ray antimatter using the novel exotic atom technique, obviating the strong magnetic fields required by experiments like AMS, PAMELA, or…

We have developed large-area lithium-drifted silicon (Si(Li)) detectors to meet the unique requirements of the General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) experiment. GAPS is an Antarctic balloon-borne mission scheduled for the first flight in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-19 M. Kozai , H. Fuke , M. Yamada , T. Erjavec , C. J. Hailey , C. Kato , N. Madden , K. Munakata , K. Perez , F. Rogers , N. Saffold , Y. Shimizu , K. Tokuda , M. Xiao

The General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) is an Antarctic stratospheric balloon mission designed to provide unmatched sensitivity to low-energy (<0.25 GeV/n) cosmic-ray antiprotons, antideuterons, and antihelium nuclei as signatures of…

The GAPS experiment is foreseen to carry out a dark matter search using a novel detection approach to detect low-energy cosmic-ray antideuterons. The theoretically predicted antideuteron flux resulting from secondary interactions of primary…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-02 Ph. von Doetinchem , T. Aramaki , St. Boggs , W. Craig , H. Fuke , F. Gahbauer , Ch. Hailey , J. Koglin , N. Madden , I. Mognet , K. Mori , R. Ong , T. Yoshida , T. Zhang , J. Zweerink

The General AntiParticle Spectrometer (GAPS) is a novel approach for the indirect dark matter search that exploits cosmic antideuterons. GAPS utilizes a distinctive detection method using atomic X-rays and charged particles from the exotic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-28 T. Aramaki , S. K. Chan , W. W. Craig , L. Fabris , F. Gahbauer , C. J. Hailey , J. E. Koglin , N. Madden , K. Mori , H. T. Yu , K. P. Ziock

The General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) is designed to carry out indirect dark matter search by measuring low-energy cosmic-ray antiparticles. Below a few GeVs the flux of antiparticles produced by cosmic-ray collisions with the…

The General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) is an Antarctic balloon-borne mission to indirectly search for dark matter through sensitive observation of cosmic antiparticles. The first flight is planned for late 2021. GAPS is the first…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-05 Valentina Scotti , Alfonso Boiano , Lorenzo Fabris , Massimo Manghisoni , Giuseppe Osteria , Elisa Riceputi , Francesco Perfetto , Valerio Re , Gianluigi Zampa

The General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) is a novel approach for indirect dark matter searches that exploits cosmic antiparticles, especially antideuterons. The GAPS antideuteron measurement utilizes distinctive detection methods using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-07 T. Aramaki , C. J. Hailey , S. E. Boggs , P. von Doetinchem , H. Fuke , S. I. Mognet , R. A. Ong , K. Perez , J. Zweerink

Large-area lithium-drifted silicon (Si(Li)) detectors, operable 150{\deg}C above liquid nitrogen temperature, have been developed for the General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) balloon mission and will form the first such system to…

The GAPS experiment is designed to carry out a sensitive dark matter search by measuring low-energy cosmic ray antideuterons and antiprotons. GAPS will provide a new avenue to access a wide range of dark matter models and masses that is…

The General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) is an Antarctic balloon experiment designed for low-energy (0.1$-$0.3 GeV/$n$) cosmic antinuclei as signatures of dark matter annihilation or decay. GAPS is optimized to detect low-energy…

The General AntiParticle Spectrometer (GAPS) is a balloon-borne cosmic-ray antimatter experiment that uses the exotic atom technique, eliminating the requirement for strong B-fields used by conventional magnetic spectrometers. It will be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-30 S. Quinn

GRAMS (Gamma-Ray and AntiMatter Survey) is a next-generation balloon/satellite experiment utilizing a LArTPC (Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber), to simultaneously target astrophysical observations of cosmic MeV gamma-rays and conduct an…

This study developed a novel thermal control system to cool detectors of the General AntiParticle Spectrometer (GAPS) before its flights. GAPS is a balloon-borne cosmic-ray observation experiment. In its payload, GAPS contains over 1000…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-21 Hideyuki Fuke , Shun Okazaki , Akiko Kawachi , Shohei Kobayashi , Masayoshi Kozai , Hiroyuki Ogawa , Masaru Saijo , Shuto Takeuchi , Kakeru Tokunaga

The General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) will carry out a sensitive dark matter search by measuring low-energy ($\mathrm{E} < 0.25 \mathrm{GeV/nucleon}$) cosmic ray antinuclei. The primary targets are low-energy antideuterons produced…

A Si(Li) detector fabrication procedure has been developed with the aim of satisfying the unique requirements of the GAPS (General Antiparticle Spectrometer) experiment. Si(Li) detectors are particularly well-suited to the GAPS detection…

Experiments aiming to directly detect dark matter (DM) particles have yet to make robust detections, thus underscoring the need for complementary approaches such as searches for new particles at colliders, and indirect DM searches in…

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