Title : 
Proposed Detector Assembly for Identification of Heavy Mass Cosmic Ray Nuclei of Low Energies
         
        
        
            Author_Institution : 
Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics the University of Florida Gainesville, Florida
         
        
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
A description is given of a proposed new particle detector capable of measuring dE/dx and residual energy values of energetic heavy mass cosmic ray nuclei (Z>26) with energies as low as 1 MeV/nucleon, a region of information not accessible by other known means. The unique advantages of this detector assembly as it is envisaged for space flight experiments are listed.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Assembly; Chemistry; Cosmic rays; Energy measurement; Extraterrestrial measurements; Nuclear measurements; Optical films; Physics; Radiation detectors; Transistors;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
         
        
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/TNS.1972.4326538