DocumentCode
836244
Title
The Voyager Cosmic Ray Experiment
Author
Stilwell, D.E. ; Davis, W.D. ; Joyce, R.M. ; McDonald, F.B. ; Trainor, J.H. ; Althouse, W.E. ; Cummings, A.C. ; Garrard, T.L. ; Stone, E.C. ; Vogt, R.E.
Volume
26
Issue
1
fYear
1979
Firstpage
513
Lastpage
520
Abstract
The Voyager Cosmic Ray Experiment includes seven dE/dx-E telescopes to measure the energy and charge of particles of 1 ¿ Z ¿ 26 in the energy range 1-500 MeV/ nucleon and to measure electron energy in the range 3 ¿ Ee¿ 110 MeV. Isotopic composition of hydrogen through sulfur in the range up to 75 MeV/nucleon can also be resolved. The electronic systems include a dual-gain, charge sensitive preamplifier, 4096-channel pulse height analyzers for three parameter analysis of selected events, and an event type readout polling scheme to maximize the use of available telemetry space and to enhance the occurrence of rare events in the data. Details of the detector, electronic and mechanical design are presented.
Keywords
Charge measurement; Current measurement; Electrons; Energy measurement; Energy resolution; Hydrogen; Nuclear measurements; Particle measurements; Preamplifiers; Telescopes;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9499
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TNS.1979.4329683
Filename
4329683
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