@inproceedings{405ca28e275644aba75870b6c75b6703,
title = "High-energy Antimatter Telescope (HEAT): basic design and performance",
abstract = "The high-energy antimatter telescope (HEAT) instrument has been flown successfully by high-altitude balloon in 1994 and 1995, in a configuration optimized for the detection and identification of cosmic-ray electrons and positrons at energies from about 1 GeV up to 50 GeV and beyond. It consists of a two-coil superconducting magnet and a precision drift-tube tracking hodoscope, complemented with a time-of-flight system, a transition radiation detector and an electromagnetic shower counter. We review the design criteria for optimal e ± detection and identification, and assess the instruments' performance and background rejection during its first two flights. We also review the adaptation of HEAT for measurements of high-energy cosmic-ray antiprotons and for isotopic composition studies.",
author = "Stephane Coutu and Barwick, {S. W.} and A. Bhattacharyya and Beatty, {James J.} and Bower, {C. R.} and C. Chaput and {De Nolfo}, G. and Don Ellithorpe and D. Ficenec and J. Knapp and Lowder, {D. M.} and McKee, {S. M.} and Dietrich Mueller and Musser, {J. A.} and Nutter, {S. L.}",
year = "1996",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "0819421944",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
pages = "113--120",
editor = "Ramsey, {Brian D.} and Parnell, {Thomas A.}",
booktitle = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
note = "Gamma-Ray and Cosmic-Ray Detectors, Techniques, and Missions ; Conference date: 05-08-1996 Through 07-08-1996",
}