@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",
}