The pGAPS experiment: An engineering balloon flight of prototype GAPS

H. Fuke; R. A. Ong; T. Aramaki; N. Bando; S. E. Boggs; P. V. Doetinchem; F. H. Gahbauer; C. J. Hailey; J. E. Koglin; N. Madden; S. A.I. Mognet; K. Mori; S. Okazaki; K. M. Perez; T. Yoshida; J. Zweerink

doi:10.1016/j.asr.2013.06.026

The pGAPS experiment: An engineering balloon flight of prototype GAPS

H. Fuke, R. A. Ong, T. Aramaki, N. Bando, S. E. Boggs, P. V. Doetinchem, F. H. Gahbauer, C. J. Hailey, J. E. Koglin, N. Madden, S. A.I. Mognet, K. Mori, S. Okazaki, K. M. Perez, T. Yoshida, J. Zweerink

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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 long duration balloon flights in the late 2010s. In preparation for the Antarctic science flights, an engineering balloon flight using a prototype of the GAPS instrument, "pGAPS", was successfully carried out in June 2012 in Japan to verify the basic performance of each GAPS subsystem. The outline of the pGAPS flight campaign is briefly reported.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1432-1437
Number of pages	6
Journal	Advances in Space Research
Volume	53
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2013.06.026
State	Published - May 15 2014

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Aerospace Engineering
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Geophysics
Atmospheric Science
Space and Planetary Science
General Earth and Planetary Sciences

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Fuke, H., Ong, R. A., Aramaki, T., Bando, N., Boggs, S. E., Doetinchem, P. V., Gahbauer, F. H., Hailey, C. J., Koglin, J. E., Madden, N., Mognet, S. A. I., Mori, K., Okazaki, S., Perez, K. M., Yoshida, T., & Zweerink, J. (2014). The pGAPS experiment: An engineering balloon flight of prototype GAPS. Advances in Space Research, 53(10), 1432-1437. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2013.06.026

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