The Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder for the International Space Station (TIGERISS)

the TIGERISS Collaboration

The Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder for the International Space Station (TIGERISS)

the TIGERISS Collaboration

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TIGERISS is an Ultra-Heavy Galactic Cosmic Ray (UHGCR) detector to be proposed to the NASA Astrophysics Pioneers Program capable of measuring the abundance relative to ₂₆Fe of every element from ₅B to ₈₂Pb. It is evolved from the LDB TIGER and SuperTIGER balloon instruments and the Heavy-Nuclei Explorer SMEX, and compared to its predecessors, TIGERISS will have a greatly improved capability to definitively identify UHGCR nuclei. This has been demonstrated in component accelerator tests at CERN, including silicon strip detectors in place of scintillators. The geometry factor for TIGERISS is estimated to be from 1.1 to 1.7 m² sr depending on the ISS attachment point, compared to 0.6 m² sr for TIGER. Within one-year TIGERISS would observe ∼27 ₅₆Ba nuclei, a 20% statistically significant result comparable to the current SuperTIGER data set. Not requiring corrections for atmospheric interactions and scintillator saturation effects the TIGERISS results would be cleaner, and they would also make preliminary measurements to higher charges that will test models for cosmic-ray origins and acceleration. TIGERISS will measure UHGCR nuclei resulting from neutron-capture nucleosynthesis in heavy stars, supernovae, and binary neutron-star mergers and will probe the relative contribution of r-process elements to the cosmic rays.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	087
Journal	Proceedings of Science
Volume	395
State	Published - Mar 18 2022
Event	37th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2021 - Virtual, Berlin, Germany Duration: Jul 12 2021 → Jul 23 2021

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The Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder for the International Space Station (TIGERISS)

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