The Advanced Cosmic-ray Composition Experiment for the Space Station (ACCESS) will perform a direct measurement of the elemental composition and energy spectra of cosmic-ray particles up to an energy of 10(15) eV. The detector complement of ACCESS consists of a TRD and a ionization calorimeter, and six different concepts for the ACCESS calorimeter design alone have been proposed in the recent past. In this work, we present the structure optimization analysis and the Monte Carlo simulation results on detector performance for the silicon-tungsten (Si-W) imaging calorimeter design for ACCESS, developed as part of the NASA-sponsored mission concept and detector assessment study for this experiment. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
Simulation study of the silicon-tungsten calorimeter for ACCESS
VACCHI, Andrea
2003-01-01
Abstract
The Advanced Cosmic-ray Composition Experiment for the Space Station (ACCESS) will perform a direct measurement of the elemental composition and energy spectra of cosmic-ray particles up to an energy of 10(15) eV. The detector complement of ACCESS consists of a TRD and a ionization calorimeter, and six different concepts for the ACCESS calorimeter design alone have been proposed in the recent past. In this work, we present the structure optimization analysis and the Monte Carlo simulation results on detector performance for the silicon-tungsten (Si-W) imaging calorimeter design for ACCESS, developed as part of the NASA-sponsored mission concept and detector assessment study for this experiment. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
