January 1, 2006 Journal article Open Access

Performance of CREAM Calorimeter: Results of Beam Tests

Maria Grazia Bagliesi; S. Syed; P. S. Marrocchesi; T G Kang; J. J. Beatty; H. S. Ahn; S. L. Nutter; Eun-Suk Seo; M. H. Lee; R. Sina; S. P. Swordy; S. Coutu; S. Y. Zinn; Antonella Castellina; Inkyu Park; Michael DuVernois; S. W. Nam; J. Wu; N. B. Conklin; J. T. Childers; L. Lutz; N. H. Park; H. J. Hyun; C. Song; Riccardo Zei; H. Park; Paolo Maestro; O. Ganel; S. I. Mognet; Jung-Suk Han; Yongsun Kim; H. J. Kim; J. Yang; Kwangmoo Kim; A. Malinine; H Q Zhang; J. K. Lee; Gabriele Bigongiari; M.Y. Kim; T. Kim

The Cosmic Ray Energetics And Mass (CREAM), a balloon-borne experiment, is under preparation for a flight in Antarctica at the end of 2004. CREAM is planned to measure the energy spectrum and composition of cosmic rays directly at energies between 1 TeV and 1000 TeV. Incident particle energies will be measured by a transition radiation detector and a sampling calorimeter. The calorimeter was constructed at the University of Maryland and tested at CERN in 2003. Performance of the calorimeter during the beam tests is reported.