Author/Authors :
Kole، نويسنده , , Merlin and Chauvin، نويسنده , , Maxime and Fukazawa، نويسنده , , Yasushi and Fukuda، نويسنده , , Kentaro and Ishizu، نويسنده , , Sumito and Jackson، نويسنده , , Miranda and Kamae، نويسنده , , Tune and Kawaguchi، نويسنده , , Noriaki and Kawano، نويسنده , , Takafumi and Kiss، نويسنده , , Mَzsi and Moretti، نويسنده , , Elena and Pearce، نويسنده , , Mark and Rydstrِm، نويسنده , , Stefan and Takahashi، نويسنده , , Hiromitsu and Yanagida، نويسنده , , Takayuki، نويسنده ,
Abstract :
PoGOLino is a balloon-borne scintillator-based experiment developed to study the largely unexplored high altitude neutron environment at high geomagnetic latitudes. The instrument comprises two detectors that make use of LiCAF, a novel neutron sensitive scintillator, sandwiched by BGO crystals for background reduction. The experiment was launched on March 20th 2013 from the Esrange Space Centre, Northern Sweden (geomagnetic latitude of 65°), for a three hour flight during which the instrument took data up to an altitude of 30.9 km. The detector design and ground calibration results are presented together with the measurement results from the balloon flight.
Keywords :
Phoswich scintillator , Astroparticle physics , LiCAF , neutron detection , Balloon-borne
