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Title	Elemental Spectra from the CREAM-I Flight
Author(s)	Ahn, Hoseok ; Allison, P S ; Bagliesi, M G ; Beatty, J J ; Bigongiari, G ; Boyle, P J ; Childers, J T ; Conklin, N B ; Coutu, S ; Duvernois, M A ; Ganel, O ; Han, J H ; Jeon, J A ; Kim, K C ; Lee, J K ; Lee, M H ; Lutz, L ; Maestro, P ; Malinine, A ; Marrocchesi, P S ; Minnick, S ; Mognet, S I ; Nam, S ; Nutter, S ; Park, I H ; Park, N H ; Seo, E S ; Sina, R ; Swordy, S ; Wakely, S P ; Wu, J ; Yang, J ; Yoon, Y S ; Zei, R ; Zinn, S Y
Publication	2007
Number of pages	4
In:	30th International Cosmic Ray Conference, Merida, Mexico, 3 - 11 Jul 2007, pp.63-66
Subject category	Astrophysics and Astronomy
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment	CREAM CERN SPS CERN SPS
Test beam	H2
Abstract	The Cosmic Ray Energetics And Mass (CREAM) instrument is a balloon-borne experiment designed to measure the composition and energy spectra of cosmic rays of charge Z = 1 to 26 up to an energy of ∼1015 eV. CREAM had two successful flights on long-duration balloons (LDB) launched from McMurdo Station, Antarctica, in December 2004 and December 2005. CREAM achieves a substantial measurement redundancy by employing multiple detector systems, namely a Timing Charge Detector (TCD), a Silicon Charge Detector (SCD), and a Cherenkov Detector (CD) for particle identification, and a Transition Radiation Detector (TRD) and a sampling tungsten/scintillating-fiber ionization calorimeter (CAL) for energy measurement. In this paper, preliminary energy spectra of various elements measured with CAL/SCD during the first 42-day flight are presented.

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