HEAT (High-Energy Antimatter Telescope)

Un experimento para estudiar la antimateria presente en la radiación cosmica primaria. El instrumento está configurado para detectar electrones primarios de alta energia y su contrapartida antimaterial: los positrones. Primer Vuelo.

Sitio de lanzamiento: Scientific Flight Balloon Facility, Fort Sumner (NM), EEUU  
Hora lanzamiento: 13:13 utc
Lanzamiento y operación del globo a cargo de: National Scientific Balloon Facility (NSBF)
Globo: Globo de Presión Cero SF3-459.37-080-NSXCHR-ST
Nº de serie del globo: W39.57-3-04
Nº de vuelo: 377N

• Air Shower Muons and the Atmospheric Neutrino Puzzle 26th International Cosmic Ray Conference. Vol. 2, p.68
• Cosmic Antimatter article published on Scientific American, April 1998 - PDF format -
• Cosmic Ray Positrons at High Energies: A New Measurement Phys.Rev.Lett. 75 (1995) 390-393
• Cosmic-Ray Positrons: Are There Primary Sources? Astropart.Phys. 11 (1999) 429-435
• Electron and positron energy spectra: HEAT magnet spectrometer results 26th International Cosmic Ray Conference. August 17-25, 1999. Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
• High-Energy Antimatter Telescope (HEAT): Basic Design and Performance at CiteSeer
• Measurements Of The Cosmic Ray Positron Fraction With The Heat Spectrometer at CiteSeer
• Measurements of the Cosmic-Ray Positron Fraction From 1 to 50 GeV at CERN
• NASA Balloon Flights (1989-1998) in NASA Historical Data Book, Vol. VII: NASA Launch Systems, Space Transportation, Human Spaceflight, and Space Science, 1989-1998
• Secondary And Re-Entrant Albedo Electrons In The Atmosphere at CiteSeer
• The Energy Spectra and Relative Abundances of Electrons and Positrons in the Galactic Cosmic Radiation Astrophys.J. 498 (1998) 779-789