3 papers
astro-ph.IM2019
Front-end electronics for the GAPS tracker
Valentina Scotti, Alfonso Boiano, Lorenzo Fabris +6
The General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) is an Antarctic balloon-borne mission to indirectly search for dark matter through sensitive observation of cosmic antiparticles. The f…
physics.ins-det2018
An Indirect Dark Matter Search Using Cosmic-Ray Antiparticles with GAPS
Alexander Lowell, Tsuguo Aramaki, Ralph Bird +30
Experiments aiming to directly detect dark matter (DM) particles have yet to make robust detections, thus underscoring the need for complementary approaches such as searches for ne…
astro-ph.IM2018
GAPS: A New Cosmic Ray Anti-matter Experiment
S. Quinn, T. Aramaki, R. Bird +37
The General AntiParticle Spectrometer (GAPS) is a balloon-borne instrument designed to detect cosmic-ray antimatter using the novel exotic atom technique, obviating the strong magn…