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Cosmic Ray Instrumentation and Simulations

McBride, Keith William
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2195-4324
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1620666030783043

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2021, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Physics.
The natural phenomenon of cosmic radiation has been observed for over a hundred years and although many classes of objects have been identified as candidates, the origins of the galactic and the extragalactic components remain unconfirmed. The balloon-borne experiment, the ANtarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA), observes the ice of Antarctica for signals from potential extragalactic ultra-high energy neutrinos. This thesis includes a chapter on my contribution to the ANITA collaboration. I updated the simulations of the detector to include the new hardware electronics responses and analyzed its effect on the sensitivity. This software package is used in analysis of the data extensively. The galactic cosmic ray nuclei spectra are missing key light isotope measurements at intermediately high energies. The upcoming project, the High Energy Light Isotope eXperiment (HELIX), will attempt to make these first-ever measurements. I aided in the construction, design, and testing of the Drift Chamber Tracker and the superconducting magnet for this experiment. I built the data acquisition system for the housekeeping sensors and power system including production-level circuit boards and software for readout. Finally, I performed an analysis on a diffusion-halo model of galactic cosmic-ray propagation to explore the constraining ability of newly released secondary-primary ratio data with expected HELIX measurements of the long-lived isotope, Beryllium-10.
James Beatty (Advisor)
Amy Connolly (Committee Member)
John Beacom (Committee Member)
Antonio Boveia (Committee Member)
199 p.
Astrophysics; Physics
cosmic-rays; ANITA; HELIX; GALPROP; astroparticle physics; clock isotopes; galactic halo; drift chamber; magnet spectrometer;

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  • McBride, K. W. (2021). Cosmic Ray Instrumentation and Simulations [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1620666030783043

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • McBride, Keith. Cosmic Ray Instrumentation and Simulations. 2021. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1620666030783043.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • McBride, Keith. "Cosmic Ray Instrumentation and Simulations." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1620666030783043

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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