RAPID on Cluster
http://www.mps.mpg.de/de/projekte/cluster/rapid/index.html

Cluster/RAPID

Research with Adaptive Particle Imaging Detectors

6-Hour Summary Plots > click here

Joint RAPID/CIS Team Meeting, Venice, Italy, Oct. 13-17, 2008

Joint RAPID/PEACE Team Meeting, Coseners House, Abingdon, UK, Sept. 5-7, 2007

See > presentations and > group photo.

RAPID Team Meeting and RAPID/PEACE Workshop, Los Alamos, USA, August 21-24, 2006

See > presentations.

RAPID Team Meeting in Goslar, Germany, October 25-27, 2005.

See > presentations.


The MPS's PI contribution to the > Cluster Mission

The RAPID spectrometer for the Cluster mission is an advanced particle detector for the analysis of suprathermal plasma distributions in the energy range from 20-400 keV for electrons, 40-1500 keV (4000 keV) for hydrogen, and 10 keV/nuc - 1500 keV (4000 keV) for heavier ions. Novel detector concepts in combination with pin-hole acceptance allow the measurement of angular distributions over a range of 180° in polar angle for either species. The detection principle for the ionic component is based on a two-dimensional analysis of the particle's velocity and energy. Electrons are identified by the well known energy-range relationship.

> Characteristic Parameters
> Details on IIMS (Ions)
> Details on IES (Electrons)
> New Electron Product: L3DD (report as PDF file)
> RAPID Team Members
> RAPID publications
> RAPID Documentation
> Caveats: Problem Reports
> RAPID Software
> RAPID Web Site at RAL
> RAL Survey plots and Software
> CCR (CEPPAD, CAMMICE, RAPID) Site at LANL
> Obtaining RAPID data.


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