Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2019
Volume 64, Number 3
Saturday–Tuesday, April 13–16, 2019; Denver, Colorado
Session H08: Next Generation Cosmic Ray Observatories
10:45 AM–12:33 PM,
Sunday, April 14, 2019
Sheraton
Room: Governor's Square 10
Sponsoring
Unit:
DAP
Chair: Tonia Venters, NASA GSFC
Abstract: H08.00007 : The Heavy Nuclei eXplorer
11:57 AM–12:09 PM
Presenter:
John W Mitchell
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
Author:
John W Mitchell
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
Collaboration:
Heavy Nuclei eXplorer (HNX) Collaboration.
The Heavy Nuclei eXplorer (HNX) will investigate the nature of the reservoirs of nuclei at the cosmic-ray sources, the mechanisms by which nuclei are removed from the reservoirs and injected into the cosmic accelerators, and the acceleration mechanism. HNX will use two large high-precision instruments, the Extremely-heavy Cosmic-ray Composition Observer (ECCO) and the Cosmic-ray Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder (CosmicTIGER), flying in the SpaceX DragonLab, to measure, for the first time, the abundance of every individual element in the periodic table from carbon through the actinides, providing the first measurement of many of these elements. HNX will measure several thousand ultra-heavy galactic cosmic ray (UHGCR) nuclei Z≥30, including about 50 actinides, and will: determine whether GCR are accelerated from new or old material, and find their age; measure the mix of nucleosynthesis processes responsible for the UHGCRs; determine how UHGCR elements are selected for acceleration, and measure the mean integrated pathlength traversed by UHGCRs before observation. The scientific motivation and instrument complement of HNX will be discussed.
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