High-Energy Antimatter Telescope (HEAT) balloon flight, Ft. Sumner (NM), 5/3/1994

Preparation, launch, balloon flight and recovery of the HEAT (High-Energy Antimatter Telescope). The mission was performed by the National Scientific Balloon Facility (NSBF) on May 3, 1994 from their launch base in Fort Sumner, New Mexico.

HEAT was an instrument developed by an extensive collaboration that included the University of Chicago, Indiana University, University of California at Irvine, University of Michigan, Pennsylvania State University and Eastern New Mexico University. It's goal was the detection and identification of cosmic-ray electrons and positrons at energies from about 1 GeV up to 50 GeV and beyond. It consisted of a two-coil superconducting magnet and a precision drift-tube tracking hodoscope, complemented with a time-of-flight system, a transition radiation detector and an electromagnetic shower counter.

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