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    <ResourceHeader>
      <ResourceName>EPIC</ResourceName>
      <AlternateName>Energetic Particles and Ion Composition instrument</AlternateName>
      <ReleaseDate>2017-02-04T12:34:56.789</ReleaseDate>

      <Description>The Energetic Particles and Ion Composition (EPIC) instrument is actually composed of two separate sensor and processing assemblies.

    * The STICS assembly (Supra-Thermal Ion Composition Spectrometer) uses a quadrispherical electrostatic analyzer followed by a foil/solid state detector time-of-flight (TOF) telecope to measure charge state, mass and energy of ions with energies of 30 - 230 keV/charge. It uses an electrostatic analyzer with a geometry factor of 0.05 cm^2 sr, time of flight and energy analysis. STICS includes 6 heads and provides 3D distribution functions.
    * The ICS assembly (Ion Composition Subsystem) measures mass and energy properties of energetic ions with energies of less than 50 keV to 3 MeV. It uses a pair of collimators (heads) pointng +/- 23 deg apart the GSE equatorial, followed by TOF and energy analysis, with a geometry factor of 0.2 cm^2 sr. A thin foil/solid state detector electron telescope measures electrons higher than 30 keV.     
      </Description>     

      <Acknowledgement></Acknowledgement>
      <Contact>
        <PersonID>spase://SMWG/Person/Donald.J.Williams</PersonID>

        <Role>FormerPI</Role>
      </Contact>
      <Contact>

        <PersonID>spase://CNES/Person/CDPP-AMDA/A.T.Lui</PersonID>

        <Role>PrincipalInvestigator</Role>
      </Contact>

      <Contact>

        <PersonID>spase://CNES/Person/CDPP-AMDA/Stuart.Nyland</PersonID>

        <Role>DataProducer</Role>
      </Contact>
      <InformationURL>
        <Name>EPIC sensor elevation angles</Name>
        <URL>help/epic.html</URL>

      </InformationURL>  
      <InformationURL>    
        <Name>EPIC Energy Tables</Name>
        <URL>help/epic_table.html</URL>
        <Description/>
      </InformationURL>

      <InformationURL>

        <Name>AMDA EPIC product examples</Name>
        <URL>help/epic_amda.html</URL>
      </InformationURL>
      <InformationURL>    

        <Name>EPIC description at JHU/APL</Name>
        <URL>http://sd-www.jhuapl.edu/Geotail/epic_instr.html</URL>

        <Description/>

      </InformationURL>
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    <InstrumentType>QuadrisphericalAnalyser</InstrumentType>
    <InstrumentType>TimeOfFlight</InstrumentType>
    <InstrumentType>SolidStateDetector</InstrumentType>
    <InvestigationName></InvestigationName>

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