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External targets on board Balloon for GLAST January 13, 2001 Tsunefumi Mizuno and Shingo Uno Department of Physics, Hiroshima University Introduction External targets on board Balloon for GLAST consist of plastic scintillators, photomultiplier tubes (PMTs), high-voltage units (HV units), and support structures. They will be used for Balloon Flight in order to evaluate detector’s performance for gamma-ray. In orbit, energetic cosmic-rays (mostly MIP proton) will interact with plastic scintillators and produce pi0, which will immediately decay into two (or more) gamma-rays and be detected by a t