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How could AHEPaM be simplified
{\bf Lars: 2-3 Sätze "more space"}
Since \acs{AHEPaM} is a scientific instrument, the development of the telescope has been granted the highest priority for long time during the concept design phase. While the detector design matured, the structural design has not been pushed with the same priority. This led to a situation where the mechanical design needed to cope with a finalized telescope design, which led to the documented design in this report. In retrospective it would have been better to better synchronize
Since \acs{AHEPaM} is a scientific instrument, the development of the telescope and the front-end electronics had the highest priority for long time during the concept design phase. While the detector/ telescope design matured, the detailed mechanical design did not move forward with the same pace. This later led to a situation where the structural design needed to include a finalized detector arrangement. Since the simulation results were all based on the fixed telescope geometry, a late stage change in the cherenkov detector's mechanical support concept was very complex to include, mainly due to lack of available space between the detectors. So, in retrospective it would have been beneficial for some design aspects to detail the mechanical design parallel to the telescope design.
The simulations detailed in section 1 of \cite{ahepam-djf} have been performed individually with and without a Cherenkov detector in order to investigate whether or not the \ac{AHEPaM} requirements can be fulfilled with both setups. The requirement regarding the electron uncertainties has proven to be the most difficult one to achieve due to the contribution of protons to the electron channels. This contamination is significant due to the higher proton flux compared to the electrons expected for the \ac{GCR} (see fig. \ref{fig:GCR-spec}).\newline
While the methods introduced in \cite{ahepam-djf} utilizing thresholds in the different detectors of the instrument have reduced the contamination already significantly even without a Cherenkov detector, this improvement has proven to be insufficient in order to fulfill the given requirements. Introducing the Cherenkov to the setup allowed for a further suppression of the proton contamination and hence significant lower electron uncertainties. Additionally, the Cherenkov allows to separate protons above and below 2~GeV {\bf woanders ist von 3 Gev die Rede} allowing for better energy resolutions up to 2~GeV as well as providing an integral channel for protons above 2~GeV. Hence, from a measurement technique perspective the Cherenkov detector is highly preferred.\newline