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I've made a fit of the histograms of pathlength corrected crystal energies of four biggest GCR peaks( B, C,N and O) for 5 time periods with distance ~4 month between periods (oct 2008, feb2009, jul2009, nov2009, mar2010).

The histograms with fits are shown on the following plots:

The fitting function contains for each peak a gaussian convolved with two exponential tails (the slope of left tail was fixed during fitting).

The following plot show the time evolution of peak positions for B, C, N and O peaks:

All four peaks show linear decrease with very close relative slope: 

  • B: 1.49+-0.05% per year
  • C: 1.60+-0.04% per year
  • N: 1.50+-0.06% per year
  • O: 1.46+-0.03% per year
    This signal decrease is probably explained by radiation damage to CsI crystals and has the value consistent with pre-launch expectations ~1% per year

I've done the proton calibration of individual crystals for the same time periods and compared the results with the initial on-orbit calibration done on June 28, 2008 and used of reconstruction so far.
The results are shown on the following plot:

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