PAMELA is a satellite borne experiment designed to study with great accuracy cosmic rays of galactic, solar, and trapped nature in a wide energy range (protons 80 MeV-700 GeV, electrons 50 MeV-400 GeV). Main objective is the study of the antimatter component: antiprotons (80 MeV-190 GeV), positrons (50 MeV-270 GeV) and search for antimatter with a precision of the order of 10-8. The experiment, housed on board the Russian Resurs-DK I satellite, was launched on June 15th, 2006 in a 350 x 600 km orbit with all inclination of 70'. The detector is composed of a series of scintillator counters arranged at the extremities of a permanent magnet spectrometer to provide charge, time-of-flight, and rigidity information. Lepton/hadron identification is performed by a silicon-tungsten calorimeter and a neutron detector placed at the bottom of the device. An anticounter system is used offline to reject false triggers coming from the satellite. In self-trigger mode the calorimeter, the neutron detector, and a shower tail catcher are capable of an independent measure of the lepton component up to 2 TeV. In this work we describe the experiment, its scientific objectives, and the performance in the first months after launch. (c) 2008 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of COSPAR.

Casolino, M., Picozza, P., Altamura, F., Basili, A., De Simone, N., Di Felice, V., et al. (2008). Launch of the space experiment PAMELA. ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH, 42(3), 455-466 [10.1016/j.asr.2007.07.023].

Launch of the space experiment PAMELA

PICOZZA, PIERGIORGIO;SPARVOLI, ROBERTA;
2008-01-01

Abstract

PAMELA is a satellite borne experiment designed to study with great accuracy cosmic rays of galactic, solar, and trapped nature in a wide energy range (protons 80 MeV-700 GeV, electrons 50 MeV-400 GeV). Main objective is the study of the antimatter component: antiprotons (80 MeV-190 GeV), positrons (50 MeV-270 GeV) and search for antimatter with a precision of the order of 10-8. The experiment, housed on board the Russian Resurs-DK I satellite, was launched on June 15th, 2006 in a 350 x 600 km orbit with all inclination of 70'. The detector is composed of a series of scintillator counters arranged at the extremities of a permanent magnet spectrometer to provide charge, time-of-flight, and rigidity information. Lepton/hadron identification is performed by a silicon-tungsten calorimeter and a neutron detector placed at the bottom of the device. An anticounter system is used offline to reject false triggers coming from the satellite. In self-trigger mode the calorimeter, the neutron detector, and a shower tail catcher are capable of an independent measure of the lepton component up to 2 TeV. In this work we describe the experiment, its scientific objectives, and the performance in the first months after launch. (c) 2008 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of COSPAR.
2008
Pubblicato
Rilevanza internazionale
Articolo
Sì, ma tipo non specificato
Settore FIS/04 - FISICA NUCLEARE E SUBNUCLEARE
English
Antimatter; Cosmic rays; Satellite borne experiment
Atoms; Charged particles; Cosmology; Electrons; Experiments; Ionizing radiation; Protons; Solar energy; Energy ranges; Satellite-borne experiment; Space experiments; Cosmic rays
Casolino, M., Picozza, P., Altamura, F., Basili, A., De Simone, N., Di Felice, V., et al. (2008). Launch of the space experiment PAMELA. ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH, 42(3), 455-466 [10.1016/j.asr.2007.07.023].
Casolino, M; Picozza, P; Altamura, F; Basili, A; De Simone, N; Di Felice, V; De Pascale, Mp; Marcelli, L; Minori, M; Nagni, M; Sparvoli, R; Galper, Am; Mikhailov, Vv; Runtso, Mf; Voronov, Sa; Yurkin, Yt; Zverev, Vg; Castellini, G; Adriani, O; Bonechi, L; Bongi, M; Taddei, E; Vannuccini, E; Fedele, D; Papini, P; Ricciarini, Sb; Spillantini, P; Ambriola, M; Cafagna, F; De Marzo, C; Barbarino, Gc; Campana, D; De Rosa, G; Osteria, G; Russo, S; Bazilevskaja, Ga; Kvashnin, An; Maksumov, O; Misin, S; Stozhkov, Yui; Bogomolov, Ea; Krutkov, Syu; Nikonov, Nn; Bonvicini, V; Boezio, M; Lundquist, J; Mocchiutti, E; Vacchi, A; Zampa, G; Zampa, N; Bongiorno, L; Ricci, M; Carlson, P; Hofverberg, P; Lund, J; Orsi, S; Pearce, M; Menn, W; Simon, M
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