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-DK1 satellite, was launched on June, 15 2006 in a 350 × 600 km orbit with an inclination of 70 degrees. 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 its first two years of operation. Data on protons of trapped, secondary and galactic nature - as well as measurements of the December 13 2006 Solar Particle Event - are provided.
The pamela cosmic ray space observatory: Detector, objectives and first results / Casolino, M., De Simone, N., Picozza, P., Adriani, O., Ambriola, M., Barbarino, G.C., Basili, A., Bazilevskaja, G.A., Bellotti, R., Boezio, M., Bogomolov, E.A., Bonechi, L., Bongi, M., Bongiorno, L., Bonvicini, V., Bruno, A., Cafagna, F., Campana, D., Carlson, P., Castellini, G., et al.. - ELETTRONICO. - 47:(2008), pp. 19-48. (22nd Les Rencontres de Physique de la Vallee d'Aoste 2008: Results and Perspectives inParticle Physics - 22nd Physics Conference in the Aosta Valley: Results and Perspectives in Particle Physics 2008 La Thuile, Aosta Valley, ita 2008).
The pamela cosmic ray space observatory: Detector, objectives and first results
ADRIANI, OSCAR;BONGI, MASSIMO;
2008
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-DK1 satellite, was launched on June, 15 2006 in a 350 × 600 km orbit with an inclination of 70 degrees. 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 its first two years of operation. Data on protons of trapped, secondary and galactic nature - as well as measurements of the December 13 2006 Solar Particle Event - are provided.
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