Latest results from PAMELA

Papini, P.; Adriani, Oscar; Barbarino, G. C.; Bazilevskaya, G. A.; Bellotti, R.; Boezio, M.; Bogomolov, E. A.; Bonechi, Lorenzo; Bongi, Massimo; Bonvicini, V.; Borisov, S.; Bottai, S.; Bruno, A.; Cafagna, F.; Campana, D.; Carbone, R.; Carlson, P.; Casolino, M.; Castellini, G.; De Pascale, M. P.; Simone, N. D.; Felice, V. D.; Galper, A. M.; Gillard, W.; Grishantseva, L.; Hofverberg, P.; Jerse, G.; Koldashov, S. V.; Krutkov, S. Y.; Kvashnin, A. N.; Leonov, A.; Malvezzi, V.; Marcelli, L.; Menn, W.; Mikhailov, V. V.; Mocchiutti, E.; Mori, Nicola; Nikonov, N.; Osteria, G.; Pearce, M.; Picozza, P.; Pizzolotto, C.; Ricci, M.; Ricciarini, S. B.; Ritabrata, S.; Rossetto, L.; Simon, M.; Sparvoli, R.; Spillantini, Piero; Stozhkov, Y. I.; Vacchi, A.; Vannuccini, E.; Vasilyev, G.; Voronov, S. A.; Wu, J.; Yurkin, Y. T.; Zampa, G.; Zampa, N.; Zverev, V. G.

doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2009.07.011

The PAMELA experiment is a satellite-borne apparatus designed to study charged particles in the cosmic radiation, with a particular focus on antiparticles. The detector is housed on the Resurs-DK1 satellite and it is taking data since June 2006. The main parts of the apparatus are a magnetic spectrometer, which is equipped with a silicon-microstrip tracking system and which is used to measure the rigidity and the charge of particles, and a silicon/tungsten electromagnetic calorimeter which provides particle identification. The main results about the antiparticles component of cosmic rays obtained during the first 500 days of data taking are summarized here.

Latest results from PAMELA / P. Papini;O. Adriani;G. C. Barbarino;G. A. Bazilevskaya;R. Bellotti;M. Boezio;E. A. Bogomolov;L. Bonechi;M. Bongi;V. Bonvicini;S. Borisov;S. Bottai;A. Bruno;F. Cafagna;D. Campana;R. Carbone;P. Carlson;M. Casolino;G. Castellini;M. P. De Pascale;N. D. Simone;V. D. Felice;A. M. Galper;W. Gillard;L. Grishantseva;P. Hofverberg;G. Jerse;S. V. Koldashov;S. Y. Krutkov;A. N. Kvashnin;A. Leonov;V. Malvezzi;L. Marcelli;W. Menn;V. V. Mikhailov;E. Mocchiutti;N. Mori;N. Nikonov;G. Osteria;M. Pearce;P. Picozza;C. Pizzolotto;M. Ricci;S. B. Ricciarini;S. Ritabrata;L. Rossetto;M. Simon;R. Sparvoli;P. Spillantini;Y. I. Stozhkov;A. Vacchi;E. Vannuccini;G. Vasilyev;S. A. Voronov;J. Wu;Y. T. Yurkin;G. Zampa;N. Zampa;V. G. Zverev. - In: NUCLEAR PHYSICS B-PROCEEDINGS SUPPLEMENTS. - ISSN 0920-5632. - STAMPA. - 194:(2009), pp. 123-128. [10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2009.07.011]