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| PAMELA: A satellite experiment for antiparticles measurement in cosmic rays
Author(s): Bongi M, Adriani O, Ambriola A, Bakaldin A, Barbarino GC, Basili A, Bazilevskaja G, Bellotti R, Bencardino R, Boezio M, Bogomolov EA, Bonechi L, Bongiorno L, Bonvicini V, Boscherini M, Cafagna FS, Campana D, Carlson P, Casolino M, Castellini G, Circella M, De Marzo CN, De Pascale MP, Furano G, Galper AM, Giglietto N, Grigorjeva A, Koldashov SV, Korotkov MG, Krut'kov SY, Lund J, Lundquist J, Menicucci A, Menn W, Mikhailov VV, Minori M, Mirizzi N, Mitchell JW, Mocchiutti E, Morselli A, Mukhametshin R, Orsi S, Osteria G, Papini P, Pearce M, Picozza P, Ricci M, Ricciarini SB, Romita M, Rossi G, Russo S, Schiavon P, Simon M, Sparvoli R, Spillantini P, Spinelli P, Stochaj SJ, Stozhkov Y, Straulino S, Streitmatter RE, Taccetti F, Vacchi A, Vannuccini E, Vasilyev GI, Voronov SA, Wischnewski R, Yurkin Y, Zampa G, Zampa N
| Source: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NUCLEAR SCIENCE Volume: 51 Issue: 3 Pages: 854-859 Part: Part 3 Published: JUN 2004
| Times Cited: 2 References: 32
| Abstract: PAMELA is a satellite-borne experiment that will study the antiproton and positron fluxes in cosmic rays in a wide range of energy (from 80 MeV up to 190 GeV for antiprotons and from 50 MeV up to 270 GeV for positrons) and with high statistics, and that will measure the antihelium/helium ratio with a sensitivity of the order of 10(-8). The detector will fly on-board a polar orbiting Resurs DK1 satellite, which will be launched into space by a Soyuz rocket in 2004 from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, for a 3-year-long mission. Particle identification and energy measurements are performed in the PAMELA apparatus using the following subdetectors: a magnetic spectrometer made up of a permanent magnet equipped with double-sided microstrip silicon detectors, an electromagnetic imaging calorimeter composed of layers of tungsten absorber and silicon detectors planes, a transition radiation detector made of straw tubes interleaved with carbon fiber radiators, a plastic scintillator time-of-flight and trigger system, a set of anticounter plastic scintillator detectors, and a neutron detector. The features of the detectors and the main results obtained in beam test sessions are presented.
| Document Type: Article
| Language: English
| Author Keywords: antimatter; cosmic rays; satellite experiment
| KeyWords Plus: SOLAR MINIMUM ACTIVITY; ANTIPROTON FLUX; IMAGING CALORIMETER; ELECTRONS; POSITRONS; SPECTRA; RADIATION; RATIO
| Addresses: Bongi, M (reprint author), Univ Florence, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
Univ Florence, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
Univ Bari, I-70426 Bari, Italy
Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-70426 Bari, Italy
Moscow Engn & Phys Inst, Moscow Russia
Univ Naples Federico 2, Dipartimento Sci Fis, I-80126 Naples, Italy
Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-80126 Naples, Italy
Univ Roma Tor Vergata, I-00133 Rome, Italy
Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-00133 Rome, Italy
PN Lebedev Phys Inst, Moscow Russia
Univ Trieste, I-34127 Trieste, Italy
Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-34127 Trieste, Italy
AF Ioffe Phys Tech Inst, St Petersburg Russia
Univ Siegen, FB Phys, D-57068 Siegen, Germany
Royal Inst Technol, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
CNR, Ist Fis Applicata N Carrara, I-50127 Florence, Italy
NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Lab Nazl Frascati, I-00044 Frascati, Italy
New Mexico State Univ, Particle Astrophys Lab, Las Cruces, NM 88003 USA
| E-mail Addresses: *****@***infn. it
| Publisher: IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC, 445 HOES LANE, PISCATAWAY, NJ 08855 USA
| Subject Category: Engineering, Electrical & Electronic; Nuclear Science & Technology
| IDS Number: 837OI
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| DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2004.829504
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