CALET Results after Three Years on Orbit on the International Space Station
Creators
- 1. INFN Sezione di Pisa (Italy)
- 2. University of Siena. Department of Physical Sciences, Earth and Environment (Italy)
- 3. INFN Sezione di Florence (Italy)
- 4. University of Florence. Department of Physics (Italy)
- 5. University of Maryland. Department of Physics (United States)
- 6. CRESST and Astroparticle Physics Laboratory NASA/GSFC (United States)
- 7. JEM Utilization Center. Human Spaceflight Technology Directorate, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Japan)
- 8. Waseda University. Research Institute for Science and Engineering (Japan)
- 9. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center-Code 672. Heliospheric Science Division (United States)
- 10. Louisiana State University. Department of Physics and Astronomy (United States)
- 11. INFN Sezione di Padova (Italy)
- 12. University of Padova. Department of Physics and Astronomy (Italy)
- 13. Hirosaki University. Faculty of Science and Technology, Graduate School of Science and Technology (Japan)
- 14. Washington University. Department of Physics (United States)
- 15. Shibaura Institute of Technology. Department of Electronic Information Systems (Japan)
Description
The CALorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) is an astroparticle physics experiment installed on the International Space Station since August 2015. The CALET mission was conceived to address several outstanding questions of high-energy astroparticle physics, like indirect detection of dark matter, the origin of cosmic rays (CRs), their mechanisms of acceleration and galactic propagation, the presence of possible nearby astrophysical CR sources. That can be achieved by precise measurements of the fluxes of CR electrons and γ rays up to the unexplored region above 1 TeV, and the energy spectra and composition of CR nuclei from a few tens of GeV to hundreds of TeV. In order to perform these observations, the instrument combines a thick total absorption PWO crystal calorimeter for energy measurement, a scintillator hodoscope for charge identification and thin imaging tungsten-scintillating fiber calorimeter providing accurate particle tracking and complementary charge measurement. In this paper, we will present an overview of the main CALET results based on the data collected in the first three years of the mission.
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Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physics of Atomic Nuclei
- Journal Volume
- 82
- Journal Issue
- 6
- Journal Page Range
- p. 766-772
- ISSN
- 1063-7788
- CODEN
- PANUEO
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Russian Federation
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 55104500
- Subject category
- S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
- Descriptors DEI
- ACCELERATION; ASTROPHYSICS; COSMIC ELECTRONS; COSMIC NUCLEI; COSMIC PROTONS; COSMIC RADIATION; COSMIC RAY DETECTION; CRYSTALS; DETECTION; ENERGY SPECTRA; GAMMA RADIATION; HODOSCOPES; INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; TELESCOPES; TUNGSTEN
- Descriptors DEC
- BARYONS; COSMIC RADIATION; DETECTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ELECTRONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ELEMENTS; FERMIONS; HADRONS; IONIZING RADIATIONS; LEPTONS; MATTER; METALS; NUCLEI; NUCLEONS; PHYSICS; PRIMARY COSMIC RADIATION; PROTONS; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATIONS; REFRACTORY METALS; SATELLITES; SECONDARY COSMIC RADIATION; SPACE VEHICLES; SPECTRA; TRANSITION ELEMENTS; VEHICLES
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