PAMELA and electrons
Creators
- 1. INFN, Sezione di Trieste, Padriciano 99, I-34012 Trieste (Italy)
- 2. INFN, Sezione di Firenze, Via Sansone 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Florence (Italy)
- 3. University of Florence, Department of Physics, Via Sansone 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Florence (Italy)
- 4. INFN, Sezione di Napoli, Via Cintia, I-80126 Naples (Italy)
- 5. University of Naples 'Federico II', Department of Physics, Via Cintia, I-80126 Naples (Italy)
- 6. Lebedev Physical Institute, Leninsky Prospekt 53, RU-119991 Moscow (Russian Federation)
- 7. INFN, Sezione di Bari, Via Amendola 173, I-70126 Bari (Italy)
- 8. University of Bari, Department of Physics, Via Amendola 173, I-70126 Bari (Italy)
- 9. Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, Polytekhnicheskaya 26, RU-194021 St. Petersburg (Russian Federation)
- 10. Moscow Engineering and Physics Institute, Kashirskoe Shosse 31, RU-11540 Moscow (Russian Federation)
- 11. INFN, Sezione di Roma 'Tor Vergata', Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, I-00133 Rome (Italy)
Description
The 15th of June 2006, the PAMELA satellite-borne experiment was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome and it has been collecting data since July 2006. The apparatus comprises a time-of-flight system, a silicon-microstrip magnetic spectrometer, a silicon-tungsten electromagnetic calorimeter, an anticoincidence system, a shower tail counter scintillator and a neutron detector. The combination of these devices allows precision studies of the charged cosmic radiation to be conducted over a wide energy range (100 MeV-100's GeV) with high statistics. The measurement of the positron to electron fraction and of the electron energy spectrum in order to search for exotic sources, such as dark matter particle annihilations, are within the PAMELA primary scientific goal.
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2010.06.021Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.nima.2010.06.021;
- PII
- S0168-9002(10)01211-8;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
- Journal Volume
- 630
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- p. 28-35
- ISSN
- 0168-9002
- CODEN
- NIMAER
Conference
- Title
- 2. Roma international conference on astroparticle physics
- Acronym
- RICAP 2009
- Dates
- 13-15 May 2009
- Place
- Rome (Italy)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 42096702
- Subject category
- S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- ACCURACY; ANNIHILATION; ANTICOINCIDENCE; CALORIMETERS; COSMIC RADIATION; ELECTRONS; ENERGY SPECTRA; GEV RANGE; MAGNETIC SPECTROMETERS; MEV RANGE 100-1000; NEUTRON DETECTORS; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; PARTICLES; POSITRONS; SATELLITES; SHOWER COUNTERS; SI MICROSTRIP DETECTORS; SILICON; TIME-OF-FLIGHT METHOD; TUNGSTEN
- Descriptors DEC
- ANTILEPTONS; ANTIMATTER; ANTIPARTICLES; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ELEMENTS; ENERGY RANGE; FERMIONS; INTERACTIONS; IONIZING RADIATIONS; LEPTONS; MATTER; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; METALS; MEV RANGE; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; RADIATION DETECTORS; RADIATIONS; REFRACTORY METALS; SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS; SEMIMETALS; SI SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS; SPECTRA; SPECTROMETERS; TRANSITION ELEMENTS
Optional Information
- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2010 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.