Main scientific results of the DAMPE mission
- 1. Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Lecce (Italy)
Description
The DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) is a space mission, resulting from the collaboration of Chinese, Italian, and Swiss institutions. Since December 2015, DAMPE orbits at the altitude of 500 km and collects data regularly. The detector is made of four sub-detectors: top layers of plastic scintillators, a silicon-tungsten tracker, a deep BGO calorimeter (32 radiation lengths), and a bottom boron-doped scintillator to detect delayed neutrons. The main goal of the mission is the search for indirect signals of Dark Matter in the electron and photon spectra with energies up to 10 TeV. Furthermore DAMPE is studying cosmic charged and gamma radiation. The calorimeter depth and the large effective acceptance allow to measure cosmic ray fluxes in the range from 20 GeV up to hundreds of TeV. An overview of the latest results about electron and positron flux, light component (p+He) of charged cosmic rays, and gamma rays will be presented. (paper)
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1181/1/012043Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Physics. Conference Series (Online)
- Journal Volume
- 1181
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- [6 p.]
- ISSN
- 1742-6596
Conference
- Title
- 26. Extended European Cosmic Ray Symposium
- Dates
- 6-10 Jul 2018
- Place
- Bolekurikha (Russian Federation)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 53040718
- Subject category
- S73: NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- BORON; CALORIMETERS; COSMIC RADIATION; DELAYED NEUTRONS; ELECTRONS; GAMMA RADIATION; GEV RANGE; LAYERS; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; ORBITS; PARTICLE TRACKS; PHOTONS; PLASTIC SCINTILLATORS; POSITRONS; SIGNALS; SILICON; SPECTRA; TEV RANGE; TUNGSTEN
- Descriptors DEC
- ANTILEPTONS; ANTIMATTER; ANTIPARTICLES; BARYONS; BOSONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ELEMENTS; ENERGY RANGE; FERMIONS; FISSION NEUTRONS; HADRONS; IONIZING RADIATIONS; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATTER; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; METALS; NEUTRONS; NUCLEONS; PHOSPHORS; RADIATIONS; REFRACTORY METALS; SEMIMETALS; TRANSITION ELEMENTS
Optional Information
- Collaborations
- the DAMPE Collaboration