Cosmic-Ray Positron Identification with the PAMELA experiment
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2013-07-26 v2
Abstract
The PAMELA satellite borne experiment is designed to study cosmic rays with great accuracy in a wide energy range. One of PAMELA's main goal is the study of the antimatter component of cosmic rays. The experiment, housed on board the Russian satellite Resurs-DK1, was launched on June 15th 2006 and it is still taking data. In this work we present the measurement of galactic positron energy spectrum in the energy range between 500 MeV and few hundred GeV.
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@article{arxiv.1306.2198,
title = {Cosmic-Ray Positron Identification with the PAMELA experiment},
author = {O. Adriani and G. C. Barbarino and G. A. Bazilevskaya and R. Bellotti and A. Bianco and M. Boezio and E. A. Bogomolov and M. Bongi and V. Bonvicini and S. Bottai and A. Bruno and F. Cafagna and D. Campana and R. Carbone and P. Carlson and M. Casolino and G. Castellini and C. De Santis and M. P. De Pascale and C. De Donato and N. De Simone and V. Di Felice and V. Formato and A. M. Galper and A. V. Karelin and S. V. Koldashov and S. Koldobskiy and S. Yu. Krut'kov and A. N. Kvashnin and A. Leonov and V. Malakhov and L. Marcelli and M. Martucci and A. G. Mayorov and W. Menn and M. Merge` and V. V. Mikhailov and E. Mocchiutti and A. Monaco and N. Mori and R. Munini and G. Osteria and F. Palma and P. Papini and M. Pearce and P. Picozza and C. Pizzolotto and M. Ricci and S. B. Ricciarini and L. Rossetto and R. Sarkar and M. Simon and V. Scotti and R. Sparvoli and P. Spillantini and S. J. Stochaj and J. C. Stockton and Y. I. Stozhkov and A. Vacchi and E. Vannuccini and G. Vasilyev and S. A. Voronov and Y. T. Yurkin and G. Zampa and N. Zampa and V. G. Zverev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.2198},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
4 pages, 4 figures, v2: MLP variable description added, bibliography updated. A revised version will appear in proc. 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference, Rio de Janeiro 2013