The PAMELA Space Experiment
Abstract
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 primary scientific goal is the measurement of the antiproton and positron energy spectrum in order to search for exotic sources, such as dark matter particle annihilations. PAMELA is also searching for primordial antinuclei (anti-helium) and testing cosmic-ray propagation models through precise measurements of the anti-particle energy spectrum and precision studies of light nuclei and their isotopes. Moreover, PAMELA is investigating phenomena connected with solar and earth physics.
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@article{arxiv.0905.2551,
title = {The PAMELA Space Experiment},
author = {E. Mocchiutti and O. Adriani and G. C. Barbarino and G. A. Bazilevskaya and R. Bellotti and M. Boezio and E. A. Bogomolov and L. Bonechi and M. Bongi and V. Bonvicini and S. Borisov 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 M. P. De Pascale and N. De Simone and V. Di Felice and A. M. Galper and W. Gillard and L. Grishantseva and P. Hofverberg and G. Jerse and S. V. Koldashov and S. Y. Krutkov and A. N. Kvashnin and A. Leonov and O. Maksumov and V. Malvezzi and L. Marcelli and W. Menn and V. V. Mikhailov and N. N. Nikonov and G. Osteria and P. Papini and M. Pearce and P. Picozza and M. Ricci and S. B. Ricciarini and L. Rossetto and M. Runtso and M. Simon and R. Sparvoli and P. Spillantini and Y. I. Stozhkov and A. Vacchi and E. Vannuccini and G. Vasilyev and S. A. Voronov and J. Wu and Y. T. Yurkin and G. Zampa and N. Zampa and V. G. Zverev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.2551},
year = {2009}
}
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Proceedings for the "XLIVth Rencontres de Moriond session devoted to Electroweak Interactions and Unified Theories", La Thuile 2009