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PAMELA is a satellite borne experiment designed to study with great accuracy cosmic rays of galactic, solar, and trapped nature in a wide energy range (protons: 80 MeV-700 GeV, electrons 50 MeV-400 GeV). Main objective is the study of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-08 M. Casolino , The Pamela collaboration

PAMELA is a satellite borne experiment designed to study with great accuracy cosmic rays of galactic, solar, and trapped nature in a wide energy range (protons: 80 MeV-700 GeV, electrons 50 MeV-400 GeV). Main objective is the study of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Casolino , Pamela Collaboration

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…

The PAMELA experiment is devoted to the study of cosmic rays in Low Earth Orbit with an apparatus optimized to perform a precise determination of the galactic antimatter component of c.r. It is constituted by a number of detectors built…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Casolino , N. De Simone , V. Di Felice , P. Picozza

The PAMELA cosmic ray detector was launched on June 15th 2006 on board the Russian Resurs-DK1 satellite, and during ten years of nearly continuous data-taking it has observed new interesting features in cosmic rays (CRs). In a decade of…

Studying the acceleration and propagation mechanisms of Galactic cosmic rays can provide information regarding astrophysical sources, the properties of our Galaxy, and possible exotic sources such as dark matter. To understand cosmic ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-23 Juan Wu

An imaging calorimeter has been designed and is being built for the PAMELA satellite-borne experiment. The physics goals of the experiment are the measurement of the flux of antiprotons, positrons and light isotopes in the cosmic radiation.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-26 M. Boezio , V. Bonvicini , E. Mocchiutti , P. Schiavon , G. Scian , A. Vacchi , G. Zampa , N. Zampa

Recent results from the PAMELA satellite indicate the presence of a large flux of positrons (relative to electrons) in the cosmic ray spectrum between approximately 10 and 100 GeV. As annihilating dark matter particles in many models are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-15 Dan Hooper , Pasquale Blasi , Pasquale Dario Serpico

The positron fraction observed by PAMELA and other experiments up to ~ 100 GeV is analyzed in terms of models of cosmic-ray propagation. It is shown that generically we expect the positron fraction to reach ~ 0.6 at energies of several TeV,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-09-08 B. Burch , R. Cowsik
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