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The DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) is an orbital experiment aiming at searching for dark matter indirectly by measuring the spectra of photons, electrons and positrons originating from deep space. The BGO electromagnetic calorimeter…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-11-11 Zhiying Li , Zhiyong Zhang , Yifeng Wei , Chi Wang , Yunlong Zhang , Sicheng Wen , Xiaolian Wang , Zizong Xu , Guangshun Huang

The Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) is a space-borne particle detector and cosmic ray observatory in operation since 2015, designed to probe electrons and gamma rays from a few GeV to 10 TeV energy, as well as cosmic protons and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-11 David Droz , Andrii Tykhonov , Xin Wu , Francesca Alemanno , Giovanni Ambrosi , Enrico Catanzani , Margherita Di Santo , Dimitrios Kyratzis , Stephan Zimmer

The DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) can measure $\gamma$-rays in the energy range from a few GeV to about 10 TeV. The direction of each $\gamma$-ray is reconstructed with respect to the reference system of the DAMPE payload. In this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 Wei Jiang , Xiang Li , Kai-Kai Duan , Zhao-Qiang Shen , Zun-Lei Xu , Jing-Jing Zang , Shi-Jun Lei , Qiang Yuan

The DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) is a cosmic-ray detector as well as a pair-converting $\gamma$-ray telescope. The effective area, reflecting the geometrical cross-section area, the $\gamma$-ray conversion probability and the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-14 Zhao-Qiang Shen , Wen-Hao Li , Kai-Kai Duan , Wei Jiang , Zun-Lei Xu , Chuan Yue , Xiang Li

GeV gamma ray is an important observation target of DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) for indirect dark matter searching and high energy astrophysics. We present in this work a set of accurate instrument response functions of DAMPE…

The Dark MAtter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) instrument is a space-borne cosmic-ray detector, capable of measuring ion fluxes up to $\sim$500 TeV/n. This energy scale is made accessible through its calorimeter, which is the deepest currently…

The DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) is a satellite-borne detector for high-energy cosmic rays and $\gamma$-rays. To fully understand the detector performance and obtain reliable physical results, extensive simulations of the detector…

The Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) is an upcoming scientific satellite mission for high energy gamma-ray, electron and cosmic rays detection. The silicon tracker (STK) is a sub detector of the DAMPE payload with an excellent position…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-17 Yifan Dong , Fei Zhang , Rui Qiao , Wenxi Peng , Ruirui Fan , Ke Gong , Di Wu , Huanyu Wang

The Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) is designed as a high energy particle detector for probing cosmic-rays and $\gamma-$rays in a wide energy range. The trajectory of the incident particle is mainly measured by the Silicon-Tungsten…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-11-23 Yu-Xin Cui , Peng-Xiong Ma , Guan-Wen Yuan , Chuan Yue , Xiang Li , Shi-Jun Lei , Jian Wu

The major scientific goals of DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) are to study cosmic-ray electrons (including positrons) and gamma rays from 5 GeV to 10 TeV and nuclei from Z = 1 to 26 up to 100 TeV. The deposited energy measured by the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-09-02 Libo Wu , Yunlong Zhang , Zhiyong Zhang , Yifeng Wei , Sicheng Wen , Haoting Dai , Chengming Liu , Xiaolian Wang , Zizong Xu , Guangshun Huang

The DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE), a high energy cosmic ray and $\gamma$-ray detector in space, has recently reported the new measurement of the total electron plus positron flux between 25 GeV and 4.6 TeV. A spectral softening at…

The DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) is a space experiment designed to search for dark matter indirectly by measuring the spectra of photons, electrons, and positrons up to 10 TeV. The BGO electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL) is its main…

DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) is a space-borne apparatus for detecting the high-energy cosmic-rays like electrons, $\gamma$-rays, protons and heavy-ions. Plastic Scintillator Detector (PSD) is the top-most sub-detector of the DAMPE.…

The DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) is one of the four satellites within Strategic Pioneer Research Program in Space Science of the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS). DAMPE can detect electrons, photons in a wide energy range (5 GeV to…

One of the main purposes of the DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) is to measure the cosmic ray nuclei up to several tens of TeV or beyond, whose origin and propagation remains a hot topic in astrophysics. The Plastic Scintillator…

DAMPE is a space-based mission designed as a high energy particle detector measuring cosmic-rays and $\gamma-$rays which was successfully launched on Dec.17, 2015. The BGO electromagnetic calorimeter is one of the key sub-detectors of DAMPE…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-04-06 Chuan Yue , Jingjing Zang , Tiekuang Dong , Xiang Li , Zhiyong Zhang , Stephan Zimmer , Wei Jiang , Yunlong Zhang , Daming Wei

The Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) is a satellite-borne detector designed to detect high-energy cosmic ray particles with its core component being a BGO calorimeter capable of measuring energies from $\sim$GeV to $O(100)$ TeV. The 32…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-10-07 JingJing Zang , Chuan Yue , Qiang Yuan , Wei Jiang , Xiang Li , Yunlong Zhang , Cong Zhao , Fabio Gargano

The Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) has been undergoing a stable on-orbit operation for more than 6 years and acquired observation of over 11 billion events. And a better understanding of the overall radiation environment on the DAMPE…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-03-30 S. X. Wang , J. J. Zang , W. Jiang , S. J. Lei , C. N. Luo , Z. L. Xu , J. Chang

The DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) is a space-based instrument for detecting GeV-TeV cosmic rays and gamma rays. High-energy cosmic rays could be emitted from several dark matter candidates theoretically, such as the heavy dark…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-18 Tian-Ci Liu , Ben-Yang Zhu , Yun-Feng Liang , Xiao-Song Hu , En-Wei Liang

The DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) mission revealed a break in the spectrum of cosmic-ray electons and positrons. This is associated with an excess above the expected backgrounds at energies around 1 TeV. Several authors have argued…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-21 Geoff Beck , Sergio Colafrancesco