H, He, Li and Be Isotopes in the PAMELA-Experiment

On 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 a...

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Published in:Journal of physics. Conference series 2016-01, Vol.675 (3), p.32001
Main Authors: Menn, W, Adriani, O, Barbarino, G C, Bazilevskaya, G A, Bellotti, R, Boezio, M, Bogomolov, E A, Bongi, M, Bonvicini, V., Bottai, S, Bruno, A, Cafagna, F, Campana, D, Carlson, P, Casolino, M, Castellini, G, De Donato, C, De Santis, C, De Simone, N, di Felice, V, Formato, V, Galper, A M, Karelin, A V, Koldashov, S V, Koldobskiy, S, Krutkov, S Y, Kvashnin, A N, Leonov, A, Malakhov, V, Marcelli, L, Martucci, M, Mayorov, A G, Mergè, M, Mikhailov, V, Mocchiutti, E, Monaco, A, Mori, N, Munini, R, Osteria, G, Palma, F, Panico, B, Papini, P, Pearce, M, Picozza, P, Ricci, M, Ricciarini, S B, Sarkar, R, Scotti, V., Simon, M, Sparvoli, R, Spillantini, P, Stozhkov, Y I, Vacchi, A, Vannuccini, E, Vasilyev, G, Voronov, S A, Yurkin, Y T, Zampa, G, Zampa, N, Potgieter, M S, Vos, E E
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Language:English
Subjects:
Antiparticles
Antiprotons
Cosmic rays
Isotope ratios
Isotopes
Launching facilities
Neutron counters
Nuclei (nuclear physics)
Physics
Positrons
Scintillation counters
Silicon
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Summary:On 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 anti-coincidence system, a shower tail counter scintillator and a neutron detector. The scientific objectives addressed by the mission are the measurement of the antiprotons and positrons spectra in cosmic rays, the hunt for antinuclei as well as the determination of light nuclei fluxes from hydrogen to oxygen in a wide energy range and with very high statistics. In this paper the identification capability for light nuclei isotopes using two different detector systems (Time-of-Flight and multiple dE/dx measurements in the calorimeter) and preliminary results of the isotopic ratios will be presented.
ISSN:1742-6588
1742-6596
DOI:10.1088/1742-6596/675/3/032001