Primary electron and positron fluxes measured by the PAMELA experiment

The PAMELA experiment is being conducted on board the RESURS DK1 satellite, launched into a near-Earth, near-polar orbit with an altitude of 350–610 km and an inclination of 70° on June 15, 2006. The apparatus comprises a magnetic spectrometer, an electromagnetic calorimeter (16 X 0 ), a time-of-fli...

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Published in:Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Physics 2011-03, Vol.75 (3), p.316-318
Main Authors: Mikhailov, V. V., Adriani, O., Bazilevskaya, G. A., Barbarino, G. C., Belotti, R., Boezio, M., Bogomolov, E. A., Bonvicini, V., Bongi, M., Bonechi, L., Borisov, S. V., Bottai, S., Bruno, A., Cafagna, F., Campana, D., Carbone, R., Carlson, P., Casolino, M., Crishantseva, L. A., Danilchenko, I. A., De Pascale, M. P., Di Felice, V., Galper, A. M., Gastellini, G., Gillard, W., Jerse, G., Karelin, A. V., Koldashov, S. V., Koldobsky, S. A., Krutkov, S. Yu, Kvashnin, A. N., Leonov, A. A., Malakhov, V. V., Malvezzi, V., Marcelli, L., Mayorov, A. G., Menn, W., Mocchiutti, E., Mori, N., Nikonov, N. V., Osteria, G., Papini, P., Pearce, M., Picozza, P., Pizzolotto, P., Ricci, M., Ricciarini, S., Runtso, M. F., Simon, M., De Simone, N., Sparvoli, R., Spillantini, P., Stozhkov, Yu. I., Vacchi, A., Vannuccini, E., Vasilyev, G. I., Voronov, S. A., Wu, Y., Yurkin, Yu. T., Zampa, G., Zampa, N., Zverev, V. G.
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Language:English
Subjects:
Altitude
Anticoincidence systems
Cosmic rays
Earth orbits
Electromagnetic calorimeter
Electrons
Energy spectra
Experiments
Fluxes
Hadrons
Heavy Ions
Inclination
Magnetic spectrometers
Near-Earth
Neutrons
Nuclear Physics
Onboard
Particle detectors
Physics
Physics and Astronomy
Polar orbits
Positron energy
Positrons
Primary cosmic rays
Primary electrons
Spectroscopy
Time-of-flight system
Wide energy range
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Summary:The PAMELA experiment is being conducted on board the RESURS DK1 satellite, launched into a near-Earth, near-polar orbit with an altitude of 350–610 km and an inclination of 70° on June 15, 2006. The apparatus comprises a magnetic spectrometer, an electromagnetic calorimeter (16 X 0 ), a time-of-flight system, a neutron detector, an anticoincidence system, and a shower tail scintillator. It allows measurements of electron and positron fluxes in cosmic rays over a wide energy range of ∼100 MeV to several hundreds of GeVs. In this work, we present data on the electron and positron energy spectra in primary cosmic rays, obtained between June 2006 and December 2008.
ISSN:1062-8738
1934-9432
DOI:10.3103/S1062873811030300