AbstractPAMELA 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: 80MeV–700GeV, electrons 50MeV–400GeV). Main objective is the study of the antimatter component: antiprotons (80MeV–190GeV), positrons (50MeV–270GeV) and search for antimatter (with a precision of the order of 10−8). The experiment, housed on board the Russian Resurs-DK1 satellite, was launched on June, 15th 2006 in a 350×600km orbit with an inclination of 70°. The detector consists of a permanent magnet spectrometer core to provide rigidity and charge sign information, a Time-of-Flight system for velocity and charge information, a silicon–tungsten calorimeter and a neutron detector for lepton/hadron identification. An anticounter system is used off-line to reject false triggers coming from the satellite. In self-trigger mode the calorimeter, the neutron detector and a shower tail catcher are capable of an independent measure of the lepton (e++e−) component up to 2TeV. In this work we focus on the first months of operations of the experiment during the commissioning phase.
Launch and commissioning of the PAMELA experiment on board the Resurs-DK1 satellite
Advances in Space Research ; 41 , 12 ; 2064-2070
2007-06-23
7 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Launch and commissioning of the PAMELA experiment on board the Resurs-DK1 satellite
Online Contents | 2008
|Launch and commissioning of the PAMELA experiment on board the Resurs-DK1 satellite
Online Contents | 2008
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