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.


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    Title :

    Launch and commissioning of the PAMELA experiment on board the Resurs-DK1 satellite


    Contributors:
    Casolino, M. (author) / Picozza, P. (author)

    Published in:

    Advances in Space Research ; 41 , 12 ; 2064-2070


    Publication date :

    2007-06-23


    Size :

    7 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English