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51. Measurements of electron and positron fluxes below the geomagnetic cutoff by the PAMELA magnetic spectrometer

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Sergey Koldashov, S. Bottai, E. Mocchiutti, G. A. Bazilevskaya, M. Simon, Yu. T. Yurkin, A. Bruno, Y. I. Stozhkov, Paolo Papini, P. Spillantini, G. Castellini, M. Merge, A. N. Kvashnin, Alexey Leonov, F. Cafagna, N. Zampa, Mark Pearce, S. B. Ricciarini, Sergey Koldobskiy, G. C. Barbarino, V. Di Felice, D. Campana, E. Vannuccini, R. Sparvoli, S. Y. Krutkov, Giovanni Bonvicini, V. V. Mikhailov, Marco Casolino, V. V. Malakhov, André Monaco, P. Carlson, P. Picozza, Maria Teresa Ricci, O. Adriani, G. Zampa, Beatrice Panico, L. Marcelli, A. Vacchi, S. A. Voronov, E. A. Bogomolov, Mirko Boezio, C. De Donato, Matteo Martucci, C. De Santis, A. G. Mayorov, Riccardo Munini, G. I. Vasilyev, Nicola Mori, Yu. V. Mikhailova, Roberto Bellotti, A. M. Galper, Massimo Bongi, A. V. Karelin, and G. Osteria

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Physics, Rigidity (electromagnetism), Earth's magnetic field, Positron, Spectrometer, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Electron, Trapping, Astrophysics, Secondary electrons, South Atlantic Anomaly
Abstract

We present a measurements of electron and positron fluxes below the geomagnetic cutoff rigidity in wide energy range from ~50 MeV to several GeVs by the PAMELA magnetic spectrometer. The instrument was launched on June 15th 2006 on-board the Resurs-DK satellite on low orbit with 70 degrees inclination and altitude between 350 and 600 km. Features of spatial distributions of secondary electrons and positrons in the near Earth space, including the South Atlantic Anomaly, were investigated in terms of lifetime and geographical origin. The separation in stably trapped , long lifetime quasi-trapped, and short lifetime albedo components was performed on base of back tracing procedure in geomagnetic field. A significant difference in relative abundance of positrons with respect to electrons is seen for the stable trapped and the quasi-trapped populations what pointing out on different trapping mechanism of those populations.

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2017
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52. Ten years of positron and electron solar modulation measured by the PAMELA experiment

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Riccardo Munini, Mirko Boezio, Marius Potgieter, Valeria Di Felice, Oscar Adriani, G. C. Barbarino, G. A. Bazilevskaya, R. Bellotti, E. A. Bogomolov, Massimo Bongi, Giovanni Bonvicini, S. Bottai, A. Bruno, Francesco Cafagna, D. Campana, Marco Casolino, Guido Castellini, C. de Santis, A. M. Galper, A. V. Karelin, S. V. Koldashov, S. Y. Krutkov, A. N. Kvashnin, A. Leonov, V. Malakhov, L. Marcelli, M. Martucci, A.G Mayorov, W. Menn, M. Merge', V. V. Mikhailov, E. Mocchiutti, A. Monaco, N. Mori, G. Osteria, Beatrice Panico, P. Papini, Mark Pearce, P. Picozza, Marco Ricci, Sergio B. Ricciarini, M. Simon, R. Sparvoli, P. Spillantini, Y. I. Stozhkov, A. Vacchi, E. Vannuccini, G. Vasilyev, S. A. Voronov, Y. T. Yurkin, G. Zampa, N. Zampa, M. S. Potgieter, and J. L. Raath

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear physics, Positron, Modulation, Electron
Abstract

The satellite-borne PAMELA experiment was launched on the 15th June 2006 from the Baikonur cosmodrome. Till January 2016 PAMELA has detected the charged component of cosmic-rays (CRs) over a wide e ...

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2017
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53. Short-term variation in the galactic cosmic ray intensity measured with the PAMELA experiment

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Riccardo Munini, Alessandro Bruno, Christian Eric, Georgia A. De Nolfo, Martucci Matteo, Merge Matteo, Ryan James, Stochaj Steve, di Felice Valeria, Boezio Mirko, Potgieter Marius, Valeria Di Felice, Mirko Boezio, Oscar Adriani, G. C. Barbarino, G. A. Bazilevskaya, R. Bellotti, E. A. Bogomolov, Massimo Bongi, Giovanni Bonvicini, S. Bottai, A. Bruno, Francesco Cafagna, D. Campana, Marco Casolino, Guido Castellini, C. De Santis, A. M. Galper, A. V. Karelin, S. V. Koldashov, S. Y. Krutkov, A. N. Kvashnin, A. Leonov, V. Malakhov, L. Marcelli, M. Martucci, A.G Mayorov, W. Menn, Mirko Merge', V. V. Mikhailov, E. Mocchiutti, A. Monaco, N. Mori, G. Osteria, Beatrice Panico, P. Papini, Mark Pearce, P. Picozza, Marco Ricci, Sergio B. Ricciarini, M. Simon, R. Sparvoli, P. Spillantini, Y. I. Stozhkov, A. Vacchi, E. Vannuccini, G. Vasilyev, S. A. Voronov, Y. T. Yurkin, G. Zampa, N. Zampa, M. S. Potgieter, E. C. Christian, I. Richardson, J.M Ryan, and S. Stochaj

Subjects
Physics, Solar wind, Neutron monitor, Amplitude, Physics::Space Physics, Coronal mass ejection, Forbush decrease, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Heliospheric current sheet, Heliosphere
Abstract

New results on the galactic cosmic ray (GCR) short-term intensity variation associated with Forbush decrease and co-rotating interaction regions (CIRs) measured by the PAMELA instrument between November 2006 and March 2007 are presented. Most of the past measurements on Forbush decrease events were carried out with neutron monitor detector. This tecnique allows only indirect detection of the overall GCR intensity over an integrated energy range. For the first time, thanks to the unique features of the PAMELA magnetic spectrometer, the Forbush decrease associated with the December 13th coronal mass ejection (CME) was studied in a wide rigidity range (0.4-20 GV) and for different species of GCRs detected directly in space. Using GCR protons, the amplitude and the recovery time of the Forbush decrease were studied for ten rigidity interval with a temporal resolution of one day. For comparison the helium and the electron intensity over time were also studied. The temporal evolution of the helium and proton intensity was found in good agreement while the electrons show, on average, a faster recovery time. This was interpreted as a charge-sign dependence introduced by drift motion experienced by the low rigidity (

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2017
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54. The large-scale anisotropy with the PAMELA calorimeter

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Y. T. Yurkin, N. De Simone, Valentina Scotti, P. Spillantini, M. Simon, V. V. Malakhov, S. Bottai, A. V. Karelin, L. Marcelli, A. Vacchi, V. Di Felice, Riccardo Munini, W. Menn, A. Bruno, Per Carlson, F. Palma, R. Sparvoli, G. Zampa, E. Mocchiutti, Beatrice Panico, G. Osteria, S. Y. Krutkov, M. Merge, D. Campana, N. Zampa, G. A. Bazilevskaya, A. M. Galper, Mirko Boezio, V. Bonvicini, Y. I. Stozhkov, P. Picozza, Maria Teresa Ricci, Roberto Bellotti, Marco Casolino, F. Cafagna, S. V. Koldashov, M. Bongi, A. N. Kvashnin, André Monaco, A. A. Leonov, O. Adriani, R. Carbone, V. V. Mikhailov, Sergey Koldobskiy, G. C. Barbarino, Mark Pearce, S. B. Ricciarini, P. Papini, E. Vannuccini, Matteo Martucci, A. G. Mayorov, C. De Santis, C. De Donato, G. Castellini, S. A. Voronov, E. A. Bogomolov, Nicola Mori, Ritabrata Sarkar, G. I. Vasilyev, and Valerio Formato

Subjects
Physics, Scale (ratio), Calorimeter (particle physics), Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Phase (waves), Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Physics::Geophysics, Nuclear physics, Dipole, Amplitude, Equatorial coordinate system, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Anisotropy, General Environmental Science
Abstract

The large-scale anisotropy (or the so-called star-diurnal wave) has been studied using the calorimeter of the space-born experiment PAMELA. The cosmic ray anisotropy has been obtained for the Southern and Northern hemispheres simultaneously in the equatorial coordinate system for the time period 2006–2014. The dipole amplitude and phase have been measured for energies 1–20 TeV n-1.

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2015
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55. Measurement of electron-positron spectrum in high-energy cosmic rays in the PAMELA experiment

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S. Bottai, Roberta Sparvoli, Sergey Koldobskiy, A. V. Karelin, G. C. Barbarino, Alfonso Monaco, Yu. T. Yurkin, D. Campana, G. Osteria, Riccardo Munini, M. Merge, L. Marcelli, A. Vacchi, Per Carlson, Marco Casolino, A. Bruno, F. Palma, V. V. Malakhov, S. Y. Krutkov, Sergey Koldashov, Massimo Bongi, S. A. Voronov, Roberto Bellotti, G. Zampa, Beatrice Panico, R. Carbone, A. M. Galper, E. A. Bogomolov, N. Zampa, G. A. Bazilevskaya, Valentina Scotti, A. N. Kvashnin, P. Picozza, G. Castellini, Laura Rossetto, Mirko Boezio, Mark Pearce, S. B. Ricciarini, Alexey Leonov, N. De Simone, P. Papini, E. Vannuccini, Ritabrata Sarkar, Valerio Formato, V. V. Mikhailov, M. Simon, O. Adriani, W. Menn, Matteo Martucci, F. Cafagna, Maria Teresa Ricci, Piero Spillantini, A. G. Mayorov, G. I. Vasilyev, C. De Santis, C. De Donato, Nicola Mori, E. Mocchiutti, V. Di Felice, V. Bonvicini, A. V., Karelin, O., Adriani, G. C., Barbarino, G. A., Bazilevskaya, R., Bellotti, M., Boezio, E. A., Bogomolov, M., Bongi, V., Bonvicini, S., Bottai, A., Bruno, F., Cafagna, D., Campana, R., Carbone, P., Carlson, M., Casolino, G., Castellini, C., De Donato, C., De Santi, N., De Simone, V., Di Felice, V., Formato, A. M., Galper, S. V., Koldashov, S., Koldobskiy, S. Y., Krutkov, A. N., Kvashnin, A., Leonov, A. G., Mayorov, V., Malakhov, L., Marcelli, M., Martucci, W., Menn, M., Mergé, V. V., Mikhailov, E., Mocchiutti, A., Monaco, N., Mori, Munini, Riccardo, G., Osteria, F., Palma, B., Panico, P., Papini, M., Pearce, P., Picozza, M., Ricci, S. B., Ricciarini, R., Sarkar, V., Scotti, L., Rossetto, M., Simon, R., Sparvoli, P., Spillantini, A., Vacchi, E., Vannuccini, G. I., Vasilyev, S. A., Voronov, Y. T., Yurkin, G., Zampa, N., Zampa, Karelin, A. V, Adriani, O, Barbarino, Giancarlo, Bazilevskaya, G. A, Bellotti, R, Boezio, M, Bogomolov, E. A, Bongi, M, Bonvicini, V, Bottai, S, Bruno, A, Cafagna, F, Campana, D, Carbone, R, Carlson, P, Casolino, M, Castellini, G, De Donato, C, De Santis, C, De Simone, N, Felice, V. Di, Formato, V., Galper, A. M, Koldashov, S. V, Koldobskiy, S. A, Krutkov, S. Y, Kvashnin, A. N, Leonov, A. A, Mayorov, A. G, Malakhov, V. V, Marcelli, L, Martucci, M., Menn, W, Merge, M., Mikhailov, V. 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., Rossetto, L, Simon, M, Sparvoli, R, Spillantini, P, Vacchi, A, Vannuccini, E, Vasilyev, G. I, Voronov, S. A, Yurkin, Y. T, Zampa, G, and Zampa, N.

Subjects
electron, History, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Cosmic rays, positron, electron, PAMELA, Cosmic ray, Particle detector, Education, law.invention, Nuclear physics, Physics and Astronomy (all), Positron, law, PAMELA, Neutron detection, Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray, Cosmic rays, Physics, Calorimeter (particle physics), PAMELA detector, Settore FIS/04, Computer Science Applications, Antimatter, ComputingMethodologies_DOCUMENTANDTEXTPROCESSING, positron, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Calorimeters, Cosmic ray measurement, Cosmology, Electron energy levels, Positrons, Tellurium compounds Cosmic ray electrons, Energy ranges, High-energy cosmic rays, High-energy electron, High-energy range
Abstract

At present the existing data on the cosmic ray electron energy spectra in the high energy range are fragmented, and the situation is exacerbated by their small number. In the satellite PAMELA experiment measurements at high energies are carried out by the calorimeter. The experimental data accumulated for more than 8 years of measurements, with the information of the calorimeter, the neutron detector and the scintillation counters made it possible to obtain the total spectrum of high-energy electrons and positrons in energy range 0.3-3 TeV.

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2015
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56. The PAMELA experiment and cosmic ray observations

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G. Castellini, P. Spillantini, Mirko Boezio, Alexey Leonov, Roberto Bellotti, A. M. Galper, Ritabrata Sarkar, N. Zampa, G. A. Bazilevskaya, G. Zampa, Beatrice Panico, A. N. Kvashnin, Matteo Martucci, S. Y. Krutkov, S. Bottai, F. Palma, Yu. T. Yurkin, M. Simon, Valerio Formato, M. Bongi, V. Di Felice, A. G. Mayorov, Roberta Sparvoli, P. Picozza, V. V. Malakhov, Valentina Scotti, A. V. Karelin, R. Carbone, Sergey Koldobskiy, Alfonso Monaco, G. C. Barbarino, I. A. Danilchenko, Marco Ricci, V. G. Zverev, M. Merge, O. Adriani, G. I. Vasilyev, W. Menn, E. Mocchiutti, V. V. Mikhailov, V. Bonvicini, Y. I. Stozhkov, F. Cafagna, G. Osteria, Mark Pearce, S. B. Ricciarini, Nicola Mori, C. De Santis, P. Papini, E. Vannuccini, C. De Donato, Riccardo Munini, L. Marcelli, A. Vacchi, A. Bruno, D. Campana, Marco Casolino, Sergey Koldashov, Per Carlson, N. De Simone, S. A. Voronov, E. A. Bogomolov, N., Mori, O., Adriani, G. C., Barbarino, G. A., Bazilevskaya, R., Bellotti, M., Boezio, E. A., Bogomolov, M., Bongi, V., Bonvicini, S., Bottai, A., Bruno, F., Cafagna, D., Campana, R., Carbone, P., Carlson, M., Casolino, G., Castellini, I. A., Danilchenko, C., De Donato, C., De Santi, N., De Simone, V., Di Felice, V., Formato, A. M., Galper, A. V., Karelin, S. V., Koldashov, S. A., Koldobskiy, S. Y., Krutkov, A. N., Kvashnin, A. A., Leonov, V. V., Malakhov, L., Marcelli, M., Martucci, A. G., Mayorov, W., Menn, M., Mergè, V. V., Mikhailov, E., Mocchiutti, A., Monaco, Munini, Riccardo, G., Osteria, F., Palma, B., Panico, P., Papini, M., Pearce, P., Picozza, M., Ricci, S. B., Ricciarini, M. L., Rosetto, R., Sarkar, V. M., Simon, Sparvoli, Y. I., Stozhkov, P., Vacchi, E., Vannuccini, G. I., Vasil’Ev, S. A., Voronov, Y. T., Yurkin, G., Zampa, N., Zampa, V. G., Zverev, Mori, N., Adriani, O., Barbarino, Giancarlo, Bazilevskaya, G. A., Bellotti, R., Boezio, M., Bogomolov, E. A., Bongi, M., Bonvicini, V., Bottai, S., Bruno, A., Cafagna, F., Campana, D., Carbone, R., Carlson, P., Casolino, M., Castellini, G., Danilchenko, I. A., 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., Menn, W., Mergé, M., Mikhailov, V. V., Mocchiutti, E., Monaco, A., 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. I., Voronov, S. A., Yurkin, Y. T., Zampa, G., Zampa, N., and Zverev, V. G.

Subjects
Physics, Space experiments, Range (particle radiation), Nuclear and High Energy Physics, PAMELA detector, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Cosmic rays, Settore FIS/04, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astronomy, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, law.invention, Space experiment, law, Physics::Space Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray, space experiments
Abstract

The \PAMELA\ space experiment is aimed at precise measurements of the charged light component of the cosmic ray spectrum in the energy range spanning from the sub-GeV region to the TeV region, with a particular focus on antimatter. The instrument consists of a magnetic spectrometer, an electromagnetic sampling calorimeter,a time-of-flight system, an anticoincidence shield, a tail-catcher scintillator and a neutron detector. Launched in June 2006 and hosted on the Resurs-DK1 satellite, \PAMELA\ has been taking data for more than eight years, providing scientific results with unprecedented statistics and a continuous monitoring of the sun activity and the heliosphere.

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2015
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57. New Upper Limit on Strange Quark Matter Abundance in Cosmic Rays with the PAMELA Space Experiment

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S. Y. Krutkov, Yu. T. Yurkin, V. V. Malakhov, Alexey Leonov, S. Bottai, A. G. Mayorov, V. Formato, Ritabrata Sarkar, Mark Pearce, S. B. Ricciarini, S. A. Voronov, P. Picozza, P. Papini, Valentina Scotti, E. Vannuccini, Matteo Martucci, Roberto Bellotti, G. I. Vasilyev, A. M. Galper, E. A. Bogomolov, P. Spillantini, L. Marcelli, A. Vacchi, Per Carlson, A. N. Kvashnin, C. De Donato, Mirko Boezio, M. Simon, O. Adriani, C. De Santis, A. Bruno, Sergey Koldobskiy, G. C. Barbarino, G. Castellini, Roberta Sparvoli, W. Menn, N. De Simone, Riccardo Munini, A. V. Karelin, M. Bongi, E. Mocchiutti, V. V. Mikhailov, F. Palma, G. Osteria, V. Bonvicini, Nicola Mori, Marco Ricci, Y. I. Stozhkov, N. Zampa, G. A. Bazilevskaya, G. Zampa, Beatrice Panico, V. Di Felice, F. Cafagna, Alfonso Monaco, M. Merge, D. Campana, Marco Casolino, Sergey Koldashov, O., Adriani, G. C., Barbarino, G. A., Bazilevskaya, R., Bellotti, M., Boezio, E. A., Bogomolov, M., Bongi, V., Bonvicini, S., Bottai, A., Bruno, F., Cafagna, D., Campana, P., Carlson, M., Casolino, G., Castellini, C., De Donato, C., De Santi, N., De Simone, V., Di Felice, V., Formato, A. M., Galper, A. V., Karelin, S. V., Koldashov, S. A., Koldobskiy, S. Y., Krutkov, A. N., Kvashnin, A. A., Leonov, V., Malakhov, L., Marcelli, M., Martucci, A. G., Mayorov, W., Menn, M., Mergè, V. V., Mikhailov, E., Mocchiutti, A., Monaco, N., Mori, Munini, Riccardo, G., Osteria, F., Palma, B., Panico, P., Papini, M., Pearce, P., Picozza, M., Ricci, S. B., Ricciarini, R., Sarkar, V., Scotti, V. M., Simon, Sparvoli, P., Spillantini, Y. I., Stozhkov, P., Vacchi, E., Vannuccini, G. I., Vasilyev, S. A., Voronov, Y. T., Yurkin, G., Zampa, N., Zampa, Adriani, O, Barbarino, Giancarlo, 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, Menn, W, Mergè, M, Mikhailov, V. 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, and Zampa, N.

Subjects
Physics, Quark matter, Space experiments, Cosmic rays, Spectrometers, Strange quark, PAMELA, Cosmic rays, Strange matter, PAMELA detector, Strangelet, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Settore FIS/01 - Fisica Sperimentale, General Physics and Astronomy, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, law.invention, Physics and Astronomy (all), Strange matter, Rigidity (electromagnetism), Quark star, law, PAMELA, State of matter
Abstract

In this work we present results of a direct search for strange quark matter (SQM) in cosmic rays with the PAMELA space spectrometer. If this state of matter exists it may be present in cosmic rays as particles, called strangelets, having a high density and an anomalously high mass-to-charge (A/Z) ratio. A direct search in space is complementary to those from ground-based spectrometers. Furthermore, it has the advantage of being potentially capable of directly identifying these particles, without any assumption on their interaction model with Earth's atmosphere and the long-term stability in terrestrial and lunar rocks. In the rigidity range from 1.0 to ∼1.0×10^{3} GV, no such particles were found in the data collected by PAMELA between 2006 and 2009. An upper limit on the strangelet flux in cosmic rays was therefore set for particles with charge 1≤Z≤8 and mass 4≤A≤1.2×10^{5}. This limit as a function of mass and as a function of magnetic rigidity allows us to constrain models of SQM production and propagation in the Galaxy.

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2015
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58. Time variations of proton flux in Earth inner radiation belt during 23/24 solar cycles based on the PAMELA and the ARINA data

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Yu. T. Yurkin, Mark Pearce, S. B. Ricciarini, V. Di Felice, Roberta Sparvoli, G. Zampa, Beatrice Panico, P. Papini, E. Vannuccini, D. Campana, G. C. Barbarino, Valentina Scotti, Valerio Formato, Yu. I. Stozhkov, A. M. Galper, Mirko Boezio, S. Yu. Krutkov, Alexey Leonov, N. Zampa, G. A. Bazilevskaya, S. Bottai, A. G. Mayorov, A. N. Kvashnin, Ritabrata Sarkar, M. A. Mayorova, Marco Casolino, P. Spillantini, V. V. Mikhailov, A. V. Karelin, E. Mocchuuitti, M. Simon, V. V. Malakhov, Sergey Koldashov, Riccardo Munini, G. Osteria, G. Castellini, Matteo Martucci, F. Palma, A. A. Kvashnin, Massimo Bongi, O. Adriani, L. Marcelli, F. Cafagna, W. Menn, N. De Simone, A. Bruno, Maria Teresa Ricci, P. Picozza, V. Bonvicini, Per Carlson, A. Vacci, S. A. Voronov, E. A. Bogomolov, S. Yu. Aleksandrin, G. I. Vasilyev, C. De Santis, C. De Donato, Alfonso Monaco, M. Merge, Nicola Mori, Malakhov, V. V, Koldashov, S. V, Mayorov, A. G, Mayorova, M. A, Mikhailov, V. V, Aleksandrin, S. Yu, Adriani, O, Barbarino, Giancarlo, Bazilevskaya, G. A, 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, Krutkov, S. Yu, Kvashnin, A. A, Kvashnin, A. N, Leonov, A. A, Marcelli, L, Martucci, M, Menn, W, Merge, M, Mocchuuitti, 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, Yu I, Vacci, A, Vannuccini, E, Vasilyev, G. I, Voronov, S. A, Yurkin, Yu T, Zampa, G, Zampa, N., V., Malakhov, S. V., Koldashov, A. G., Mayorov, M. A., Mayorova, V. V., Mikhailov, Aleksandrin, S. Y. u., O., Adriani, G. C., Barbarino, G. A., Bazilevskaya, M., Boezio, E. A., Bogomolov, M., Bongi, V., Bonvicini, S., Bottai, A., Bruno, F., Cafagna, D., Campana, P., Carlson, M., Casolino, G., Castellini, C., De Donato, C., De Santi, N., De Simone, V., Di Felice, V., Formato, A. M., Galper, A. V., Karelin, S. Y., Krutkov, A. A., Kvashnin, A. N., Kvashnin, A., Leonov, L., Marcelli, M., Martucci, W., Menn, M., Mergé, E., Mocchiutti, A., Monaco, N., Mori, Munini, Riccardo, G., Osteria, F., Palma, B., Panico, P., Papini, M., Pearce, P., Picozza, M., Ricci, S. B., Ricciarini, R., Sarkar, V., Scotti, M., Simon, R., Sparvoli, P., Spillantini, Y. I., Stozhkov, A., Vacchi, E., Vannuccini, G. I., Vasilyev, S. A., Voronov, Y. T., Yurkin, G., Zampa, and N., Zampa

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History, High energy, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Proton flux, radiation belt, Education, law.invention, satellite experiment, symbols.namesake, law, PAMELA, Cosmic rays, radiation belt, proton, PAMELA, Cosmic rays, Physics, PAMELA detector, Settore FIS/04, Astronomy, Computer Science Applications, Proton (rocket family), Van Allen radiation belt, Physics::Space Physics, symbols, ComputingMethodologies_DOCUMENTANDTEXTPROCESSING, Satellite, Time variations, proton
Abstract

The PAMELA and the ARINA experiments are carried out on the board of satellite RESURS-DK1 since 2006 up to now. Main goal of the PAMELA instrument is measurements of high energy antiparticles in cosmic rays while the ARINA instrument is intended studying high energy charged particle bursts in the magnetosphere. Both of these experiments have a possibility to study trapped particles in the inner radiation belt. Complex of these two instruments covers proton energy range from 30 MeV up to trapping limit (E= ~2 GeV). Continuous measurements with the PAMELA and the ARINA spectrometers include falling and rising phases of 23/24 solar cycles and maximum of 24th one. In this report we present temporal profiles of proton flux in the inner zone of the radiation belt (1.11 < L < 1.18, 0.18 < B < 0.22G). Dependence of proton fluxes on a magnitude of the solar activity was studied for various phases of 23/24 solar cycles. At that it was shown that proton fluxes at the solar minimum are several times greater than at the solar maximum.

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2015

59. Solar modulation of GCR electrons over the 23rd solar minimum with PAMELA

Author

L. Marcelli, A. Vacchi, S. Bottai, A. Bruno, E. Mocchiutti, D. Campana, Mirko Boezio, Maria Teresa Ricci, Marco Casolino, F. Cafagna, A. V. Karelin, Riccardo Munini, Etienne Vos, G. Osteria, M. S. Potgieter, O. Adriani, Massimo Bongi, Matteo Martucci, Alexey Leonov, W. Menn, V. V. Mikhailov, V. Formato, Valentina Scotti, N. Zampa, G. A. Bazilevskaya, C. De Santis, Roberto Bellotti, A. M. Galper, Sergey Koldashov, A. N. Kvashnin, Mark Pearce, S. B. Ricciarini, P. Papini, E. Vannuccini, V. Bonvicini, Y. I. Stozhkov, A. G. Mayorov, M. Simon, Sergey Koldobskiy, F. Palma, G. C. Barbarino, V. Di Felice, Nicola Mori, V. V. Malakhov, C. De Donato, G. I. Vasilyev, Roberta Sparvoli, S. Y. Krutkov, P. Picozza, P. Spillantini, Alfonso Monaco, M. Merge, Ritabrata Sarkar, S. A. Voronov, E. A. Bogomolov, N. De Simone, G. Castellini, Per Carlson, Yu. T. Yurkin, G. Zampa, Beatrice Panico, Munini, R, Di Felice, V, Adriani, O, Barbarino, Giancarlo, 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, 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, Menn, W, Merge, M, Mikhailov, V. V, Mocchiutti, E, Monaco, A, Mori, N, 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., Munini, Riccardo, V., Di Felice, O., Adriani, G. C., Barbarino, G. A., Bazilevskaya, R., Bellotti, M., Boezio, E. A., Bogomolov, M., Bongi, V., Bonvicini, S., Bottai, A., Bruno, F., Cafagna, D., Campana, P., Carlson, M., Casolino, G., Castellini, C., De Donato, C., De Santi, N., De Simone, V., Formato, A. M., Galper, A. V., Karelin, S. V., Koldashov, S., Koldobskiy, S. Y., Krutkov, A. N., Kvashnin, A., Leonov, V., Malakhov, L., Marcelli, M., Martucci, A. G., Mayorov, W., Menn, M., Mergé, V. V., Mikhailov, E., Mocchiutti, A., Monaco, N., Mori, G., Osteria, F., Palma, B., Panico, P., Papini, M., Pearce, P., Picozza, M., Ricci, S. B., Ricciarini, R., Sarkar, V., Scotti, M., Simon, R., Sparvoli, P., Spillantini, Y. I., Stozhkov, A., Vacchi, E., Vannuccini, G. I., Vasilyev, S. A., Voronov, Y. T., Yurkin, G., Zampa, N., Zampa, M. S., Potgieter, and E. E., Vos

Subjects
Solar minimum, electron, History, Antiparticle, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, solar minimum, Solar cycle 23, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Solar Modulation, electron, solar minimum, PAMELA, Education, law.invention, Physics and Astronomy (all), law, PAMELA, Cosmology, Modulation, Solar energy Apparatus design, Charged components, Electron spectrum, Galactic cosmic rays, Solar minima, Solar modulation, Solar modulation effects, Coronal mass ejection, Physics, PAMELA detector, Settore FIS/04, Computer Science Applications, Solar cycle, Solar Modulation, Antimatter, Physics::Space Physics, ComputingMethodologies_DOCUMENTANDTEXTPROCESSING
Abstract

The satellite-borne PAMELA experiment has been continuously collecting data since 15th June 2006, when it was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome to detect the charged component of cosmic rays over a wide energy range and with unprecedented statistics. The apparatus design is particularly suited for particle and antiparticle identification. The PAMELA experiment has measured the electron spectrum at Earth in great detail, extending up to about 100 GeV and down to about 200 MeV. The galactic cosmic ray electron spectra for 2007 and 2009, i.e. measured during the A

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2015
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60. Time Dependence of the e− Flux Measured by PAMELA during the July 2006–December 2009 Solar Minimum

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O. Adriani, G. C. Barbarino, G. A. Bazilevskaya, R. Bellotti, M. Boezio, E. A. Bogomolov, M. Bongi, V. Bonvicini, S. Bottai, A. Bruno, F. Cafagna, D. Campana, P. Carlson, M. Casolino, G. Castellini, C. De Donato, C. De Santis, N. De Simone, V. Di Felice, V. Formato, A. M. Galper, A. V. Karelin, S. V. Koldashov, S. Koldobskiy, S. Y. Krutkov, A. N. Kvashnin, A. Leonov, V. Malakhov, L. Marcelli, M. Martucci, A. G. Mayorov, W. Menn, M. Mergè, V. V. Mikhailov, E. Mocchiutti, A. Monaco, N. Mori, G. Osteria, F. Palma, B. Panico, P. Papini, M. Pearce, P. Picozza, M. Ricci, S. B. Ricciarini, R. Sarkar, V. Scotti, M. Simon, R. Sparvoli, P. Spillantini, Y. I. Stozhkov, A. Vacchi, E. Vannuccini, G. Vasilyev, S. A. Voronov, Y. T. Yurkin, G. Zampa, N. Zampa, M. S. Potgieter, E. E. Vos, MUNINI, RICCARDO, O., Adriani, G. C., Barbarino, G. A., Bazilevskaya, R., Bellotti, M., Boezio, E. A., Bogomolov, M., Bongi, V., Bonvicini, S., Bottai, A., Bruno, F., Cafagna, D., Campana, P., Carlson, M., Casolino, G., Castellini, C., De Donato, C., De Santi, N., De Simone, V., Di Felice, V., Formato, A. M., Galper, A. V., Karelin, S. V., Koldashov, S., Koldobskiy, S. Y., Krutkov, A. N., Kvashnin, A., Leonov, V., Malakhov, L., Marcelli, M., Martucci, A. G., Mayorov, W., Menn, M., Mergè, V. V., Mikhailov, E., Mocchiutti, A., Monaco, N., Mori, Munini, Riccardo, G., Osteria, F., Palma, B., Panico, P., Papini, M., Pearce, P., Picozza, M., Ricci, S. B., Ricciarini, R., Sarkar, V., Scotti, M., Simon, R., Sparvoli, P., Spillantini, Y. I., Stozhkov, A., Vacchi, E., Vannuccini, G., Vasilyev, S. A., Voronov, Y. T., Yurkin, G., Zampa, N., Zampa, M. S., Potgieter, and E. E., Vos

Subjects
Solar modulation, Solar modulation, Cosmic Rays, Electrons, PAMELA, Solar minimum, PAMELA, Solar minimum, Electrons, Cosmic Rays
Abstract

Precision measurements of the electron component of cosmic radiation provide important information about the origin and propagation of cosmic rays in the Galaxy not accessible from the study of cosmic-ray nuclear components due to their differing diffusion and energy-loss processes. However, when measured near Earth, the effects of propagation and modulation of Galactic cosmic rays in the heliosphere, particularly significant for energies up to at least 30 GeV, must be properly taken into account. In this paper the electron ( e − ) spectra measured by the Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics down to 70 MeV from 2006 July to 2009 December over six-month time intervals are presented. Fluxes are compared with a state-of-the-art three-dimensional model of solar modulation that reproduces the observations remarkably well.

Published
2015

61. PAMELA measurements of the boron and carbon spectra

Author

Alexey Leonov, A. G. Mayorov, Ritabrata Sarkar, G. Zampa, Beatrice Panico, S. Y. Krutkov, Yu. T. Yurkin, A. V. Karelin, C. De Santis, N. Zampa, G. A. Bazilevskaya, P. Picozza, P. Spillantini, Valerio Formato, C. De Donato, G. Osteria, Riccardo Munini, D. Campana, R. Carbone, O. Adriani, Alfonso Monaco, Sergey Koldobskiy, V. Di Felice, G. C. Barbarino, W. Menn, V. Bonvicini, V. V. Malakhov, Marco Casolino, Roberto Bellotti, Valentina Scotti, G. Castellini, A. M. Galper, L. Marcelli, Y. I. Stozhkov, A. Vacchi, S. Bottai, A. Bruno, M. Merge, N. De Simone, M. Bongi, A. N. Kvashnin, Mark Pearce, S. B. Ricciarini, Sergey Koldashov, Nicola Mori, P. Papini, Matteo Martucci, E. Vannuccini, Mirko Boezio, S. A. Voronov, G. I. Vasilyev, Per Carlson, E. A. Bogomolov, F. Palma, V. V. Mikhailov, Maria Teresa Ricci, F. Cafagna, M. Simon, Roberta Sparvoli, E. Mocchiutti, N., Mori, O., Adriani, G. C., Barbarino, G. A., Bazilevskaya, R., Bellotti, M., Boezio, E. A., Bogomolov, M., Bongi, V., Bonvicini, S., Bottai, A., Bruno, F., Cafagna, D., Campana, R., Carbone, P., Carlson, M., Casolino, G., Castellini, C., De Donato, C., De Santi, N., De Simone, V., Di Felice, V., Formato, A. M., Galper, A. V., Karelin, S. V., Koldashov, S., Koldobskiy, S. Y., Krutkov, A. N., Kvashnin, A., Leonov, V., Malakhov, L., Marcelli, M., Martucci, A. G., Mayorov, W., Menn, M., Mergé, V. V., Mikhailov, E., Mocchiutti, A., Monaco, Munini, Riccardo, G., Osteria, F., Palma, B., Panico, P., Papini, M., Pearce, P., Picozza, M., Ricci, S. B., Ricciarini, R., Sarkar, V., Scotti, M., Simon, R., Sparvoli, P., Spillantini, Y. I., Stozhkov, A., Vacchi, E., Vannuccini, G. I., Vasilyev, S. A., Voronov, Y. T., Yurkin, G., Zampa, N., Zampa, Mori, N, Adriani, O, Barbarino, Giancarlo, Bazilevskaya, G. A, Bellotti, R, Boezio, M, Bogomolov, E. A, Bongi, M, Bonvicini, V, Bottai, S, Bruno, A, Cafagna, F, Campana, D, Carbone, R, Carlson, P, Casolino, M, Castellini, G, De Donato, C, De Santis, C, De Simone, N, Felice, V. Di, 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, Menn, W, Mergé, M, Mikhailov, V. V, Mocchiutti, E, Monaco, A, 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. I, Voronov, S. A, Yurkin, Y. T, Zampa, G, and Zampa, N.

Subjects
History, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, chemistry.chemical_element, Cosmic ray, Spectral line, Education, law.invention, Nuclear physics, Physics and Astronomy (all), cosmic rays, law, PAMELA, Boron, Cosmic ray measurement, Cosmology, High energy physics Anticoincidence systems, Boron and carbons, Cosmic ray spectra, Data analysis techniques, Electromagnetic calorimeter, Injection spectra, Magnetic spectrometers, Time of flight systems, Neutron detection, Physics, carbon boron, Spectrometer, PAMELA detector, Settore FIS/04, PAMELA, cosmic rays, carbon boron, fluxes, fluxes, Computer Science Applications, chemistry, Antimatter, ComputingMethodologies_DOCUMENTANDTEXTPROCESSING, Carbon
Abstract

The satellite-borne PAMELA experiment is aimed at precision measurements of the charged light component of the cosmic-ray spectrum, with a particular focus on antimatter. It consists of a magnetic spectrometer, a time-of-flight system, an electromagnetic calorimeter with a tail catcher scintillating layer, an anticoincidence system and a neutron detector. PAMELA has measured the absolute fluxes of boron and carbon and the B/C ratio, which plays a central role in galactic propagation studies in order to derive the injection spectra at sources from measurements at Earth. In this paper, the data analysis techniques and the final results are presented.

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2015
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62. Detection of a change in the North-South ratio of count rates of particles of high-energy cosmic rays during a change in the polarity of the magnetic field of the Sun

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M. Simon, V. Di Felice, V. Bonvicini, P. Spillantini, Riccardo Munini, G. I. Vasil’ev, W. Menn, Mark Pearce, S. B. Ricciarini, Roberto Bellotti, Marco Ricci, S. A. Koldobskii, P. Papini, E. Vannuccini, A. M. Galper, Mirko Boezio, G. Castellini, O. Adriani, A. N. Kvashnin, Alfonso Monaco, V. V. Malakhov, G. A. Bazilevskaya, F. Cafagna, M. Merge, Alexey Leonov, S. Bottai, A. V. Karelin, L. Marcelli, Roberta Sparvoli, M. Bongi, S. A. Voronov, A. G. Maiorov, A. Vacchi, Matteo Martucci, V. V. Mikhailov, S. Yu. Krutkov, Sergey Koldashov, A. Bruno, F. Palma, Ritabrata Sarkar, R. Carbone, Per Carlson, E. A. Bogomolov, D. Campana, Valerio Formato, N. De Simone, Valentina Scotti, Marco Casolino, N. Zampa, P. Picozza, E. Mocchiutti, Yu. T. Yurkin, G. Zampa, Beatrice Panico, M. L. Rosetto, G. C. Barbarino, G. Osteria, Nicola Mori, C. De Santis, C. De Donato, A. V., Karelin, O., Adriani, G. C., Barbarino, G. A., Bazilevskaya, R., Bellotti, M., Boezio, E. A., Bogomolov, M., Bongi, V., Bonvicini, S., Bottai, A., Bruno, A., Vacchi, E., Vannuccini, G. I., Vasil’Ev, S. A., Voronov, A. M., Galper, C., De Donato, C., De Santi, N., De Simone, V., Di Felice, G., Zampa, N., Zampa, F., Cafagna, D., Campana, R., Carbone, P., Carlson, M., Casolino, G., Castellini, A. N., Kvashnin, S. V., Koldashov, S. A., Koldobskii, S. Y., Krutkov, A. A., Leonov, L., Marcelli, M., Martucci, A. G., Maiorov, V. V., Malakhov, W., Menn, M., Mergè, V. V., Mikhailov, E., Mocchiutti, A., Monaco, N., Mori, Munini, Riccardo, G., Osteria, F., Palma, B., Panico, P., Papini, M., Pearce, P., Picozza, M., Ricci, S. B., Ricciarini, M. L., Rosetto, M., Simon, R., Sarkar, V., Scotti, R., Sparvoli, P., Spillantini, V., Formato, Y. T., Yurkin, Karelin, A. V., Adriani, O., Barbarino, Giancarlo, Bazilevskaya, G. A., Bellotti, R., Boezio, M., Bogomolov, E. A., Bongi, M., Bonvicini, V., Bottai, S., Bruno, A., Vacchi, A., Vannuccini, E., Vasil’Ev, G. I., Voronov, S. A., Gal’Per, A. M., De Donato, C., De Santis, C., De Simone, N., Di Felice, V., Zampa, G., Zampa, N., Cafagna, F., Campana, D., Carbone, R., Carlson, P., Casolino, M., Castellini, G., Kvashnin, A. N., Koldashov, S. V., Koldobskii, S. A., Krut’Kov, S. Y. u., Leonov, A. A., Marcelli, L., Martucci, M., Maiorov, A. G., Malakhov, V. V., Menn, W., Mergè, M., Mikhailov, V. 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., Rosetto, M. L., Simon, M., Sarkar, R., Scotti, V., Sparvoli, R., Spillantini, P., Formato, V., and Yurkin, Y. u. T.

Subjects
Physics, Solid-state physics, Calorimeter (particle physics), Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Polarity (physics), Settore FIS/04, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, north south asymmetry, Magnetic field, satellite experiment, cosmic rays, PAMELA, Physics::Space Physics, Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray, PAMELA, Cosmic Rays, north south asymmetry, Physics::Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
Abstract

A change in the ratio of the intensities of particles of high-energy cosmic rays arriving from the North and South in the time interval of 2010–2014 has been detected with a calorimeter entering into the experimental complex of the PAMELA satellite experiment since June 2006. The polarity of the magnetic field of the Sun changed in a part of this time interval. Thus, the results indicate that the North-South asymmetry of cosmic ray fluxes is related to the magnetic field of the Sun.

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2015
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63. Searching for anisotropy of positrons and electrons in the PAMELA experiment

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N. Zampa, Alfonso Monaco, Mark Pearce, S. B. Ricciarini, C. De Santis, Giuseppe Osteria, G. A. Bazilevskaya, P. Picozza, P. Papini, V. G. Zverev, E. Vannuccini, C. De Donato, Alexey Leonov, P. Spillantini, R. Carbone, V. Malvezzi, M. Merge, F. Palma, Sergey Koldobskiy, Sergey Koldashov, Ritabrata Sarkar, Nicola Mori, S. A. Voronov, Roberta Sparvoli, G. C. Barbarino, S. Bottai, G. Zampa, Beatrice Panico, Yu. I. Stozhkov, O. Adriani, Mirko Boezio, V. V. Malakhov, Lorenzo Bonechi, V. Bonvicini, D. Campana, L. Marcelli, G. I. Vasilyev, V. V. Mikhailov, G. Castellini, M. Bongi, A. Vacchi, P. Carlson, A. Bruno, Roberto Bellotti, Marco Casolino, A. M. Galper, E. A. Bogomolov, E. Mocchiutti, F. Cafagna, A. N. Kvashnin, A. V. Karelin, Yu. T. Yurkin, Riccardo Munini, W. Menn, M. Simon, V. Di Felice, Marco Ricci, N. De Simone, S. Yu. Krutkov, A. G. Mayorov, Matteo Martucci, V. V., Mikhailov, O., Adriani, G. C., Barbarino, G., A., R., Bellotti, M., Boezio, E., A., L., Bonechi, M., Bongi, V., Bonvicini, S., Bottai, A., Bruno, A., Vacchi, E., Vannuccini, G. I., Vasilyev, S. A., Voronov, A. M., Galper, C., De Donato, C., De Santi, N., De Simone, V., Di Felice, V. G., Zverev, G., Zampa, N., Zampa, F., Cafagna, D., Campana, R., Carbone, A. V., Karelin, P., Carlson, M., Casolino, G., Castellini, A. N., Kvashnin, S. V., Koldashov, S. A., Koldobskiy, Krutkov, S. Y. u., A. A., Leonov, V., Malvezzi, L., Marcelli, M., Martucci, A. G., Mayorov, V., Malakhov, W., Menn, M., Merge, E., Mocchiutti, A., Monaco, N., Mori, Munini, Riccardo, G., Osteria, F., Palm, B., Panico, P., Papini, M., Pearce, P., Picozza, M., Ricci, S. B., Ricciarini, M., Simon, R., Sarkar, R., Sparvoli, P., Spillantini, Stozhkov, Y. u. I., Yurkin, Y. u. T., Mikhailov, V. V., Adriani, O., Barbarino, Giancarlo, Bazilevskaya, G. A., Bellotti, R., Boezio, M., Bogomolov, E. A., Bonechi, L., Bongi, M., Bonvicini, V., Bottai, S., Bruno, A., Vacchi, A., Vannuccini, E., Vasilyev, G. I., Voronov, S. A., Galper, A. M., De Donato, C., De Santis, C., De Simone, N., Di Felice, V., Zverev, V. G., Zampa, G., Zampa, N., Cafagna, F., Campana, D., Carbone, R., Karelin, A. V., Carlson, P., Casolino, M., Castellini, G., Kvashnin, A. N., Koldashov, S. V., Koldobskiy, S. A., Leonov, A. A., Malvezzi, V., Marcelli, L., Martucci, M., Mayorov, A. G., Malakhov, V., Menn, W., Merge, M., 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., Simon, M., Sarkar, R., Sparvoli, R., and Spillantini, P.

Subjects
Physics, positrons, Annihilation, PAMELA detector, Settore FIS/04, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Dark matter, electrons, General Physics and Astronomy, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Electron, anisotropy, law.invention, Physics and Astronomy (all), Positron, Pulsar, cosmic rays, law, PAMELA, Positron sources, Anisotropy, Electrons, PAMELA, cosmic rays, anisotropy, positrons, electrons
Abstract

The PAMELA experiment has been under way aboard the Resurs DK-1 satellite since June 2006. The results have revealed an increase in the ratio of the positron intensity to the total electron and positron intensity at energies in excess of 10 GeV. This increase suggests an additional source of cosmic rays that is associated with either some astrophysical objects (e.g., pulsars) or the probable annihilation of particles of dark matter. Local positron sources can produce notable anisotropy in their flux. The results from the search for anisotropy of positrons and electrons in the events detected by the PAMELA experiment in the 2006-2013 timeframe are described in detail in this work.

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2015
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64. Sharp increasing of positron to electron fluxes ratio below 2 GV measured by the PAMELA

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Alfonso Monaco, A. N. Kvashnin, M. Merge, V. V. Mikhailov, P. Carlson, A. G. Mayorov, G. I. Vasiliev, R. Sparvoli, N. De Simone, G. Zampa, Beatrice Panico, M. Simon, N. Zampa, Sergey Koldashov, G. A. Bazilevskaya, Yu. T. Yurkin, C. De Santis, Yu. I. Stozhkov, V. V. Malakhov, S. Yu. Krutkov, P. Picozza, Roberto Bellotti, Mark Pearce, S. B. Ricciarini, F. Palma, A. M. Galper, P. Papini, Giuseppe Osteria, E. Vannuccini, Matteo Martucci, S. A. Koldobsky, E. Mocchiutti, F. Cafagna, A. V. Karelin, Mirko Boezio, D. Campana, S. Bottai, Maria Teresa Ricci, S. A. Voronov, Marco Casolino, C. De Donato, Nicola Mori, E. A. Bogomolov, Riccardo Munini, M. Bongi, P. Spillantini, O. Adriani, W. Menn, V. Di Felice, V. Bonvicini, G. C. Barbarino, G. Castellini, L. Marcelli, A. Vacchi, A. Bruno, Alexey Leonov, Mikhailov, V. V., Adriani, O., Barbarino, G., Bazilevskaya, G. A., Bellotti, R., Boezio, M., Bogomolov, E. A., Bongi, M., Bonvicini, V., Bottai, S., Bruno, A., Cafagna, F. S., Campana, D., Carlson, P., Casolino, M., Castellini, G., De Donato, C., De Santis, C., De Simone, N., Di Felice, V., Galper, A. M., Karelin, A. V., Koldashov, S. V., Koldobsky, S., Krutkov, S. Y., Kvashnin, A. N., Leonov, A. A., Malakhov, V. V., Marcelli, L., Martucci, M., Mayorov, A. G., Menn, W., Merge, M., Mocchiutti, E., Monaco, A., Mori, N., Munini, R., Osteria, G., Papini, P., Palma, F., Panico, B., Pearce, M., Picozza, P., Ricci, M., Ricciarini, S. B., Simon, M., Sparvoli, R., Spillantini, P., Stozhkov, Y. I., Vacchi, A., Vannuccini, E., Vasiliev, G. I., Voronov, S. A., Yurkin, Y. T., Zampa, G., and Zampa, N.

Subjects
Physics, Settore FIS/01, History, Antiparticle, PAMELA detector, Spectrometer, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Polar orbit, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Electron, Cosmology, Electrons, Magnetic polarity, Orbits, Positrons, Computer Science Applications, Education, law.invention, Physics and Astronomy (all), Positron, law, Physics::Space Physics, Satellite, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Abstract

Magnetic spectrometer PAMELA was launched onboard a satellite Resurs-DK1 into low-Earth polar orbit with altitude 350-600 km to study cosmic ray antiparticle fluxes in a wide energy range from ~ 100 MeV to hundreds GeV. This paper presents the results of observations of temporal variations of the positron and electron fluxes in the 2006-2015. The ratio of the positron and electron fluxes below 2 GV shows sharp increasing since 2014 due to changing of the polarity of the solar magnetic field.

Published
2017

65. Solar modulation of cosmic deuteron fluxes in the PAMELA experiment

Author

Roberto Bellotti, A. M. Galper, V. V. Mikhailov, V. Bonvicini, Andrea Vacchi, Mark Pearce, S. B. Ricciarini, P. Papini, E. Vannuccini, M. Simon, G. Zampa, Beatrice Panico, Riccardo Munini, N. Zampa, Mirko Boezio, A. V. Karelin, R. Sparvoli, Marco Ricci, Per Carlson, Alfonso Monaco, F. Cafagna, A. N. Kvashnin, Yu. T. Yurkin, M. Merge, G. Osteria, Massimo Bongi, Sergey Koldobskiy, G. C. Barbarino, V. V. Malakhov, A. G. Mayorov, G. A. Bazilevskaya, V. Di Felice, S. Bottai, O. Adriani, E. Mocchiutti, W. Menn, A. A. Kvashnin, G. I. Vasilyev, S. Y. Krutkov, Matteo Martucci, M. F. Runtso, S. A. Voronov, P. Picozza, C. De Santis, Nicola Mori, P. Spillantini, D. Campana, Marco Casolino, Sergey Koldashov, L. Marcelli, A. Bruno, Alexey Leonov, Yuri Stozhkov, G. Castellini, E. A. Bogomolov, Koldobskiy, S. A., Adriani, O., Bazilevskaya, G. A., Barbarino, G. C., Bellotti, R., Bogomolov, E. A., Boezio, M., Bonvicini, V., Bongi, M., Bottai, S., Bruno, A., Vacchi, A., Vannuccini, E., Vasilyev, G. I., Voronov, S. A., Galper, A. M., De Santis, C., Di Felice, V., Zampa, G., Zampa, N., Casolino, M., Campana, D., Karelin, A. V., Carlson, P., Castellini, G., Cafagna, F., Kvashnin, A. A., Kvashnin, A. N., Koldashov, S. V., Krutkov, S. Y., Leonov, A. A., Mayorov, A. G., Malakhov, V. V., Martucci, M., Marcelli, L., Menn, W., Merge, M., Mikhailov, V. V., Mocchiutti, E., Monaco, A., Mori, N., Munini, R., Osteria, G., Panico, B., Papini, P., Picozza, P., Pearce, M., Ricci, M., Ricciarini, S. B., Runtso, M. F., Simon, M., Sparvoli, R., Spillantini, P., Stozhkov, Y. I., and Yurkin, Y. T.

Subjects
Physics, COSMIC cancer database, PAMELA detector, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Settore FIS/04, General Physics and Astronomy, Cosmic ray, Cosmic ray measurement, Cosmic rays, Deuterium, Modulation, Solar energy Energy interval, Galactic cosmic rays, High precision detections, Measurements of, Solar activity, Solar modulation, Astrophysics, Solar energy, 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, law.invention, Physics and Astronomy (all), law, 0103 physical sciences, Physics::Space Physics, Coronal mass ejection, Satellite, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, business, Nucleon, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics
Abstract

The preliminary results from measurements of deuteron fluxes in galactic cosmic rays (GCR) in the vicinity of the Earth in 2006–2009 are presented. The results are obtained by analyzing data from the PAMELA experiment aboard the Resurs DK-1 satellite. High-precision detection instruments provided an opportunity to identify GCR deuterons and measure their spectrum in the energy interval of 90–650MeV/nucleon. Spectra averaged over six-month intervals from the summer of 2006 to the summer of 2009 (the solar activity minimum) are presented. The influence of solar modulation on the observed spectrum is clearly seen in the results.

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2017
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66. Modulation of electrons and positrons in 2006–2015 in the PAMELA experiment

Author

E. Mocchiutti, O. Adriani, W. Menn, A. G. Mayorov, A. N. Kvashnin, A. V. Karelin, R. Sparvoli, Mark Pearce, S. B. Ricciarini, Sergey Koldobskiy, P. Papini, G. Castellini, E. Vannuccini, Yu. T. Yurkin, G. C. Barbarino, V. V. Malakhov, Mirko Boezio, Marco Ricci, C. De Santis, N. Zampa, M. Bongi, Matteo Martucci, V. Di Felice, V. Bonvicini, S. Bottai, Roberto Bellotti, A. M. Galper, Andrea Vacchi, G. Zampa, Beatrice Panico, S. Y. Krutkov, A. A. Kvashnin, G. I. Vasilyev, Per Carlson, M. Simon, F. Cafagna, L. Marcelli, G. A. Bazilevskaya, G. Osteria, A. Bruno, Nicola Mori, P. Picozza, V. V. Mikhailov, Riccardo Munini, P. Spillantini, D. Campana, M. F. Runtso, S. A. Voronov, Marco Casolino, Sergey Koldashov, Alfonso Monaco, M. Merge, Yuri Stozhkov, Alexey Leonov, E. A. Bogomolov, Mikhailov, V. V., Adriani, O., Bazilevskaya, G. A., Barbarino, G. C., Bellotti, R., Bogomolov, E. A., Boezio, M., Bonvicini, V., Bongi, M., Bottai, S., Bruno, A., Vacchi, A., Vannuccini, E., Vasilyev, G. I., Voronov, S. A., Galper, A. M., De Santis, C., Di Felice, V., Zampa, G., Zampa, N., Casolino, M., Campana, D., Karelin, A. V., Carlson, P., Castellini, G., Cafagna, F., Kvashnin, A. A., Kvashnin, A. N., Koldashov, S. V., Koldobskiy, S. A., Krutkov, S. Y., Leonov, A. A., Mayorov, A. G., Malakhov, V. V., Martucci, M., Marcelli, L., Menn, W., Merge, M., Mocchiutti, E., Monaco, A., Mori, N., Munini, R., Osteria, G., Panico, B., Papini, P., Picozza, P., Pearce, M., Ricci, M., Ricciarini, S. B., Runtso, M. F., Simon, M., Sparvoli, R., Spillantini, P., Stozhkov, Y. I., and Yurkin, Y. T.

Subjects
Physics, Settore FIS/01, Antiparticle, PAMELA detector, Spectrometer, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, General Physics and Astronomy, Cosmic ray, Electron, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Physics and Astronomy (all), Positron, law, 0103 physical sciences, Physics::Space Physics, Coronal mass ejection, Interplanetary magnetic field, 010306 general physics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Cosmic rays, Cosmology, Magnetic polarity, Orbits, Positrons, Solar energy Magnetic spectrometers, Solar activity, Solar magnetic fields, Temporal variation, Time interval, Wide energy range
Abstract

The PAMELA magnetic spectrometer was launched aboard the Resurs DK-1 satellite into a nearpolar circumterrestrial orbit with an altitude of 350–600 km to study fluxes of the particles and antiparticles of cosmic rays in the wide energy range of ~80 MeV to several hundred gigaelectronvolts. The results from observations of temporal variations in electron and positron fluxes in 2006–2015 are presented. The ratio of electron and positron fluxes measured in this time interval reveals a dependence on the rigidity of particles, the solar activity, and the polarity of the solar magnetic field.

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2017
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67. Solar modulation of galactic cosmic rays during 2006-2015 based on PAMELA and ARINA data

Author

Alfonso Monaco, S. Bottai, A. G. Mayorov, P. Picozza, M. Merge, Maria Teresa Ricci, Sergey Koldobskiy, G. C. Barbarino, P. Yu. Naumov, A. V. Karelin, P. Spillantini, Alexey Leonov, R. Sparvoli, Mark Pearce, S. B. Ricciarini, Nicola Mori, S. A. Voronov, M. Simon, P. Papini, E. Vannuccini, N. Zampa, G. A. Bazilevskaya, L. Marcelli, E. A. Bogomolov, G. Osteria, D. Campana, A. Vacchi, Laura Rossetto, V. V. Malakhov, Yu. T. Yurkin, A. Bruno, V. V. Mikhailov, O. Adriani, M. A. Mayorova, Marco Casolino, Roberto Bellotti, A. M. Galper, Matteo Martucci, W. Menn, G. I. Vasilyev, V. Di Felice, A. A. Kvashnin, Mirko Boezio, G. Castellini, G. Zampa, Beatrice Panico, Riccardo Munini, C. De Santis, S. A. Rodenko, F. Cafagna, M. Bongi, Per Carlson, V. Bonvicini, Y. Stozhkov, Sergey Aleksandrin, E. Mocchiutti, and S. V. Koldashov

Subjects
Settore FIS/01, Physics, History, Scintillation, PAMELA detector, Spectrometer, Cosmic rays, Cosmology, Magnetic polarity, Modulation, Solar energy, Spectrometers Galactic cosmic rays, Magnetic spectrometers, Solar activity, Solar magnetic fields, Solar modulation, Transient periods, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Computer Science Applications, Education, Magnetic field, law.invention, Physics and Astronomy (all), law, Physics::Space Physics, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

Solar modulation of galactic protons with energies from 50 MeV up to dozens of GeV during July '06 - January '16 studied based on a data of the magnetic spectrometer PAMELA and scintillation spectrometer ARINA. This period is interesting because it covers the end of 23rd and current 24th cycles of solar activity, including the abnormally long transient period and change of the polarity of solar magnetic field. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.

Published
2017

68. The LaBr3(Ce) based detection system for the FAMU experiment

Author

M. Furini, M. Zuffa, Pier Luca Rossi, I. D'Antone, A. Rachevski, L. P. Rignanese, E. Mocchiutti, A. Vacchi, A. Margotti, G. Zampa, Claudio Labanti, E. Vallazza, Giuseppe Baldazzi, S. Meneghini, Gianluca Morgante, F. Fuschino, N. Zampa, Baldazzi, G., Vacchi, A., Labanti, C., Morgante, G., Fuschino, F., Rignanese, L.P., Rossi, P.L., Mocchiutti, E., Zampa, N., Zampa, G., Rachevski, A., Vallazza, E., D'Antone, I., Zuffa, M., Meneghini, S., Margotti, A., and Furini, M.

Subjects
Signal processing, Detector readout, Photomultiplier, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Ground state, Charged particle, Atom, Scintillator, 01 natural sciences, Timing detectors, Spectrometer, Hyperfine splitting, Optics, Photomultiplier tube, Front-end electronics for detector readout, 0103 physical sciences, Digital signal processing (DSP), Pulsed muon beam, 010306 general physics, Spectrometers, Instrumentation, Mathematical Physics, Voltage dividers, Physics, Muon, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Voltage divider, Detector, High voltage, Digital signal processing, Spectrometers Circular support, High-precision measurement, Timing detector, business, Beam (structure)
Abstract

The FAMU experiment is devoted to the high precision measurement of the hyperfine splitting of the muonic-hydrogen atom ground state using a pulsed and intense muon beam; it requires careful technological choices both in the construction of the gas target and of the detectors. In the last three years, the cryogenic gas target was developed and used for experimental measurement sessions, with the low energy pulsed muon beam (55-65 MeV), at the RIKEN-RAL (U.K.) muon facility. At the same time, eight LaBr3(Ce) based detectors have been developed to be accommodated in a circular support surrounding the target. The readout for each detector consists of a photomultiplier tube (PMT) equipped with an improved fully active high voltage divider and a Digital Pulse Processor (DPP) performing noise reduction with an optimal (triangular) filter. The active voltage divider, together with the DPP, allow to operate at high speed while retaining all the spectrometric properties of the LaBr3(Ce) scintillator. In this paper, the development of this innovative high-performance detection system is presented. © 2017 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab srl.

Published
2017

69. The PAMELA experiment: A decade of Cosmic Ray Physics in space

Author

P. Spillantini, Matteo Martucci, Yu. T. Yurkin, Nicola Mori, M. Bongi, Riccardo Munini, S. Y. Krutkov, Per Carlson, G. Zampa, A. V. Karelin, Beatrice Panico, A. N. Kvashnin, R. Sparvoli, C. De Santis, C. De Donato, V. V. Malakhov, O. Adriani, P. Picozza, W. Menn, A. G. Mayorov, S. A. Voronov, M. Merge, G. A. Bazilevskaya, Sergey Koldobskiy, G. C. Barbarino, M. Simon, G. Osteria, G. I. Vasilyev, V. Di Felice, V. Bonvicini, S. Bottai, A. Bruno, Y. I. Stozhkov, N. Zampa, Maria Teresa Ricci, F. Cafagna, E. A. Bogomolov, Roberto Bellotti, E. Mocchiutti, V. V. Mikhailov, A. M. Galper, Mark Pearce, S. B. Ricciarini, P. Papini, E. Vannuccini, L. Marcelli, A. Vacchi, F. Palma, Mirko Boezio, Alexey Leonov, G. Castellini, Sergey Koldashov, D. Campana, Marco Casolino, Galper, A. M., Sparvoli, R., Adriani, O., Barbarino, G., 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., Di Felice, V., Karelin, A. V., Koldashov, S. V., Koldobskiy, S. A., Krutkov, S. Y., Kvashnin, A. N., Leonov, A. A., Malakhov, V. V., Marcelli, L., Martucci, M., Mayorov, A. G., Menn, W., Merge, M., Mikhailov, V. V., Mocchiutti, E., Mori, N., Munini, R., Osteria, G., Palma, F., Panico, B., Papini, P., Pearce, M., Picozza, P., Ricci, M., Ricciarini, S. B., Simon, M., Spillantini, P., Stozhkov, Y. I., Vacchi, A., Vannuccini, E., Vasilyev, G. I., Voronov, S. A., Yurkin, Y. T., Zampa, G., and Zampa, N.

Subjects
Physics, Settore FIS/01, History, COSMIC cancer database, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, PAMELA detector, Astronomy, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Space (mathematics), Carbon, Cosmology, Earth (planet), High energy physics, Positrons, Radiation belts, Solar energy Continuous data, Elemental compositions, Heliospheres, Measurements of, Quark matter, Radiation environments, Solar activity, Solar modulation, 01 natural sciences, Computer Science Applications, Education, law.invention, On board, Physics and Astronomy (all), law, 0103 physical sciences, Satellite, 010306 general physics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract

The PAMELA detector was launched on June 15 th of 2006 on board the Russian Resurs-DK1 satellite and during ten years of continuous data-taking it has observed very interesting features in cosmic rays, especially in the fluxes of protons, helium and electrons. Moreover, PAMELA measurements of cosmic antiproton and positron fluxes and positron-to-all-electron ratio have set strong constraints to the nature of Dark Matter. Measurements of boron, carbon, lithium and beryllium (together with the isotopic fraction) have also shed new light on the elemental composition of the cosmic radiation. Search for signatures of more exotic processes (such as the ones involving Strange Quark Matter) has also been pursued. Furthermore, over the years the instrument has allowed a constant monitoring of the solar activity and a prolonged study of the solar modulation, improving the comprehension of the heliosphere mechanisms. PAMELA has also measured the radiation environment around the Earth, and detected for the first time the presence of an antiproton radiation belt surrounding our planet. In this highlight paper PAMELA main results will be reviewed.

Published
2017

70. CaloCube: a novel calorimeter for high-energy cosmic rays in space

Author

N. Finetti, F. Stolzi, Gigi Cappello, P. W. Cattaneo, Lucrezia Auditore, S. Bottai, M. G. Pellegriti, A. Basti, A. Rappoldi, L. Pacini, A Vedda, J. E. Suh, S. Albergo, P. S. Marrocchesi, M. Olmi, P. Spillantini, M Fasoli, Maria Miritello, N. Zampa, Gabriele Bigongiari, S. Bonechi, Eugenio Berti, G. Zampa, Raffaello D'Alessandro, Paolo Brogi, P. Lenzi, Antonio Trifiro, G. Carotenuto, Bonvicini, S. Detti, A. Tiberio, Lorenzo Bonechi, Alessia Tricomi, A Agnesi, A. Sulaj, G. Castellini, S. B. Ricciarini, P. Papini, E. Vannuccini, O. Starodubtsev, M. Bongi, O. Adriani, A Italiano, F Pirzio, M. Trimarchi, Nicola Mori, G. Orzan, Paolo Maestro, Rappoldi, A, Morselli, A, Cattaneo, P, Adriani, O, Agnesi, A, Albergo, S, Auditore, L, Basti, A, Berti, E, Bigongiari, G, Bonechi, L, Bonechi, S, Bongi, M, Bonvicini, V, Bottai, S, Brogi, P, Cappello, G, Carotenuto, G, Castellini, G, D'Alessandro, R, Detti, S, Fasoli, M, Finetti, N, Italiano, A, Lenzi, P, Maestro, P, Marrocchesi, P, Miritello, M, Mori, N, Olmi, M, Orzan, G, Pacini, L, Papini, P, Pellegriti, M, Pirzio, F, Ricciarini, S, Spillantini, P, Starodubtsev, O, Stolzi, F, Suh, J, Sulaj, A, Tiberio, A, Tricomi, A, Trifirò, A, Trimarchi, M, Vannuccini, E, Vedda, A, Zampa, G, and Zampa, N

Subjects
Physics, Calorimeter (particle physics), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, QC1-999, Astrophysics, Space (mathematics), 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, Physics and Astronomy (all), 0103 physical sciences, Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray, Detectors and Experimental Techniques, 010306 general physics
Abstract

CaloCube is an R&D project borne to develop a novel calorimeter design, optimized for high-energy cosmic ray measurements in space. A small prototype made of CsI(Tl) elements has been built and tested on particle beams. A final version, made of 5×5×18 crystals and with dual readout (two photodiodes for each crystal), to cover the full required dynamic range, is under construction and will be tested at CERN SPS in Summer 2016. The dual readout compensation technique were developed and the feasibility to extract ÄŒ erenkov signals from CsI crystals verified.

Published
2017

71. The construction of the Fiber-SiPM beam monitor system of the R484 and R582 experiments at the RIKEN-RAL muon facility

Author

G. Zampa, R. Mazza, R. Bertoni, Massimo Rossella, T. Cervi, E. Mocchiutti, L. Tortora, M. Bonesini, R. Carbone, A. de Bari, Alessandro Menegolli, Michele Prata, A. Vacchi, F. Chignoli, and E. Vallazza

Subjects
Materials science, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, gas and liquid scintillators), Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Beam-line instrumentation (beam position and profile monitors, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Silicon photomultiplier, Optics, Ionization, Particle tracking detectors, 0103 physical sciences, beam-intensity monitors, Fiber, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation, Mathematical Physics, Scintillation, Muon, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, bunch length monitors), Scintillators, scintillation and light emission processes (solid, gas and liquid scintillators), Detector, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), scintillation and light emission processes (solid, Scintillators, Scintillation counter, Physics::Accelerator Physics, business, Beam (structure)
Abstract

The scintillating fiber-SiPM beam monitor detectors, designed to deliver beam informations for the R484 and R582 experiments at the high intensity, low energy pulsed muon beam at the RIKEN-RAL facility, have been successfully constructed and operated. Details on their construction and first performances in beam are reported, Comment: 14th Topical Seminar on Innovative Particle and Radiation Detectors 3-6 October 2016, Siena to be published on JINST

Published
2017

72. CaloCube: an innovative homogeneous calorimeter for the next-generation space experiments

Author

L. Pacini, N. Finetti, N. Daddi, Raffaello D'Alessandro, F. Stolzi, Anna Vedda, Antonio Agnesi, J. E. Suh, A. Sulaj, M. Olmi, Paolo Maestro, Sebastiano Albergo, Gigi Cappello, A. Basti, S. Bonechi, P. W. Cattaneo, O. Adriani, Emanuele Berti, G. Orzan, P. Lenzi, M. G. Pellegriti, Lucrezia Auditore, P. Spillantini, Maria Miritello, G. Zampa, S. Detti, M. Chiari, Lorenzo Bonechi, M. Bongi, Antonio Trifiro, P. S. Marrocchesi, Gabriele Bigongiari, Alessia Tricomi, Paolo Brogi, S. B. Ricciarini, Federico Pirzio, P. Papini, E. Vannuccini, G. Castellini, O. Starodubtsev, G. Carotenuto, M. Trimarchi, V. Bonvicini, A. Tiberio, Nicola Mori, N. Zampa, S. Bottai, A. Rappoldi, Mauro Fasoli, Pacini, L, Adriani, O, Agnesi, A, Albergo, S, Auditore, L, Basti, A, Berti, E, Bigongiari, G, Bonechi, L, Bonechi, S, Bongi, M, Bonvicini, V, Bottai, S, Brogi, P, Cappello, G, Carotenuto, G, Castellini, G, Cattaneo, P, Chiari, M, Daddi, N, Dalessandro, R, Detti, S, Fasoli, M, Finetti, N, Lenzi, P, Maestro, P, Marrocchesi, P, Miritello, M, Mori, N, Orzan, G, Olmi, M, Papini, P, Pellegriti, M, Pirzio, F, Rappoldi, A, Ricciarini, S, Spillantini, P, Starodubtsev, O, Stolzi, F, Suh, J, Sulaj, A, Tiberio, A, Tricomi, A, Trifiro, A, Trimarchi, M, Vannuccini, E, Vedda, A, Zampa, G, and Zampa, N

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Physics, History, business.industry, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Isotropy, Monte Carlo method, Detector, Space launch, Computer Science Applications, Education, Calorimeter, Physics and Astronomy (all), Quality (physics), FIS/01 - FISICA SPERIMENTALE, Particle, Aerospace engineering, Detectors and Experimental Techniques, business, Energy (signal processing)
Abstract

The direct measurement of the cosmic-ray spectrum, up to the knee region, is one of the instrumental challenges for next generation space experiments. The main issue for these measurements is a steeply falling spectrum with increasing energy, so the physics performance of the space calorimeters are primarily determined by their geometrical acceptance and energy resolution. CaloCube is a three-year R&D; project, approved and financed by INFN in 2014, aiming to optimize the design of a space-born calorimeter. The peculiarity of the design of CaloCube is its capability of detecting particles coming from any direction, and not only those on its upper surface. To ensure that the quality of the measurement does not depend on the arrival direction of the particles, the calorimeter will be designed as homogeneous and isotropic as possible. In addition, to achieve a high discrimination power for hadrons and nuclei with respect to electrons, the sensitive elements of the calorimeter need to have a fine 3-D sampling capability. In order to optimize the detector performances with respect to the total mass of the apparatus, which is the most important constraint for a space launch, a comparative study of different scintillating materials has been performed using detailed Monte Carlo simulation based on the FLUKA package. In parallel to simulation studies, a prototype consisting in 14 layers of 3 x 3 CsI(Tl) crystals per layer has been assembled and tested with particle beams. An overview of the obtained results during the first two years of the project will be presented and the future of the detector will be discussed too.

Published
2017

73. Geomagnetically trapped, albedo and solar energetic particles: Trajectory analysis and flux reconstruction with PAMELA

Author

G. Zampa, Beatrice Panico, Roberto Bellotti, A. M. Galper, Matteo Martucci, G. A. de Nolfo, Alfonso Monaco, A. G. Mayorov, Alexey Leonov, M. Merge, Valentina Scotti, N. Zampa, G. A. Bazilevskaya, V. Bonvicini, Y. I. Stozhkov, E. Mocchiutti, Ritabrata Sarkar, S. Bottai, Sergey Koldashov, R. Sparvoli, Sergey Koldobskiy, A. V. Karelin, Marco Ricci, V. V. Malakhov, G. C. Barbarino, G. Osteria, G. I. Vasilyev, G. Castellini, S. Y. Krutkov, James M. Ryan, V. Di Felice, C. De Santis, C. De Donato, Mirko Boezio, P. Picozza, Nicola Mori, F. Palma, M. Simon, V. V. Mikhailov, Riccardo Munini, F. Cafagna, E. C. Christian, O. Adriani, A. N. Kvashnin, W. Menn, Yu. T. Yurkin, L. Marcelli, M. Bongi, A. Vacchi, A. Bruno, Mark Pearce, S. B. Ricciarini, Steven Stochaj, P. Papini, E. Vannuccini, S. A. Voronov, E. A. Bogomolov, Per Carlson, N. De Simone, P. Spillantini, D. Campana, Marco Casolino, Bruno, A., Adriani, O., Barbarino, G. C., Bazilevskaya, G. A., Bellotti, R., Boezio, M., Bogomolov, E. A., Bongi, M., Bonvicini, V., Bottai, S., Cafagna, F., Campana, D., Carlson, P., Casolino, M., Castellini, G., Christian, E. C., De Donato, C., de Nolfo, G. A., De Santis, C., De Simone, N., Di Felice, 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., Menn, W., Mergè, M., Mikhailov, V. 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., Ryan, J. M., Sarkar, R., Scotti, V., Simon, M., Sparvoli, R., Spillantini, P., Stochaj, S., Stozhkov, Y. I., Vacchi, A., Vannuccini, E., Vasilyev, G. I., Voronov, S. A., Yurkin, Y. T., Zampa, G., and Zampa, N.

Subjects
Atmospheric Science, Solar energetic particles, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Aerospace Engineering, FOS: Physical sciences, Space weather, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Physics::Geophysics, symbols.namesake, Physics - Space Physics, law, 0103 physical sciences, Albedo particles, Cosmic-rays, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Ring current, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Physics, Geomagnetic storm, Settore FIS/01, PAMELA detector, Astronomy, Geomagnetic cutoff, Radiation belts, Space and Planetary Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space Physics (physics.space-ph), Geophysics, Earth's magnetic field, Van Allen radiation belt, Health threat from cosmic rays, Physics::Space Physics, symbols, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Abstract

The PAMELA satellite experiment is providing comprehensive observations of the interplanetary and magnetospheric radiation in the near-Earth environment. Thanks to its identification capabilities and the semi-polar orbit, PAMELA is able to precisely measure the energetic spectra and the angular distributions of the different cosmic-ray populations over a wide latitude region, including geomagnetically trapped and albedo particles. Its observations comprise the solar energetic particle events between solar cycles 23 and 24, and the geomagnetic cutoff variations during magnetospheric storms. PAMELA's measurements are supported by an accurate analysis of particle trajectories in the Earth's magnetosphere based on a realistic geomagnetic field modeling, which allows the classification of particle populations of different origin and the investigation of the asymptotic directions of arrival., Comment: Accepted for publication in Advances in Space Research, 2016. 21 pages, 7 figures

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2017
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74. 2-D mapping of the response of SDD cells of different shape in monolithic arrays for XRF spectroscopy

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G. Zampa, C. Liu, Nicola Zorzi, I. Rashevskaya, A. Vacchi, Andrea Castoldi, N. Zampa, Chiara Guazzoni, G. V. Montemurro, and A. Rachevski

Subjects
Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Materials science, sezele, Silicon drift detector, Silicon, business.industry, Preamplifier, Detector, Ir laser, chemistry.chemical_element, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Instrumentation, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Optics, Amplitude, chemistry, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Rise time, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Radiology, business, Spectroscopy
Abstract

In the frame of the INFN experiment REDSOX/REDSOX2 and in collaboration with Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Trento, we are developing trapezoidal-shaped monolithic arrays of Silicon Drift Detector (SDD) cells for low energy X-ray fluorescence (XRF) experiments. The shape of the individual SDD cell must be carefully selected in order to find the optimal compromise between spectroscopic performance and the number of SDD cells. We conducted an experimental campaign with a pulsed IR laser in order to map in detail the transport properties inside square SDD cells (3.1 mm side) and inside triangular SDD cells (3.1 mm side). The main parameters investigated are i) collected amplitude, ii) drift time and iii) the rise time at the charge-sensing preamplifier output. The collected experimental data are a precious guide for the optimization of the final detector prototype.

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2016
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75. PAMELA'S MEASUREMENT OF GEOMAGNETIC CUTOFF VARIATIONS DURING SOLAR ENERGETIC PARTICLE EVENTS

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Roberto Bellotti, N. De Simone, V. Bonvicini, S. Bottai, A. M. Galper, André Monaco, Mirko Boezio, Y. I. Stozhkov, M. Simon, G. A. Bazilevskaya, Ritabrata Sarkar, G. I. Vasilyev, R. Carbone, Sergey Koldobskiy, Y. T. Yurkin, A. V. Karelin, V. G. Zverev, G. C. Barbarino, L. Marcelli, F. Palma, R. Sparvoli, A. Vacchi, Maria Teresa Ricci, A. Bruno, G. Osteria, V. Di Felice, M. Bongi, G. Zampa, Beatrice Panico, Valentina Scotti, C. De Donato, V. Formato, N. Zampa, Per Carlson, S. A. Voronov, Riccardo Munini, F. Cafagna, E. A. Bogomolov, M. Merge, Matteo Martucci, A. Leonov, O. Adriani, W. Menn, V. V. Mikhailov, G. Castellini, C. De Santis, Nicola Mori, S. V. Koldashov, V. V. Malakhov, Mark Pearce, S. B. Ricciarini, P. Papini, E. Vannuccini, P. Spillantini, A. G. Mayorov, S. Y. Krutkov, D. Campana, Marco Casolino, P. Picozza, A. N. Kvashnin, and E. Mocchiutti

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear physics, Earth's magnetic field, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Nuclear Theory, Physics::Space Physics, Measure (physics), Particle, Cutoff, Satellite, Nuclear Experiment, Physics::Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
Abstract

Data from the PAMELA satellite experiment were used to measure the geomagnetic cutoff for high-energy ( 80 MeV) protons during the solar particle events on 2006 December 13 and 14. The variations o ...

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2016
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76. Nine Years of Cosmic Ray Investigation by the PAMELA Experiment

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Maria Teresa Ricci, G. A. Bazilevskaya, Mirko Boezio, P. Spillantini, G. Zampa, Beatrice Panico, M. Merge, V. V. Mikhailov, A. N. Kvashnin, E. Mocchiutti, Riccardo Munini, V. Di Felice, S. Y. Krutkov, R. Sparvoli, Y. T. Yurkin, M. Bongi, Mark Pearce, S. B. Ricciarini, V. Bonvicini, A. V. Karelin, F. Palma, A. Bruno, C. De Donato, G. I. Vasilyev, Y. I. Stozhkov, G. Osteria, F. Cafagna, V. V. Malakhov, P. Picozza, P. Papini, E. Vannuccini, G. Castellini, Sergey Koldashov, Roberto Bellotti, A. G. Mayorov, A. M. Galper, C. De Santis, Valentina Scotti, N. Zampa, O. Adriani, S. Bottai, W. Menn, André Monaco, Sergey Koldobskiy, D. Campana, G. C. Barbarino, Ritabrata Sarkar, L. Marcelli, A. Vacchi, V. Formato, Marco Casolino, S. A. Voronov, E. A. Bogomolov, A. Leonov, Matteo Martucci, Nicola Mori, Per Carlson, N. De Simone, and M. Simon

Subjects
On board, Physics, Feature (computer vision), Detector, Astronomy, Cosmic ray, Satellite
Abstract

The PAMELA cosmic ray detector was launched on June 15th of 2006 on board the Russian Resurs-DK1 satellite and during nine years of continuous data-taking it has ob- served very interesting feature ...

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2016
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77. Solar modulation of galactic cosmic rays electrons and positrons over the 23rd solar minimum with the PAMELA experiment

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M. S. Potgieter, A. G. Mayorov, S. Bottai, E. Mocchiutti, M. Merge, G. Castellini, Sergey Koldobskiy, G. A. Bazilevskaya, G. C. Barbarino, N. Zampa, V. V. Mikhailov, Mirko Boezio, C. De Santis, G. Zampa, Beatrice Panico, Maria Teresa Ricci, V. Bonvicini, Ritabrata Sarkar, C. De Donato, L. Marcelli, A. Vacchi, S. Y. Krutkov, Matteo Martucci, A. Bruno, Y. I. Stozhkov, V. Formato, A. M. Galper, A. Leonov, A. V. Karelin, S. V. Koldashov, André Monaco, S. A. Voronov, Nicola Mori, F. Palma, V. V. Malakhov, E. A. Bogomolov, V. Di Felice, M. Simon, P. Picozza, F. Cafagna, Etienne Vos, P. Spillantini, G. Osteria, Riccardo Munini, D. Campana, G. I. Vasilyev, N. De Simone, Marco Casolino, Valentina Scotti, R. Sparvoli, Per Carlson, Y. T. Yurkin, Roberto Bellotti, O. Adriani, W. Menn, M. Bongi, Mark Pearce, S. B. Ricciarini, P. Papini, E. Vannuccini, and A. N. Kvashnin

Subjects
Solar minimum, Physics, Positron, PAMELA detector, Modulation, law, Astronomy, Cosmic ray, Electron, Astrophysics, law.invention
Abstract

The satellite-borne PAMELA experiment has been continuously collecting data since 15th June 2006, when it was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome to detect the charged component of cosmic rays ov ...

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2016
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78. Hyperleptinemia is associated with hypertension, systemic inflammation and insulin resistance in overweight but not in normal weight men

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Ornella Russo, Ferruccio Galletti, Lanfranco D'Elia, D. De Palma, Francesco P. Cappuccio, Gianvincenzo Barba, Pasquale Strazzullo, G. Zampa, Gian Paolo Rossi, Alfonso Siani, Michelle A. Miller, Galletti, Ferruccio, D'Elia, Lanfranco, DE PALMA, Daniela, Russo, Ornella, Barba, G, Siani, A, Miller, Ma, Cappuccio, Fp, Rossi, Giovanni, Zampa, G, and Strazzullo, Pasquale

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Adult, Leptin, Male, insulin, medicine.medical_specialty, Waist, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Medicine (miscellaneous), Blood Pressure, Overweight, Risk Assessment, Body Mass Index, Sex Factors, Insulin resistance, Risk Factors, Internal medicine, Heart rate, Odds Ratio, medicine, Humans, Adiposity, Aged, Inflammation, Analysis of Variance, Nutrition and Dietetics, business.industry, weight, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Obesity, Up-Regulation, Hyperleptinemia, C-Reactive Protein, Logistic Models, Endocrinology, Blood pressure, Italy, Case-Control Studies, Hypertension, Linear Models, Inflammation Mediators, Insulin Resistance, medicine.symptom, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, business, Body mass index, Biomarkers
Abstract

BACKGROUND AND AIM: High leptin (LPT) is associated with high blood pressure (BP), insulin resistance and systemic inflammation but also excess body weight and adiposity. To disentangle these multiple relations, we analyzed BP, HOMA and circulating C-reactive protein concentration (hs-CRP) in white male adults with different LPT levels but similar age, body mass index (BMI) and body fat distribution. The novel aspect is the different statistical approach used to investigate the relation between LPT and the other alterations present in obesity. METHODS AND RESULTS: 972 Olivetti Heart Study participants were stratified according to the median LPT distribution (2.97 ng/ml) into low LPT (l-LPT) and high LPT (h-LPT). The two groups were then carefully matched for age and BMI. We identified two groups of 207 h-LPT and 207 l-LPT individuals with overlapping age, BMI and waist/hip ratio. The two groups had different BP (132.9 ± 16.2/85.7 ± 9.0 vs 128.7 ± 18.2/82.8 ± 9.8 mmHg, p = 0.014 for SBP and p = 0.002 for DBP) and prevalence of hypertension (57% vs 43%, p = 0.027). Upon separate evaluation of untreated individuals with BMI < 25 or BMI ≥ 25, within the latter subgroup h-LPT compared with l-LPT participants (n = 133 each group) had higher BP (p = 0.0001), HOMA index (p = 0.013), hs-CRP (p = 0.002) and heart rate (p = 0.008) despite similar age and BMI. By contrast, within the normal weight subgroup, h-LPT individuals did not differ from l-LPT (n = 37 each) for any of these variables. CONCLUSIONS: High LPT is associated with higher BP, HR, hs-CRP and HOMA index independently of BMI and fat distribution but only among overweight individuals

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2012
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79. Secondary electron and positron fluxes in the near-Earth space observed in the ARINA and PAMELA experiments

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G. C. Barbarino, Roberta Sparvoli, N. Zampa, L. A. Grishantseva, D. Fedele, M. Bongi, N. De Simone, V. Bonvicini, F. Cafagna, M. Simon, Yu. I. Stozhkov, A. A. Leonov, E. Mocchiutti, M. P. De Pascale, A. M. Galper, S. Yu. Krutkov, G. De Rosa, A. N. Kvashnin, G. V. Vasiliev, V. G. Zverev, Lorenzo Bonechi, O. Adriani, Petter Hofverberg, V. V. Malakhov, V. Malvezzi, E. Taddei, V. M. Boezio, Silvio Orsi, W. Menn, S. V. Koldashov, Yu. T. Yurkin, Marco Ricci, V. V. Mikhailov, P. Spillantini, Giuseppe Osteria, P. Carlson, Marco Casolino, A. Vacchi, A. Bruno, M. A. Bzheumikhova, T. D. Campana, Mark Pearce, S. B. Ricciarini, S. Bottai, P. Papini, E. Vannuccini, T. P. Picozza, V. Di Felice, S. A. Voronov, G. Castellini, L. Marcelli, E. A. Bogomolov, G. Zampa, T. R. Bellotti, G. A. Bazilevskaya, O., Adriani, G. A., Bazilevskaya, Barbarino, Giancarlo, T. R., Bellotti, M. A., Bzheumikhova, E. A., Bogomolov, V. M., Boezio, V., Bonvicini, M., Bongi, L., Bonechi, S., Bottai, A., Bruno, A., Vacchi, E., Vannuccini, G. V., Vasiliev, S. A., Voronov, A. M., Galper, L. A., Grishantseva, G., Zampa, N., Zampa, V. G., Zverev, M., Casolino, T. D., Campana, P., Carlson, G., Castellini, F., Cafagna, A. N., Kvashnin, S. V., Koldashov, Krutkov, S. Y. u., A. A., Leonov, V. V., Malakhov, V., Malvezzi, L., Marcelli, W., Menn, V. V., Mikhailov, E., Mocchiutti, S., Orsi, G., Osteria, P., Papini, M. P., Pascale, T. P., Picozza, M., Pearce, DE ROSA, Gianfranca, M., Ricci, S. B., Ricciarini, M., Simon, N., Simone, R., Sparvoli, P., Spillantini, Stozhkov, Y. u. I., E., Taddei, V., Felice, D., Fedele, P., Hofverberg, and Yurkin, Y. u. T.

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Energy ranges, Elliptic orbit, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Near-earth spaces, General Physics and Astronomy, Electrons, Geomagnetic equators, Astrophysics, Electron, Secondary electrons, Secondary emission, Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare, Elliptical orbits, Nuclear physics, Physics and Astronomy (all), Positrons, Altitude, Positron, Magnetic anomaly, Physics, Range (particle radiation), Geomagnetism, Earth (planet), Physics::Space Physics, Satellite
Abstract

Secondary electron and positron fluxes in the energy range from 3 MeV to 7 GeV were measured with the ARINA and PAMELA spectrometers onboard the Resurs-DK satellite launched on June 15, 2006 into an elliptical orbit with an inclination of 70.4° and an altitude of 350-600 km. It is shown that positrons dominate over electrons by a factor of up to 4-5 in the geomagnetic equator region (L 0.25).

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2009
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80. Time dependence of the helium flux measured by PAMELA

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Roberto Bellotti, A. M. Galper, Nicola Mori, P. Spillantini, M. Bongi, C. De Santis, Alfonso Monaco, M. S. Potgieter, S. A. Voronov, Sergey Koldobskiy, M. Merge, E. A. Bogomolov, Per Carlson, G. C. Barbarino, S. Y. Krutkov, S. Bottai, E. Mocchiutti, V. Bonvicini, Y. I. Stozhkov, Riccardo Munini, A. V. Karelin, G. I. Vasilyev, P. Picozza, V. V. Malakhov, Mark Pearce, S. B. Ricciarini, O. Adriani, M. Simon, S. V. Koldashov, G. Osteria, W. Menn, P. Papini, N. Marcelli, E. Vannuccini, Marco Ricci, Andrea Vacchi, Yu. T. Yurkin, N. Zampa, G. A. Bazilevskaya, L. Marcelli, A. Bruno, V. Di Felice, R. Sparvoli, F. Cafagna, A. N. Kvashnin, V. V. Mikhailov, G. Zampa, Beatrice Panico, Alexey Leonov, Driaan Bisschoff, G. Castellini, O. P. M. Aslam, A. G. Mayorov, Mirko Boezio, D. Campana, Matteo Martucci, Marco Casolino, De Vincenzi, M., Marcelli, N., 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 Santis, C., Di Felice, 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., Menn, W., Mergè, M., Mikhailov, V. V., Mocchiutti, E., Monaco, A., Mori, N., Munini, R., Osteria, G., Panico, B., Papini, P., Pearce, M., Picozza, P., Ricci, M., Ricciarini, S. B., 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., Aslam, O. P. M., and Bisschoff, D.

Subjects
Physics, Range (particle radiation), QC1-999, Computer Science::Information Retrieval, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, chemistry.chemical_element, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Galaxy, Nuclear physics, Space experiment, Flux (metallurgy), chemistry, Modulation, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Helium
Abstract

Precision measurements of the Z = 2 component in cosmic radiation provide crucial information about the origin and propagation of the second most abundant cosmic ray species in the Galaxy (9% of the total). These measurements, acquired with the PAMELA space experiment orbiting Earth, allow to study solar modulation in details. Helium modulation is compared to the modulation of protons to study possible dependencies on charge and mass. The time dependence of helium fluxes on a monthly basis measured by PAMELA has been studied for the period between July 2006 to January 2016 in the energy range from 800 MeV/n to ~ 20 GeV/n.

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2019
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81. FAMU: study of the energy dependent transfer rate Λ μp → μO

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Roberto Benocci, F. Somma, M. Zuffa, C. D. Vecchi, Massimiliano Clemenza, Miltcho B. Danailov, Dimitar Bakalov, F. Fuschino, M. Stoilov, K. Ishida, Ezio Previtali, L. Stoychev, L. P. Rignanese, Roberta Ramponi, Alessandro Menegolli, C. Pizzolotto, Andrzej Adamczak, K. S. Gadedjisso-Tossou, R. Nardò, D. Guffaanti, A. Rachevski, A. Tomaselli, F. Chignoli, M. I. Moretti, Paolo Rossi, A. Iaciofano, M. Rossella, S. Meneghini, M. Furini, R. Mazza, T. Cervi, G. Zampa, Valter Maggi, I. D'Antone, A. D. Bari, Giovanni Baccolo, E. Mocchiutti, Maurizio Bonesini, Claudio Labanti, M. D. Vincenzi, Giuseppe Baldazzi, V. Bonvicini, E. Furlanetto, A. Curioni, E. Vallazza, Riccardo Campana, Joseph Niemela, Gianluca Morgante, L. Tortora, A. Vacchi, L. Colace, P. Danev, Anselmo Margotti, Massimiliano Nastasi, R. Bertoni, Mocchiutti, E., Bonvicini, V., Danailov, M., Furlanetto, E., Gadedjisso-Tossou, K. S., Guffaanti, D., Pizzolotto, C., Rachevski, A., Stoychev, L., Vallazza, E., Zampa, G., Niemela, J., Ishida, K., Adamczak, A., Baccolo, G., Benocci, R., Bertoni, R., Bonesini, M., Chignoli, F., Clemenza, M., Curioni, A., Maggi, V., Mazza, R., Moretti, M., Nastasi, M., Previtali, E., Bakalov, D., Danev, P., Stoilov, M., Baldazzi, G., Campana, R., D'Antone, I., Furini, M., Fuschino, F., Labanti, C., Margotti, A., Meneghini, S., Morgante, G., Rignanese, L. P., Rossi, P. L., Zuffa, M., Cervi, T., Bari, A. D., Menegolli, A., Vecchi, C. D., DI NARDO, Roberto, Rossella, M., Tomaselli, A., Colace, L., Vincenzi, M. D., Iaciofano, A., Somma, F., Tortora, L., Ramponi, R., Vacchi, A., Mocchiutti, E, Bonvicini, V, Danailov, M, Furlanetto, E, Gadedjisso-Tossou, K, Guffaanti, D, Pizzolotto, C, Rachevski, A, Stoychev, L, Vallazza, E, Zampa, G, Niemela, J, Ishida, K, Adamczak, A, Baccolo, G, Benocci, R, Bertoni, R, Bonesini, M, Chignoli, F, Clemenza, M, Curioni, A, Maggi, V, Mazza, R, Moretti, M, Nastasi, M, Previtali, E, Bakalov, D, Danev, P, Stoilov, M, Baldazzi, G, Campana, R, D’Antone, I, Furini, M, Fuschino, F, Labanti, C, Margotti, A, Meneghini, S, Morgante, G, Rignanese, L, Rossi, P, Zuffa, M, Cervi, T, Bari, A, Menegolli, A, Vecchi, C, Nardò, R, Rossella, M, Tomaselli, A, Colace, L, Vincenzi, M, Iaciofano, A, Somma, F, Tortora, L, Ramponi, R, Vacchi, A, Gadedjisso-Tossou, K.S., Rignanese, L.P., Rossi, P.L., Bari, A De, Vecchi, C De, Nardò, R., and Vincenzi, M De

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Energy dependent, Physics, History, muonic atom, Kinetics, Energy dependence, Time distribution, X rays, Muon transfer, Muonic Hydrogen, Muon transfer, Computer Science Applications, Education, Hyperfine splitting, Laser wavelength, Spectroscopic measurement, Transfer (computing), Atomic physic, Atomic physics, Physical proce, Kinetic energy, muonic hydrogen, Exotic atom
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The main goal of the FAMU experiment is the measurement of the hyperfine splitting (hfs) in the 1S state of muonic hydrogen ΔE hfs (μ - p)1S. The physical process behind this experiment is the following: μp are formed in a mixture of hydrogen and a higher-Z gas. When absorbing a photon at resonance-energy ΔE hfs ≈ 0.182 eV, in subsequent collisions with the surrounding H 2 molecules, the μp is quickly de-excited and accelerated by ∼ 2/3 of the excitation energy. The observable is the time distribution of the K-lines X-rays emitted from the μZ formed by muon transfer (μp) + Z → (μZ)∗ + p, a reaction whose rate depends on the μp kinetic energy. The maximal response, to the tuned laser wavelength, of the time distribution of X-ray from K-lines of the (μZ)∗ cascade indicate the resonance. During the preparatory phase of the FAMU experiment, several measurements have been performed both to validate the methodology and to prepare the best configuration of target and detectors for the spectroscopic measurement. We present here the crucial study of the energy dependence of the transfer rate from muonic hydrogen to oxygen (Λ μp → μ0 ), precisely measured for the first time.

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2018
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82. Measurement of the high-energy electron and positron spectrum in the PAMELA experiment

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S. A. Voronov, Roberto Bellotti, G. I. Vasil’ev, Alfonso Monaco, A. N. Kvashnin, S. Bottai, P. Spillantini, C. De Santis, Laura Rossetto, G. Zampa, Mark Pearce, S. B. Ricciarini, G. Osteria, V. V. Mikhailov, P. Carlson, Petter Hofverberg, N. N. Nikonov, Nicola Mori, P. Papini, S. V. Borisov, G. A. Bazilevskaya, V. Di Felice, P. Picozza, E. Vannuccini, R. Carbone, Juan Wu, N. De Simone, V. Malvezzi, Yu. T. Yurkin, L. Consiglio, Mirko Boezio, F. Cafagna, William Gillard, O. Adriani, W. Menn, M. Simon, L. Marcelli, A. Vacchi, A. A. Leonov, V. Bonvicini, A. Bruno, M. P. De Pascale, S. Yu. Krutkov, D. Campana, Marco Casolino, N. Zampa, Lorenzo Bonechi, G. Castellini, Roberta Sparvoli, E. Mocchiutti, S. V. Koldashov, Marco Ricci, L. A. Grishantseva, A. M. Galper, Giovanna Jerse, V. G. Zverev, Yu. I. Stozhkov, and A. V. Karelin

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Physics, Range (particle radiation), Proton, PAMELA detector, Spectrometer, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Cosmic ray, Electron, Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, law.invention, Nuclear physics, Positron, law, Antiproton, Physics::Space Physics, Physics::Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
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The PAMELA magnetic spectrometer onboard the Resurs DK1 satellite no. 1 was put into (Earth) orbit on June 15, 2006; measurements continue at the present time. The scientific objective of the spectrometer is the study of antiproton, proton, positron, electron and light nucleus fluxes in cosmic rays. In this paper, we present the technique for measuring electron and positron spectra in the energy range from 20 to 800 GeV.

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2010
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83. A new large solid angle multi-element silicon drift detector system for low energy X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy

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Andrea Stolfa, Fulvio Billè, Alessandra Gianoncelli, Matteo Altissimo, D. Cirrincione, G. Borghi, N. Zampa, A. Rachevski, Giuseppe Bertuccio, M. Sammartini, G. Kourousias, R.H. Menk, S. Schillani, A. Picciotto, Giuseppe Cautero, J. Bufon, Nicola Zorzi, F. Ficorella, Roberto Borghes, P. Bellutti, Sergio Fabiani, G. Zampa, A. Vacchi, I. Rashevskaya, M. Gandola, F. Mele, Dario Giuressi, Bufon, J., Schillani, S., Altissimo, M., Bellutti, P., Bertuccio, G., Bille, F., Borghes, R., Borghi, G., Cautero, G., Cirrincione, D., Fabiani, S., Ficorella, F., Gandola, M., Gianoncelli, A., Giuressi, D., Kourousias, G., Mele, F., Menk, R. H., Picciotto, A., Rachevski, A., Rashevskaya, I., Sammartini, M., Stolfa, A., Zampa, G., Zampa, N., Zorzi, N., and Vacchi, A.

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Low noise Electronics, Solid state detectors, X-ray detectors, Instrumentation, X-ray spectroscopy, Silicon Drift Detectors, Photon, Materials science, Silicon drift detector, Silicon, X-ray fluorescence (XRF) systems, Silicon Drift Detectors, chemistry.chemical_element, Detector design and construction technologies and materials, Electronic detector readout concepts (solid-state), 01 natural sciences, Optics, 0103 physical sciences, Emission spectrum, Solid state detectors, 010306 general physics, Absorption (electromagnetic radiation), Mathematical Physics, sezele, Detector design and construction technologies and material, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Detector, Solid angle, Low noise Electronics, Beamline, chemistry, X-ray spectroscopy, business
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Low-energy X-ray fluorescence (LEXRF) is an essential tool for bio-related research of organic samples, whose composition is dominated by light elements. Working at energies below 2 keV and being able to detect fluorescence photons of lightweight elements such as carbon (277 eV) is still a challenge, since it requires in-vacuum operations to avoid in-air photon absorption. Moreover, the detectors must have a thin entrance window and collect photons at an angle of incidence near 90 degrees to minimize the absorption by the protective coating. Considering the low fluorescence yield of light elements, it is important to cover a substantial part of the solid angle detecting ideally all emitted X-ray fluorescence (XRF) photons. Furthermore, the energy resolution of the detection system should be close to the Fano limit in order to discriminate elements whose XRF emission lines are often very close within the energy spectra. To ensure all these features, a system consisting of four monolithic multi-element silicon drift detectors was developed. The use of four separate detector units allows optimizing the incidence angle on all the sensor elements. The multi-element approach in turn provides a lower leakage current on each anode, which, in combination with ultra-low noise preamplifiers, is necessary to achieve an energy resolution close to the Fano limit. The potential of the new detection system and its applicability for typical LEXRF applications has been proved on the Elettra TwinMic beamline.

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2018
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84. The Pamela experiment ready for flight

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A. M. Galper, F. Cafagna, G. Vasiljev, A. V. Bakaldin, M. Ambriola, M. Nagni, O. Adriani, M. Simon, Silvio Orsi, W. Menn, Massimo Bongi, Roberta Sparvoli, G. A. Bazilevskaja, E. Taddei, S. A. Voronov, C. De Marzo, R. Y. Stozhkov, S. Y. Krutkov, Petter Hofverberg, P. Schiavon, John Mitchell, E. A. Bogomolov, R. Mukhametshin, Giuseppe Osteria, S. J. Stochaj, V. Malvezzi, S. V. Koldashov, D. Fedele, M. G. Korotkov, A. Grigorjeva, Mirko Boezio, Mark Pearce, S. B. Ricciarini, Marco Ricci, S. A. Stephens, N. Zampa, M. Albi, M. Circella, P. Papini, S. Russo, V. V. Mikhailov, E. Vannuccini, P. Carlson, A. Vacchi, G. Castellini, A. Basili, M. Boscherini, M. P. De Pascale, E. Streitmatter, F. Altamura, R. Bencardino, J. Lund, P. Picozza, V. Bonvicini, L. Marcelli, Roberto Bellotti, P. Spillantini, A. Morselli, E. Mocchiutti, M. Grandi, G. Zampa, S. Bottai, Y. T. Yurkin, D. Campana, Marco Casolino, M. Minori, Lorenzo Bonechi, J. Lundquist, G. C. Barbarino, L. Bongiorno, O., Adriani, M., Albi, F., Altamura, M., Ambriola, A., Bakaldin, G. C., Barbarino, A., Basili, G., Bazilevskaja, R., Bellotti, R., Bencardino, M., Boezio, E., Bogomolov, L., Bonechi, M., Bongi, L., Bongiorno, V., Bonvicini, M., Boscherini, S., Bottai, F., Cafagna, D., Campana, P., Carlson, M., Casolino, G., Castellini, M., Circella, C., De Marzo, M. P., De Pascale, D., Fedele, A. M., Galper, A., Grigorjeva, M., Grandi, P., Hofverberg, S. V., Koldashov, M. G., Korotkov, S., Krutkov, J., Lund, J., Lundquist, V., Malvezzi, L., Marcelli, W., Menn, V. V., Mikhailov, M., Minori, J. W., Mitchell, E., Mocchiutti, A., Morselli, R., Mukhametshin, M., Nagni, S., Orsi, G., Osteria, P., Papini, M., Pearce, P., Picozza, M., Ricci, S., Ricciarini, S., Russo, Schiavon, Paolo, M., Simon, P., Spillantini, R., Sparvoli, S. A., Stephen, S. J., Stochaj, R. Y., Stozhkov, E., Streitmatter, E., Taddei, A., Vacchi, E., Vannuccini, G., Vasiljev, S. A., Voronov, Y., Yurkin, G., Zampa, N., Zampa, Barbarino, Giancarlo, and Pamela, Collaboration

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Antiparticle, Nuclear physics, Cosmic ray, Antiprotons, Calorimeters, Cosmic rays, Particle accelerators, Spectrometers, Antiparticles component, Magnetic spectrometer, Pamela apparatus, Radiation detectors, Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare, law.invention, Low earth orbit, law, Component (UML), Calorimeter, Instrumentation, Physics, Calorimeter (particle physics), PAMELA detector, Antiproton
Abstract

The Pamela apparatus will allow precise measurements of cosmic rays in Low Earth Orbit, mainly focusing on the antiparticles component. The apparatus is now ready for flight, and the launch is foreseen during June 2006. The paper briefly reports the status of the experiment, and the performances of the various components as measured before the launch.

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2007
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85. The PAMELA Mission: Heralding a new era in precision cosmic ray physics

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D. Campana, Marco Casolino, M. P. De Pascale, A. M. Galper, N. De Simone, M. Bongi, Mirko Boezio, A. V. Karelin, G. Castellini, R. Carbone, O. Adriani, Sergey Koldobskiy, G. C. Barbarino, V. V. Malakhov, N. Zampa, S. Bottai, W. Menn, A. Bruno, G. A. Bazilevskaya, Valerio Formato, Roberta Sparvoli, Sergey Koldashov, G. Zampa, Roberto Bellotti, Alfonso Monaco, Ugo Giaccari, A. N. Kvashnin, P. Picozza, Riccardo Munini, Ritabrata Sarkar, Andrea Vacchi, P. Spillantini, Y. T. Yurkin, M. D. Kheymits, V. G. Zverev, L. Marcelli, S. A. Voronov, E. A. Bogomolov, Laura Rossetto, V. Di Felice, E. Mocchiutti, V. Bonvicini, S.Yu. Krut‘kov, Mark Pearce, S. B. Ricciarini, Matteo Martucci, Juan Wu, Y. I. Stozhkov, P. Papini, E. Vannuccini, C. Pizzolotto, A. G. Mayorov, M. Simon, A. A. Leonov, Marco Ricci, V. V. Mikhailov, P. Carlson, F. Cafagna, G. Osteria, Nicola Mori, C. De Santis, G. I. Vasilyev, N. N. Nikonov, 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., Carbone, R., Carlson, P., Casolino, M., Castellini, G., De Pascale, M. P., De Santis, C., De Simone, N., Di Felice, V., Formato, V., Galper, A. M., Giaccari, U., Karelin, A. V., Kheymits, M. D., Koldashov, S. V., Koldobskiy, S., Krutkov, Y., Kvashnin, A. N., Leonov, A., Malakhov, V., Marcelli, L., Martucci, M., Mayorov, A. G., Menn, W., Mikhailov, V. V., Mocchiutti, E., Monaco, A., Mori, N., Munini, Riccardo, Nikonov, N., Osteria, G., Papini, P., Pearce, M., Piccozza, P., Pizzolotto, C., Ricci, M., Ricciarini, S. B., Rossetto, L., Sarkar, R., Simon, M., Sparsoli, R., Spillantini, P., Stozhkov, Y. I., Vacchi, A., Vannuccini, E., Vasilyev, G., Voronov, S. A., Wu, J., Yurkin, Y. T., Zampa, G., Zampa, N., Zverev, V. G., O. b., Adriani, Barbarino, Giancarlo, G., Bazilevskaya, R. g., Bellotti, M., Boezio, E., Bogomolov, M. b., Bongi, V., Bonvicini, S., Bottai, A. g., Bruno, F., Cafagna, D., Campana, R. h., Carbone, P. k., Carlson, M., Casolino, G., Castellini, M. n., De, C. n., De, N. D., Simone, V. D., Felice, V. o., Formato, A., Galper, U., Giaccari, A., Karelin, M., Kheymit, S., Koldashov, S., Koldobskiy, S., Krut'Kov, A., Kvashnin, A., Leonov, V., Malakhov, L., Marcelli, M. q., Martucci, A., Mayorov, W., Menn, V., Mikhailov, E., Mocchiutti, A. g., Monaco, N. b., Mori, R. j. k, N. l. n, Osteria, Giuseppe, P., Papini, M. k., Pearce, P. n., Picozza, C. s., T., M., Ricci, S. m., Ricciarini, L. k., Rossetto, R., Sarkar, M., Simon, R. n., Sparvoli, P. b., Spillantini, Y., Stozhkov, A., Vacchi, E., Vannuccini, G., Vasilyev, S., Voronov, J. k., U., Y., Yurkin, G., Zampa, N., Zampa, and V., Zverev

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Light nucleus, Antimatter, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Dark matter, General Physics and Astronomy, Cosmic ray, Particle detectors, Cosmic rays, Earth's magnetosphere, Heliosphere, Physics and Astronomy (all), Computer Science::Robotics, Physics, Settore FIS/01, Payload, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy, Physics::Space Physics, Earth’s magnetosphere, Satellite, Particle detector
Abstract

On the 15th of June 2006, the PAMELA (Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics) satellite-borne experiment was launched onboard the Russian Resurs-DK1 satellite by a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur space centre. The satellite was placed in a quasi-polar 70°inclination orbit at an altitude varying between 350 km and 600 km.New results on the antiparticle component of the cosmic radiation were obtained. The positron energy spectrum and positron fraction were measured from 400 MeV up to 200 GeV revealing a positron excess over the predictions of commonly used propagation models. This can be interpreted either as evidence that the propagation models should be revised or in terms of dark matter annihilation or a pulsar contribution. The antiproton spectrum was measured over the energy range from 60 MeV to 350 GeV. The antiproton spectrum is consistent with secondary production and significantly constrains dark matter models.The energy spectra of protons and helium nuclei were measured up to 1.2 TV. The spectral shapes of these two species are different and cannot be described well by a single power law. For the first time the electron spectrum was measured up to 600 GeV complementing the information obtained from the positron data. Nuclear and isotopic composition was obtained with unprecedented precision.The variation of the low energy proton, electron and positron energy spectra was measured from July 2006 until December 2009 accurately sampling the unusual conditions of the most recent solar minimum activity period (2006-2009). Low energy particle spectra were accurately measured also for various solar events that occurred during the PAMELA mission.The Earth's magnetosphere was studied measuring the particle radiation in different regions of the magnetosphere. Energy spectra and composition of sub-cutoff and trapped particles were obtained. For the first time a belt of trapped antiprotons was detected in the South Atlantic Anomaly region. The flux was found to exceed that for galactic cosmic-ray antiprotons by three order of magnitude. © 2014 Elsevier B.V.

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2014
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86. The large area detector of LOFT: the Large Observatory for X-ray TimingSpace Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray

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Tadayuki Takahashi, Jan Willem A. den Herder, Mark Bautz, S. Zane, D. Walton, T. Kennedy, M. Feroci, J. W. Den Herder, M. Ahangarianabhari, A. Argan, P. Azzarello, M. Barbera, D. Barret, G. Bertuccio, P. Bodin, E. Bozzo, L. Bradley, F. Cadoux, P. Cais, R. Campana, J. Coker, A. Cros, E. Del Monte, A. De Rosa, S. Di Cosimo, I. Donnarumma, Y. Evangelista, Y. Favre, C. Feldman, G. Fraser, F. Fuschino, M. Grassi, M. R. Hailey, R. Hudec, C. Labanti, P. Malcovati, D. Macera, M. Marisaldi, A. Martindale, T. Mineo, F. Muleri, M. Nowak, M. Orlandini, L. Pacciani, E. Perinati, V. Petracek, M. Pohl, A. Rachevski, P. Smith, A. Santangelo, J. Y. Seyler, C. Schmid, P. Soffitta, S. Suchy, C. Tenzer, P. Uttley, A. Vacchi, G. Zampa, N. Zampa, J. Wilms, B. Winter, BALDAZZI, GIUSEPPE, Tadayuki Takahashi, Jan-Willem A. den Herder, Mark Bautz, S. Zane, D. Walton, T. Kennedy, M. Feroci, J.-W Den Herder, M. Ahangarianabhari, A. Argan, P. Azzarello, G. Baldazzi, M. Barbera, D. Barret, G. Bertuccio, P. Bodin, E. Bozzo, L. Bradley, F. Cadoux, P Cai, R. Campana, J. Coker, A. Cro, E. Del Monte, A. De Rosa, S. Di Cosimo, I. Donnarumma, Y. Evangelista, Y. Favre, C. Feldman, G. Fraser, F. Fuschino, M. Grassi, M. R. Hailey, R. Hudec, C. Labanti, P. Malcovati, D. Macera, M. Marisaldi, A. Martindale, T. Mineo, F. Muleri, M. Nowak, M. Orlandini, L. Pacciani, E. Perinati, V. Petracek, M. Pohl, A. Rachevski, P. Smith, A. Santangelo, J.-Y. Seyler, C. Schmid, P. Soffitta, S. Suchy, C. Tenzer, P. Uttley, A. Vacchi, G. Zampa, N. Zampa, J. Wilm, and B. Winter

Subjects
SPACE MISSIONS, large area position-sensitive detector, x-rays, SILICON DRIFT DETECTORS
Abstract

LOFT (Large Observatory for X-ray Timing) is one of the five candidates that were considered by ESA as an M3 mission (with launch in 2022-2024) and has been studied during an extensive assessment phase. It is specifically designed to perform fast X-ray timing and probe the status of the matter near black holes and neutron stars. Its pointed instrument is the Large Area Detector (LAD), a 10 m2-class instrument operating in the 2-30keV range, which holds the capability to revolutionise studies of variability from X-ray sources on the millisecond time scales. The LAD instrument has now completed the assessment phase but was not down-selected for launch. However, during the assessment, most of the trade-offs have been closed leading to a robust and well documented design that will be reproposed in future ESA calls. In this talk, we will summarize the characteristics of the LAD design and give an overview of the expectations for the instrument capabilities. © (2014) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.

Published
2014

87. PAMELA's measurements of geomagnetic cutoff variations during the 14 December 2006 storm

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Sergey Koldobskiy, G. C. Barbarino, Alfonso Monaco, D. Campana, A. G. Mayorov, Mark Pearce, S. B. Ricciarini, Marco Casolino, S. Y. Krutkov, P. Papini, E. Vannuccini, M. Merge, Matteo Martucci, E. Mocchiutti, G. A. de Nolfo, S. Bottai, P. Picozza, V. Bonvicini, O. Adriani, Sergey Koldashov, Y. I. Stozhkov, A. V. Karelin, W. Menn, V. V. Malakhov, Per Carlson, Valentina Scotti, P. Spillantini, F. Cafagna, M. Bongi, N. De Simone, Marco Ricci, M. Simon, Roberto Bellotti, A. M. Galper, N. Zampa, V. V. Mikhailov, F. Palma, A. N. Kvashnin, G. A. Bazilevskaya, S. A. Voronov, R. Sparvoli, E. A. Bogomolov, Yu. T. Yurkin, V. Di Felice, G. Osteria, Nicola Mori, G. I. Vasilyev, C. De Santis, C. De Donato, Riccardo Munini, G. Zampa, Beatrice Panico, Alexey Leonov, Ritabrata Sarkar, G. Castellini, Mirko Boezio, L. Marcelli, A. Vacchi, A. Bruno, 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 Nolfo, G. A., De Santis, C., De Simone, N., Di Felice, 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., Menn, W., Mergé, M., Mikhailov, V. 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. I., Voronov, S. A., Yurkin, Y. T., Zampa, G., and Zampa, N.

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Geomagnetic Cutoff, Atmospheric Science, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Magnetosphere, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Physics::Geophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Physics - Space Physics, 0103 physical sciences, Interplanetary magnetic field, Solar Energetic Particles, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Physics, Geomagnetic storm, Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP), Ionospheric dynamo region, Geomagnetic secular variation, Solar energetic particles, Settore FIS/04, Geophysics, Magnetic Storms, Space Physics (physics.space-ph), Solar wind, Earth's magnetic field, Physics::Space Physics, Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
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Data from the Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics (PAMELA) satellite experiment were used to measure the geomagnetic cutoff for high-energy (>80 MeV) protons during the 14 December 2006 geomagnetic storm. The variations of the cutoff latitude as a function of rigidity were studied on relatively short timescales, corresponding to spacecraft orbital periods (94 min). Estimated cutoff values were compared with those obtained by means of a trajectory tracing approach based on a dynamical empirical modeling of the Earth's magnetosphere. We found significant variations in the cutoff latitude, with a maximum suppression of about 7 deg at lowest rigidities during the main phase of the storm. The observed reduction in the geomagnetic shielding and its temporal evolution were related to the changes in the magnetospheric configuration, investigating the role of interplanetary magnetic field, solar wind and geomagnetic parameters. PAMELA's results represent the first direct measurement of geomagnetic cutoffs for protons with kinetic energies in the sub-GeV and GeV region., 26 pages, 6 figures and 1 table. Accepted for publication in Space Weather

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2016
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88. Characterization of a LaBr3scintillator with multi-cell Silicon Drift Detector (SDD) readout

Author

Pierluigi Bellutti, Riccardo Campana, Francesco Ficorella, G. C. Gangemi, I. Rashevskaya, Claudio Labanti, Nicola Zorzi, F. Fuschino, Sergio Fabiani, N. Zampa, Giuseppe Baldazzi, Alexander Rashevsky, I. Elmi, Y. Evangelista, Luciano Burderi, C. Piemonte, G. Borghi, A. Vacchi, G. Zampa, Martino Marisaldi, L. P. Rignanese, Marco Feroci, Fuschino, Fabio, Labanti, C., Campana, R., Gangemi, G. C., Marisaldi, M., Rignanese, L. P., Baldazzi, Giuseppe, Elmi, I., Evangelista, Y., Feroci, M., Zampa, G., Zampa, N., Rashevsky, A., Vacchi, A., Rashevskaya, I., Fabiani, S., Zorzi, N., Piemonte, C., Bellutti, P., Ficorella, F., Borghi, G., and Burderi, L.

Subjects
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Condensed Matter Physics, Computer Science Applications1707 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Applied Mathematics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Silicon drift detector, Silicon, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, X-ray detector, chemistry.chemical_element, Context (language use), Scintillator, 01 natural sciences, 0103 physical sciences, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, scintillation X and gamma-ray detector, LaBr3(Ce), Silicon Drift Detector, Physics, Scintillation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Detector, Gamma ray, chemistry, Optoelectronics, business
Abstract

A scintillation gamma-ray detector, composed of a commercial 0.5" thick, 0.5" diameter LaBr3(Ce) crystal coupled to a 7-cell hexagonal Silicon Drift Detector has been developed and tested. The characterization with X-rays and gamma rays is presented and discussed also within the context of the optical properties of the readout system. A final comparison between our results and state of the art is also discussed in order to propose this prototype for astrophysical applications. © (2016) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.

Published
2016

89. The measurement of the dipole anisotropy of protons and helium cosmic rays with the PAMELA experiment

Author

Mark Pearce, S. B. Ricciarini, S. Y. Krutkov, P. Papini, M. Merge, E. Vannuccini, M. Simon, A. A. Leonov, V. V. Mikhailov, V. Di Felice, P. Picozza, Nicola Mori, N. Zampa, R. Sparvoli, G. A. Bazilevskaya, Maria Teresa Ricci, A. G. Mayorov, L. Marcelli, Riccardo Munini, V. V. Malakhov, O. Adriani, A. Bruno, Yu. T. Yurkin, W. Menn, V. Bonvicini, Sergey Koldashov, S. Bottai, F. Cafagna, Y. I. Stozhkov, A. V. Karelin, E. Mocchiutti, Valentina Scotti, Matteo Martucci, G. Osteria, Piero Spillantini, Andrea Vacchi, Roberto Bellotti, Per Carlson, A. M. Galper, A. N. Kvashnin, F. Palma, C. De Donato, N. De Simone, Sergey Koldobskiy, G. C. Barbarino, D. Campana, Mirko Boezio, Marco Casolino, G. Castellini, Massimo Bongi, C. De Santis, G. I. Vasilyev, Ritabrata Sarkar, V. Formato, S. A. Voronov, E. A. Bogomolov, G. Zampa, Beatrice Panico, Alfonso Monaco, Karelin, A. V., 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., Felice, V. D., Formato, V., Galper, A. M., Koldobskiy, S. A., Koldashov, S. V., Krutkov, S. Y., Kvashnin, A. N., Leonov, A., Malakhov, V., Marcelli, L., Martucci, M., Mayorov, A. G., Menn, W., Mergè, M., Mikhailov, V. 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., and Zampa, N.

Subjects
Settore FIS/01, Physics, History, Range (particle radiation), Calorimeter (particle physics), Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Dipole anisotropy, chemistry.chemical_element, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Computer Science Applications, Education, Nuclear physics, Dipole, Physics and Astronomy (all), Amplitude, chemistry, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, Anisotropy, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Cosmic ray measurement, Cosmology, Tellurium compounds, Helium
Abstract

In the framework of the PAMELA experiment the features of the large-scale anisotropy have been measured within the energy range 1-20 TeV/n. The measurements were carried out with the use of the calorimeter on the base of the hypothesis about the existence of a dipole anisotropy. The amplitude and phase of the dipole were obtained. The results are in agreement with the ground-based observations.

Published
2016

90. The XGS instrument on-board THESEUS

Author

F. Fuschino, I. Rashevskaya, Michela Uslenghi, Filippo Frontera, A. Rachevski, G. Zampa, Pierluigi Bellutti, C. Piemonte, Martino Marisaldi, A. Vacchi, I. Elmi, Lorenzo Amati, Y. Evangelista, N. Zampa, L. P. Rignanese, Riccardo Campana, M. Fiorini, Marco Feroci, Giuseppe Baldazzi, Claudio Labanti, ITA, Fuschino, Fabio, Campana, R., Labanti, C., Marisaldi, M., Amati, L., Fiorini, M., Uslenghi, M., Baldazzi, Giuseppe, Evangelista, Y., Elmi, I., Feroci, M., Frontera, Filippo, Rachevski, A., Rignanese, LUIGI PIO, Vacchi, A., Zampa, G., Zampa, N., Rashevskaya, I., Bellutti, P., and Piemonte, C.

Subjects
History, Engineering, business.industry, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Instrumentation, Detector, Electrical engineering, Scintillator, Space exploration, Computer Science Applications, Education, Physics and Astronomy (all), Stack (abstract data type), Position (vector), Electronic engineering, Electronics, business, Energy (signal processing)
Abstract

Consolidated techniques used for space-borne X-ray and gamma-ray instruments are based on the use of scintillators coupled to Silicon photo-detectors. This technology associated with modern very low noise read-out electronics allows the design of innovative architectures able to reduce drastically the system complexity and power consumption, also with a moderate-to-high number of channels. These detector architectures can be exploited in the design of space instrumentation for gamma-spectroscopy with the benefit of possible smart background rejection strategies. We describe a detector prototype with 3D imaging capabilities to be employed in future gamma-ray and particle space missions in the 0.002-100 MeV energy range. The instrument is based on a stack of scintillating bars read out by Silicon Drift Detectors (SDDs) at both ends. The spatial segmentation and the crystal double-side readout allow a 3D position reconstruction with ∼3 mm accuracy within the full active volume, using a 2D readout along the two external faces of the detector. Furthermore, one of the side of SDDs can be used simultaneously to detect X-rays in the 2-30 keV energy range. The characteristics of this instrument make it suitable in next generation gamma-ray and particle space missions for Earth or outer space observations, and it will be briefly illustrated.

Published
2016

91. The May 17, 2012 solar event: Back-tracing analysis and flux reconstruction with PAMELA

Author

Sergey Koldashov, Yu. T. Yurkin, V. V. Mikhailov, G. A. Bazilevskaya, R. Sparvoli, S. Y. Krutkov, M. Bongi, V. Di Felice, Yuri Stozhkov, Ulisse Bravar, P. Picozza, V. V. Malakhov, Mark Pearce, S. B. Ricciarini, Roberto Bellotti, R. Carbone, Steven Stochaj, N. De Simone, A. M. Galper, Sergey Koldobskiy, F. Cafagna, P. Papini, G. C. Barbarino, E. Vannuccini, A. G. Mayorov, Alfonso Monaco, E. Mocchiutti, E. C. Christian, A. V. Karelin, N. Zampa, M. Merge, S. A. Voronov, Per Carlson, C. De Santis, D. Campana, James M. Ryan, E. A. Bogomolov, V. G. Zverev, A. N. Kvashnin, G. Osteria, Marco Casolino, C. De Donato, M. Simon, V. Bonvicini, L. Marcelli, Maria Teresa Ricci, A. Vacchi, Valerio Formato, A. Bruno, G. I. Vasilyev, Nicola Mori, Matteo Martucci, G. A. de Nolfo, G. Castellini, Alexey Leonov, Ritabrata Sarkar, S. Bottai, Riccardo Munini, G. Zampa, Beatrice Panico, P. Spillantini, M. A. Lee, O. Adriani, W. Menn, F. Palma, Valentina Scotti, Mirko Boezio, Bruno, A., Adriani, O., Barbarino, G. C., Bazilevskaya, G. A., Bellotti, R., Boezio, M., Bogomolov, E. A., Bongi, M., Bonvicini, V., Bottai, S., Bravar, U., Cafagna, F., Campana, D., Carbone, R., Carlson, P., Casolino, M., Castellini, G., Christian, E. C., De Donato, C., De Nolfo, G. A., De Santis, C., De Simone, N., Felice, V. D., Formato, V., Galper, A. M., Karelin, A. V., Koldashov, S. V., Koldobskiy, S., Krutkov, S. Y., Kvashnin, A. N., Lee, M., Leonov, A., Malakhov, V., Marcelli, L., Martucci, M., Mayorov, A. G., Menn, W., Mergè, M., Mikhailov, V. 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., Ryan, J. M., Sarkar, R., Scotti, V., Simon, M., Sparvoli, R., Spillantini, P., Stochaj, S., Stozhkov, Y. I., Vacchi, A., Vannuccini, E., Vasilyev, G. I., Voronov, S. A., Yurkin, Y. T., Zampa, G., Zampa, N., and Zverev, V. G.

Subjects
Physics, Settore FIS/01, History, Solar energetic particles, Spacecraft, business.industry, Magnetosphere, Direction of arrival, Astrophysics, Tracing, Solar physics, 01 natural sciences, Computer Science Applications, Education, Computational physics, Physics and Astronomy (all), 0103 physical sciences, Physics::Space Physics, Neutron, Interplanetary magnetic field, 010306 general physics, business, Angular distribution, Cosmology, Earth (planet), Low power electronics, Orbits, Solar system, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics
Abstract

The PAMELA space experiment is providing first direct observations of Solar Energetic Particles (SEPs) with energies from about 80 MeV to several GeV in near-Earth orbit, bridging the low energy measurements by other spacecrafts and the Ground Level Enhancement (GLE) data by the worldwide network of neutron monitors. Its unique observational capabilities include the possibility of measuring the flux angular distribution and thus investigating possible anisotropies associated to SEP events. The analysis is supported by an accurate back-tracing simulation based on a realistic description of the Earth's magnetosphere, which is exploited to estimate the SEP energy spectra as a function of the asymptotic direction of arrival with respect to the Interplanetary Magnetic Field (IMF). In this work we report the results for the May 17, 2012 event.

Published
2016

92. Trapped positrons observed by PAMELA experiment

Author

Yu. T. Yurkin, E. Mocchiutti, A. V. Karelin, Matteo Martucci, L. Consiglio, Alexey Leonov, Valentina Scotti, S. A. Voronov, Giuseppe Osteria, S. Yu. Krutkov, S. A. Koldobsky, Piero Spillantini, E. A. Bogomolov, Mirko Boezio, Yu. I. Stozhkov, Roberto Bellotti, C. De Santis, Beatrice Panico, A. G. Mayorov, Ritabrata Sarkar, A. M. Galper, P. Picozza, A. N. Kvashnin, R. Carbone, G. C. Barbarino, Riccardo Munini, Massimo Bongi, L. Marcelli, A. Vacchi, A. Bruno, O. Adriani, S. Bottai, Nicola Mori, W. Menn, G. Castellini, N. Zampa, G. A. Bazilevskaya, M. Simon, G. Zampa, F. Palma, Maria Teresa Ricci, F. Cafagna, V. V. Mikhailov, P. Carlson, Alfonso Monaco, G. I. Vasiliev, R. Sparvoli, M. Merge, Mark Pearce, S. B. Ricciarini, P. Papini, E. Vannuccini, Sergey Koldashov, N. De Simone, D. Campana, Marco Casolino, V. V. Malakhov, V. Bonvicini, V. Di Felice, Mikhailov, V. V., Adriani, O., Barbarino, G., Bazilevskaya, G. A., Bellotti, R., Boezio, M., Bogomolov, E. A., Bongi, M., Bonvicini, V., Bottai, S., Bruno, A., Cafagna, F. S., Campana, D., Carbone, R., Carlson, P., Casolino, M., Castellini, G., Consiglio, L., De Santis, C., De Simone, N., Felice, V. D., Galper, A. M., Karelin, A. V., Koldashov, S. V., Koldobsky, S., Krutkov, S. Y., Kvashnin, A. N., Leonov, A. A., Malakhov, V. V., Marcelli, L., Martucci, M., Mayorov, A. G., Menn, W., Merge, M., Mocchiutti, E., Monaco, A., Mori, N., Munini, R., Osteria, G., Papini, P., Palma, F., Panico, B., 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., Vasiliev, G. I., Voronov, S. A., Yurkin, Y. T., Zampa, G., and Zampa, N.

Subjects
Physics, History, Antiparticle, Spectrometer, Settore FIS/04, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Cosmic ray, Electron, Computer Science Applications, Education, Nuclear physics, Physics and Astronomy (all), Positron, Earth's magnetic field, Astrophysics, Cosmology, Earth (planet), Electrons, Geomagnetism, Orbits, Positrons, Solar radiation, Spatial distribution Cosmic ray protons, Antimatter, Satellite, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Abstract

Measurements of electron and positron spatial distributions in energy range from 80 MeV to several GeV below the geomagnetic cutoff rigidity were carried out using the PAMELA magnetic spectrometer. The instrument is installed on board the Resurs-DK satellite which was launched June 15th 2006 on an elliptical orbit with the inclination 70 degrees and the altitude 350-600 km. The procedure of trajectories calculations in the geomagnetic filed gives a way to separate stably trapped and short lived albedo components produced in interactions of cosmic ray protons with the residual atmosphere. The work presents spatial distributions of trapped, quasitrapped and short-lived albedo electrons and positrons in the near Earth space. Electron to positron ratio points out on different production mechanism of trapped and quasitrapped particles.

Published
2016

93. Calocube - A highly segmented calorimeter for a space based experiment

Author

S. Bottai, N. Daddi, S. B. Ricciarini, P. Spillantini, P. Papini, E. Vannuccini, Maria Miritello, A. Gregorio, G.F. Rappazzo, Marina Trimarchi, Alessia Tricomi, L. Pacini, G. Pauletta, O. Starodubtsev, R. D' Alessandro, G. Carotenuto, Anna Vedda, A. Tiberio, O. Adriani, M. Chiari, P. W. Cattaneo, A. Basti, A. Rappoldi, V. Bonvicini, N. Zampa, M. Bongi, Paolo Brogi, Antoniangelo Agnesi, Sebastiano Albergo, G. Castellini, S. Detti, L. Santi, Lucrezia Auditore, Lorenzo Bonechi, P. S. Marrocchesi, Mauro Fasoli, A. Sulaj, N. Finetti, Paolo Maestro, Antonio Trifiro, Federico Pirzio, J. E. Suh, B. Zerbo, S. Bonechi, G. Zampa, D. Cauz, Gabriele Bigongiari, Eugenio Berti, Piergiulio Lenzi, Nicola Mori, Maria Giuseppina Bisogni, Marco Grassi, Marco Incagli, Riccardo Paoletti and Giovanni Signorelli, D'Alessandro, R., Adriani, O., Agnesi, A., Albergo, S., Auditore, L., Basti, A., Berti, E., Bigongiari, G., Bonechi, L., Bonechi, S., Bongi, M., Bonvicini, V., Bottai, S., Brogi, P., Carotenuto, G., Castellini, G., Cattaneo, P. W., Cauz, D., Chiari, M., Daddi, N., Detti, S., Fasoli, M., Finetti, N., Gregorio, Anna, Lenzi, P., Maestro, P., Marrocchesi, P. S., Miritello, M., Mori, N., Pacini, L., Papini, P., Pauletta, G., Pirzio, F., Rappazzo, G. F., Rappoldi, A., Ricciarini, S., Santi, L. G., Spillantini, P., Starodubtsev, O., Suh, J. E., Sulaj, A., Tiberio, A., Tricomi, A., Trifiro, A., Trimarchi, M., Vannuccini, E., Vedda, A., Zampa, Gianluigi, Zampa, Nicola, Zerbo, B., D'Alessandro, R, Adriani, O, Agnesi, A, Albergo, S, Auditore, L, Basti, A, Berti, E, Bigongiari, G, Bonechi, L, Bonechi, S, Bongi, M, Bonvicini, V, Bottai, S, Brogi, P, Carotenuto, G, Castellini, G, Cattaneo, P, Cauz, D, Chiari, M, Daddi, N, Detti, S, Fasoli, M, Finetti, N, Gregorio, A, Lenzi, P, Maestro, P, Marrocchesi, P, Miritello, M, Mori, N, Pacini, L, Papini, P, Pauletta, G, Pirzio, F, Rappazzo, G, Rappoldi, A, Ricciarini, S, Santi, L, Spillantini, P, Starodubtsev, O, Suh, J, Sulaj, A, Tiberio, A, Tricomi, A, Trifiro, A, Trimarchi, M, Vannuccini, E, Vedda, A, Zampa, G, Zampa, N, and Zerbo, B

Subjects
Physics, Calorimeter, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astroparticle, Crystals, Instrumentation, Calorimeter (particle physics), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, Cosmic ray, Space (mathematics), 01 natural sciences, Particle identification, Nuclear physics, Acceleration, 0103 physical sciences, Crystal, 010306 general physics, Energy (signal processing)
Abstract

Future research in High Energy Cosmic Ray Physics concerns fundamental questions on their origin, acceleration mechanism, and composition. Unambiguous measurements of the energy spectra and of the composition of cosmic rays at the “knee” region could provide some of the answers to the above questions. Only ground based observations, which rely on sophisticated models describing high energy interactions in the earth׳s atmosphere, have been possible so far due to the extremely low particle rates at these energies. A calorimeter based space experiment can provide not only flux measurements but also energy spectra and particle identification, especially when coupled to a dE/dx measuring detector, and thus overcome some of the limitations plaguing ground based experiments. For this to be possible very large acceptances are needed if enough statistic is to be collected in a reasonable time. This contrasts with the lightness and compactness requirements for space based experiments. A novel idea in calorimetry is discussed here which addresses these issues while limiting the mass and volume of the detector. In fact a small prototype is currently being built and tested with ions. In this paper the results obtained will be presented in light of the simulations performed.

Published
2016

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

Author

W Menn, O Adriani, G C Barbarino, G A Bazilevskaya, R Bellotti, M Boezio, E A Bogomolov, M Bongi, V. Bonvicini, S Bottai, A Bruno, F Cafagna, D Campana, P Carlson, M Casolino, G Castellini, C De Donato, C De Santis, N De Simone, V di Felice, V Formato, A M Galper, A V Karelin, S V Koldashov, S Koldobskiy, S Y Krutkov, A N Kvashnin, A Leonov, V Malakhov, L Marcelli, M Martucci, A G Mayorov, M Mergè, V Mikhailov, E Mocchiutti, A Monaco, N Mori, R Munini, G Osteria, F Palma, B Panico, P Papini, M Pearce, P Picozza, M Ricci, S B Ricciarini, R Sarkar, V. Scotti, M Simon, R Sparvoli, P Spillantini, Y I Stozhkov, A Vacchi, E Vannuccini, G Vasilyev, S A Voronov, Y T Yurkin, G Zampa, N Zampa, M S Potgieter, E E Vos, 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., and Vos, E. E.

Subjects
Physics, History, Calorimeter (particle physics), Spectrometer, PAMELA detector, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Settore FIS/04, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Scintillator, Computer Science Applications, Education, law.invention, Nuclear physics, Physics and Astronomy (all), Antiproton, law, Scintillation counter, Neutron detection, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Calorimeters, Cosmic ray measurement, Cosmic rays, Cosmology, High energy physics, Isotopes, Particle detectors, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

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.

Published
2016

95. Steps towards the hyperfine splitting measurement of the muonic hydrogen ground state: pulsed muon beam and detection system characterization

Author

Massimiliano Clemenza, A. Rachevski, M. I. Moretti, A. de Bari, Miltcho B. Danailov, Claudio Labanti, Dimitar Bakalov, Joseph Niemela, L. P. Rignanese, A. Vacchi, M. Stoilov, Massimiliano Nastasi, A. Curioni, Andrzej Adamczak, K.S. Gadedjisso-Tossou, I. D'Antone, Giuseppe Baldazzi, E. Mocchiutti, V. Bonvicini, R. Bertoni, D. Iugovaz, Paolo Rossi, E. Vallazza, Giovanni Baccolo, Martino Marisaldi, Ezio Previtali, M. De Vincenzi, M. Zuffa, M. Furini, K. Ishida, R. Mazza, T. Cervi, Gianluca Morgante, F. Somma, C. De Vecchi, R. Nardò, F. Chignoli, A. Margotti, L. Tortora, A. Tomaselli, M. Rossella, Maurizio Bonesini, Roberta Ramponi, Alessandro Menegolli, A. Iaciofano, S. Meneghini, Valter Maggi, P. Danev, D. Guffanti, G. Zampa, R. Carbone, L. Colace, L. Stoychev, Riccardo Campana, F. Fuschino, Adamczak, A, Baccolo, G, Bakalov, D, Baldazzi, G, Bertoni, R, Bonesini, M, Bonvicini, V, Campana, G, Carbone, R, Cervi, T, Chignoli, F, Clemenza, M, Colace, L, Curioni, A, Danailov, M, Danev, P, D'Antone, I, Bari, A, Vecchi, C, Vincenzi, M, Furini, M, Fuschino, F, Gadedjisso-Tossou, K, Guffanti, D, Iaciofano, A, Ishida, K, Iugovaz, D, Labanti, C, Maggi, V, Margotti, A, Marisaldi, M, Mazza, R, Meneghini, S, Menegolli, A, Mocchiutti, E, Moretti, M, Morgante, G, Nardò, R, Nastasi, M, Niemela, J, Previtali, E, Ramponi, R, Rachevski, A, Rignanese, L, Rossella, M, Rossi, P, Somma, F, Stoilov, M, Stoychev, L, Tomaselli, A, Tortora, L, Vacchi, A, Vallazza, E, Zampa, G, Zuffa, M, ITA, USA, GBR, FRA, DEU, Colace, Lorenzo, Baccolo, G., Bakalov, D., Baldazzi, Giuseppe, Bertoni, R., Bonesini, M., Bonvicini, V., Campana, G., Carbone, R., Cervi, T., Chignoli, F., Clemenza, M., Colace, L., Curioni, A., Danailov, M., Danev, P., D'Antone, I., Bari, A. De, Vecchi, C. De, Vincenzi, M. De, Furini, M., Fuschino, Fabio, Gadedjisso Tossou, K. S., Guffanti, D., Iaciofano, A., Ishida, K., Iugovaz, D., Labanti, C., Maggi, V., Margotti, A., Marisaldi, M., Mazza, R., Meneghini, S., Menegolli, A., Mocchiutti, E., Moretti, M., Morgante, G., Nardò, R., Nastasi, M., Niemela, J., Previtali, E., Ramponi, R., Rachevski, A., Rignanese, LUIGI PIO, Rossella, M., Rossi, PIER LUCA, Somma, F., Stoilov, M., Stoychev, L., Tomaselli, A., Tortora, L., Vacchi, A., Vallazza, E., Zampa, G., and Zuffa, M.

Subjects
X-ray detector, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Materials science, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, Hodoscope, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Instrumentation, Hyperfine structure, Mathematical Physics, Exotic atom, Muon, Spectrometers, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Timing detector, Physics::Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Ground state, Detection system, High purity germaniums, High-precision measurement, Hyperfine splittings, Lanthanum bromide, Muonic hydrogen, Pressurized gas, Pulsed muon beam, Beam (structure)
Abstract

The high precision measurement of the hyperfine splitting of the muonic-hydrogen atom ground state with pulsed and intense muon beam requires careful technological choices both in the construction of a gas target and of the detectors. In June 2014, the pressurized gas target of the FAMU experiment was exposed to the low energy pulsed muon beam at the RIKEN RAL muon facility. The objectives of the test were the characterization of the target, the hodoscope and the X-ray detectors. The apparatus consisted of a beam hodoscope and X-rays detectors made with high purity Germanium and Lanthanum Bromide crystals. In this paper the experimental setup is described and the results of the detector characterization are presented., Comment: 22 pages, 14 figures, published and open access on JINST

Published
2016
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96. The high energy cosmic ray particle spectra measurements with the PAMELA calorimeter

Author

A. G. Mayorov, C. De Santis, Alfonso Monaco, Yu. T. Yurkin, Valerio Formato, M. Merge, Sergey Koldashov, R. Carbone, Sergey Koldobskiy, G. C. Barbarino, Alexey Leonov, Roberto Bellotti, F. Cafagna, P. Picozza, Ritabrata Sarkar, A. M. Galper, Matteo Martucci, M. Simon, G. Osteria, A. N. Kvashnin, O. Adriani, W. Menn, V. V. Malakhov, L. Marcelli, Mark Pearce, S. B. Ricciarini, V. G. Zverev, A. Vacchi, Nicola Mori, S. A. Voronov, G. Castellini, E. Mocchiutti, A. Bruno, E. A. Bogomolov, P. Papini, E. Vannuccini, Laura Rossetto, M. P. De Pascale, Marco Ricci, Riccardo Munini, M. Bongi, S. Yu. Krutkov, S. Bottai, N. De Simone, A. V. Karelin, G. I. Vasilyev, Mirko Boezio, V. V. Mikhailov, Ugo Giaccari, P. Carlson, M. D. Kheymits, G. Zampa, N. Zampa, G. A. Bazilevskaya, R. Sparvoli, V. Di Felice, V. Bonvicini, P. Spillantini, and Marco Casolino

Subjects
Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Cosmic ray, helium, Scintillator, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Nuclear physics, law, 0103 physical sciences, calorimeter, Calorimeter, Electrons and positrons, Helium, Protons, Neutron detection, Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray, electrons and positrons, 010306 general physics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, Range (particle radiation), protons, Spectrometer, PAMELA detector, Calorimeter (particle physics), Settore FIS/04
Abstract

Up until now there has been limited, contradictive data on the high energy range of the cosmic ray electron-positron, proton and helium spectra. Due to the limitations of the use of a magnetic spectrometer, over 8 years experimental data was processed using information from a sampling electro-magnetic calorimeter, a neutron detector and scintillator detectors. The use of these devices allowed us to successfully obtain the high energy cosmic ray particle spectra measurements. The results of this study clarify previous findings and greaten our understanding of the origin of cosmic rays.

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2016
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97. First results of a novel Silicon Drift Detector array designed for low energy X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy

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Dario Giuressi, Jernej Bufon, Andrea Stolfa, Claudio Piemonte, Andrea Castoldi, A. Rachevski, G. Zampa, Sergio Fabiani, Nicola Zorzi, Alessandra Gianoncelli, Elena Brigo, Ralf Hendrik Menk, Sergio Carrato, Gabriele Giacomini, Irina Rashevskaya, N. Zampa, Pierluigi Bellutti, Chang Liu, G. Cautero, Yongbiao Shi, Giuseppe Bertuccio, M. Ahangarianabhari, Giuseppe Vito Montemurro, Antonino Picciotto, George Kourousias, Chiara Guazzoni, Andrea Vacchi, Rachevski, A, Ahangarianabhari, M, Bellutti, P, Bertuccio, G, Brigo, E, Bufon, Jernej, Carrato, Sergio, Castoldi, A, Cautero, Giuseppe, Fabiani, S, Giacomini, G, Gianoncelli, A, Giuressi, D, Guazzoni, C, Kourousias, G, Liu, C, Menk, R. H, Montemurro, G. V, Picciotto, Antonio, Piemonte, Claudio, Rashevskaya, Irina, Shi, Y, Stolfa, A, Vacchi, Andrea, Zampa, Gianluigi, Zampa, Nicola, and Zorzi, N.

Subjects
Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Silicon drift detector, Silicon, Preamplifier, chemistry.chemical_element, Silicon Drift Detectors, 010501 environmental sciences, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, LEXRF science, X-ray spectroscopy, Optics, law, 0103 physical sciences, Wafer, Silicon Drift Detector, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Physics, sezele, business.industry, Detector, Solid angle, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, sezele, Synchrotron, Beamline, chemistry, business
Abstract

We developed a trapezoidal shaped matrix with 8 cells of Silicon Drift Detectors (SDD) featuring a very low leakage current (below 180 pA/cm2 at 20 °C) and a shallow uniformly implanted p+ entrance window that enables sensitivity down to few hundreds of eV. The matrix consists of a completely depleted volume of silicon wafer subdivided into 4 square cells and 4 half-size triangular cells. The energy resolution of a single square cell, readout by the ultra-low noise SIRIO charge sensitive preamplifier , is 158 eV FWHM at 5.9 keV and 0 °C. The total sensitive area of the matrix is 231 mm2 and the wafer thickness is 450 μ m . The detector was developed in the frame of the INFN R&D project ReDSoX in collaboration with FBK, Trento. Its trapezoidal shape was chosen in order to optimize the detection geometry for the experimental requirements of low energy X-ray fluorescence (LEXRF) spectroscopy , aiming at achieving a large detection angle. We plan to exploit the complete detector at the TwinMic spectromicroscopy beamline at the Elettra Synchrotron (Trieste, Italy). The complete system, composed of 4 matrices, increases the solid angle coverage of the isotropic photoemission hemisphere about 4 times over the present detector configuration. We report on the layout of the SDD matrix and of the experimental set-up, as well as the spectroscopic performance measured both in the laboratory and at the experimental beamline.

Published
2016

98. FLARES: A flexible scintillation light apparatus for rare event searches

Author

M. Sisti, G. Baldazzi, V. Bonvicini, R. Campana, S. Capelli, Y. Evangelista, M. Feroci, F. Fuschino, L. Gironi, C. Labanti, M. Marisaldi, E. Previtali, L. Rignanese, A. Rachevsky, A. Vacchi, G. Zampa, N. Zampa, M. Zuffa, Sisti, M, Baldazzi, Giuseppe, Bonvicini, V., Campana, Riccardo, Capelli, S., Evangelista, Y., Feroci, M., Fuschino, Fabio, Gironi, L., Labanti, C., Marisaldi, Martino, Previtali, E., Rignanese, LUIGI PIO, Rachevsky, A., Vacchi, A., Zampa, G., Zampa, N., Zuffa, M., Baldazzi, G, Bonvicini, V, Campana, R, Capelli, S, Evangelista, Y, Feroci, M, Fuschino, F, Gironi, L, Labanti, C, Marisaldi, M, Previtali, E, Rignanese, L, Rachevsky, A, Vacchi, A, Zampa, G, Zampa, N, and Zuffa, M

Subjects
Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Detector techniques for cosmology, Astroparticle and general physics, 01 natural sciences, Double beta decay, Scintillation detector, Silicon drift detectors, 0103 physical sciences, Astroparticle and general physic, Scintillation detectors, High Energy Physics::Experiment, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation, Silicon drift detector, Nuclear and High Energy Physic
Abstract

FLARES is a project for an innovative detector technology to be applied to rare event searches, and in particular to neutrinoless double beta decay experiments. Its novelty is the enhancement and optimization of the collection of the scintillation light emitted by ultra-pure crystals through the use of arrays of high performance silicon photodetectors cooled to 120 K. This would provide scintillation detectors with 1% level energy resolution, with the advantages of a technology offering relatively simple low cost mass scalability and powerful background reduction handles, as requested by future neutrinoless double beta decay experimental programs. The performances of a first production of matrices of Silicon Drift Detectors are presented and discussed in this paper.

Published
2016

99. Features of re-entrant albedo deuteron trajectories in near Earth orbit with PAMELA experiment

Author

A. V. Karelin, V. Formato, S. A. Voronov, Yu. T. Yurkin, M. Merge, S. Y. Krutkov, P. Picozza, Sergey Koldashov, G. Osteria, R. Sparvoli, E. A. Bogomolov, V. V. Mikhailov, Per Carlson, Andrea Vacchi, O. Adriani, Mirko Boezio, Massimo Bongi, W. Menn, V. Di Felice, L. Marcelli, Roberto Bellotti, A. M. Galper, G. Zampa, Beatrice Panico, A. Bruno, V. V. Malakhov, Matteo Martucci, A. N. Kvashnin, D. Campana, Sergey Koldobskiy, G. C. Barbarino, N. Zampa, V. Bonvicini, Valentina Scotti, G. A. Bazilevskaya, Riccardo Munini, Y. I. Stozhkov, N. De Simone, Piero Spillantini, Marco Casolino, F. Cafagna, A. G. Mayorov, G. Castellini, F. Palma, Mark Pearce, S. B. Ricciarini, P. Papini, E. Vannuccini, Maria Teresa Ricci, C. De Donato, Ritabrata Sarkar, E. Mocchiutti, M. Simon, A. A. Leonov, S. Bottai, G. I. Vasilyev, Nicola Mori, C. De Santis, Alfonso Monaco, Koldobskiy, S. A., 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., Felice, V. D., Formato, V., Galper, A. M., Karelin, A. V., Koldashov, S. V., Krutkov, S. Y., Kvashnin, A. N., Leonov, A., Malakhov, V., Marcelli, L., Martucci, M., Mayorov, A. G., Menn, W., Mergè, M., Mikhailov, V. 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., and Zampa, N.

Subjects
Physics, History, Earth's orbit, PAMELA detector, Settore FIS/04, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Nuclear Theory, Astrophysics, Cosmic ray measurement, Cosmology, Deuterium, Orbits, Solar radiation Cosmic-ray particles, Albedo, Computer Science Applications, Education, law.invention, Nuclear physics, Physics and Astronomy (all), law, Re entrant, Nuclear Experiment, Trajectory (fluid mechanics)
Abstract

The results of trajectory reconstruction for re-entrant albedo deuteron fluxes obtained in the PAMELA experiment are presented in this work. PAMELA is an international experiment aimed on measurements of cosmic ray particle fluxes in wide energy range. In particular, analysis of PAMELA data gives possibility to identify deuterons. Classification of re-entrant albedo deuterons with energies from 70 to 400 MeV/nucleon depending on theirs reconstructed lifetimes and generation zones is presented here at first time.

Published
2016

100. The Large Area Detector of LOFT: the Large Observatory for X-ray Timing

Author

Dom Walton, Claudio Labanti, J.-Y. Seyler, Philipp Azzarello, E. Del Monte, C. Feldman, G.W. Fraser, Giuseppe Bertuccio, Martino Marisaldi, Enrico Bozzo, Slawomir Suchy, A. Rachevski, C. Tenzer, M. Ahangarianabhari, Andrea Santangelo, Fabio Muleri, M. Hailey, P. Cais, Adrian Martindale, Silvia Zane, Mauro Orlandini, N. Zampa, A. Vacchi, S. Di Cosimo, G. Zampa, Marco Barbera, Martin Pohl, Phil Uttley, I. Donnarumma, Y. Evangelista, Berend Winter, L. Bradley, René Hudec, D. Macera, A. de Rosa, Marco Grassi, T. Kennedy, Teresa Mineo, Y. Favre, Christian Schmid, V. Petracek, P. Bodin, J. W. den Herder, Paul S. Smith, Alain Cros, A. Argan, Marco Feroci, Luigi Pacciani, J. Coker, Piero Malcovati, M. Nowak, Didier Barret, Emanuele Perinati, Paolo Soffitta, Franck Cadoux, F. Fuschino, Riccardo Campana, Jörn Wilms, Giuseppe Baldazzi, Zane, S., Walton, D., Kennedy, T., Feroci, M., Den Herder, J., Ahangarianabhari, M., Argan, A., Azzarello, P., Baldazzi, G., Barbera, M., Barret, D., Bertuccio, G., Bodin, P., Bozzo, E., Bradley, L., Cadoux, F., Cais, P., Campana, R., Coker, J., Cros, A., Del Monte, E., De Rosa, A., Di Cosimo, S., Donnarumma, I., Evangelista, Y., Favre, Y., Feldman, C., Fraser, G., Fuschino, F., Grassi, M., Hailey, M., Hudec, R., Labanti, C., Malcovati, P., Macera, D., Marisaldi, M., Martindale, A., Mineo, T., Muleri, F., Nowak, M., Orlandini, M., Pacciani, L., Perinati, E., Petracek, V., Pohl, M., Rachevski, A., Smith, P., Santangelo, A., Seyler, J., Schmid, C., Soffitta, P., Suchy, S., Tenzer, C., Uttley, P., Vacchi, A., Zampa, G., Zampa, N., Wilms, J., Winter, B., Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL), University College of London [London] (UCL), FORMATION STELLAIRE 2014, Laboratoire d'astrodynamique, d'astrophysique et d'aéronomie de bordeaux (L3AB), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire aquitain des sciences de l'univers (OASU), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux [Pessac] (LAB), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bordeaux (UB), Interactions et dynamique des environnements de surface (IDES), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)

Subjects
[PHYS.ASTR.IM]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Observatories, Sensors, X-rays, Equipment and services, X-ray sources, Computer science, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, X-ray, Loft, Observatory, Range (aeronautics), 0103 physical sciences, Electronic, Timing, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Compact Objects, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Condensed Matter Physics, Computer Science Applications1707 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Applied Mathematics, Remote sensing, Millisecond, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Large area detector, [SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Neutron star, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, astro-ph.IM
Abstract

LOFT (Large Observatory for X-ray Timing) is one of the five candidates that were considered by ESA as an M3 mission (with launch in 2022-2024) and has been studied during an extensive assessment phase. It is specifically designed to perform fast X-ray timing and probe the status of the matter near black holes and neutron stars. Its pointed instrument is the Large Area Detector (LAD), a 10 m 2 -class instrument operating in the 2-30keV range, which holds the capability to revolutionise studies of variability from X-ray sources on the millisecond time scales. The LAD instrument has now completed the assessment phase but was not down-selected for launch. However, during the assessment, most of the trade-offs have been closed leading to a robust and well documented design that will be re- proposed in future ESA calls. In this talk, we will summarize the characteristics of the LAD design and give an overview of the expectations for the instrument capabilities., Proc. SPIE 9144, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 91442W

Published
2015
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