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1. Characterization of a Large Area Hybrid Pixel Detector of Timepix3 Technology for Space Applications

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Martin Farkas, Benedikt Bergmann, Pavel Broulim, Petr Burian, Giovanni Ambrosi, Philipp Azzarello, Lukáš Pušman, Mateusz Sitarz, Petr Smolyanskiy, Daniil Sukhonos, and Xin Wu

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PAN, Timepix3 low-power modes, Timepix3 Quad, Timepix3 temperature dependency, Timpepix3 space application, Physics, QC1-999, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
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We present the characterization of a highly segmented “large area” hybrid pixel detector (Timepix3, 512 × 512 pixels, pixel pitch 55 µm) for application in space experiments. We demonstrate that the nominal power consumption of 6 W can be reduced by changing the settings of the Timepix3 analog front-end and reducing the matrix clock frequency (from the nominal 40 MHz to 5 MHz) to 2 W (in the best case). We then present a comprehensive study of the impact of these changes on the particle tracking performance, the energy resolution and time stamping precision by utilizing data measured at the Super-Proton-Synchrotron (SPS) at CERN and at the Danish Center for Particle Therapy (DCPT). While the impact of the slower sampling frequency on energy measurement can be mitigated by prolongation of the falling edge of the analog signal, we find a reduction of the time resolution from 1.8 ns (in standard settings) to 5.6 ns (in analog low-power), which is further reduced utilizing a lower sampling clock (e.g., 5 MHz, in digital low-power operation) to 73.5 ns. We have studied the temperature dependence of the energy measurement for ambient temperatures between −20 °C and 50 °C separately for the different settings.

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2024
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2. Tracker-in-Calorimeter (TIC) Project: A Calorimetric New Solution for Space Experiments

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Gabriele Bigongiari, Oscar Adriani, Giovanni Ambrosi, Philipp Azzarello, Andrea Basti, Eugenio Berti, Bruna Bertucci, Lorenzo Bonechi, Massimo Bongi, Sergio Bottai, Mirko Brianzi, Paolo Brogi, Guido Castellini, Enrico Catanzani, Caterina Checchia, Raffaello D’Alessandro, Sebastiano Detti, Matteo Duranti, Noemi Finetti, Valerio Formato, Maria Ionica, Paolo Maestro, Fernando Maletta, Pier Simone Marrocchesi, Nicola Mori, Lorenzo Pacini, Paolo Papini, Sergio Bruno Ricciarini, Gianluigi Silvestre, Piero Spillantini, Oleksandr Starodubtsev, Francesco Stolzi, Jung Eun Suh, Arta Sulaj, Alessio Tiberio, and Elena Vannuccini

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cosmic rays, astroparticles, γ-ray astronomy, Physics, QC1-999, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
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A space-based detector dedicated to measurements of γ-rays and charged particles has to achieve a balance between different instrumental requirements. A good angular resolution is necessary for the γ-rays, whereas an excellent geometric factor is needed for the charged particles. The tracking reference technique of γ-ray physics is based on a pair-conversion telescope made of passive material (e.g., tungsten) coupled with sensitive layers (e.g., silicon microstrip). However, this kind of detector has a limited acceptance because of the large lever arm between the active layers, needed to improve the track reconstruction capability. Moreover, the passive material can induce fragmentation of nuclei, thus worsening charge reconstruction performances. The Tracker-In-Calorimeter (TIC) project aims to solve all these drawbacks. In the TIC proposal, the silicon sensors are moved inside a highly-segmented isotropic calorimeter with a couple of external scintillators dedicated to charge reconstruction. In principle, this configuration has a good geometrical factor, and the angle of the γ-rays can be precisely reconstructed from the lateral profile of the electromagnetic shower sampled, at different depths in the calorimeter, by silicon strips. The effectiveness of this approach has been studied with Monte Carlo simulations and validated with beam test data of a small prototype.

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2022
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3. Design of an Antimatter Large Acceptance Detector In Orbit (ALADInO)

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Oscar Adriani, Corrado Altomare, Giovanni Ambrosi, Philipp Azzarello, Felicia Carla Tiziana Barbato, Roberto Battiston, Bertrand Baudouy, Benedikt Bergmann, Eugenio Berti, Bruna Bertucci, Mirko Boezio, Valter Bonvicini, Sergio Bottai, Petr Burian, Mario Buscemi, Franck Cadoux, Valerio Calvelli, Donatella Campana, Jorge Casaus, Andrea Contin, Raffaello D’Alessandro, Magnus Dam, Ivan De Mitri, Francesco de Palma, Laurent Derome, Valeria Di Felice, Adriano Di Giovanni, Federico Donnini, Matteo Duranti, Emanuele Fiandrini, Francesco Maria Follega, Valerio Formato, Fabio Gargano, Francesca Giovacchini, Maura Graziani, Maria Ionica, Roberto Iuppa, Francesco Loparco, Jesús Marín, Samuele Mariotto, Giovanni Marsella, Gustavo Martínez, Manel Martínez, Matteo Martucci, Nicolò Masi, Mario Nicola Mazziotta, Matteo Mergé, Nicola Mori, Riccardo Munini, Riccardo Musenich, Lorenzo Mussolin, Francesco Nozzoli, Alberto Oliva, Giuseppe Osteria, Lorenzo Pacini, Mercedes Paniccia, Paolo Papini, Mark Pearce, Chiara Perrina, Piergiorgio Picozza, Cecilia Pizzolotto, Stanislav Pospíšil, Michele Pozzato, Lucio Quadrani, Ester Ricci, Javier Rico, Lucio Rossi, Enrico Junior Schioppa, Davide Serini, Petr Smolyanskiy, Alessandro Sotgiu, Roberta Sparvoli, Antonio Surdo, Nicola Tomassetti, Valerio Vagelli, Miguel Ángel Velasco, Xin Wu, and Paolo Zuccon

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cosmic rays, antimatter, dark matter, particle detectors, space instrumentation, Physics, QC1-999, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
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A new generation magnetic spectrometer in space will open the opportunity to investigate the frontiers in direct high-energy cosmic ray measurements and to precisely measure the amount of the rare antimatter component in cosmic rays beyond the reach of current missions. We propose the concept for an Antimatter Large Acceptance Detector In Orbit (ALADInO), designed to take over the legacy of direct measurements of cosmic rays in space performed by PAMELA and AMS-02. ALADInO features technological solutions conceived to overcome the current limitations of magnetic spectrometers in space with a layout that provides an acceptance larger than 10 m2 sr. A superconducting magnet coupled to precision tracking and time-of-flight systems can provide the required matter–antimatter separation capabilities and rigidity measurement resolution with a Maximum Detectable Rigidity better than 20 TV. The inner 3D-imaging deep calorimeter, designed to maximize the isotropic acceptance of particles, allows for the measurement of cosmic rays up to PeV energies with accurate energy resolution to precisely measure features in the cosmic ray spectra. The operations of ALADInO in the Sun–Earth L2 Lagrangian point for at least 5 years would enable unique revolutionary observations with groundbreaking discovery potentials in the field of astroparticle physics by precision measurements of electrons, positrons, and antiprotons up to 10 TeV and of nuclear cosmic rays up to PeV energies, and by the possible unambiguous detection and measurement of low-energy antideuteron and antihelium components in cosmic rays.

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2022
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4. Deflection of 400 GeV/c proton beam with bent silicon crystals at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron

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Walter Scandale, Alberto Carnera, Gianantonio Della Mea, Davide De Salvador, Riccardo Milan, Alberto Vomiero, Stefano Baricordi, Pietro Dalpiaz, Massimiliano Fiorini, Vincenzo Guidi, Giuliano Martinelli, Andrea Mazzolari, Emiliano Milan, Giovanni Ambrosi, Philipp Azzarello, Roberto Battiston, Bruna Bertucci, William J. Burger, Maria Ionica, Paolo Zuccon, Gianluca Cavoto, Roberta Santacesaria, Paolo Valente, Erik Vallazza, Alexander G. Afonin, Vladimir T. Baranov, Yury A. Chesnokov, Vladilen I. Kotov, Vladimir A. Maisheev, Igor A. Yazynin, Sergey V. Afanasiev, Alexander D. Kovalenko, Alexander M. Taratin, Alexander S. Denisov, Yury A. Gavrikov, Yuri M. Ivanov, Vladimir G. Ivochkin, Sergey V. Kosyanenko, Anatoli A. Petrunin, Vyacheslav V. Skorobogatov, Vsevolod M. Suvorov, Davide Bolognini, Luca Foggetta, Said Hasan, and Michela Prest

Subjects
Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

This paper presents a detailed study of the deflection phenomena of a 400 GeV/c proton beam impinging on a new generation of bent silicon crystals; the tests have been performed at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron H8 beam line. Channeling and volume reflection angles are measured with an extremely precise goniometer and with high resolution silicon microstrip detectors. Volume reflection has been observed and measured for the first time at this energy, with a single-pass efficiency as large as 98%, in good agreement with the simulation results. This efficiency makes volume reflection a possible candidate for collimation with bent crystals at the CERN Large Hadron Collider.

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2008
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5. Search for gamma-ray spectral lines with the DArk Matter Particle Explorer

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Yun-Feng Liang, Francesca Alemanno, Qi An, Philipp Azzarello, Felicia Carla Tiziana Barbato, Paolo Bernardini, Xiao-Jun Bi, Ming-Sheng Cai, Elisabetta Casilli, Enrico Catanzani, Jin Chang, Deng-Yi Chen, Jun-Ling Chen, Zhan-Fang Chen, Ming-Yang Cui, Tian-Shu Cui, Yu-Xing Cui, Hao-Ting Dai, Antonio De Benedittis, Ivan De Mitri, Francesco de Palma, Maksym Deliyergiyev, Margherita Di Santo, Qi Ding, Tie-Kuang Dong, Zhen-Xing Dong, Giacinto Donvito, David Droz, Jing-Lai Duan, Kai-Kai Duan, Domenico D’Urso, Rui-Rui Fan, Yi-Zhong Fan, Fang Fang, Kun Fang, Chang-Qing Feng, Lei Feng, Piergiorgio Fusco, Min Gao, Fabio Gargano, Ke Gong, Yi-Zhong Gong, Dong-Ya Guo, Jian-Hua Guo, Shuang-Xue Han, Yi-Ming Hu, Guang-Shun Huang, Xiao-Yuan Huang, Yong-Yi Huang, Maria Ionica, Wei Jiang, Jie Kong, Andrii Kotenko, Dimitrios Kyratzis, Shi-Jun Lei, Shang Li, Wen-Hao Li, Wei-Liang Li, Xiang Li, Xian-Qiang Li, Yao-Ming Liang, Cheng-Ming Liu, Hao Liu, Jie Liu, Shu-Bin Liu, Yang Liu, Francesco Loparco, Chuan-Ning Luo, Miao Ma, Peng-Xiong Ma, Tao Ma, Xiao-Yong Ma, Giovanni Marsella, Mario Nicola Mazziotta, Dan Mo, Maria Muñoz Salinas, Xiao-Yang Niu, Xu Pan, Andrea Parenti, Wen-Xi Peng, Xiao-Yan Peng, Chiara Perrina, Rui Qiao, Jia-Ning Rao, Arshia Ruina, Zhi Shangguan, Wei-Hua Shen, Zhao-Qiang Shen, Zhong-Tao Shen, Leandro Silveri, Jing-Xing Song, Mikhail Stolpovskiy, Hong Su, Meng Su, Hao-Ran Sun, Zhi-Yu Sun, Antonio Surdo, Xue-Jian Teng, Andrii Tykhonov, Jin-Zhou Wang, Lian-Guo Wang, Shen Wang, Shu-Xin Wang, Xiao-Lian Wang, Ying Wang, Yan-Fang Wang, Yuan-Zhu Wang, Da-Ming Wei, Jia-Ju Wei, Yi-Feng Wei, Di Wu, Jian Wu, Li-Bo Wu, Sha-Sha Wu, Xin Wu, Zi-Qing Xia, En-Heng Xu, Hai-Tao Xu, Zhi-Hui Xu, Zun-Lei Xu, Zi-Zong Xu, Guo-Feng Xue, Hai-Bo Yang, Peng Yang, Ya-Qing Yang, Hui-Jun Yao, Yu-Hong Yu, Guan-Wen Yuan, Qiang Yuan, Chuan Yue, Jing-Jing Zang, Sheng-Xia Zhang, Wen-Zhang Zhang, Yan Zhang, Yi Zhang, Yong-Jie Zhang, Yun-Long Zhang, Ya-Peng Zhang, Yong-Qiang Zhang, Zhe Zhang, Zhi-Yong Zhang, Cong Zhao, Hong-Yun Zhao, Xun-Feng Zhao, Chang-Yi Zhou, Yan Zhu, Francesca Alemanno, Qi An, Philipp Azzarello, Felicia Carla Tiziana Barbato , Paolo Bernardini , Xiao-Jun Bi , Ming-Sheng Cai , Elisabetta Casilli , Enrico Catanzani , Jin Chang , Deng-Yi Chenj , Jun-Ling Chen , Zhan-Fang Chen , Ming-Yang Cui , Tian- Shu Cuin , Yu-Xin Cui , Hao-Ting Dai , Antonio De Benedittis , Ivan De Mitri , Francesco de Palma , Maksym Deliyergiyev Margherita Di Santo , Qi Ding , Tie-Kuan Dong , Zhen-Xing Dong , Giacinto Donvito , David Droz, Jing-Lai Duan , Kai-Kai Duan , Domenico D’Urso , Rui-Rui Fan , Yi-Zhong Fan , Fan Fang , Kun Fang, Chang-Qin Feng , Lei Feng , Piergiorgio Fusco, Min Gao , Fabio Gargano , Ke Gong , Yi-Zhong Gong , Dong- Ya Guo , Jian-Hua Guo , Shuang-Xue Han, Yi-Ming Hu , Guang- Shun Huang , Xiao-Yuan Huang , Yong-Yi Huang , Maria Ionica , Wei Jiang , Jie Kong , Andrii Kotenko , Dimitrios Kyratzis , Shi- Jun Lei, Shang Li , Wen-Hao Li , Wei-Liang Li , Xiang Li , Xian Qiang Li , Yao-Ming Lian , Cheng-Ming Liu , Hao Liu , Jie Liu , Shu-Bin Liu , Yang Liu , Francesco Loparco , Chuan-Ning Luo , Miao Ma , Peng-Xiong Ma , Tao Ma , Xiao-Yong Ma, Giovanni Marsella, Mario Nicola Mazziotta , Dan Mo , Maria Muñoz Salinas , Xiao-Yang Niu , Xu Pan , Andrea Parenti , Wen-Xi Peng , Xiao- Yan Peng , Chiara Perrina , Rui Qiao , Jia-Ning Rao , Arshia Ruina , Zhi Shangguan , Wei-Hua Shen , Zhao-Qiang Shen , Zhong-Tao Shen , Leandro Silveri, Jing-Xing Song , Mikhail Stolpovskiy Hong Su , Meng Su , Hao-Ra Sun , Zhi-Yu Sun , Antonio Surdo , Xue-Jian Teng , Andrii Tykhonov , Jin-Zhou Wang , Lian-Guo Wang , Shen Wang , Shu-Xin Wang , Xiao-Lian Wang , Ying Wang , Yan-Fang Wang , Yuan-Zhu Wang , Da-Ming Wei , Jia-Ju Wei , Yi-Feng Wei , Di Wu , Jian Wu , Li-Bo Wu , Sha-Sha Wun , Xin Wu , Zi-Qing Xi , En-Heng Xu , Hai-Tao Xu , Zhi-Hui Xu , Zun-Lei Xu , Zi-Zong Xu , Guo-Feng Xuen , Hai-Bo Yang , Peng Yang , Ya-Qing Yang , Hui-Jun Yao , Yu-Hong Yu , Guan-Wen Yuan , Qiang Yuan , Chuan Yue , JingJing Zang Sheng-Xi Zhang , Wen-Zhang Zhang , Yan Zhang, Yi Zhangj, Yong-Jie Zhang , Yun-Long Zhang , Ya-Peng Zhang , Yong-Qiang Zhang , Zhe Zhang , Zhi-Yong Zhang , Cong Zhao , Hong-Yun Zhao , Xun-Feng Zhao , Chang-Yi Zhou , and Yan Zhu, Alemanno, Francesca, An, Qi, Azzarello, Philipp, Carla Tiziana Barbato, Felicia, Bernardini, Paolo, Bi, Xiao-Jun, Cai, Ming-Sheng, Casilli, Elisabetta, Catanzani, Enrico, Chang, Jin, Chen, Deng-Yi, Chen, Jun-Ling, Chen, Zhan-Fang, Cui, Ming-Yang, Cui, Tian-Shu, Cui, Yu-Xin, Dai, Hao-Ting, De Benedittis, Antonio, De Mitri, Ivan, DE PALMA, Francesco, Deliyergiyev, Maksym, Di Santo, Margherita, Ding, Qi, Dong, Tie-Kuang, Dong, Zhen-Xing, Donvito, Giacinto, Droz, David, Duan, Jing-Lai, Duan, Kai-Kai, D’Urso, Domenico, Fan, Rui-Rui, Fan, Yi-Zhong, Fang, Fang, Fang, Kun, Feng, Chang-Qing, Feng, Lei, Fusco, Piergiorgio, Gao, Min, Gargano, Fabio, Gong, Ke, Gong, Yi-Zhong, Guo, Dong-Ya, Guo, Jian-Hua, Han, Shuang-Xue, Hu, Yi-Ming, Huang, Guang-Shun, Huang, Xiao-Yuan, Huang, Yong-Yi, Ionica, Maria, Jiang, Wei, Kong, Jie, Kotenko, Andrii, Kyratzis, Dimitrio, Lei, Shi-Jun, Li, Shang, Li, Wen-Hao, Li, Wei-Liang, Li, Xiang, Li, Xian-Qiang, Lian, Yao-Ming, Liu, Cheng-Min, Liu, Hao, Liu, Jie, Liu, Shu-Bin, Liu, Yang, Loparco, Francesco, Luo, Chuan-Ning, Ma, Miao, Ma, Peng-Xiong, Ma, Tao, Ma, Xiao-Yong, Marsella, Giovanni, Nicola Mazziotta, Mario, Mo, Dan, Muñoz Salinas, Maria, Niu, Xiao-Yang, Pan, Xu, Parenti, Andrea, Peng, Wen-Xi, Peng, Xiao-Yan, Perrina, Chiara, Qiao, Rui, Ra, Jia-Ning, Ruina, Arshia, Shangguan, Zhi, Shen, Wei-Hua, Shen, Zhao-Qiang, Shen, Zhong-Tao, Silveri, Leandro, Song, Jing-Xing, Stolpovskiy, Mikhail, Su, Hong, Su, Meng, Sun, Hao-Ran, Sun, Zhi-Yu, Surdo, Antonio, Teng, Xue-Jian, Tykhonov, Andrii, Wang, Jin-Zhou, Wang, Lian-Guo, Wang, Shen, Wang, Shu-Xin, Wang, Xiao-Lian, Wang, Ying, Wang, Yan-Fang, Wang, Yuan-Zhu, Wei, Da-Ming, Wei, Jia-Ju, Wei, Yi-Feng, Wu, Di, Wu, Jian, Wu, Li-Bo, Wu, Sha-Sha, Wu, Xin, Xia, Zi-Qing, Xu, En-Heng, Xu, Hai-Tao, Xu, Zhi-Hui, Xu, Zun-Lei, Xu, Zi-Zong, Xue, Guo-Feng, Yang, Hai-Bo, Yang, Peng, Yang, Ya-Qing, Yao, Hui-Jun, Yu, Yu-Hong, Yuan, Guan-Wen, Yuan, Qiang, Yue, Chuan, Zann, Jing-Jing, Zhan, Sheng-Xia, Zhan, Wen-Zhang, Zhan, Yan, Zhan, Yi, Zhang, Yong-Jie, Zhang, Yun-Long, Zhang, Ya-Peng, Zhang, Yong-Qiang, Zhang, Zhe, Zhang, Zhi-Yong, Zhao, Cong, Zhao, Hong-Yun, Zhao, Xun-Feng, Zhou, Chang-Yi, and Yan Zhu, And

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High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Line-like structure, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Multidisciplinary, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, DAMPE, Dark matter, Gamma-ray, Line-like structure, Settore FIS/01 - Fisica Sperimentale, DAMPE, Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma-ray, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

The DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) is well suitable for searching for monochromatic and sharp $\gamma$-ray structures in the GeV$-$TeV range thanks to its unprecedented high energy resolution. In this work, we search for $\gamma$-ray line structures using five years of DAMPE data. To improve the sensitivity, we develop two types of dedicated data sets (including the BgoOnly data which is the first time to be used in the data analysis for the calorimeter-based gamma-ray observatories) and adopt the signal-to-noise ratio optimized regions of interest (ROIs) for different DM density profiles. No line signals or candidates are found between 10 and 300 GeV in the Galaxy. The constraints on the velocity-averaged cross section for $\chi\chi \to \gamma\gamma$ and the decay lifetime for $\chi \to \gamma\nu$, both at 95% confidence level, have been calculated and the systematic uncertainties have been taken into account. Comparing to the previous Fermi-LAT results, though DAMPE has an acceptance smaller by a factor of $\sim 10$, similar constraints on the DM parameters are achieved and below 100 GeV the lower limits on the decay lifetime are even stronger by a factor of a few. Our results demonstrate the potential of high-energy-resolution observations on dark matter detection., Comment: 14 pages, 8 figures. Update the content to keep up with the published version

Published
2022

6. Relativistic Particle Measurements in Jupiter’s Magnetosphere with Pix.PAN

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Johannes Hulsman, Xin Wu, Philipp Azzarello, Benedikt Bergmann, Michael Campbell, George Clark, Franck Cadoux, Tomoya Ilzawa, Peter Kollmann, Xavier Llopart, Quentin Nénon, Mercedes Paniccia, Elias Roussos, Petr Smolyanskiy, Daniil Sukhonos, and Pierre Alexandre Thonet

Abstract

Pix.PAN is a compact cylindrical magnetic spectrometer, intended to provide excellent high energy particle measurements under high rate and hostile operating conditions in space. Its principal design is composed of 2 Halbach-array magnetic sectors and 6 Timepix4-based tracking layers; the latest hybrid silicon pixel detector readout ASIC designed. Due to Pix.PAN's compact and relatively simple design, it has the potential to be used for space missions exploring with measurements of unprecedented precision, high energy particles in radiation belts and the heliophere (solar energetic particles, anomalous and galactic cosmic rays). In this white paper, we discuss the design and expected performance of Pix.PAN for COMPASS (Comprehensive Observations of Magnetospheric Particle Acceleration, Sources, and Sinks), a mission concept submitted to NASA’s Call "B.16 Heliophysics Mission Concept Studies (HMCS)" in 2021 that targets the extreme high energy particle environment of Jupiter's inner radiation belts. We also discuss PixPAN's operational conditions and interface requirements. The conceptual design shows that is possible to achieve an energy resolution of

Published
2023

7. Feasibility study of cosmic-ray components measurement by using a scintillating fiber tracker in space

Author

Daniel La Marra, Yannick Favre, Ming Xu, Philipp Azzarello, Jun-jing Wang, Chiara Perrina, Xin Wu, Bobing Wu, and Franck Cadoux

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, business.industry, BitTorrent tracker, Detector, Cosmic ray, Tracking (particle physics), Optics, Silicon photomultiplier, Nuclear Energy and Engineering, Calibration, business, Beam (structure), Test data
Abstract

The application of traditional silicon strip detectors in space experiments often suffers from heat and power consumption limitations when a large area has to be instrumented. Recently, a scintillating fiber detector with SiPM readout was proposed and adopted by ground high-energy experiments. Its excellent performance in track measurement and mechanical flexibility makes it a prospective candidate for large-area tracking detectors in the next-generation space experiments. This paper mainly focuses on its performance in cosmic-ray charge measurement. A fast Geant4 simulation for a single tracker module was developed and compared with the beam test results. The non-uniformity of the detector response was studied. Moreover, a full tracker simulation using a variety of typical cosmic ray nuclei was implemented. The performance of a fiber tracker with multiple layers was evaluated. The comparison between the simulation results and the beam test data of protons and helium nuclei shows a good agreement. The non-uniformity study reveals the strong dependence of the detector signal on the position and inclination angle of the incident particles. Then, a corresponding correction algorithm was developed and applied in the following data analysis. The preliminary result shows that the charge measurement capability of the fiber tracker composed of 9 XY superlayers is comparable to that of the AMS-02 inner tracker, which consists of 7 layers of double-sided silicon micro-strip ladders. This paper discusses the feasibility of using fiber trackers to measure cosmic ray charges and provide a guide for the optimization of detector design.

Published
2021

8. FIT: the scintillating fiber tracker of the HERD space mission

Author

Chiara Perrina, Daniel La Marra, Yannick Favre, Jennifer Maria Frieden, Xin Wu, Daniil Sukhonos, Philipp Azzarello, and Franck Cadoux

Subjects
Physics, Large Hadron Collider, Calorimeter (particle physics), Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, business.industry, Payload, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Dark matter, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, Tracking (particle physics), Core (optical fiber), Silicon photomultiplier, Optics, business
Abstract

The High Energy cosmic-Radiation Detection (HERD) facility is a space payload proposed to be installed onboard the China’s Space Station (CSS). The aims of HERD are the indirect detection of dark matter, the direct detection of cosmic rays towards the "knee" of the spectrum ($\sim 1$ PeV) and the monitoring of the full gamma-ray sky from 100 MeV. The HERD core is a calorimeter capable of accepting particles incident on its top and four lateral sides, each equipped with a sector of the scintillating fiber tracker: FIT. The FIT sectors host 7 tracking planes made of modules. The module, composed of a fiber mat and three arrays of silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs), is the elementary brick of FIT. Several FIT modules have been built and tested with particle beams at CERN. A FIT demonstrator, made of two partially instrumented tracking planes, has been assembled and sent through vibration tests. The results of the performed tests as well as the current design of FIT are presented in this contribution.

Published
2021

9. Tracking and separation of relativistic ions using Timepix3 with a 300 um thick silicon sensor

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Petr Smolyanskiy, Stanislav Pospisil, M. Paniccia, Philipp Azzarello, Petr Burian, P. Broulím, Lukáš Meduna, Chiara Perrina, Benedikt Bergmann, and Xin Wu

Subjects
Materials science, Proton, business.industry, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, hybrid detectors, Detector, Tracking (particle physics), Synchrotron, Charged particle, Relativistic particle, law.invention, dE/dx detectors, Optics, particle tracking detectors (solid-state detectors), law, heavy-ion detectors, Stopping power (particle radiation), business, Instrumentation, Mathematical Physics, Beam (structure)
Abstract

The response of a Timepix3 detector (256 x 256 pixels, pixel pitch 55 μm) with a 300 μm thick silicon sensor was studied in relativistic charged particle beams at the Super-Proton- Synchrotron at CERN. The detector was irradiated at different angles in a 400 GeV/𝑐 primary proton beam and in a mixed beam created by a 330 GeV/𝑐 Pb beam hitting a beryllium target. We present and discuss energy deposition spectra and particle track features for relativistic particles of different stopping power. The proton data shows that a relative energy resolution of approximately 9 % can be achieved. Analysis of deposited energy spectra and tracks in the detector produced by heavier ions are carried out with the aim to investigate the capabilities of the Timepix3 detector for decomposing the mixed beam. Using spectrum stripping technique by iterative Landau curve fitting charge discrimination could be done up to 𝑍 = 7 for impact angle of 60 degrees (with respect to the sensor normal). For smaller impact angles the particle charge separation is decreased due to the saturation of the pixel electronics (600 keV). Previous works describing the 3D track reconstruction for minimally ionizing particles (𝑍 = 1) were extended in the present work by adding the methodology of heavier ions track reconstruction in 3D.

Published
2021

10. Hitomi (ASTRO-H) X-ray Astronomy Satellite

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Laura Brenneman, Hironori Matsumoto, Kirk Gilmore, Takayuki Yuasa, D. Lumb, Manabu Ishida, Aurora Simionescu, Takao Nakagawa, Junichiro Katsuta, Esra Bulbul, Meng P. Chiao, Philippe Laurent, Jelle de Plaa, Hiroyuki Ogawa, Keith Arnaud, Keiji Ogi, John P. Doty, B. Ramsey, Yuzuru Tawara, C. Megan Urry, Eric D. Miller, Peter Shirron, Gregory V. Brown, Dan R. Wilkins, Hiroshi Tsunemi, Richard F. Mushotzky, Nobuyuki Kawai, Brian J. Williams, Steven W. Allen, Naoko Iyomoto, Taro Kawano, Katja Pottschmidt, Yang Soong, Tadayuki Takahashi, Yasuharu Sugawara, Ikuyuki Mitsuishi, Margherita Giustini, Greg Madejski, Tetsu Kitayama, Megumi Shidatsu, Hideyuki Mori, Łukasz Stawarz, Randall K. Smith, Satoshi Sugita, Norbert Schartel, James Pontius, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Eugenio Ursino, Katsuhiro Hayashi, Toshio Nakano, Satoru Katsuda, Cor P. de Vries, Adam R. Foster, Masanobu Ozaki, Kenji Minesugi, Tomomi Watanabe, Yuichi Terashima, Christopher S. Reynolds, Hiroaki Sameshima, Alex Koujelev, Naohisa Anabuki, Isamu Hatsukade, Masaharu Nomachi, Yoichi Yatsu, Yasunobu Uchiyama, Steve O' Dell, Ann Hornschemeier, Akio Hoshino, Yasuo Tanaka, M. Pohl, Kyoko Matsushita, Masahiro Tsujimoto, Hideki Uchiyama, Mark O. Kimball, Arvind Parmar, Gary A. Sneiderman, Yoshiyuki Inoue, Toru Tamagawa, Yukikatsu Terada, Shinya Nakashima, Tsuneyoshi Kamae, Dmitry Khangulyan, Kiyoshi Hayashida, Rie Sato, Aya Bamba, Roger Blandford, Kazunori Ishibashi, Shinya Saito, Caroline A. Kilbourne, Toshio Murakami, Takeda Shin'ichiro, Missagh Mehdipour, Motohide Kokubun, Masachika Iwai, Dan McCammon, Michael J. DiPirro, Marshall W. Bautz, Shunji Kitamoto, Naomi Ota, Brian R. McNamara, Frits Paerels, Stéphane Paltani, Magnus Axelsson, Edgar Canavan, Nobutaka Bando, Peter J. Serlemitsos, Shu Koyama, Felix Aharonian, Matteo Guainazzi, Joseph Miko, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Thomas G. Bialas, Koji Mori, Makoto Yamauchi, Uno Shin'ichiro, Hirokazu Odaka, Toru Sasaki, Mina Ogawa, Philipp Azzarello, Atsushi Wada, Tsuyoshi Okazaki, Ken Ebisawa, Takeshi Go Tsuru, Yoshitomo Maeda, Jon M. Miller, A. L. King, Cynthia Simmons, Hirofumi Noda, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Carlo Ferrigno, Hiroyasu Tajima, Kazuo Makishima, Erin Kara, Fumie Akimoto, Shigeo Kawasaki, Kumi Ishikawa, Kosuke Sato, Hiroshi Nakajima, Knox S. Long, Jun Kataoka, Keisuke Shinozaki, Kazuyuki Hirose, Keisuke Tamura, Teruaki Enoto, Yoh Takei, Yoshito Haba, Shinya Yamada, Richard L. Kelley, Yoshihiro Ueda, Megan E. Eckart, Takaya Ohashi, Shin-ichiro Sakai, Kevin R. Boyce, D. Haas, Atsushi Okamoto, Kazuhiro Sakai, Ryo Nagino, Makoto Asai, Maurice A. Leutenegger, Michael Loewenstein, Daniel R. Wik, Yohko Tsuboi, Maria Chernyakova, Shiro Ueno, Koji Mukai, Hiroshi Murakami, Takeshi Nakamori, Hiroshi Tomida, Tahir Yaqoob, Norbert Werner, Paolo Coppi, Abderahmen Zoghbi, Shin Watanabe, Kosei Ishimura, Hideyo Kunieda, Candace Masters, Yusuke Nishioka, Shigeo Yamauchi, Maxim Markevitch, Yuto Ichinohe, Andrew C. Fabian, Ryuichi Fujimoto, Kenji Hamaguchi, Liyi Gu, Edward M. Cackett, Chris Done, Junko S. Hiraga, Chris Baluta, Noriko Y. Yamasaki, Maki Shida, Makoto Tashiro, Takanobu Shimada, Yasuyuki T. Tanaka, Massimiliano Galeazzi, Ilana M. Harrus, Naoko Iwata, Timothy R. Kallman, Takuya Miyazawa, Kumiko K. Nobukawa, Madoka Kawaharada, Hisamitsu Awaki, Takaaki Tanaka, Tadayasu Dotani, Goro Sato, Ciro Pinto, Hiroya Yamaguchi, Harvey Moseley, Yoshiharu Namba, Shutaro Ueda, Masayuki Itoh, Takayoshi Kohmura, Daisuke Yonetoku, Yoshitaka Ishisaki, Hans A. Krimm, Hiromi Seta, Atsumasa Yoshida, Kouichi Hagino, Yuichiro Ezoe, Samar Safi-Harb, John P. Hughes, Daniel Maier, Hajime Inoue, Lorella Angelini, Yasuko Shibano, Frederick S. Porter, Saori Konami, Takayuki Tamura, Shin Mineshige, Peter Kretschmar, Yoichi Sato, Helen Russell, Hiroyuki Uchida, Elisa Costantini, Chikara Natsukari, Housei Nagano, Jan-Willem den Herder, Francesco Tombesi, Jelle Kaastra, Daniel S. McGuinness, Masanori Ohno, Hiroyuki Sugita, Katsuji Koyama, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Theodore Muench, Shiu-Hang Lee, Poshak Gandhi, Yasushi Fukazawa, Stefan Funk, Luigi C. Gallo, Tatsuro Kosaka, Andrea Goldwurm, Ryo Iizuka, Masayuki Ohta, Kazutaka Yamaoka, Marc Audard, Makoto Sawada, Takashi Okajima, Franco Moroso, Akihiro Furuzawa, Aya Kubota, Chris Jewell, Olivier Limousin, Takayuki Hayashi, Takao Kitaguchi, Takahiro Yamada, Hiroki Akamatsu, Andrew Szymkowiak, Robert Petre, Irina Zhuravleva, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS), SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON), Climate and Environmental Physics [Bern] (CEP), Physikalisches Institut [Bern], Universität Bern [Bern]-Universität Bern [Bern], Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory (CAL), Columbia University [New York], Stockholm University, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), Stanford University [Stanford], AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Stanford University, Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Universität Bern [Bern] (UNIBE)-Universität Bern [Bern] (UNIBE), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
Space operations, X-ray telescope, microcalorimeter, 01 natural sciences, x-ray astronomy, 010309 optics, gamma-ray astronomy, 0103 physical sciences, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Instrumentation, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Remote sensing, [PHYS]Physics [physics], X-ray astronomy, Spacecraft, business.industry, Mechanical Engineering, Astronomy and Astrophysics, hard x-ray, Gamma-ray astronomy, First light, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Spacecraft system, x-ray, Space and Planetary Science, Control and Systems Engineering, gamma ray, Satellite, business, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract

著者人数: 270名（所属. 宇宙航空研究開発機構宇宙科学研究所(JAXA)(ISAS): 高橋, 忠幸; 国分, 紀秀; 満田, 和久; Baluta, Chris; 坂東, 信尚; 堂谷, 忠靖; 海老沢, 研; 林, 克洋; 廣瀬, 和之; 飯塚, 亮; 石田, 学; 石川, 久美; 石村, 康生; 岩井, 将親; 岩田, 直子; 河野, 太郎; 川崎, 繁男; 小山, 志勇; 前田, 良知; 峯杉, 賢治; 中川, 貴雄; 夏苅, 権; 小川, 博之; 小川, 美奈; 太田, 方之; 岡崎, 健; 尾崎, 正伸; 坂井, 真一郎; 鮫島, 寛明; 佐藤, 悟郎; 佐藤, 理江; 柴野, 靖子; 志田, 真樹; 嶋田, 貴信; Simionescu, Aurora; 菅原, 泰晴; 竹井, 洋; 田村, 隆幸; 田中, 靖郎; 田代, 信; 冨田, 洋; 辻本, 匡弘; 上田, 周太朗; 上野, 史郎; 和田, 篤始; 渡辺, 伸; 山田, 隆弘; 山崎, 典子）, Number of authors: 270 (Affiliation. Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)(ISAS): Takahashi, Tadayuki; Kokubun, Motohide; Mitsuda, Kazuhisa; Baluta, Chris; Bando, Nobutaka; Dotani, Tadayasu; Ebisawa, Ken; Hayashi, Katsuhiro; Hirose, Kazuyuki; Iizuka, Ryo; Ishida, Manabu; Ishikawa, Kumi; Ishimura, Kosei; Iwai, Masachika; Iwata, Naoko; Kawano, Taro; Kawasaki, Shigeo; Koyama, Shu; Maeda, Yoshitomo; Minesugi, Kenji; Nakagawa, Takao; Natsukari, Chikara; Ogawa, Hiroyuki; Ogawa, Mina; Ohta, Masayuki; Okazaki, Tsuyoshi; Ozaki, Masanobu; Sakai, Shinichiro; Sameshima, Hiroaki; Sato, Goro; Sato, Rie; Shibano, Yasuko; Shida, Maki; Shimada, Takanobu; Simionescu, Aurora; Sugawara, Yasuharu; Takei, Yoh; Tamura, Takayuki; Tanaka, Yasuo; Tashiro, Makoto; Tomida, Hiroshi; Tsujimoto, Masahiro; Ueda, Shutaro; Ueno, Shiro; Wada, Atsushi; Watanabe, Shin; Yamada, Takahiro; Yamasaki, Noriko Y.), Accepted: 2018-02-05, 資料番号: SA1170333000

Published
2018

11. Research and Development of a Scintillating Fiber Tracker with SiPM Array Read-Out for Application in Space

Author

Philipp Azzarello, Daniel La Marra, Chiara Perrina, Franck Cadoux, and Xin Wu

Subjects
Physics, Large Hadron Collider, Silicon, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, business.industry, Detector, chemistry.chemical_element, Tracking (particle physics), Charged particle, Silicon photomultiplier, Optics, chemistry, Ribbon, business, Beam (structure)
Abstract

Scintillating fibers read-out by arrays of silicon photomultipliers can be complementary to silicon strip detectors for particle trackers in space or represent a viable alternative. Less fragile, more flexible, with no need of wire bonds, they can be used in high resolution charged particle tracking detectors for spaceborne experiments. Two prototypes, a \(1\,\mathrm{m} \) long and a \(70\,\mathrm{cm}\) long ribbon, made of six layers of \(250\,\upmu \mathrm{m}\) diameter fibers, coupled to Hamamatsu silicon photomultiplier arrays and read-out by VATA ASICs have been tested. Preliminary results of a beam test carried out at CERN and the status of the ongoing space qualification process are presented in this contribution.

Published
2018

12. Introduction to the High Energy cosmic-Radiation Detection (HERD) Facility onboard China’s Future Space Station

Author

Shuang-Nan Zhang, Oscar Adriani, Herd Consortium, Sebastiano Albergo, Giovanni Ambrosi, Qi An, Philipp Azzarello, Yonglin Bai, Tianwei Bao, Paolo Bernardini, Bruna Bertucci, Xiaojun Bi, Massimo Bongi, Sergio Bottai, Weiwei Cao, Zhen Cao, Junying Chai, Jin Chang, Guoming Chen, Y Chen, Zhen Chen, X.H. Cui, Z.G. Dai, Raffaello D’Alessandro, Margherita Di Santo, Yongwei Dong, Matteo Duranti, Yizhong Fan, Kun Fang, C.Q. Feng, Hua Feng, Valerio Formato, Piergiorgio Fusco, Jiarui Gao, Fabio Gargano, Nicola Giglietto, Quanbu GOU, Yi Qing Guo, Huihai He, hongbo HU, Peng Hu, G.S. Huang, Jing Huang, Y.F. Huang, H. Li, Ran Li, Yong Li, Z. Li, E.W. Liang, Sujie Lin, H. Liu, Hongbang Liu, J.B. Liu, S.B. Liu, S.M. Liu, Xin Liu, Francesco Loparco, Junguang Lyu, Giovanni Marsella, Mario Nicola Mazziottai, Ivan De Mitri, Nicola Mori, Paolo Papini, Mark Pearce, Wenxi Peng, Martin Pohl, Zheng Quan, Felix Ryde, Dalian Shi, Meng Su, X.L. Sun, Xin Sun, Antonio Surdo, Z.C. Tang, Elena Vannuccini, Roland Walter, Bingbing Wang, Bo Wang, J.C. Wang, J.M. Wang, Junjing Wang, Le Wang, Ruijie Wang, X.L Wang, Xiangyu Wang, Zhigang Wang, D.M. Wei, Bobing Wu, J. Wu, Qiong Wu, Xin Wu, X.F. Wu, Ming Xu, Z.Z. Xu, H.R. Yan, P.F. Yin, Y.W Yu, Qiang Yuan, M. Zha, L. Zhang, Li Zhang, Yi Zhang, Y.L. Zhang, and Z.G. Zhao

Subjects
Computer Science::Robotics, High energy, business.industry, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Environmental science, Cosmic ray, Aerospace engineering, Space astronomy, business, Space (mathematics), China
Abstract

The High Energy cosmic-Radiation Detection (HERD) facility is one of several space astronomy payloads onboard China's Space Station, which is planned for operation starting around 2025 for about 10 ...

Published
2017

13. Observing GRBs with the LOFT Wide Field Monitor

Author

A. J. Castro-Tirado, S. Korpela, M. Feroci, Alvarez, Piotr Orleanski, Luigi Stella, Lorenzo Amati, Flemming Hansen, René Hudec, Carl Budtz-Jørgensen, A. Vacchi, N. Zampa, Irfan Kuvvetli, M. Pohl, C. Tenzer, Christian Schmid, J. J. M. in 't Zand, A. Rachevski, Enrico Bozzo, E. Del Monte, Andrea Santangelo, D. Gotz, Allan Hornstrup, Niels Lund, S. Schanne, Slawomir Suchy, Jörn Wilms, J. L. Galvez Sanchez, Søren Brandt, Philipp Azzarello, Didier Barret, Riccardo Campana, M. van der Klis, M. Hernanz, I. Donnarumma, Y. Evangelista, D. Karelin, Andrzej A. Zdziarski, J. W. den Herder, Alain Cros, and High Energy Astrophys. & Astropart. Phys (API, FNWI)

Subjects
Physics, Cosmic Vision, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, media_common.quotation_subject, General Engineering, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Field of view, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Collimated light, Engineering (all), Space and Planetary Science, Observatory, Sky, 0103 physical sciences, Transient (oscillation), Gamma-ray burst, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Energy (signal processing), media_common
Abstract

LOFT (Large Observatory For X-ray Timing) is one of the four candidate missions currently under assessment study for the M3 mission in ESAs Cosmic Vision program to be launched in 2024. LOFT will carry two instruments with prime sensitivity in the 2–30 keV range: a 10 m2 class large area detector (LAD) with a

Published
2013

14. PANGU: a wide field gamma-ray imager and polarimeter

Author

Jin Chang, F. Gargano, R. Walter, G. Ambrosi, Christian Farnier, Mark Pearce, Meng Su, A. A. Zdziarski, M. Pohl, Yi-Zhong Fan, Xin Wu, M. N. Mazziotta, Philipp Azzarello, M. Bottcher, Masha Chernyakova, Wojtek Hajdas, and I. A. Grenier

Subjects
Physics, Annihilation, Photon, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Detector, Gamma ray, Polarimeter, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Relativistic particle, Telescope, Optics, law, 0103 physical sciences, business, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Light dark matter
Abstract

PANGU (the PAir-productioN Gamma-ray Unit) is a gamma-ray telescope with a wide field of view optimized for spectro-imaging, timing and polarization studies. It will map the gamma-ray sky from 10 MeV to a few GeV with unprecedented spatial resolution. This window on the Universe is unique to detect photons produced directly by relativistic particles, via the decay of neutral pions, or the annihilation or decay light from anti-matter and the putative light dark matter candidates. A wealth of questions can be probed among the most important themes of modern physics and astrophysics. The PANGU instrument is a pair-conversion gamma-ray telescope based on an innovative design of a silicon strip tracker. It is light, compact and accurate. It consists of 100 layers of silicon micro-strip detector of 80 x 80 cm 2 in area, stacked to height of about 90 cm, and covered by an anticoincidence detector. PANGU relies on multiple scattering effects for energy measurement, reaching an energy resolution between 30-50% for 10 MeV – 1 GeV. The novel tracker will allow the first polarization measurement and provide the best angular resolution ever obtained in the soft gamma ray and GeV band.

Published
2016

15. Design of the readout electronics for the DAMPE Silicon Tracker detector

Author

Daniel La Marra, Philipp Azzarello, Andrea Nardinocchi, Xin Wu, Huanyu Wang, Ruirui Fan, Giovanni Ambrosi, Rui Qiao, Di Wu, Ke Gong, Fei Zhang, Yi-Fan Dong, Wenxi Peng, V. Gallo, and J. Z. Wang

Subjects
Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Silicon, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, FOS: Physical sciences, chemistry.chemical_element, Integrated circuit, 01 natural sciences, Particle detector, law.invention, Application-specific integrated circuit, law, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Instrumentation, Electronic circuit, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Detector, Electrical engineering, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Semiconductor detector, chemistry, Measuring instrument, business, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract

The Silicon Tracker (STK) is a detector of the DAMPE satellite to measure the incidence direction of high energy cosmic ray. It consists of 6 X-Y double layers of silicon micro-strip detectors with 73,728 readout channels. It's a great challenge to readout the channels and process the huge volume of data in the critical space environment. 1152 Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) and 384 ADCs are adopted to readout the detector channels. The 192 Tracker Front-end Hybrid (TFH) modules and 8 identical Tracker Readout Board (TRB) modules are designed to control and digitalize the front signals. In this paper, the design of the readout electronics for STK and its performance will be presented in detail., 10 pages, 17 figures

Published
2016

16. High Statistics Measurement of the Positron Fraction in Primary Cosmic Rays of 0.5–500 GeV with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station

Author

K. H. Guo, A. Lebedev, Dong-Chul Son, Y. Y. Fan, Massimo Gervasi, L. Tao, M. Capell, L. Accardo, C. Sbarra, Yun Shi, Antje Putze, B. Coste, I. Guerri, H. Jinchi, D. Haas, V. Vagelli, G. La Vacca, A. Malinin, A. Piluso, R. Pilastrini, I. Cernuda, I. Lazzizzera, Carlos Díaz, W. De Boer, David Maurin, E. Valente, M. Bourquin, Laurent Derome, D. Grandi, M. Xie, I. Gebauer, X. M. Qi, G. Schwering, J. Bazo, P. G. Rancoita, M. S. Krafczyk, Wei Li, C. Mañá, E. Fiandrini, J. C. Marin, W. Gillard, T. Urban, V. Choutko, B. Bertucci, W. H. Sun, Q. Meng, R. Q. Xiong, Franck Cadoux, P. Nunes, Teimuraz Lomtadze, Fabrizio Giulio Luca Pilo, C. Türkoʇlu, G. Castellini, M. Bizzarri, Won Kyu Calvin Sun, P. Goglov, Mayda Velasco, Federico Cindolo, W. Y. Jang, S. S. Vaurynovich, H. S. Chen, F. Spinella, V. Cascioli, Benjamin Monreal, N. Nikonov, Liqiu Wang, Veronica Bindi, Kwangsoo Kim, Chia-Hui Lin, M. J. Chae, C. Guandalini, M. Duranti, E. Pedreschi, G. Boella, Sadakazu Haino, E. Laudi, Y. J. Yu, Lucio Rossi, S. Xie, G. Coignet, M. Paniccia, Xiaoping Wang, G. Laurenti, S. Zeissler, D. Schuckardt, V. Poireau, Q. H. Ye, J. Gong, F. Giovacchini, Roald Z. Sagdeev, Luca Morescalchi, D. Aisa, C. Goy, R. J. García-López, F. Palmonari, S. Della Torre, X. W. Tang, M. Pauluzzi, Samuel C.C. Ting, Y. H. Chang, Zhixiang Tang, Fei Zhou, F. Massera, Arturo Alejandro Menchaca-Rocha, S. M. Schmidt, G. Ambrosi, V. Vitale, M. Orcinha, J. Q. Li, Valery Zhukov, J. P. Vialle, K. Bollweg, Gongming Xin, H. L. Li, Markus Battarbee, Paolo Zuccon, L. Di Masso, G. Gallucci, L. Basara, G. Volpini, R. Clavero, T. Siedenburg, A. Rozhkov, E. Finch, J. H. Zhang, Davide Rozza, S. Lim, I. Rodríguez, L. Farnesini, S. Borsini, Claudio Corti, A. Fiasson, Z. M. Zheng, A. Obermeier, K. Andeen, A. Contin, D. D'Urso, Mingming Yang, J. Feng, M. Pohl, Z. L. Weng, D. Rapin, V. Plyaskin, E. Postaci, Zheng Wang, X. Y. Shi, Philipp Azzarello, Matthias Heil, Mauro Tacconi, B. S. Shan, J. Casaus, M. Graziani, T. Kirn, G. M. Cheng, Matteo Boschini, J. Wienkenhöver, N. Masi, F. Luo, A. I. Chen, Zhiqi Huang, L. Barrin, M. B. Demirköz, A. Papi, Z. H. He, F. Nozzoli, C. Zurbach, A. Alvino, Hengchang Liu, P. Lipari, S. Bizzaglia, T. X. Li, Varlen Grabski, C. Pizzolotto, T. Eronen, X. Xia, C. Consolandi, A. Schulz von Dratzig, K. Kanishev, Yu. Galaktionov, Lin Cheng, Nicola Tomassetti, Z. Q. Yu, D. C. Mo, Y. Li, W. Xu, Roberto Battiston, J. Berdugo, K. C. Han, S. C. Lee, H. T. Lee, Dong Liu, Behcet Alpat, R. Pereira, Q. L. Wang, S. Di Falco, H. Yi, B. Borgia, F. Spada, J. J. Torsti, S. Pensotti, Antonino Zichichi, S. M. Ting, C. Delgado, S. Schael, A. Ghelfi, S. S. Lv, J. Hoffman, N. Attig, F. Cervelli, Zhijun Zhang, P. Mott, J. Sandweiss, Henning Gast, Tim Martin, Y. H. Shan, G. Scolieri, J. Q. Ni, C. H. Chung, A. Oliva, M. T. Zhang, U. Becker, Fernando Barão, J. S. Ricol, M. Behlmann, D. Cerreta, Ningsheng Xu, Thomas Lippert, C. Leluc, F. J. Eppling, B. Beischer, V. Bonnivard, H. Y. Chou, R. Henning, R. D. Majka, M. Dai, Z. Cui, O. Kounina, G. Rybka, M. Müller, H. Wu, P. Saouter, Peter H. Fisher, K. Luebelsmeyer, D. Tescaro, M. Aguilar, Ruiguang Wang, F. Dimiccoli, K. Whitman, E. Choumilov, R. Kossakowski, G. N. Kim, H. L. Zhuang, A. Barrau, M. J. Lu, A. Bartoloni, Bruce Rafael Mellado Garcia, Luísa Arruda, M. Lolli, C. P. Tang, S. Kunz, A. Eline, Timothy H. Hsieh, J. Y. Shi, J. Yang, A. Chikanian, Gianpaolo Carosi, Changgi Huh, J. Z. Luo, Z. Y. Li, Lucio Quadrani, M. Habiby, A. Bachlechner, X. B. Zhang, Eun-Suk Seo, Ying Lu, S. Rosier-Lees, V. Koutsenko, Eino Valtonen, Z. H. Li, Qiang Li, J. D. Burger, W. J. Du, K. Y. Wu, Manuela Vecchi, C. Vannini, P. von Doetinchem, X. D. Cai, Giuseppe Levi, G. Martinez, C. Palomares, C. Clark, Andrei Kounine, Q. Yan, G. Bigongiari, S. Caroff, N. Zimmermann, M. Incagli, Maria Ionica, Azzarello, Philipp, Bourquin, Maurice, Cadoux, Franck, Haas, Daniel, Habiby Alaoui, Marion, Leluc, Catherine, Li, Yang, Paniccia, Mercedes, Pohl, Martin, Rapin, Divic Jean, Saouter, Pierre, Accardo, L, Aguilar, M, Aisa, D, Alpat, B, Alvino, A, Ambrosi, G, Andeen, K, Arruda, L, Attig, N, Azzarello, P, Bachlechner, A, Barao, F, Barrau, A, Barrin, L, Bartoloni, A, Basara, L, Battarbee, M, Battiston, R, Bazo, J, Becker, U, Behlmann, M, Beischer, B, Berdugo, J, Bertucci, B, Bigongiari, G, Bindi, V, Bizzaglia, S, Bizzarri, M, Boella, G, de Boer, W, Bollweg, K, Bonnivard, V, Borgia, B, Borsini, S, Boschini, M, Bourquin, M, Burger, J, Cadoux, F, Cai, X, Capell, M, Caroff, S, Carosi, G, Casaus, J, Cascioli, V, Castellini, G, Cernuda, I, Cerreta, D, Cervelli, F, Chae, M, Chang, Y, Chen, A, Chen, H, Cheng, G, Cheng, L, Chikanian, A, Chou, H, Choumilov, E, Choutko, V, Chung, C, Cindolo, F, Clark, C, Clavero, R, Coignet, G, Consolandi, C, Contin, A, Corti, C, Coste, B, Cui, Z, Dai, M, Delgado, C, Della Torre, S, Demirköz, M, Derome, L, Di Falco, S, Di Masso, L, Dimiccoli, F, Díaz, C, von Doetinchem, P, Du, W, Duranti, M, D’Urso, D, Eline, A, Eppling, F, Eronen, T, Fan, Y, Farnesini, L, Feng, J, Fiandrini, E, Fiasson, A, Finch, E, Fisher, P, Galaktionov, Y, Gallucci, G, García, B, García López, R, Gast, H, Gebauer, I, Gervasi, M, Ghelfi, A, Gillard, W, Giovacchini, F, Goglov, P, Gong, J, Goy, C, Grabski, V, Grandi, D, Graziani, M, Guandalini, C, Guerri, I, Guo, K, Haas, D, Habiby, M, Haino, S, Han, K, He, Z, Heil, M, Henning, R, Hoffman, J, Hsieh, T, Huang, Z, Huh, C, Incagli, M, Ionica, M, Jang, W, Jinchi, H, Kanishev, K, Kim, G, Kim, K, Kirn, T, Kossakowski, R, Kounina, O, Kounine, A, Koutsenko, V, Krafczyk, M, Kunz, S, LA VACCA, G, Laudi, E, Laurenti, G, Lazzizzera, I, Lebedev, A, Lee, H, Lee, S, Leluc, C, Levi, G, Li, H, Li, J, Li, Q, Li, T, Li, W, Li, Y, Li, Z, Lim, S, Lin, C, Lipari, P, Lippert, T, Liu, D, Liu, H, Lolli, M, Lomtadze, T, Lu, M, Lu, Y, Luebelsmeyer, K, Luo, F, Luo, J, Lv, S, Majka, R, Malinin, A, Mañá, C, Marín, J, Martin, T, Martínez, G, Masi, N, Massera, F, Maurin, D, Menchaca Rocha, A, Meng, Q, Mo, D, Monreal, B, Morescalchi, L, Mott, P, Müller, M, Ni, J, Nikonov, N, Nozzoli, F, Nunes, P, Obermeier, A, Oliva, A, Orcinha, M, Palmonari, F, Palomares, C, Paniccia, M, Papi, A, Pauluzzi, M, Pedreschi, E, Pensotti, S, Pereira, R, Pilastrini, R, Pilo, F, Piluso, A, Pizzolotto, C, Plyaskin, V, Pohl, M, Poireau, V, Postaci, E, Putze, A, Quadrani, L, Qi, X, Rancoita, P, Rapin, D, Ricol, J, Rodríguez, I, Rosier Lees, S, Rossi, L, Rozhkov, A, Rozza, D, Rybka, G, Sagdeev, R, Sandweiss, J, Saouter, P, Sbarra, C, Schael, S, Schmidt, S, Schuckardt, D, Schulz von Dratzig, A, Schwering, G, Scolieri, G, Seo, E, Shan, B, Shan, Y, Shi, J, Shi, X, Shi, Y, Siedenburg, T, Son, D, Spada, F, Spinella, F, Sun, W, Tacconi, M, Tang, C, Tang, X, Tang, Z, Tao, L, Tescaro, D, Ting, S, Tomassetti, N, Torsti, J, Türkoğlu, C, Urban, T, Vagelli, V, Valente, E, Vannini, C, Valtonen, E, Vaurynovich, S, Vecchi, M, Velasco, M, Vialle, J, Vitale, V, Volpini, G, Wang, L, Wang, Q, Wang, R, Wang, X, Wang, Z, Weng, Z, Whitman, K, Wienkenhöver, J, Wu, H, Wu, K, Xia, X, Xie, M, Xie, S, Xiong, R, Xin, G, Xu, N, Xu, W, Yan, Q, Yang, J, Yang, M, Ye, Q, Yi, H, Yu, Y, Yu, Z, Zeissler, S, Zhang, J, Zhang, M, Zhang, X, Zhang, Z, Zheng, Z, Zhou, F, Zhuang, H, Zhukov, V, Zichichi, A, Zimmermann, N, Zuccon, P, Zurbach, C, L. Accardo, M. Aguilar, D. Aisa, B. Alpat, A. Alvino, G. Ambrosi, K. Andeen, L. Arruda, N. Attig, P. Azzarello, A. Bachlechner, F. Barao, A. Barrau, L. Barrin, A. Bartoloni, L. Basara, M. Battarbee, R. Battiston, J. Bazo, U. Becker, M. Behlmann, B. Beischer, J. Berdugo, B. Bertucci, G. Bigongiari, V. Bindi, S. Bizzaglia, M. Bizzarri, G. Boella, W. d. Boer, K. Bollweg, V. Bonnivard, B. Borgia, S. Borsini, M. J. Boschini, M. Bourquin, J. Burger, F. Cadoux, X. D. Cai, M. Capell, S. Caroff, G. Carosi, J. Casau, V. Cascioli, G. Castellini, I. Cernuda, D. Cerreta, F. Cervelli, M. J. Chae, Y. H. Chang, A. I. Chen, H. Chen, G. M. Cheng, H. S. Chen, L. Cheng, A. Chikanian, H. Y. Chou, E. Choumilov, V. Choutko, C. H. Chung, F. Cindolo, C. Clark, R. Clavero, G. Coignet, C. Consolandi, A. Contin, C. Corti, B. Coste, Z. Cui, M. Dai, C. Delgado, S. D. Torre, M. B. Demirkoz, L. Derome, S. D. Falco, L. D. Masso, F. Dimiccoli, C. Diaz, P. v. Doetinchem, W. J. Du, M. Duranti, D. D'Urso, A. Eline, F. J. Eppling, T. Eronen, Y. Y. Fan, L. Farnesini, J. Feng, E. Fiandrini, A. Fiasson, E. Finch, P. Fisher, Y. Galaktionov, G. Gallucci, B. Garcia, R. Garcia-Lopez, H. Gast, I. Gebauer, M. Gervasi, A. Ghelfi, W. Gillard, F. Giovacchini, P. Goglov, J. Gong, C. Goy, V. Grabski, D. Grandi, M. Graziani, C. Guandalini, I. Guerri, K. H. Guo, D. Haa, M. Habiby, S. Haino, K. C. Han, Z. H. He, M. Heil, R. Henning, J. Hoffman, T. H. Hsieh, Z. C. Huang, C. Huh, M. Incagli, M. Ionica, W. Y. Jang, H. Jinchi, K. Kanishev, G. N. Kim, K. S. Kim, T. Kirn, R. Kossakowski, O. Kounina, A. Kounine, V. Koutsenko, M. S. Krafczyk, S. Kunz, G. L. Vacca, E. Laudi, G. Laurenti, I. Lazzizzera, A. Lebedev, H. T. Lee, S. C. Lee, C. Leluc, G. Levi, H. L. Li, J. Q. Li, Q. Li, T. X. Li, W. Li, Y. Li, Z. H. Li, Z. Y. Li, S. Lim, C. H. Lin, P. Lipari, T. Lippert, D. Liu, H. Liu, M. Lolli, T. Lomtadze, M. J. Lu, Y. S. Lu, K. Luebelsmeyer, F. Luo, J. Z. Luo, S. S. Lv, R. Majka, A. Malinin, C. Mana, J. Marin, T. Martin, G. Martinez, N. Masi, F. Massera, D. Maurin, A. Menchaca-Rocha, Q. Meng, D. C. Mo, B. Monreal, L. Morescalchi, P. Mott, M. Muller, J. Q. Ni, N. Nikonov, F. Nozzoli, P. Nune, A. Obermeier, A. Oliva, M. Orcinha, F. Palmonari, C. Palomare, M. Paniccia, A. Papi, M. Pauluzzi, E. Pedreschi, S. Pensotti, R. Pereira, R. Pilastrini, F. Pilo, A. Piluso, C. Pizzolotto, V. Plyaskin, M. Pohl, V. Poireau, E. Postaci, A. Putze, L. Quadrani, X. M. Qi, P. G. Rancoita, D. Rapin, J. S. Ricol, I. Rodriguez, S. Rosier-Lee, L. Rossi, A. Rozhkov, D. Rozza, G. Rybka, R. Sagdeev, J. Sandwei, P. Saouter, C. Sbarra, S. Schael, S. M. Schmidt, D. Schuckardt, A. S. von, G. Schwering, G. Scolieri, E. S. Seo, B. S. Shan, Y. H. Shan, J. Y. Shi, X. Y. Shi, Y. M. Shi, T. Siedenburg, D. Son, F. Spada, F. Spinella, W. Sun, W. H. Sun, M. Tacconi, C. P. Tang, X. W. Tang, Z. C. Tang, L. Tao, D. Tescaro, S. C. C., S. M. Ting, N. Tomassetti, J. Torsti, C. Turkoglu, T. Urban, V. Vagelli, E. Valente, C. Vannini, E. Valtonen, S. Vaurynovich, M. Vecchi, M. Velasco, J. P. Vialle, V. Vitale, G. Volpini, L. Q. Wang, Q. L. Wang, R. S. Wang, X. Wang, Z. X. Wang, Z. L. Weng, K. Whitman, J. Wienkenhover, H. Wu, K. Y. Wu, X. Xia, M. Xie, S. Xie, R. Q. Xiong, G. M. Xin, N. S. Xu, W. Xu, Q. Yan, J. Yang, M. Yang, Q. H. Ye, H. Yi, Y. J. Yu, Z. Q. Yu, S. Zeissler, J. H. Zhang, M. T. Zhang, X. B. Zhang, Z. Zhang, Z. M. Zheng, F. Zhou, H. L. Zhuang, V. Zhukov, A. Zichichi, N. Zimmermann, P. Zuccon, C. Zurbach, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Perugia (INFN, Sezione di Perugia), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas [Madrid] (CIEMAT), Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik [Karlsruhe] (EKP), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Jülich Aachen Research Alliance (JARA), Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), CERN [Genève], Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma 3 (INFN, Sezione di Roma 3), Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules (LAPP), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Turku, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), INFN Sezione di Pisa (INFN Sezione di Pisa), University of Hawai'i [Honolulu] (UH), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Milano (INFN), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC), NASA, Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' = Sapienza University [Rome], Département de Physique Nucléaire et Corpusculaire [Genève] (DPNC), Université de Genève (UNIGE), Istituto Nazionale di Ottica [Firenze] (INO-CNR), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare [Pisa] (INFN), EWHA Womans University (EWHA), National Central University [Taiwan] (NCU), Academia Sinica, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna (INFN, Sezione di Bologna), Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2), and AMS

Subjects
Astrophysics and Astronomy, [SDU.ASTR.CO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, General Physics and Astronomy, cosmic rays studies, Cosmic ray, Electron, ddc:500.2, 7. Clean energy, Space mission, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Nuclear physics, Physics and Astronomy (all), FIS/05 - ASTRONOMIA E ASTROFISICA, Positron, International Space Station, Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, ddc:550, Dark matter, ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS, AMS, Cosmic rays, Positron fraction, antimatter and dark matter, positrons, Physics, Range (particle radiation), ta115, Magnetic spectrometer, ELECTRONS, Cosmic rays, Positron fraction, International Space Station, FIS/01 - FISICA SPERIMENTALE, Physics::Accelerator Physics, Satellite, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Particle Physics - Experiment, Energy (signal processing)
Abstract

A precision measurement by AMS of the positron fraction in primary cosmic rays in the energy range from 0.5 to 500 GeV based on 10.9 million positron and electron events is presented. This measurement extends the energy range of our previous observation and increases its precision. The new results show, for the first time, that above ∼200 GeV the positron fraction no longer exhibits an increase with energy.

Published
2016

17. The DAMPE silicon–tungsten tracker

Author

J. Mesa, G. Ambrosi, V. Postolache, Paolo Bernardini, Marc Weber, Philipp Azzarello, Maria Ionica, Fan Zhang, S. Vitillo, M. Domenjoz, F. Loparco, G. Marsella, Ruirui Fan, Andrii Tykhonov, R. Asfandiyarov, M. Pohl, Wenxi Peng, F. Gargano, M. Duranti, A. Nardinocchi, Xin Wu, Huanyu Wang, D. L. Guo, Keyun Gong, C. Husi, M. N. Mazziotta, L. Nicola, Yi-Fan Dong, G. Pelleriti, B. Bertucci, D. La Marra, Diru Wu, V. Gallo, A. Surdo, Franck Cadoux, Rui Qiao, M. Caprai, I. De Mitri, P. Fusco, A. Bolognini, Azzarello, P., Ambrosi, G., Asfandiyarov, R., BERNARDINI, Paolo, Bertucci, B., Bolognini, A., Cadoux, F., Caprai, M., DE MITRI, Ivan, Domenjoz, M., Dong, Y., Duranti, M., Fan, R., Fusco, P., Gallo, V., Gargano, F., Gong, K., Guo, D., Husi, C., Ionica, M., La Marra, D., Loparco, F., MARSELLA, GIOVANNI, Mazziotta, M. N., Mesa, J., Nardinocchi, A., Nicola, L., Pelleriti, G., Peng, W., Pohl, M., Postolache, V., Qiao, R., Surdo, A., Tykhonov, A., Vitillo, S., Wang, H., Weber, M., Wu, D., Wu, X., Zhang, F., Bernardini, Paolo, and Marsella, Giovanni

Subjects
Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Cosmic rays, Dark matter, Silicon tracker, Spaceborne experiment, Instrumentation, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Cosmic ray, Particle detectors, Tracking (particle physics), 01 natural sciences, Particle detector, Optics, cosmic rays, 0103 physical sciences, Neutron detection, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astroparticle physics, Physics, Large Hadron Collider, Calorimeter (particle physics), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Detector, Settore FIS/01 - Fisica Sperimentale, Particle detectors, cosmic rays, High Energy Physics::Experiment, business
Abstract

The DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) is a spaceborne astroparticle physics experiment, launched on 17 December 2015. DAMPE will identify possible dark matter signatures by detecting electrons and photons in the 5 GeV–10 TeV energy range. It will also measure the flux of nuclei up to 100 TeV, for the study of the high energy cosmic ray origin and propagation mechanisms. DAMPE is composed of four sub-detectors: a plastic strip scintillator, a silicon–tungsten tracker–converter (STK), a BGO imaging calorimeter and a neutron detector. The STK is composed of six tracking planes of 2 orthogonal layers of single-sided micro-strip detectors, for a total detector surface of ca. 7 m2. The STK has been extensively tested for space qualification. Also, numerous beam tests at CERN have been done to study particle detection at silicon module level, and at full detector level. After description of the DAMPE payload and its scientific mission, we will describe the STK characteristics and assembly. We will then focus on some results of single ladder performance tests done with particle beams at CERN.

Published
2016

18. Experimental verification of the HERD prototype at CERN SPS

Author

Xin Liu, J. G. Lu, Junjing Wang, Yong Li, M. Pohl, Bo Wang, Ivan De Mitri, Shuang-Nan Zhang, Nicola Mori, Raffaello D'Alessandro, Roberto Battiston, Ming Xu, Zheng Wang, Mark Pearce, P. Fusco, Xiaohui Gao, G. Ambrosi, Sebastiano Albergo, Philipp Azzarello, Meng Su, Dalian Shi, Zhen Chen, Xin Sun, F. Loparco, F. Ambroglini, Piero Spillantini, Yongwei Dong, F. Gargano, Peng Yan, M. N. Mazziotta, Li Zhang, Xin Wu, Paolo Bernardini, Adriani Oscar, Le Wang, Luca Baldini, Ruijie Wang, G. Marsella, Tianwei Bao, Ran Li, Yonglin Bai, Nicola Giglietto, Zheng Quan, Domenico D'Urso, Bobing Wu, Jiarui Gao, A. Surdo, Felix Ryde, S. Orsi, Bing-Liang Hu, Roland Walter, M. Duranti, Dong, Yongwei, Quan, Zheng, Wang, Junjing, Xu, Ming, Albergo, Sebastiano, Ambroglini, Filippo, Ambrosi, Giovanni, Azzarello, Philipp, Bai, Yonglin, Bao, Tianwei, Baldini, Luca, Battiston, Roberto, Bernardini, Paolo, Chen, Zhen, D'Alessandro, Raffaello, Duranti, Matteo, D'Urso, Domenico, Fusco, Piergiorgio, Gao, Jiarui, Gao, Xiaohui, Gargano, Fabio, Giglietto, Nicola, Hu, Bingliang, Li, Ran, Li, Yong, Liu, Xin, Loparco, Francesco, Lu, Junguang, Marsella, Giovanni, Mazziotta, Mario N., DE MITRI, Ivan, Mori, Nicola, Orsi, Silvio, Oscar, Adriani, Pearce, Mark, Pohl, Martin, Ryde, Felix, Shi, Dalian, Spillantini, Piero, Su, Meng, Sun, Xin, Surdo, Antonio, Walter, Roland, Wang, Bo, Wang, Le, Wang, Ruijie, Wang, Zhigang, Wu, Bobing, Wu, Xin, Yan, Peng, Zhang, Li, and Zhang, Shuangnan

Subjects
High energy, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Gamma ray, 3d imaging, Calorimeter, Cosmic ray, Dark matter, ICCD, Shower, WLSF, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Condensed Matter Physics, Computer Science Applications1707 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Applied Mathematics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 02 engineering and technology, 01 natural sciences, Lyso, 010309 optics, 0103 physical sciences, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Simulation, Physics, Particle detectors, calorimetry, cosmic rays, Large Hadron Collider, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, Herd, Space astronomy, 0210 nano-technology
Abstract

The High Energy cosmic-Radiation Detection (HERD) facility is one of several space astronomy payloads of the cosmic light house program onboard China's Space Station, which is planned for operation starting around 2020 for about 10 years. Beam test with a HERD prototype, to verify the HERD specifications and the reading out method of wavelength shifting fiber and image intensified CCD, was taken at CERN SPS in November, 2015. The prototype is composed of an array of 5*5*10 LYSO crystals, which is 1/40th of the scale of HERD calorimeter. Experimental results on the performances of the calorimeter are discussed.

Published
2016

19. The ASTRO-H (Hitomi) x-ray astronomy satellite

Author

Yasuharu Sugawara, Luigi C. Gallo, Manabu Ishida, Hiroya Yamaguchi, Makoto Yamauchi, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Eric J. Miller, Ciro Pinto, Grzegorz Madejski, Meng P. Chiao, Yoshiharu Namba, Kumiko K. Nobukawa, Goro Sato, Harvey Moseley, Takayoshi Kohmura, Mina Ogawa, Greg Brown, Kevin R. Boyce, Missagh Mehdipour, Shutaro Ueda, Satoru Katsuda, Philipp Azzarello, Shin'ichiro Uno, Atsushi Wada, Takao Kitaguchi, Knox S. Long, Yohko Tsuboi, Nobutaka Bando, Shin-ichiro Sakai, Hajime Inoue, Masayuki Itoh, Kazuyuki Hirose, Norbert Werner, Fumie Akimoto, Timothy R. Kallman, Shigeo Yamauchi, Maxim Markevitch, Yuto Ichinohe, Naohisa Anabuki, Satoshi Sugita, Yoshiyuki Inoue, Olivier Limousin, Meg Urry, Kouichi Hagino, Akio Hoshino, Kumi Ishikawa, Cor P. de Vries, Teruaki Enoto, Yasuo Tanaka, M. Pohl, Masanobu Ozaki, Kenji Minesugi, Peter Shirron, Maurice A. Leutenegger, Koji Mori, Hideki Uchiyama, Yukikatsu Terada, D. Haas, Keith A. Arnaud, Masanori Ohno, Christopher S. Reynolds, Hiromi Seta, Yusuke Nishioka, Carlo Ferrigno, Edgar Canavan, Katsuji Koyama, Daniel R. Wik, Shunji Kitamoto, Keisuke Shinozaki, Katsuhiro Hayashi, Dan McCammon, David H. Lumb, Kyoko Matsushita, Hiroyuki Uchida, John P. Hughes, Daniel Maier, Lorella Angelini, Taro Kawano, Cynthia Simmons, Shiro Ueno, Koji Mukai, Abderahmen Zoghbi, Makoto Asai, Toru Tamagawa, Rie Sato, Keisuke Tamura, Yuzuru Tawara, Łukasz Stawarz, Motohide Kokubun, Hiroshi Murakami, Hiroshi Tomida, F. Scott Porter, Hiroshi Tsunemi, Ikuyuki Mitsuishi, Michael J. DiPirro, Richard F. Mushotzky, Nobuyuki Kawai, Brian J. Williams, Richard L. Kelley, Hirokazu Odaka, Matteo Guainazzi, Kazuo Makishima, Yuichiro Ezoe, Takahiro Yamada, Hiroki Akamatsu, Andrew Szymkowiak, Philippe Laurent, James Pontius, Yasunobu Uchiyama, Tetsu Kitayama, Megumi Shidatsu, Felix Aharonian, Shigeo Kawasaki, Takanobu Shimada, Laura Brenneman, Toru Sasaki, Isamu Hatsukade, A. L. King, Takuya Miyazawa, Toshio Nakano, Atsumasa Yoshida, Robert Petre, Shinya Yamada, Stéphane Paltani, Eugenio Ursino, Adam R. Foster, Takayuki Hayashi, Shiu-Hang Lee, Toshio Murakami, Chris Done, Takeshi Nakamori, Kazuhiro Sakai, Ryo Nagino, Yuichi Terashima, Caroline A. Kilbourne, Michael Loewenstein, Shin Mineshige, Peter Kretschmar, John P. Doty, Candace Masters, Yoichi Sato, Junko S. Hiraga, Magnus Axelsson, Kenji Hamaguchi, Marshall W. Bautz, Junichiro Katsuta, Hiroaki Sameshima, Ilana M. Harrus, Thomas G. Bialas, Elisa Costantini, Daniel S. McGuinness, Yoichi Yatsu, Kazutaka Yamaoka, Naoko Iwata, Mark O. Kimball, Arvind Parmar, Yasuko Shibano, Norbert Schartel, Helen Russell, Gary A. Sneiderman, Steve Allen, Kiyoshi Hayashida, Makoto Sawada, Megan E. Eckart, Takaya Ohashi, Dmitry Khangulyan, Kosei Ishimura, Tatsuro Kosaka, Andrea Goldwurm, Takashi Okajima, Hirofumi Noda, Franco Moroso, F. B. S. Paerels, Hiroyuki Sugita, Alex Koujelev, Masaharu Nomachi, Tomomi Watanabe, Marc Audard, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Hideyo Kunieda, Keiji Ogi, Akihiro Furuzawa, Brian D. Ramsey, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Shinya Saito, Poshak Gandhi, Yasushi Fukazawa, Liyi Gu, Peter J. Serlemitsos, Noriko Y. Yamasaki, Tsuyoshi Okazaki, Takeshi Go Tsuru, Kosuke Sato, Aya Kubota, Chris Jewell, Yoshitomo Maeda, Yoshihiro Ueda, Shinya Nakashima, Irina Zhuravleva, Andrew C. Fabian, Tahir Yaqoob, Housei Nagano, Erin Kara, Brian R. McNamara, Naomi Ota, Shu Koyama, Joseph Miko, Madoka Kawaharada, Hisamitsu Awaki, Steve O'Dell, Takaaki Tanaka, Hironori Matsumoto, Tadayasu Dotani, Ken Ebisawa, Dan R. Wilkins, Hiroyasu Tajima, Yasuyuki T. Tanaka, Massimiliano Galeazzi, Chikara Natsukari, Jan-Willem den Herder, Tadayuki Takahashi, Francois Lebrun, Hiroshi Nakajima, Yoh Takei, Hideyuki Mori, Yoshito Haba, Jun Kataoka, Randall K. Smith, Atsushi Okamoto, Maria Chernyakova, Shin Watanabe, Edward M. Cackett, Shin'ichiro Takeda, Takayuki Tamura, Francesco Tombesi, Jelle Kaastra, Maki Shida, Chris Baluta, Kirk Gilmore, Aurora Simionescu, Ann Hornschemeier, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Jelle de Plaa, Naoko Iyomoto, Atsushi Harayama, Aya Bamba, Katja Pottschmidt, Roger Blandford, Kazunori Ishibashi, Makoto Tashiro, Esra Bulbul, Yang Soong, Paolo De Coppi, Daisuke Yonetoku, Yoshitaka Ishisaki, Hans A. Krimm, Samar Safi-Harb, Masahiro Tsujimoto, Ryuichi Fujimoto, Takao Nakagawa, Hiroyuki Ogawa, Margherita Giustini, Tuneyoshi Kamae, Takayuki Yuasa, Ryo Iizuka, Masayuki Ohta, Jon M. Miller, and Theodore Muench

Subjects
Physics, X-ray astronomy, Spacecraft, business.industry, Astronomy, High resolution, First light, Gamma-ray astronomy, 01 natural sciences, Spacecraft system, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, 0103 physical sciences, Satellite, 010306 general physics, business, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics
Abstract

The Hitomi (ASTRO-H) mission is the sixth Japanese X-ray astronomy satellite developed by a large international collaboration, including Japan, USA, Canada, and Europe. The mission aimed to provide the highest energy resolution ever achieved at E > 2 keV, using a microcalorimeter instrument, and to cover a wide energy range spanning four decades in energy from soft X-rays to gamma-rays. After a successful launch on 2016 February 17, the spacecraft lost its function on 2016 March 26, but the commissioning phase for about a month provided valuable information on the on-board instruments and the spacecraft system, including astrophysical results obtained from first light observations. The paper describes the Hitomi (ASTRO-H) mission, its capabilities, the initial operation, and the instruments/spacecraft performances confirmed during the commissioning operations for about a month.

Published
2016

20. Radiation tests of the Silicon Drift Detectors for LOFT

Author

Emanuele Perinati, Philipp Azzarello, Fabio Muleri, Marco Feroci, Martin Pohl, Andrea Santangelo, Y. Evangelista, N. Zampa, A. Vacchi, Enrico Bozzo, Sebastian Diebold, S. Bugiel, Gianluigi Zampa, A. Rachevski, E. Del Monte, and Eckhard Kendziorra

Subjects
Cosmic Vision, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Instrumentation, Displacement Damage, High Energy Astrophysics, Micrometeoroids Orbital Debris, Non Ionising Energy Losses, Radiation Damage, Silicon Drift Detector, X-Ray, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Condensed Matter Physics, Computer Science Applications1707 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Applied Mathematics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, FOS: Physical sciences, Context (language use), ddc:500.2, Radiation, Optics, Radiation damage, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), physics.ins-det, business.industry, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Semiconductor detector, Physics::Space Physics, Hypervelocity, Environmental science, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, business, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, astro-ph.IM
Abstract

During the three years long assessment phase of the LOFT mission, candidate to the M3 launch opportunity of the ESA Cosmic Vision programme, we estimated and measured the radiation damage of the silicon drift detectors (SDDs) of the satellite instrumentation. In particular, we irradiated the detectors with protons (of 0.8 and 11 MeV energy) to study the increment of leakage current and the variation of the charge collection efficiency produced by the displacement damage, and we "bombarded" the detectors with hypervelocity dust grains to measure the effect of the debris impacts. In this paper we describe the measurements and discuss the results in the context of the LOFT mission., Comment: Proc. SPIE 9144, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 914464

Published
2015

21. 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

22. Precision Measurement of the Helium Flux in Primary Cosmic Rays of Rigidities 1.9 GV to 3 TV with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station

Author

N. Nikonov, Corrado Gargiulo, A. Egorov, I. Cernuda, Carlos Díaz, W. De Boer, Corinne Goy, Wei Sun, Haifeng Li, P. Vialle, E. Fiandrini, H. S. Chen, Zhiqi Huang, Xiaoqun Wang, I. Gebauer, C. Türkoğlu, Arturo Alejandro Menchaca-Rocha, S. Krafczyk, L. Tao, S. Xie, J. Q. Ni, Fabrizio Giulio Luca Pilo, F. Spinella, S. S. Lv, Maria Ionica, S. Chen, Markus Battarbee, J. Gong, J. Sandweiss, H. Y. Chou, R. D. Majka, S. Wang, Z. Q. Yu, O. Kounina, Paolo Zuccon, Samuel C.C. Ting, H. Yi, H. Wu, Z. Cui, W. Tang, H. Shan, M. Qi, Matthias Heil, E. Finch, J. H. Zhang, S. Zhang, W. Creus, G. Laurenti, T. J. N. Nelson, E. Valente, M. Paniccia, A. Von Dratzig, Davide Rozza, K. Andeen, L. Farnesini, I. Rodríguez, Chuanguo Zhang, Z. L. Weng, D. Rapin, V. Plyaskin, A. Lebedev, A. Papi, Dong-Chul Son, P. Tang, J. W. Song, J. Wienkenhöver, Andrea Contin, Hengchang Liu, S. Lim, H. Sun, Philipp Azzarello, N. Masi, F. Luo, L. Barrin, Z. Qu, M. Willenbrock, J. J. Torsti, S. Pensotti, G. La Vacca, Mauro Tacconi, Roald Z. Sagdeev, Yang Yang, G. Schwering, Antonino Zichichi, G. Coignet, David Maurin, Xin Wu, J. Eppling, S. Della Torre, M. Crispoltoni, S. Rosier-Lees, J. Casaus, L. Qu, Chung-Cherng Lin, Teimuraz Lomtadze, M. B. Demirköz, C. Han, Henning Gast, M. Aguilar, Matteo Boschini, Chau-Hwang Lee, J. Berdugo, A. Fiasson, F. Dimiccoli, Wei Li, Laurent Derome, A. Bartoloni, X. Xia, C. Pizzolotto, R. J. García-López, Y. Fan, E. Choumilov, J. C. Marin, V. Poireau, Xubo Qin, P. Mott, Yun Shi, R. Kossakowski, Franck Cadoux, P. Nunes, A. Rozhkov, F. Spada, Lin Cheng, N. Picot-Clemente, F. Palmonari, M. Bourquin, C. Ting, L. Di Masso, M. Bizzarri, M. Duranti, E. Pedreschi, L. Basara, U. Becker, C. H. Chung, Xinxin Li, Y. J. Yu, S. Zeissler, Yu. Galaktionov, D. Aisa, I. Guerri, G. Boella, Varlen Grabski, M. Vecchi, Massimo Gervasi, Dong Liu, Z. Luo, Thomas Lippert, S. Q. Lu, Mayda Velasco, Valery Zhukov, M. T. Zhang, S. Vitillo, Z. M. Zheng, Fernando Barão, M. Pauluzzi, Bruce Rafael Mellado Garcia, Z. H. He, A. I. Chen, V. Vitale, F. Nozzoli, H. Jinchi, M. Behlmann, T. Siedenburg, A. Piluso, D. Cerreta, A. Ghelfi, M. Capell, Claudio Corti, Ningsheng Xu, G. Ambrosi, S. Caroff, J. Hoffman, T. Eronen, R. Clavero, D. Grandi, W. Xu, Naihua Wang, F. Cervelli, A. Obermeier, E. Gil, P. Lipari, T. Räihä, P. Goglov, I. Lazzizzera, M. Pohl, B. Bertucci, M. Xie, H. Ye, C. Mañá, Veronica Bindi, G. Scolieri, Nicola Tomassetti, Shihao Zhang, Hsiang Szu Chang, Behcet Alpat, Luísa Arruda, Antje Putze, T. Kirn, D. Haas, V. Vagelli, Shinhong Kim, C. Mo, Pier-Giorgio Rancoita, Q. Meng, Sadakazu Haino, H. L. Zhuang, A. Barrau, S. J. Schmidt, Q. L. Wang, C. Delgado, T. Urban, V. Choutko, A. Korkmaz, S. Seo, M. J. Chae, C. Guandalini, R. Pereira, M. Chen, K. Bollweg, Miaoran Lu, Zheng Wang, M. Habiby, B. Coste, M. Graziani, V. Formato, Horngming Hsieh, M. Incagli, K. Whitman, Ju Li, Roberto Battiston, B. Borgia, J. Yang, H. Guo, M. Müller, Changgi Huh, Zhijun Zhang, P. Saouter, S. Di Falco, Peter H. Fisher, Tim Martin, F. Giovacchini, Luca Morescalchi, Q. Xiong, K. Luebelsmeyer, Zhixiang Tang, M. Orcinha, A. Alvino, C. Vannini, S. Shan, P. von Doetinchem, N. Kim, X. D. Cai, F. Donnini, N. Attig, Hyun Lee, Andrei Kounine, Q. Yan, N. Zimmermann, S. Borsini, G. Castellini, J. Feng, G. Martinez, C. Palomares, C. Clark, S. Schael, C. Consolandi, Elisa Laudi, J. D. Burger, S. S. Vaurynovich, D. Tescaro, Yongyao Li, Mingming Yang, A. Oliva, D. D'Urso, C. Leluc, G. Gallucci, Yaomin Dai, B. Beischer, V. Bonnivard, K. Kanishev, S. Bizzaglia, Y. Jang, A. Bachlechner, X. B. Zhang, J. Bazo, V. Koutsenko, Eino Valtonen, Z. H. Li, Qiang Li, S. Ricol, M. Lolli, A. Eline, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science, Becker, Ulrich J., Behlmann, Matthew Daniel, Burger, Joseph D., Cai, Xudong, Capell, Michael H., Chen, Andrew I., Chen, H., Choumilov, Evgueni, Choutko, Vitali, Egorov, Alexander, Eline, Alexandre, Eppling, Frederic J., Fisher, Peter H., Galaktionov, Y., Goglov, Pavel, Heil, Melanie, Hsieh, Tsai-hsiu, Kounina, Olga, Kounine, Andrei, Koutsenko, Vladimir, Krafczyk, Matthew Scott, Lebedev, Alexei, Li, J. Q., Li, Q., Plyaskin, Vasily, Rozhkov, Andrey B., Shi, X. Y., Sun, Wei, Sun, W. H., Ting, Samuel, Ting, Susan Marks, Vaurynovich, Siarhei S., Wang, Xiaozhen, Weng, Zhili, Willenbrock, Manfred, Xie, M., Xu, Weiwei, Yan, Q., Zhang, S. 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Subjects
Astrophysics and Astronomy, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, General Physics and Astronomy, chemistry.chemical_element, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, ddc:500.2, Power law, Helium, Space missions, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], FIS/05 - ASTRONOMIA E ASTROFISICA, Physics and Astronomy (all), Rigidity (electromagnetism), International Space Station, Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, ddc:550, AMS, Helium Flux, Primary Cosmic Rays, Cosmic rays, Physics, Spectral index, ta114, Cosmic Rays, Cosmic Helium, Spectral density, ASTROFÍSICA, Computational physics, FIS/01 - FISICA SPERIMENTALE, chemistry, Cosmic ray measurement, Cosmology, Rigidity, Space stations, Spectrometers
Abstract

Physical review letters 115(21), 211101 (2015). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.211101, Published by APS, College Park, Md.

Published
2015

23. The ASTRO-H X-ray astronomy satellite

Author

Hironori Matsumoto, Yasuharu Sugawara, Hiroshi Tsunemi, Steve Allen, Ikuyuki Mitsuishi, James Pontius, Luigi C. Gallo, Dmitry Khangulyan, Hiroyuki Uchida, Yuichi Terashima, Yoichi Yatsu, Kazutaka Yamaoka, Kiyoshi Hayashida, Makoto Sawada, Peter Shirron, Hirofumi Noda, Andrew C. Fabian, Nicholas E. White, Brian R. McNamara, Dan R. Wilkins, Franco Moroso, Maxim Markevitch, Tadayuki Takahashi, Shin Mineshige, Peter J. Serlemitsos, Stephanie M. LaMassa, Tahir Yaqoob, Richard Mushotzky, Satoshi Sugita, Akihiro Furuzawa, Philipp Azzarello, Atsushi Wada, Yoh Takei, Yoshito Haba, Jun Kataoka, Daisuke Yonetoku, Yoshitaka Ishisaki, Helen Russell, Satoru Katsuda, Hiroaki Takahashi, Knox S. Long, Shinya Nakashima, Meg Urry, Housei Nagano, Chris Baluta, Atsushi Okamoto, Maria Chernyakova, Shin Watanabe, Randall K. Smith, Hans A. Krimm, Samar Safi-Harb, Yuichiro Ezoe, Tsuyoshi Okazaki, Takeshi Go Tsuru, Hiroshi Nakajima, Shin-ichiro Sakai, Katja Pottschmidt, Timothy R. Kallman, Stefan Funk, Kosuke Sato, Naomi Ota, Chikara Natsukari, Kazuo Makishima, Ken Ebisawa, Yasuyuki T. Tanaka, Massimiliano Galeazzi, Tatsuro Kosaka, Mina Ogawa, Jan-Willem den Herder, Atsumasa Yoshida, Joseph Miko, Chris Done, Shin'ichiro Uno, Kosei Ishimura, Hideyuki Mori, Takeshi Nakamori, H. Sameshima, Edward M. Cackett, Francesco Tombesi, Jelle Kaastra, Naoko Iyomoto, Kumi Ishikawa, Takashi Okajima, Yoshihiro Ueda, Hiroyasu Tajima, Mark O. Kimball, Arvind Parmar, Yasuko Shibano, Ryo Iizuka, Masayuki Ohta, Gary A. Sneiderman, Thomas G. Bialas, Toshio Murakami, Masanori Ohno, Christopher S. Reynolds, Masashi Kimura, Yoshiyuki Inoue, Masayuki Ito, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Marshall W. Bautz, Atsushi Harayama, Olivier Limousin, Naohisa Anabuki, Taro Kawano, Maki Shida, Martin Pohl, Saori Konami, Katsuhiro Hayashi, Aya Kubota, Chris Jewell, Yoshitomo Maeda, Steve O' Dell, Yukikatsu Terada, Keiji Ogi, Masanobu Ozaki, Kenji Minesugi, Takahiro Yamada, Edgar Canavan, Hiroki Akamatsu, Katsuji Koyama, Tomomi Watanabe, Marc Audard, Andrew Szymkowiak, Eric J. Miller, Ciro Pinto, Irina Zhuravleva, Shigeo Kawasaki, Jon M. Miller, Grzegorz Madejski, Makoto Tashiro, Ann Hornschemeier, Robert Petre, Koji Mori, Yasunobu Uchiyama, David H. Lumb, Brian D. Ramsey, Alex Koujelev, Shin'ichiro Takeda, Keisuke Shinozaki, Una Hwang, D. Haas, Shiro Ueno, Koji Mukai, Theodore Muench, Shinya Yamada, Masaharu Nomachi, Hiroshi Murakami, Kirk Gilmore, Keith A. Arnaud, Yoichi Sato, Kyoko Matsushita, Yoshiharu Namba, Takuya Miyazawa, Claudio Ricci, Teruaki Enoto, Masahiro Tsujimoto, Ryuichi Fujimoto, Dan McCammon, Daniel S. McGuinness, Abderahmen Zoghbi, Carlo Ferrigno, Motohide Kokubun, Stéphane Paltani, Elisa Costantini, Hiroshi Tomida, Maurice A. Leutenegger, Laura Brenneman, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Keisuke Tamura, Aurora Simionescu, Toru Tamagawa, Paolo De Coppi, Hiroyuki Sugita, Rie Sato, F. Scott Porter, Yusuke Nishioka, Franccois Lebrun, Takanobu Shimada, Yuzuru Tawara, Takayoshi Kohmura, Makoto Yamauchi, Shinya Saito, Jelle de Plaa, Michael J. DiPirro, Poshak Gandhi, Yasushi Fukazawa, Richard L. Kelley, Hirokazu Odaka, Nobuyuki Kawai, Junko S. Hiraga, Frits Paerels, Hiromi Seta, Takao Nakagawa, Rubens Reis, Tetsu Kitayama, Manabu Ishida, Cor P. de Vries, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Akio Hoshino, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Felix Aharonian, Matteo Guainazzi, Meng P. Chiao, Eugenio Ursino, Adam R. Foster, John ZuHone, Hiroyuki Ogawa, John P. Doty, Takayuki Hayashi, Yasuo Tanaka, Junichiro Katsuta, Madoka Kawaharada, Hisamitsu Awaki, Kevin R. Boyce, John P. Hughes, Hiroya Yamaguchi, Ryo Nagino, Lorella Angelini, Philippe Laurent, Michael Loewenstein, Tuneyoshi Kamae, Yang Soong, Takaaki Tanaka, Tadayasu Dotani, Candace Masters, Aya Bamba, Kenji Hamaguchi, Roger Blandford, Kazunori Ishibashi, Takayuki Yuasa, Hideki Uchiyama, Takayuki Tamura, Kazuyuki Hirose, Naoko Iwata, Shunji Kitamoto, Goro Sato, Greg Brown, Shutaro Ueda, Megan E. Eckart, Cynthia Simmons, Takaya Ohashi, Hideyo Kunieda, Lukasz Stawarz, Yohko Tsuboi, Norbert Werner, Fumie Akimoto, Shigeo Yamauchi, Noriko Y. Yamasaki, Nobutaka Bando, Isamu Hatsukade, Caroline A. Kilbourne, and Makoto Asai

Subjects
Physics, Astronautics, X-ray astronomy, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, gamma radiation, Dark matter, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy, x-rays, x-ray astronomy, Redshift, Gravitation, satellites, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, spectral resolution, Satellite, equipment and services, Spectral resolution, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, galaxy groups and clusters, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Galaxy cluster
Abstract

The joint JAXA/NASA ASTRO-H mission is the sixth in a series of highly successful X-ray missions developed by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), with a planned launch in 2015. The ASTRO-H mission is equipped with a suite of sensitive instruments with the highest energy resolution ever achieved at E > 3 keV and a wide energy range spanning four decades in energy from soft X-rays to gamma-rays. The simultaneous broad band pass, coupled with the high spectral resolution of Delta E < 7 eV of the micro-calorimeter, will enable a wide variety of important science themes to be pursued. ASTRO-H is expected to provide breakthrough results in scientific areas as diverse as the large-scale structure of the Universe and its evolution, the behavior of matter in the gravitational strong field regime, the physical conditions in sites of cosmic-ray acceleration, and the distribution of dark matter in galaxy clusters at different redshifts., 24 pages, 18 figures, Proceedings of the SPIE Astronomical Instrumentation "Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray"

Published
2014

24. A setup for soft proton irradiation of X-ray detectors for future astronomical space missions

Author

Philipp Azzarello, Emanuele Perinati, C. Tenzer, Marco Feroci, Josef Jochum, Sebastian Diebold, N. Zampa, Andrea Vacchi, G. Zampa, Andrea Santangelo, Ettore Del Monte, A. Rachevski, and Eckhard Kendziorra

Subjects
Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Proton, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Soft proton irradiation, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, X-ray detector, FOS: Physical sciences, LOFT X-ray astronomy, Radiation hardness, X-ray detectors, Instrumentation, Fluence, Space exploration, Optics, physics.ins-det, Radiation hardening, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Geocentric orbit, Physics, X-ray astronomy, business.industry, Detector, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Optoelectronics, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, business, astro-ph.IM
Abstract

Protons that are trapped in the Earth's magnetic field are one of the main threats to astronomical X-ray observatories. Soft protons, in the range from tens of keV up to a few MeV, impinging on silicon X-ray detectors can lead to a significant degradation of the detector performance. Especially in low earth orbits an enhancement of the soft proton flux has been found. A setup to irradiate detectors with soft protons has been constructed at the Van-de-Graaff accelerator of the Physikalisches Institut of the University of T\"ubingen. Key advantages are a high flux uniformity over a large area, to enable irradiations of large detectors, and a monitoring system for the applied fluence, the beam uniformity, and the spectrum, that allows testing of detector prototypes in early development phases, when readout electronics are not yet available. Two irradiation campaigns have been performed so far with this setup. The irradiated detectors are silicon drift detectors, designated for the use on-board the LOFT space mission. This paper gives a description of the experimental setup and the associated monitoring system., Comment: 20 pages, 10 figures, 4 tables

Published
2013
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25. Nuclear charge measurement with the ams-02 silicon tracker

Author

Ambrosi, G., Philipp Azzarello, Battiston, R., Bazo, J., Bertucci, B., Choumilov, E., Choutko, V., Delgado-Mendez, C., Duranti, M., D’urso, D., Fiandrini, E., Graziani, M., Habiby, M., Haino, S., Ionica, M., Mereu, I., Natale, S., Nozzoli, F., Oliva, A., Paniccia, M., Pizzolotto, C., Pohl, M., Rapin, D., Saouter, P., Tomassetti, N., Wu, K., Zhang, Z., and Zuccon, P.

Subjects
Silicon Tracker, Charged Particles, Cosmic Ray Detector
Published
2013

26. The ASTRO-H X-ray Observatory

Author

Tadayuki Takahashi, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Richard Kelley, Henri Aarts, Felix Aharonian, Hiroki Akamatsu, Fumie Akimoto, Steve Allen, Naohisa Anabuki, Lorella Angelini, Keith Arnaud, Makoto Asai, Marc Audard, Hisamitsu Awaki, Philipp Azzarello, Chris Baluta, Aya Bamba, Nobutaka Bando, Mark Bautz, Roger Blandford, Kevin Boyce, Greg Brown, Ed Cackett, Mara Chernyakova, Paolo Coppi, Elisa Costantini, Jelle de Plaa, Jan-Willem den Herder, Michael DiPirro, Chris Done, Tadayasu Dotani, John Doty, Ken Ebisawa, Megan Eckart, Teruaki Enoto, Yuichiro Ezoe, Andrew Fabian, Carlo Ferrigno, Adam Foster, Ryuichi Fujimoto, Yasushi Fukazawa, Stefan Funk, Akihiro Furuzawa, Massimiliano Galeazzi, Luigi Gallo, Poshak Gandhi, Keith Gendreau, Kirk Gilmore, Daniel Haas, Yoshito Haba, Kenji Hamaguchi, Isamu Hatsukade, Takayuki Hayashi, Kiyoshi Hayashida, Junko Hiraga, Kazuyuki Hirose, Ann Hornschemeier, Akio Hoshino, John Hughes, Una Hwang, Ryo Iizuka, Yoshiyuki Inoue, Kazunori Ishibashi, Manabu Ishida, Kosei Ishimura, Yoshitaka Ishisaki, Masayuki Ito, Naoko Iwata, Naoko Iyomoto, Jelle Kaastra, Timothy Kallman, Tuneyoshi Kamae, Jun Kataoka, Satoru Katsuda, Hajime Kawahara, Madoka Kawaharada, Nobuyuki Kawai, Shigeo Kawasaki, Dmitry Khangaluyan, Caroline Kilbourne, Masashi Kimura, Kenzo Kinugasa, Shunji Kitamoto, Tetsu Kitayama, Takayoshi Kohmura, Motohide Kokubun, Tatsuro Kosaka, Alex Koujelev, Katsuji Koyama, Hans Krimm, Aya Kubota, Hideyo Kunieda, Stephanie LaMassa, Philippe Laurent, Francois Lebrun, Maurice Leutenegger, Olivier Limousin, Michael Loewenstein, Knox Long, David Lumb, Grzegorz Madejski, Yoshitomo Maeda, Kazuo Makishima, Genevieve Marchand, Maxim Markevitch, Hironori Matsumoto, Kyoko Matsushita, Dan McCammon, Brian McNamara, Jon Miller, Eric Miller, Shin Mineshige, Kenji Minesugi, Ikuyuki Mitsuishi, Takuya Miyazawa, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Hideyuki Mori, Koji Mori, Koji Mukai, Toshio Murakami, Hiroshi Murakami, Richard Mushotzky, Hosei Nagano, Ryo Nagino, Takao Nakagawa, Hiroshi Nakajima, Takeshi Nakamori, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Yoshiharu Namba, Chikara Natsukari, Yusuke Nishioka, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Masaharu Nomachi, Steve O'Dell, Hirokazu Odaka, Hiroyuki Ogawa, Mina Ogawa, Keiji Ogi, Takaya Ohashi, Masanori Ohno, Masayuki Ohta, Takashi Okajima, Atsushi Okamoto, Tsuyoshi Okazaki, Naomi Ota, Masanobu Ozaki, Fritzs Paerels, Stéphane Paltani, Arvind Parmar, Robert Petre, Martin Pohl, F. Scott Porter, Brian Ramsey, Rubens Reis, Christopher Reynolds, Helen Russell, Samar Safi-Harb, Shin-ichiro Sakai, Hiroaki Sameshima, Jeremy Sanders, Goro Sato, Rie Sato, Yohichi Sato, Kosuke Sato, Makoto Sawada, Peter Serlemitsos, Hiromi Seta, Yasuko Shibano, Maki Shida, Takanobu Shimada, Keisuke Shinozaki, Peter Shirron, Aurora Simionescu, Cynthia Simmons, Randall Smith, Gary Sneiderman, Yang Soong, Lukasz Stawarz, Yasuharu Sugawara, Hiroyuki Sugita, Satoshi Sugita, Andrew Szymkowiak, Hiroyasu Tajima, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Shin-ichiro Takeda, Yoh Takei, Toru Tamagawa, Takayuki Tamura, Keisuke Tamura, Takaaki Tanaka, Yasuo Tanaka, Makoto Tashiro, Yuzuru Tawara, Yukikatsu Terada, Yuichi Terashima, Francesco Tombesi, Hiroshi Tomida, Yohko Tsuboi, Masahiro Tsujimoto, Hiroshi Tsunemi, Takeshi Tsuru, Hiroyuki Uchida, Yasunobu Uchiyama, Hideki Uchiyama, Yoshihiro Ueda, Shiro Ueno, Shinichiro Uno, Meg Urry, Eugenio Ursino, Cor de Vries, Atsushi Wada, Shin Watanabe, Norbert Werner, Nicholas White, Takahiro Yamada, Shinya Yamada, Hiroya Yamaguchi, Noriko Yamasaki, Shigeo Yamauchi, Makoto Yamauchi, Yoichi Yatsu, Daisuke Yonetoku, Atsumasa Yoshida, and Takayuki Yuasa

Subjects
Physics, Spectrometer, business.industry, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Detector, X-ray, Imaging spectrometer, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, law.invention, Telescope, Optics, Cardinal point, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, law, Observatory, Spectral resolution, business, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
Abstract

The joint JAXA/NASA ASTRO-H mission is the sixth in a series of highly successful X-ray missions initiated by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS). ASTRO-H will investigate the physics of the high-energy universe via a suite of four instruments, covering a very wide energy range, from 0.3 keV to 600 keV. These instruments include a high-resolution, high-throughput spectrometer sensitive over 0.3-2 keV with high spectral resolution of Delta E < 7 eV, enabled by a micro-calorimeter array located in the focal plane of thin-foil X-ray optics; hard X-ray imaging spectrometers covering 5-80 keV, located in the focal plane of multilayer-coated, focusing hard X-ray mirrors; a wide-field imaging spectrometer sensitive over 0.4-12 keV, with an X-ray CCD camera in the focal plane of a soft X-ray telescope; and a non-focusing Compton-camera type soft gamma-ray detector, sensitive in the 40-600 keV band. The simultaneous broad bandpass, coupled with high spectral resolution, will enable the pursuit of a wide variety of important science themes., 22 pages, 17 figures, Proceedings of the SPIE Astronomical Instrumentation "Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2012: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray"

Published
2012

27. First PET Imaging Results with Continuous LYSO Crystals and Monolithic, 64-pixel SiPM Matrices

Author

Claudio Piemonte, John Barrio, Philipp Azzarello, Carlos Lacasta, Magdalena Rafecas, Maria Giuseppina Bisogni, Sylvie Bondil-Blin, Alberto Del Guerra, Jorge Cabello, Pierre Barrillon, Giovanni Ambrosi, Christophe De La Taille, Gabriela Llosa, Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC)-Universitat de València (UV), Omega, Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Perugia (INFN, Sezione di Perugia), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
Photomultiplier, Materials science, Pixel, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Detector, Photodetector, Pet imaging, Iterative reconstruction, 01 natural sciences, Lyso, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Silicon photomultiplier, Optics, 0103 physical sciences, [SPI.NANO]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Micro and nanotechnologies/Microelectronics, business
Abstract

International audience; The University of Pisa and INFN Pisa are developing a prototype of a small animal PET tomograph employing continuous LYSO crystals and silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) matrices as photodetectors. The Center for Scientific and Technological Research (FBK-irst) has developed monolithic, 64 pixel SiPM matrices for their use in the PET scanner. The IFIC-Valencia collaborates in the characterization of the first detector heads, and in the construction of a first prototype for proof of concept. The detector heads are composed of continuous 12 mm × 12 mm × 5 mm LYSO crystals coupled to the matrices. The characterization of the detectors has been completed, and a first test prototype consisting of two rotating heads has been developed, assessing the feasibility of operating the system.

Published
2010

28. Deflection of400 GeV/cproton beam with bent silicon crystals at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron

Author

Davide Bolognini, D. De Salvador, A. A. Petrunin, S. Afanasiev, Alexander M. Taratin, Paolo Valente, Roberto Battiston, Yuri M. Ivanov, Maria Ionica, Stefano Baricordi, Yury A. Chesnokov, A. G. Afonin, Paolo Zuccon, Giovanni Ambrosi, V. A. Maisheev, Andrea Mazzolari, Vladilen I. Kotov, Massimiliano Fiorini, Vladimir G. Ivochkin, B. Bertucci, Philipp Azzarello, Yury A. Gavrikov, Walter Scandale, E. Milan, William J. Burger, E. Vallazza, L. Foggetta, Riccardo Milan, M. Prest, Alberto Carnera, Vyacheslav V. Skorobogatov, V.M. Suvorov, Pietro Dalpiaz, A.S. Denisov, S. Hasan, I.A. Yazynin, Vladimir T. Baranov, Vincenzo Guidi, Sergey V. Kosyanenko, G. Cavoto, Alberto Vomiero, Gianantonio Della Mea, Giuliano Martinelli, Alexander Kovalenko, and Roberta Santacesaria

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Large Hadron Collider, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Silicon, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Bent molecular geometry, chemistry.chemical_element, Surfaces and Interfaces, Super Proton Synchrotron, Collimated light, Nuclear physics, Experimental physics, Beamline, chemistry, Goniometer, Physics::Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

This paper presents a detailed study of the deflection phenomena of a $400\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{GeV}/c$ proton beam impinging on a new generation of bent silicon crystals; the tests have been performed at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron H8 beam line. Channeling and volume reflection angles are measured with an extremely precise goniometer and with high resolution silicon microstrip detectors. Volume reflection has been observed and measured for the first time at this energy, with a single-pass efficiency as large as 98%, in good agreement with the simulation results. This efficiency makes volume reflection a possible candidate for collimation with bent crystals at the CERN Large Hadron Collider.

Published
2008

29. Deflection of 400GeV/c proton beam with bent silicon crystals at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron

Author

Walter Scandale, Alberto Carnera, Gianantonio Della Mea, Davide De Salvador, Riccardo Milan, Alberto Vomiero, Stefano Baricordi, Pietro Dalpiaz, Massimiliano Fiorini, Vincenzo Guidi, Giuliano Martinelli, Andrea Mazzolari, Emiliano Milan, Giovanni Ambrosi, Philipp Azzarello, Roberto Battiston, Bruna Bertucci, William J. Burger, Maria Ionica, Paolo Zuccon, Gianluca Cavoto, Roberta Santacesaria, Paolo Valente, Erik Vallazza, Alexander G. Afonin, Vladimir T. Baranov, Yury A. Chesnokov, Vladilen I. Kotov, Vladimir A. Maisheev, Igor A. Yazynin, Sergey V. Afanasiev, Alexander D. Kovalenko, Alexander M. Taratin, Alexander S. Denisov, Yury A. Gavrikov, Yuri M. Ivanov, Vladimir G. Ivochkin, Sergey V. Kosyanenko, Anatoli A. Petrunin, Vyacheslav V. Skorobogatov, Vsevolod M. Suvorov, Davide Bolognini, Luca Foggetta, Said Hasan, and Michela Prest

Subjects
Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, lcsh:QC770-798, Physics::Accelerator Physics, lcsh:Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Nuclear Experiment, Accelerators and Storage Rings, Physics and Astronomy (all), Surfaces and Interfaces, Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Abstract

This paper presents a detailed study of the deflection phenomena of a 400 GeV/c proton beam impinging on a new generation of bent silicon crystals; the tests have been performed at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron H8 beam line. Channeling and volume reflection angles are measured with an extremely precise goniometer and with high resolution silicon microstrip detectors. Volume reflection has been observed and measured for the first time at this energy, with a single-pass efficiency as large as 98%, in good agreement with the simulation results. This efficiency makes volume reflection a possible candidate for collimation with bent crystals at the CERN Large Hadron Collider.

Published
2008

30. Apparatus to study crystal channeling and volume reflection phenomena at the SPS H8 beamline

Author

E. Milan, Yuri M. Ivanov, A. A. Petrunin, Yury A. Gavrikov, Stefano Chiozzi, Peter M. Levtchenko, L. Foggetta, Paolo Zuccon, I.A. Yazynin, Stefano Baricordi, M. Prest, Giovanni Ambrosi, Riccardo Milan, Alberto Carnera, Vyacheslav V. Skorobogatov, Vincenzo Guidi, Roberto Battiston, Alexander Kovalenko, V.M. Suvorov, Alberto Vomiero, Maria Ionica, Philipp Azzarello, V. A. Maisheev, Alexander M. Taratin, Paolo Valente, G. Cavoto, William J. Burger, L.P. Lapina, Massimiliano Fiorini, Chiara Damiani, B. Bertucci, Davide Bolognini, D. De Salvador, Roberta Santacesaria, S. Hasan, Ilias Efthymiopoulos, A. G. Afonin, Nikolai F. Bondar, Gianantonio Della Mea, Giuliano Martinelli, D. Still, Sergey V. Kosyanenko, Yury A. Chesnokov, Andrea Mazzolari, Pietro Dalpiaz, A.S. Denisov, Vladimir T. Baranov, Vladilen I. Kotov, Vladimir G. Ivochkin, Walter Scandale, E. Vallazza, and S. Afanasiev

Subjects
Physics, Silicon, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, business.industry, collimation, Bent molecular geometry, chemistry.chemical_element, Bent crystal, tracking, Monocrystalline silicon, Crystal, Optics, chemistry, Beamline, Goniometer, Reflection (physics), Physics::Accelerator Physics, business, Instrumentation, Beam (structure)
Abstract

A high performance apparatus has been designed and built by the H8-RD22 collaboration for the study of channeling and volume reflection phenomena in the interaction of 400 GeV/c protons with bent silicon crystals, during the 2006 data taking in the external beamline H8 of the CERN SPS. High-quality silicon short crystals were bent by either anticlastic or quasimosaic effects. Alignment with the highly parallel (8 murad divergence) proton beam was guaranteed through a submicroradian goniometric system equipped with both rotational and translational stages. Particle tracking was possible by a series of silicon microstrip detectors with high-resolution and a parallel plate gas chamber, triggered by various scintillating detectors located along the beamline. Experimental observation of volume reflection with 400 GeV/c protons proved true with a deflection angle of (10.4+/-0.5) murad with respect to the unperturbed beam, with a silicon crystal whose (111) planes were parallel to the beam.

Published
2008

31. Experimental apparatus to study crystal channeling in an external SPS beamline

Author

S. Afanasiev, Alexander M. Taratin, Paolo Valente, Yury A. Gavrikov, Riccardo Milan, Vyacheslav V. Skorobogatov, Stefano Baricordi, Andrea Mazzolari, S. Hasan, A. A. Petrunin, Pietro Dalpiaz, R. Santacesaria, Walter Scandale, V.M. Suvorov, Davide Bolognini, E. Vallazza, D. De Salvador, Maria Ionica, A.S. Denisov, Yu. A. Chesnokov, E. Milan, Yuri M. Ivanov, Vladimir T. Baranov, Giovanni Ambrosi, Massimiliano Fiorini, B. Bertucci, Roberto Battiston, Vladilen I. Kotov, Vladimir G. Ivochkin, Igor A. Yaznin, M. Prest, Alberto Carnera, Luca Gennaro Foggetta, D. Still, Sergey V. Kosyanenko, Vincenzo Guidi, Alberto Vomiero, A. G. Afonin, Alexander Kovalenko, V. A. Maisheev, Gianantonio Della Mea, Paolo Zuccon, Philipp Azzarello, William J. Burger, G. Cavoto, and Giuliano Martinelli

Subjects
Physics, Large Hadron Collider, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, business.industry, Optical engineering, Collimated light, law.invention, Telescope, Optics, Beamline, law, Goniometer, Halo, business, Phenomenology (particle physics)
Abstract

For the new generation of high intensity hadronic machines as, for instance, LHC, halo collimation is a necessary issue for the accelerator to operate at the highest possible luminosity and to prevent the damage of superconductor magnets. We propose an experiment aimed to systematic study of the channeling phenomenology and of the newly observed "volume reflection" effect. This experiment will be performed for an external SPS beamline and will make use of a primary proton beam with 400 GeV/c momentum and very small (∼ 3 μ rad) divergence. The advantage of a proposed experiment is precise tracking of particles that interacted with a crystal, so that to determine the single-pass effciency for all the processes involved. For this purpose, a telescope equipped with high-resolution silicon microstrip detectors will be used. New generation silicon crystals and an extra-precise goniometer are mandatory issues. Main goal of the experiment is to get the precise information on channeling of relativistic particles and, ultimately, on the feasibility of such technique for halo collimation at LHC. In this contribution we review the status of the setting-up of experimental apparatus and its future development in sight of the planned run in September 2006.© (2007) COPYRIGHT SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.

Published
2007

32. Experimental apparatus to study crystal channeling in an external SPS beamline

Author

Dabagov, Sultan B., Afanasiev, Sergey V., Afonin, A. G., Giovanni, Ambrosi, Philipp, Azzarello, Baranov, Vladimir T., Stefano, Baricordi, Roberto, Battiston, Bruna, Bertucci, Davide, Bolognini, Burger, William J., Carnera, Alberto, Gianluca, Cavoto, Chesnokov, Y. u. A., Pietro, Dalpiaz, Gianantonio Della Mea, Denisov, Alexander S., DE SALVADOR, Davide, Massimiliano, Fiorini, Luca, Foggetta, Gavrikov, Yury A., Vincenzo, Guidi, Said, Hasan, Maria, Ionica, Ivanov, Yuri M., Ivochkin, Vladimir G., Kosyanenko, Sergey V., Kotov, Vladilen I., Kovalenko, Alexander D., Maisheev, Vladimir A., Giuliano, Martinelli, Andrea, Mazzolari, Emiliano, Milan, Riccardo, Milan, Petrunin, Anatoli A., Michela, Prest, Roberta, Santacesaria, Walter, Scandale, Skorobogatov, Vyacheslav V., Still, Dean A., Suvorov, Vsevolod M., Taratin, Alexander M., Paolo, Valente, Erik, Vallazza, Alberto, Vomiero, Yaznin, Igor A., and Paolo, Zuccon

Published
2007

33. High-EfficiencyVolume Reflection of an Ultrarelativistic Proton Beam with a Bent Silicon Crystal

Author

Walter, Scandale, Still, DEAN A., Alberto, Carnera, GIANANTONIO DELLA MEA, DAVIDE DE SALVADOR, Riccardo, Milan, Vomiero, A, Stefano, Baricordi, Pietro, Dalpiaz, Massimiliano, Fiorini, Vincenzo, Guidi, Giuliano, Martinelli, Andrea, Mazzolari, Emiliano, Milan, Giovanni, Ambrosi, Philipp, Azzarello, Roberto, Battiston, Bruna, Bertucci, Burger, WILLIAM J., Maria, Ionica, Paolo, Zuccon, Gianluca, Cavoto, Roberta, Santacesaria, Paolo, Valente, Erik, Vallazza, Afonin, ALEXANDER G., Baranov, VLADIMIR T., Chesnokov, YURY A., Kotov, VLADILEN I., Maisheev, VLADIMIR A., Yaznin, IGOR A., Afanasiev, SERGEY V., Kovalenko, ALEXANDER D., Taratin, ALEXANDER M., Denisov, ALEXANDER S., Gavrikov, YURY A., Ivanov, YURI M., Ivochkin, VLADIMIR G., Kosyanenko, SERGEY V., Skorobogatov, VYACHESLAV V., Davide, Bolognini, Luca, Foggetta, Said, Hasan, and Michela, Prest

Published
2007

34. High-efficiency volume reflection of an ultrarelativistic proton beam with a bent silicon crystal

Author

Roberto Battiston, Giovanni Ambrosi, Maria Ionica, E. Milan, Paolo Zuccon, Stefano Baricordi, Roberta Santacesaria, Riccardo Milan, Alexander M. Taratin, Vyacheslav V. Skorobogatov, Andrea Mazzolari, E. Vallazza, Paolo Valente, G. Cavoto, A. A. Petrunin, Philipp Azzarello, Massimiliano Fiorini, Alexander Kovalenko, Giuliano Martinelli, Yuri M. Ivanov, Yury A. Gavrikov, Vladilen I. Kotov, Vladimir G. Ivochkin, L. Foggetta, Yury A. Chesnokov, William J. Burger, Walter Scandale, Davide Bolognini, M. Prest, D. De Salvador, Igor A. Yaznin, Alberto Carnera, Gianantonio Della Mea, D. Still, A. G. Afonin, Sergey V. Kosyanenko, Vincenzo Guidi, Alberto Vomiero, Vladimir T. Baranov, B. Bertucci, S. Hasan, Sergey V. Afansiev, Pietro Dalpiaz, A.S. Denisov, V.M. Suvorov, and V. A. Maisheev

Subjects
Proton, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, General Physics and Astronomy, law.invention, Monocrystalline silicon, Nuclear physics, Physics and Astronomy (all), law, Bent crystals, collimation, hadron colliders, Nuclear Experiment, Physics, Large Hadron Collider, volume reflection, ultrarelativistic beam deflection, Accelerators and Storage Rings, Super Proton Synchrotron, Synchrotron, Experimental physics, Reflection (mathematics), Physics::Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Beam (structure)
Abstract

The volume reflection phenomenon was detected while investigating 400 GeV proton interactions with bent silicon crystals in the external beam H8 of the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron. Such a process was observed for a wide interval of crystal orientations relative to the beam axis, and its efficiency exceeds 95%, thereby surpassing any previously observed value. These observations suggest new perspectives for the manipulation of high-energy beams, e.g., for collimation and extraction in new-generation hadron colliders, such as the CERN Large Hadron Collider.

Published
2006

36. A study of the dimensional stability of the AMS silicon tracker

Author

Roberto Battiston, D. Vité, J. Alcaraz, M. Pauluzzi, J. Ulbricht, M. Bourquin, R. Ionica, M. Pohl, K. Lübelsmeyer, R. Siedling, Willemina Johanna Burger, D. Rapin, V. Shoutko, E. Babucci, P. Levtchenko, Philipp Azzarello, E. Perrin, A. Hasan, H. Hofer, Werner Lustermann, J. Vandenhirtz, W. Wallraff, Pierre Extermann, and G. Viertel

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Silicon, Spectrometer, business.industry, Detector, chemistry.chemical_element, Space Shuttle, Cosmic ray, ddc:500.2, Charged particle spectrometers, Metrology, Nuclear physics, Cosmic ray detectors, chemistry, Tracking and position-sensitive detectors, International Space Station, Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, Aerospace engineering, business, Instrumentation
Abstract

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) is designed as an independent module for installation on the International Space Station (ISS) for an operational period of 3 years. The AMS is the first cosmic ray spectrometer equipped with a large area silicon tracker . A preliminary version of the detector was flown on the NASA space shuttle Discovery during June 2–12, 1998. Results for the dimensional stability of the silicon tracker planes based on the flight data, and the metrology data recorded before and after the flight, are presented.

Published
2003

37. The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) on the International Space Station: Part I – results from the test flight on the space shuttle

Author

P. Extermann, H. Hofer, J.P. Richeux, Jose Maria Kenny, M. Jongmanns, H. Anderhub, P. Giusti, A. Hasan, Mauro Menichelli, G. Scolieri, Y.S. Lu, I. Lopes, S. Ro, G. Schwering, Eun-Suk Seo, L. Baldini, E. Lanciotti, F. Vezzu, Maria Ionica, S.W. Ye, V. Koutsenko, Eino Valtonen, M.Y. Kim, G. Sartorelli, D. Rapin, V. Plyaskin, Werner Lustermann, Behcet Alpat, W.Q. Gu, W.Z. Zhu, C. Delgado, E. Fiandrini, Yu. Galaktionov, D.H. Kim, J. Alcaraz, S. X. Wu, W.H. Park, Felicitas Pauss, B. Verlaat, P. Berges, K. Karlamaa, S.C.C. Ting, F. Palmonari, Zhenghao Xu, Zhuoxiang Ren, F. Velcea, Tzihong Chiueh, G. Barbier, H.B. Park, R. Kossakowski, A. Klimentov, S. Urpo, Ari Mujunen, A. Lebedev, Dong-Chul Son, G. Laurenti, K. Luebelsmeyer, E. Shoumilov, W. Hungerford, H. S. Chen, N. Produit, M. Buenerd, S. Waldmeier Wicki, M. Basile, E. Riihonen, A. Mihul, Timo Laitinen, J. Yang, V. Postolache, V. Pojidaev, M. Steuer, P.C. Xia, G.S. Sun, Jian Wang, M. Ribordy, K. Hangarter, H. L. Zhuang, M. Pauluzzi, Stefan Schael, H. Suter, Guohuai Zhu, G. Boella, X.W. Tang, M. Kraber, A. Pevsner, M. A. Huang, Mao-Zhi Yang, Tao Song, J.L. Yan, N.A. Chernoplekov, J. Vandenhirtz, Z.G. Chen, C. Camps, Ciaran Williams, D. Ren, D. Luckey, I. Vetlitsky, Samuel C.C. Ting, N. Dinu, Zhidong Zhang, Anselmo Margotti, E. Cortina-Gil, M. Bourquin, A. Papi, Adrian Biland, R. Ionica, L. Djambazov, Paolo Zuccon, A. Contin, I. D'Antone, M.W. Lee, Jungwook Shin, F. Barao, G. Castellini, J. P. Da Cunha, Gui Nyun Kim, N. Fouque, P. Levtchenko, Massimo Gervasi, Kyung-Suk Cho, J. D. Burger, F. Mayet, M. Pohl, P. Yeh, G. Lu, C. Maña, C. Lechanoine-Leluc, A. Schultz von Dratzig, C. Rossin, Hengchang Liu, A. Mourao, S. Blasko, G. Laborie, C. Sbarra, Peter H. Fisher, L.G. Yan, V. Hermel, J.D. Deus, X. D. Cai, M.J. Choi, O. Grimm, J. Casaus, M. Capell, Philipp Azzarello, R. Siedling, J. Berdugo, Yun Wang, A. Arefiev, Roald Z. Sagdeev, J. Engelberg, H. von Gunten, C.L. Liu, L. Bellagamba, Changgen Yang, D. Casadei, U. Roser, R. R. McNeil, B. Meillon, Giuseppe Levi, Y.L. Chuang, K. Wiik, P. Bene, Federico Cindolo, J. J. Torsti, Antonino Zichichi, L. Brocco, J. Ritakari, Y. H. Chang, G. Kenney, P. Cannarsa, Y.Y. Choi, D. Barancourt, J. Favier, Waclaw Karpinski, E. Babucci, U. Becker, Dawei Zhao, R. Becker, Z.R. Dong, E. Perrin, K.S. Kim, Claudia Cecchi, F. J. Eppling, M. Aguilar, V. Shoutko, S. Bizzaglia, G. Esposito, M. Pimenta, G. Fluegge, D. Grandi, B. Bertucci, D. Santos, G. Ambrosi, T. S. Dai, A. Pesci, B.C. Wang, D. Vité, G. Lamanna, G. Viertel, J. P. Vialle, H.F. Chen, G.P. Barreira, W. J. Burger, Frank Raupach, Roberto Battiston, L. Ao, J. Ulbricht, Hao Zhang, S.C. Lee, J. Trümper, P. Emonet, M. J. Boschini, V. Commichau, E. P. Velikhov, B. Zimmermann, Merja Tornikoski, Markus Cristinziani, T. Eronen, P. G. Rancoita, W. Wallraff, G. Bruni, Aguilar, M, Alcaraz, J, Allaby, J, Alpat, B, Ambrosi, G, Anderhub, H, Ao, L, Arefiev, A, Azzarello, P, Babucci, E, Baldini, L, Basile, M, Berdugo, J, Berges, P, Bertucci, B, Biland, A, Bizzaglia, S, Blasko, S, Boella, G, Boschini, M, Bourquin, M, Brocco, L, Bruni, G, Buenerd, M, Burger, J, Burger, W, Cai, X, Camps, C, Cannarsa, P, Capell, M, Casadei, D, Casaus, J, Castellini, G, Cecchi, C, Chang, Y, Chen, H, Chen, Z, Chernoplekov, N, Chiueh, T, Cho, K, Choi, M, Choi, Y, Chuang, Y, Cindolo, F, Commichau, V, Contin, A, Cortina-Gil, E, Cristinziani, M, da Cunha, J, Dai, T, Delgado, C, Deus, J, Dinu, N, Djambazov, L, D'Antone, I, Dong, Z, Emonet, P, Engelberg, J, Eppling, F, Eronen, T, Esposito, G, Extermann, P, Favier, J, Fiandrini, E, Fisher, P, Fluegge, G, Fouque, N, Galaktionov, Y, Gervasi, M, Giusti, P, Grandi, D, Grimms, O, Gu, W, Hangarter, K, Hasan, A, Hermel, V, Hofer, H, Huang, M, Hungerford, W, Ionica, M, Ionica, R, Jongmanns, M, Karlamaa, K, Karpinski, W, Kenney, G, Kenny, J, Kim, D, Kim, G, Kim, K, Kim, M, Klimentov, A, Kossakowski, R, Koutsenko, V, Kraeber, M, Laborie, G, Laitinen, T, Lamanna, G, Lanciotti, E, Laurenti, G, Lebedev, A, Lechanoine-Leluc, C, Lee, M, Lee, S, Levi, G, Levtchenko, P, Liu, C, Liu, H, Lopes, I, Lu, G, Lu, Y, Lubelsmeyer, K, Luckey, D, Lustermann, W, Mana, C, Margotti, A, Mayet, F, Mcneil, R, Meillon, B, Menichelli, M, Mihul, A, Mourao, A, Mujunen, A, Palmonari, F, Papi, A, Park, H, Park, W, Pauluzzi, M, Pauss, F, Perrin, E, Pesci, A, Pevsner, A, Pimenta, M, Plyaskin, V, Pojidaev, V, Pohl, M, Postolache, V, Produit, N, Rancoita, P, Rapin, D, Raupach, F, Ren, D, Ren, Z, Ribordy, M, Richeux, J, Riihonen, E, Ritakari, J, Ro, S, Roeser, U, Rossin, C, Sagdeev, R, Santos, D, Sartorelli, G, Sbarra, C, Schael, S, von Dratzig, A, Schwering, G, Scolieri, G, Seo, E, Shin, J, Shoutko, V, Shoumilov, E, Siedling, R, Son, D, Song, T, Steuer, M, Sun, G, Suter, H, Tang, X, Ting, S, Tornikoski, M, Torsti, J, Trumper, J, Ulbricht, J, Urpo, S, Valtonen, E, Vandenhirtz, J, Velcea, F, Velikhov, E, Verlaat, B, Vetlitsky, I, Vezzu, F, V, Jp, Viertel, G, Vite, D, Von Gunten, H, Wicki, S, Wallraff, W, Wang, B, Wang, J, Wang, Y, Wiik, K, Williams, C, Wu, S, Xia, P, Yan, J, Yan, L, Yang, C, Yang, J, Yang, M, Ye, S, Yeh, P, Xu, Z, Zhang, H, Zhang, Z, Zhao, D, Zhu, G, Zhu, W, Zhuang, H, Zichichi, A, Zimmermann, B, Zuccon, P, Ambrosi, Giovanni, Azzarello, Philipp, Bene, Pierre, Bourquin, Maurice, Cortina Gil, Eduardo, Cristinziani, Markus, Emonet, Pascal Philippe, Extermann, Pierre, Leluc, Catherine, Perrin, Eric, Pohl, Martin, Produit, Nicolas, Rapin, Divic Jean, Ribordy, Mathieu, Richeux, Jean-Pierre, Vite, Davide, Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules (LAPP), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), AMS, Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas, CIEMAT, E-28040, Madrid, Spain, and UCL - SST/IRMP - Institut de recherche en mathématique et physique

Subjects
Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, FIS/06 - FISICA PER IL SISTEMA TERRA E PER IL MEZZO CIRCUMTERRESTRE, General Physics and Astronomy, chemistry.chemical_element, Electron, ddc:500.2, 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Nuclear physics, FIS/05 - ASTRONOMIA E ASTROFISICA, Positron, Earth's magnetic field, FIS/01 - FISICA SPERIMENTALE, chemistry, 13. Climate action, Antiproton, 0103 physical sciences, Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, Nucleon, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, AMS, Cosmic Rays, Antimatter, Helium, FIS/04 - FISICA NUCLEARE E SUBNUCLEARE
Abstract

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) was flown on the space shuttle Discovery during flight STS-91 (June 1998) in a 51.7 deg orbit at altitudes between 320 and 390 km. A search for antihelium nuclei in the rigidity range 1–140 GV was performed. No antihelium nuclei were detected at any rigidity. An upper limit on the flux ratio of antihelium to helium of < 1.1×10^−6 was obtained. The high energy proton, electron, positron, helium, antiproton and deuterium spectra were accurately measured. For each particle and nuclei two distinct spectra were observed: a higher energy spectrum and a substantial second spectrum. Positrons in the second spectrum were found to be much more abundant than electrons. Tracing particles from the second spectra shows that most of them travel for an extended period of time in the geomagnetic field, and that the positive particles (p and e+) and negative ones (e−) originate from two complementary geographic regions. The second helium spectrum flux over the energy range 0.1–1.2 GeV/nucleon was measured to be (6.3 ± 0.9) × 10^−3(m^2 s sr)^−1. Over 90 percent of the helium flux was determined to be 3He at the 90% confidence level

Published
2002

38. Measurement of the effect of non ionising energy losses on the leakage current of silicon drift detector prototypes for the LOFT satellite

Author

Sebastian Diebold, A. Vacchi, N. Zampa, M. Pohl, A. Rachevski, Emanuele Perinati, Riccardo Campana, Enrico Bozzo, Philipp Azzarello, Y. Evangelista, Gianluigi Zampa, E. Del Monte, and Marco Feroci

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Materials science, Silicon, Silicon drift detector, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Instrumentation, FOS: Physical sciences, chemistry.chemical_element, Optics, Radiation damage to detector materials (solid state), X-ray detectors and telescopes, Mathematical Physics, Observatory, Radiation damage, Irradiation, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), business.industry, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), chemistry, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, business, Beam (structure)
Abstract

The silicon drift detectors are at the basis of the instrumentation aboard the Large Observatory For x-ray Timing (LOFT) satellite mission, which underwent a three year assessment phase within the "Cosmic Vision 2015 - 2025" long-term science plan of the European Space Agency. Silicon detectors are especially sensitive to the displacement damage, produced by the non ionising energy losses of charged and neutral particles, leading to an increase of the device leakage current and thus worsening the spectral resolution. During the LOFT assessment phase, we irradiated two silicon drift detectors with a proton beam at the Proton Irradiation Facility in the accelerator of the Paul Scherrer Institute and we measured the increase in leakage current. In this paper we report the results of the irradiation and we discuss the impact of the radiation damage on the LOFT scientific performance., 21 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication by Journal of Instrumentation (JINST)

Published
2014

39. Search for antihelium in cosmic rays

Author

Z.R. Dong, S. Bizzaglia, G. Ambrosi, J. Casaus, M. Pimenta, T. S. Dai, Samuel C.C. Ting, L. Djambazov, B.C. Wang, G. Molinari, A. Klimentov, B. Bertucci, S. X. Wu, R. Pilastrini, G. Lamanna, L.G. Yan, R. Siedling, J. Favier, Philipp Azzarello, J. J. Torsti, Antonino Zichichi, A. Hasan, Mauro Menichelli, L. Ao, Inkyu Park, J.P. Vialle, M. Steuer, P.C. Xia, Peter H. Fisher, Ilya Usoskin, P. G. Rancoita, Jing Wang, F. Palmonari, J. Isbert, M. Ribordy, G. Boella, H. von Gunten, P. Crespo, W. J. Burger, N. Fouque, R. Ionica, Federico Cindolo, J.P. Richeux, R. Cavalletti, D.X. Zhao, U. Roeser, N.A. Chernoplekov, C. G. Yang, Nicolas Produit, M. Buenerd, A. Cotta-Ramusino, R. Flaminio, J. P. Da Cunha, Anselmo Margotti, D. Rapin, V. Plyaskin, W. Kim, Roberto Battiston, G.Y. Zhu, W.Z. Zhu, G. Fluegge, G. Bruni, G. Viertel, P. Levtchenko, E. Fiandrini, G. Laurenti, K. Luebelsmeyer, S. Waldmeier Wicki, S.C. Lee, Yu. Galaktionov, F. Massera, D. Vité, J. Ulbricht, A. Chiarini, Hao Zhang, H. S. Chen, C. Rossin, G. Pancaldi, Felicitas Pauss, S. Recupero, Ciaran Williams, R. Kossakowski, W. Karpinski, J. Alcaraz, F. Barao, P. Yeh, E. Emonet, L.K. Ding, H.T. Liu, E. P. Velikhov, G. Torromeo, M. Basile, G.S. Sun, A. Pevsner, J.L. Yan, X. D. Cai, L. Baldini, F. Mezzanotte, C.L. Liu, L. Bellagamba, S. Blasko, K. Hangarter, J. Berdugo, Adrian Biland, G. Barbier, J. Vandenhirtz, V. Hermel, A. Arefiev, E. Prati, Jose Maria Kenny, R. R. McNeil, T.G. Guzik, B. Meillon, W.K. Gu, G. Kenney, I. D'Antone, J.P. Wefel, Markus Cristinziani, T. Eronen, R. Becker, Y.L. Chuang, P. Bene, B. Alpat, D. Luckey, E. Riihonen, A. Mihul, M. Jongmanns, C.C. Feng, D. Casadei, W. Wallraff, J. Krieger, H.L. Zhuang, G. Castellini, Massimo Gervasi, Zhuoxiang Ren, G. Schwering, W. Hungerford, A. Papi, Timo Laitinen, D. Santos, F. Tenbusch, B. Verlaat, P. Berges, Raffaele Mezzenga, S. Urpo, Ari Mujunen, G. Laborie, V. Shoutko, M. Pauluzzi, Y. S. Lu, G.P. Barreira, Yun Wang, V. Commichau, J. Truemper, A. Pesci, D. Ren, M. Capell, V. Koutsenko, Eino Valtonen, F. Vezzu, P. Cannarsa, C. Camps, T.P. Li, M. Ionica, H. Postema, A. Contin, M. Yang, E. Babucci, U. Becker, A. Lebedev, Dong-Chul Son, P. Giusti, I. Lopes, E. Perrin, F. J. Eppling, D. Alvisi, G. Lu, F. Raupach, C. Maña, P. Extermann, S. M. Ting, H. Hofer, G. Esposito, I. Vetlitsky, G. Sartorelli, M. Lolli, G. Maehlum, E.A. Werner, Fabio Finelli, Z.G. Chen, Werner Lustermann, Giuseppe Levi, X. W. Tang, Tao Song, M. Bourquin, V. Pojidaev, E. Shoumilov, H. Suter, J. D. Burger, Roald Z. Sagdeev, A. Mourao, J. Ritakari, Y. H. Chang, D. Barancourt, N. Dinu, H. Anderhub, Tzihong Chiueh, M. A. Huang, Jorge Dias de Deus, F. Mayet, A. Schultz von Dratzig, Alcaraz, J, Alvisi, D, Alpat, B, Ambrosi, G, Anderhub, H, Ao, L, Arefiev, A, Azzarello, P, Babucci, E, Baldini, L, Basile, M, Barancourt, D, Barao, F, Barbier, G, Barreira, G, Battiston, R, Becker, R, Becker, U, Bellagamba, L, Béné, P, Berdugo, J, Berges, P, Bertucci, B, Biland, A, Bizzaglia, S, Blasko, S, Boella, G, Bourquin, M, Bruni, G, Buenerd, M, Burger, J, Burger, W, Cai, X, Cavalletti, R, Camps, C, Cannarsa, P, Capell, M, Casadei, D, Casaus, J, Castellini, G, Chang, Y, Chen, H, Chen, Z, Chernoplekov, N, Chiarini, A, Chiueh, T, Chuang, Y, Cindolo, F, Commichau, V, Contin, A, Cotta Ramusino, A, Crespo, P, Cristinziani, M, Dacunha, J, Dai, T, Deus, J, Ding, L, Dinu, N, Djambazov, L, D'Antone, I, Dong, Z, Emonet, P, Eppling, F, Eronen, T, Esposito, G, Extermann, P, Favier, J, Feng, C, Fiandrini, E, Finelli, F, Fisher, P, Flaminio, R, Fluegge, G, Fouque, N, Galaktionov, Y, Gervasi, M, Giusti, P, Gu, W, Guzik, T, Hangarter, K, Hasan, A, Hermel, V, Hofer, H, Huang, M, Hungerford, W, Ionica, M, Ionica, R, Isbert, J, Jongmanns, M, Karpinski, W, Kenney, G, Kenny, J, Kim, W, Klimentov, A, Krieger, J, Kossakowski, R, Koutsenko, V, Laborie, G, Laitinen, T, Lamanna, G, Laurenti, G, Lebedev, A, Lee, S, Levi, G, Levtchenko, P, Li, T, Liu, C, Liu, H, Lolli, M, Lopes, I, Lu, G, Lu, Y, Lübelsmeyer, K, Luckey, D, Lustermann, W, Maehlum, G, Maña, C, Margotti, A, Massera, F, Mayet, F, Mcneil, R, Meillon, B, Menichelli, M, Mezzanotte, F, Mezzenga, R, Mihul, A, Molinari, G, Mourao, A, Mujunen, A, Palmonari, F, Pancaldi, G, Papi, A, Park, I, Pauluzzi, M, Pauss, F, Perrin, E, Pesci, A, Pevsner, A, Pilastrini, R, Pimenta, M, Plyaskin, V, Pojidaev, V, Postema, H, Prati, E, Produit, N, Rancoita, P, Rapin, D, Raupach, F, Recupero, S, Ren, D, Ren, Z, Ribordy, M, Richeux, J, Riihonen, E, Ritakari, J, Roeser, U, Roissin, C, Sagdeev, R, Santos, D, Sartorelli, G, Schultzvondratzig, A, Schwering, G, Shoutko, V, Shoumilov, E, Siedling, R, Son, D, Song, T, Steuer, M, Sun, G, Suter, H, Tang, X, Ting, S, Tenbusch, F, Torromeo, G, Torsti, J, Trümper, J, Ulbricht, J, Urpo, S, Usoskin, I, Valtonen, E, Vandenhirtz, J, Velikhov, E, Verlaat, B, Vetlitsky, I, Vezzu, F, Vialle, J, Viertel, G, Vité, D, Vongunten, H, Waldmeierwicki, S, Wallraff, W, Wang, B, Wang, J, Wang, Y, Wefel, J, Werner, E, Williams, C, Wu, S, Xia, P, Yan, J, Yan, L, Yang, C, Yang, M, Yeh, P, Zhang, H, Zhao, D, Zhu, G, Zhu, W, Zhuang, H, Zichichi, A, Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules (LAPP), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and AMS

Subjects
Astrophysics and Astronomy, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, FOS: Physical sciences, chemistry.chemical_element, Space Shuttle, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), FIS/05 - ASTRONOMIA E ASTROFISICA, Rigidity (electromagnetism), 0103 physical sciences, Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, 010306 general physics, Helium, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics (astro-ph), Astronomy, Flux ratio, FIS/01 - FISICA SPERIMENTALE, chemistry, Cosmic rays: anti-helium, FIS/04 - FISICA NUCLEARE E SUBNUCLEARE
Abstract

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) was flown on the space shuttle Discovery during flight STS-91 in a 51.7 degree orbit at altitudes between 320 and 390 km. A total of 2.86 * 10^6 helium nuclei were observed in the rigidity range 1 to 140 GV. No antihelium nuclei were detected at any rigidity. An upper limit on the flux ratio of antihelium to helium of < 1.1 * 10^-6 is obtained., 18 pages, Latex, 9 .eps figures

Published
2000

40. Helium in near earth orbit

Author

D. Vité, Peter H. Fisher, Yu. Galaktionov, J. Alcaraz, Roald Z. Sagdeev, D.X. Zhao, K. Karlamaa, A. Arefiev, S.W. Ye, E. Riihonen, W. Hungerford, M. A. Huang, R. R. McNeil, B. Meillon, V. Shoutko, G. Kenney, J. Ritakari, Y. H. Chang, J. Engelberg, C. Camps, G. Sartorelli, D. Barancourt, A. Mihul, Timo Laitinen, R. Ionica, Jorge Dias de Deus, W. Kim, H. von Gunten, P. G. Rancoita, V. Postolache, M. Pauluzzi, G. Lu, C. Maña, Werner Lustermann, Federico Cindolo, F. Mayet, G. Fluegge, Mao-Zhi Yang, D. Ren, A. Schultz von Dratzig, G. Barbier, W.Z. Zhu, W. J. Burger, A. Papi, J. Casaus, U. Roeser, M. Ribordy, G. Ambrosi, Y.L. Chuang, A. Contin, P. Levtchenko, M. Buenerd, X.W. Tang, M. Pimenta, W. Wallraff, T. S. Dai, F. Vezzu, B. Verlaat, Maria Ionica, G.S. Sun, Samuel C.C. Ting, Frank Raupach, E. Shoumilov, P. Berges, B.C. Wang, S. Urpo, Ari Mujunen, G. Bruni, H. Suter, P. Bene, Hengchang Liu, D. Rapin, C. Roissin, V. Plyaskin, G. Laurenti, S. Waldmeier Wicki, D. Grandi, A. Pevsner, Z. L. Ren, F. Velcea, Tao Song, G. Lamanna, M. J. Boschini, B. Bertucci, J. J. Torsti, Antonino Zichichi, Waclaw Karpinski, J. Berdugo, H. Anderhub, V. Commichau, R. Becker, Roberto Battiston, B. Alpat, N. Fouque, J.P. Richeux, Zhenghao Xu, M. Bourquin, A. Lebedev, Dong-Chul Son, E. Fiandrini, F. Palmonari, Yun Wang, G. Boella, P. Yeh, J.L. Yan, H.F. Chen, L. Brocco, Felicitas Pauss, L. Baldini, A. Pesci, H. S. Chen, J. Ulbricht, K. Wiik, R. Kossakowski, N.A. Chernoplekov, Nicolas Produit, K. Lübelsmeyer, S. X. Wu, M. Basile, P. Cannarsa, Hao Zhang, S. Blasko, M. Jongmanns, G. Castellini, E. P. Velikhov, B. Zimmermann, G.P. Barreira, K. Hangarter, H. L. Zhuang, Anselmo Margotti, Tzihong Chiueh, J. P. Da Cunha, Y.S. Lu, Inkyu Park, J.P. Vialle, Ciaran Williams, A. Klimentov, G. Laborie, L. Ao, M. Pohl, N. Dinu, Merja Tornikoski, Markus Cristinziani, M. Steuer, P.C. Xia, G. Viertel, D. Luckey, Jose Maria Kenny, J. Trümper, L. Djambazov, Paolo Zuccon, O. Grimm, T. Eronen, E. Babucci, U. Becker, I. Vetlitsky, S.C. Lee, Eun-Suk Seo, E. Perrin, M. Kraeber, F. J. Eppling, S. M. Ting, Changgen Yang, V. Koutsenko, Eino Valtonen, P. Giusti, Adrian Biland, G. Scolieri, G. Esposito, Z.R. Dong, Claudia Cecchi, Philipp Azzarello, I. Lopes, Massimo Gervasi, P. Emonet, S. Bizzaglia, Z.G. Chen, J. Favier, M. Capell, R. Siedling, X. D. Cai, C.L. Liu, L. Bellagamba, L.G. Yan, Ilya Usoskin, Jing Wang, J. Vandenhirtz, A. Hasan, Mauro Menichelli, G. Schwering, P. Extermann, W.Q. Gu, H. Hofer, F. Barao, V. Hermel, Zhidong Zhang, D. Casadei, I. D'Antone, Guohuai Zhu, J. D. Burger, A. Mourao, V. Pojidaev, Giuseppe Levi, Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules (LAPP), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), AMS, Alcaraz, J, Alpat, B, Ambrosi, G, Anderhub, H, Ao, L, Arefiev, A, Azzarello, P, Babucci, E, Baldini, L, Basile, M, Barancourt, D, Barao, F, Barbier, G, Barreira, G, Battiston, R, Becker, R, Becker, U, Bellagamba, L, Béné, P, Berdugo, J, Berges, P, Bertucci, B, Biland, A, Bizzaglia, S, Blasko, S, Boella, G, Boschini, M, Bourquin, M, Brocco, L, Bruni, G, Buenerd, M, Burger, J, Burger, W, Cai, X, Camps, C, Cannarsa, P, Capell, M, Casadei, D, Casaus, J, Castellini, G, Cecchi, C, Chang, Y, Chen, H, Chen, Z, Chernoplekov, N, Chiueh, T, Chuang, Y, Cindolo, F, Commichau, V, Contin, A, Cristinziani, M, Cunha, J, Dai, T, Deus, J, Dinu, N, Djambazov, L, D'Antone, I, Dong, Z, Emonet, P, Engelberg, J, Eppling, F, Eronen, T, Esposito, G, Extermann, P, Favier, J, Fiandrini, E, Fisher, P, Fluegge, G, Fouque, N, Galaktionov, Y, Gervasi, M, Giusti, P, Grandi, D, Grimm, O, Gu, W, Hangarter, K, Hasan, A, Hermel, V, Hofer, H, Huang, M, Hungerford, W, Ionica, M, Ionica, R, Jongmanns, M, Karlamaa, K, Karpinski, W, Kenney, G, Kenny, J, Kim, W, Klimentov, A, Kossakowski, R, Koutsenko, V, Kraeber, M, Laborie, G, Laitinen, T, Lamanna, G, Laurenti, G, Lebedev, A, Lee, S, Levi, G, Levtchenko, P, Liu, C, Liu, H, Lopes, I, Lu, G, Lu, Y, Lübelsmeyer, K, Luckey, D, Lustermann, W, Maña, C, Margotti, A, Mayet, F, Mcneil, R, Meillon, B, Menichelli, M, Mihul, A, Mourao, A, Mujunen, A, Palmonari, F, Papi, A, Park, I, Pauluzzi, M, Pauss, F, Perrin, E, Pesci, A, Pevsner, A, Pimenta, M, Plyaskin, V, Pojidaev, V, Pohl, M, Postolache, V, Produit, N, Rancoita, P, Rapin, D, Raupach, F, Ren, D, Ren, Z, Ribordy, M, Richeux, J, Riihonen, E, Ritakari, J, Roeser, U, Roissin, C, Sagdeev, R, Sartorelli, G, Schultz&nbsp, von&nbsp, Dratzig, A, Schwering, G, Scolieri, G, Seo, E, Shoutko, V, Shoumilov, E, Siedling, R, Son, D, Song, T, Steuer, M, Sun, G, Suter, H, Tang, X, Ting, S, Tornikoski, M, Torsti, J, Trümper, J, Ulbricht, J, Urpo, S, Usoskin, I, Valtonen, E, Vandenhirtz, J, Velcea, F, Velikhov, E, Verlaat, B, Vetlitsky, I, Vezzu, F, Vialle, J, Viertel, G, Vité, D, Gunten, H, Wicki, S, Wallraff, W, Wang, B, Wang, J, Wang, Y, Wiik, K, Williams, C, Wu, S, Xia, P, Yan, J, Yan, L, Yang, C, Yang, M, Ye, S, Yeh, P, Xu, Z, Zhang, H, Zhang, Z, Zhao, D, Zhu, G, Zhu, W, Zhuang, H, Zichichi, A, Zimmermann, B, Zuccon, P, Ambrosi, Giovanni, Azzarello, Philipp, Bene, Pierre, Bourquin, Maurice, Cristinziani, Markus, Emonet, Pascal Philippe, Extermann, Pierre, Perrin, Eric, Pohl, Martin, Produit, Nicolas, Rapin, Divic Jean, Ribordy, Mathieu, Richeux, Jean-Pierre, and Vite, Davide

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Earth's orbit, Range (particle radiation), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, chemistry.chemical_element, Flux, ddc:500.2, 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, Nuclear physics, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], FIS/05 - ASTRONOMIA E ASTROFISICA, FIS/01 - FISICA SPERIMENTALE, Earth's magnetic field, chemistry, 0103 physical sciences, Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, Atomic physics, Cosmic rays: helium, Nuclear Experiment, Nucleon, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, FIS/04 - FISICA NUCLEARE E SUBNUCLEARE, Helium
Abstract

The helium spectrum from 0.1 to 100 GeV/nucleon was measured by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) during space shuttle flight STS-91 at altitudes near 380 km. Above the geomagnetic cutoff the spectrum is parameterized by a power law. Below the geomagnetic cutoff a second helium spectrum was observed. In the second helium spectra over the energy range 0.1 to 1.2 GeV/nucleon the flux was measured to be (6.3±0.9)×10 −3 ( m 2 sec sr ) −1 and more than ninety percent of the helium was determined to be 3He (at the 90% CL). Tracing helium from the second spectrum shows that about half of the 3He travel for an extended period of time in the geomagnetic field and that they originate from restricted geographic regions similar to protons and positrons.

Published
2000

41. A silicon microstrip tracker in space: Experience with the AMS silicon tracker on STS-91

Author

Adrian Biland, A. Klimentov, J. Casaus, P. Levtchenko, W. Wallraff, Timo Laitinen, M. Pauluzzi, D. Ren, M. Capell, A. Hasan, J. Berdugo, M. Bourquin, M. Ribordy, E. Fiandrini, V. Shoutko, Mauro Menichelli, F. Raupach, Roberto Battiston, J. Vandenhirtz, K. Lubelsmeyer, J. Alcaraz, J. Ulbricht, D. Vité, P. Bene, E. Riihonen, W. J. Burger, E. Perrin, S. Blasko, Philipp Azzarello, G. Lamanna, G. Viertel, D. Rapin, Markus Cristinziani, H. Suter, S.X. Wu, X. D. Cai, M. Weisgerber, Werner Lustermann, Behcet Alpat, T. Eronen, G. Ambrosi, T. S. Dai, J. P. Richeux, A. Lebedev, J. J. Torsti, P. Emonet, Nicolas Produit, B. Bertucci, P. Extermann, and H. Hofer

Subjects
Physics, Silicon, business.industry, Dark matter, Detector, chemistry.chemical_element, Space Shuttle, Cosmic ray, Nuclear physics, chemistry, Antimatter, International Space Station, Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, Aerospace engineering, business
Abstract

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) is designed as an independent module for installation on the International Space Station (ISS) in the year 2003 for an operational period of three years. The principal scientific objectives include the searches for antimatter and dark matter in cosmic rays. The AMS tracker uses silicon microstrip sensors to reconstruct charged-particle trajectories. A first version of the AMS, equipped with 2.1 m2 of silicon sensors and a permanent magnet, was flown on the NASA space shuttle Discovery duringJune 2–12, 1998. In this contribution, we describe the detector and present results of the tracker performance duringthe flight.

42. In-flight operations and status of the AMS-02 silicon tracker

Author

Ambrosi, G., Philipp Azzarello, Battiston, R., Bazo, J., Bertucci, B., Choumilov, E., Choutko, V., Crispoltoni, M., Delgado, C., Duranti, M., Donnini, F., D Urso, D., Fiandrini, E., Formato, V., Graziani, M., Habiby, M., Haino, S., Ionica, M., Kanishchev, K., Nozzoli, F., Oliva, A., Paniccia, M., Pizzolotto, C., Pohl, M., Qin, X., Rapin, D., Saouter, P., Tomassetti, N., Vitale, V., Vitillo, S., Wu, X., Zhang, Z., Zuccon, P., Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics

Subjects
Physics, Astrophysics and Astronomy, Silicon, Spectrometer, business.industry, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Detector, Electrical engineering, chemistry.chemical_element, Cosmic ray, Microstrip, Magnetic field, Rigidity (electromagnetism), chemistry, International Space Station, business, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract

International audience; The AMS-02 detector is a large acceptance magnetic spectrometer operating on the International Space Station since May 2011. More than 60 billion events have been collected by the instrument as of today. One of the key subdetectors of AMS-02 is the microstrip silicon Tracker, designed to precisely measure the trajectory and absolute charge of cosmic rays in the GeV-TeV energy range. In addition, with the magnetic field, is also measuring the particle magnetic rigidity, defined as R = pc/Ze, and the sign of the charge. This report presents the Tracker on-line operations and calibration during the first four years of data taking in space. The track reconstruction efficiency and the resolution will be also reviewed.

43. A novel 3-D calorimeter for the high energy cosmic-radiation detection (HERD) facility onboard China's future space station

Author

G. Marsella, Hua Feng, Tianwei Bao, M. Duranti, Paolo Papini, Sebastiano Albergo, Nicola Giglietto, Kun Fang, Qiong Wu, Li Zhang, Peng Hu, Raffaello D'Alessandro, F. Gargano, S. Bottai, Xiaojun Bi, B. Bertucci, Bobing Wu, Xin Wu, Zheng Wang, Sujie Lin, Junjing Wang, Le Wang, Mario Nicola Mazziottai, Valerio Formato, Ming Xu, Ruijie Wang, Xin Liu, A. Surdo, Margherita Di Santo, E. Vannuccini, Ivan De Mitri, P. Fusco, O. Adriani, Bo Wang, Philipp Azzarello, Hongbang Liu, Roland Walter, Xin Sun, F. Loparco, Weiwei Cao, Yonglin Bai, Paolo Bernardini, Junying Chai, Ran Li, Jiarui Gao, Wenxi Peng, Massimo Bongi, Giovanni Ambrosi, Martin Pohl, Bingbing Wang, Yong Li, Zheng Quan, Dalian Shi, Zhen Chen, Yongwei Dong, Junguang Lyu, Shuang-Nan Zhang, Nicola Mori, Dong, Y., Xu, M., Wang, Z., Adriani, O., Albergo, S., Ambrosi, G., Azzarello, P., Bai, Y., Bao, T., Bernardini, P., Bertucci, B., Bi, X., Bongi, M., Bottai, S., Cao, W., Chai, J., Chen, Z., D'Alessandro, R., Di Santo, M., Duranti, M., Fang, K., Feng, H., Formato, V., Fusco, P., Gao, J., Gargano, F., Giglietto, N., Hu, P., Li, R., Li, Y., Lin, S., Liu, H., Liu, X., Loparco, F., Lyu, J., Marsella, G., Mazziottai, M. N., De Mitri, I., Mori, N., Papini, P., Peng, W., Pohl, M., Quan, Z., Shi, D., Sun, X., Surdo, A., Vannuccini, E., Walter, R., Wang, B., Wang, J., Wang, L., Wang, R., Wu, B., Wu, Q., Wu, X., Zhang, L., and Zhang, S.

Subjects
Physics, Range (particle radiation), Wavelength, Large Hadron Collider, Calorimeter (particle physics), business.industry, Electrical engineering, Cosmic ray, Radiation, business, HERD Cosmic Ray, Energy (signal processing), Lyso
Abstract

The High Energy cosmic-Radiation Detection (HERD) facility is a flagship and landmark scientific experiment onboard China's Space Station, planned for operation starting around 2025 for about 10 years. The main instrument of HERD is a 3-D calorimeter (CALO) sensitive to incident gamma-rays and particles from five sides. With this design, the effective geometric factor of HERD is more than one order of magnitude larger than that of previous missions. CALO is made of about 7,500 cubes of LYSO crystals, corresponding to about 55 radiation lengths and 3 nuclear interaction lengths, respectively. The crystal signals are transferred by wavelength shifting fibers and read out by ISCMOS devices. Energy deposition in each crystal is then derived by summing up about 400 CMOS pixels and with necessary correction for light saturation. Both a low range ISCMOS and a high range one are required to meet the requirement of a large dynamic range of at least 10 million. The prototype of CALO has been tested successfully in November 2015 at CERN, which leads to an improved design of CALO. © Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

44. Nuclei charge measurement with the AMS-02 silicon tracker

Author

Ambrosi, G., Philipp Azzarello, Battiston, R., Bazo, J., Bertucci, B., Choumilov, E., Choutko, V., Crispoltoni, M., Delgado, C., Duranti, M., Donnini, F., D Urso, D., Fiandrini, E., Formato, V., Graziani, M., Habiby, M., Haino, S., Ionica, M., Kanishchev, K., Nozzoli, F., Oliva, A., Paniccia, M., Pizzolotto, C., Pohl, M., Qin, X., Rapin, D., Saouter, P., Tomassetti, N., Vitale, V., Vitillo, S., Wu, X., Zhang, Z., Zuccon, P., Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), and Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)

Subjects
Astrophysics and Astronomy, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract

International audience; The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) is an astroparticle physics detector that has been installed on the International Space Station (ISS) in May 2011. The purpose of the experiment is to study with unprecedented precision and statistics cosmic-ray particles in an energy range from 0.5 GeV to few TeV. The AMS-02 Tracker system accurately determines the trajectory and absolute charge (Z) of cosmic rays by multiple measurements of the coordinates in nine layers of double-sided silicon micro-strip detectors. Given the high dynamic range of the front-end electronics, nuclei from hydrogen up to iron and above can be identified. The charge resolution could be naturally degraded by a number of detector effects that need to be carefully accounted for. In this contribution we describe the procedure that has been used to accurately calibrate the Tracker response. Finally we will discuss the Tracker calibration stability with time.

45. The test results of the silicon tungsten tracker of DAMPE

Author

Maria Ionica, Giovanni Ambrosi, Ivan De Mitri, Daniel La Marra, V. Postolache, Coralie Husi, Mario Nicola Mazziottai, Andrea Nardinocchi, Frank Raphael Cadoux, Rui Qiao, G. Marsella, Andrii Tykhonov, B. Bertucci, Alessio Bolognini, M. Duranti, Zhang Fei, S. Vitillo, Martin Pohl, G. Pelleriti, Philipp Azzarello, M. Caprai, Wenxi Peng, Di Wu, F. Loparco, Xin Wu, R. Asfandiyarov, Paolo Bernardini, Laurent Nicola, Maxime Domenjoz, Dong Yifan, A. Surdo, V. Gallo, Marc Weber, Gong Ke, Huanyu Wang, Fan Rui, F. Gargano, D. Guo, P. Fusco, Gallo, V., Ambrosi, G., Asfandiyarov, R., Azzarello, P., Bernardini, P., Bertucci, B., Bolognini, A., Cadoux, F., Caprai, M., De Mitri, I., Domenjoz, M., Dong, Y., Duranti, M., Fan, R., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Gong, K., Guo, D., Husi, C., Ionica, M., La Marra, D., Loparco, F., Marsella, G., Mazziotta, M. N., Nardinocchi, A., Nicola, L., Pelleriti, G., Peng, W., Pohl, M., Postolache, V., Qiao, R., Surdo, A., Tykhonov, A., Vitillo, S., Wang, H., Weber, M., Wu, D., Wu, X., and Zhang, F.

Subjects
Materials science, Tracker DAMPE, Silicon, chemistry, business.industry, chemistry.chemical_element, Optoelectronics, Tungsten, business
Abstract

The DAMPE (DArk Matter Particle Explorer) is one of the five satellite missions in the framework of the Strategic Pioneer Research Program in Space Science of the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS). DAMPE is a powerful space telescope which has as main scientific objective the identification of possible Dark Matter signatures thanks to the capability to detect electrons and photons in a wide range of energy from 5 GeV up to 10 TeV and with unprecedented energy resolution. Moreover, the DAMPE satellite will contribute to a better understanding of the origin and propagation mechanisms of high energy cosmic rays thanks to the measurement of the flux of nuclei up to 100 TeV. Hints in the sector of high energy gamma astronomy are also expected thanks to its excellent photon detection capability. In this document we will present a detailed description of the DAMPE tracker: the silicontungsten tracker-converter (STK). The STK is being developed by an international collaboration composed of groups from University of Geneva, INFN Perugia, INFN Bari, INFN Lecce and Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing. The STK is made of 192 ladders, each of them is made up of four single-sided silicon strip detectors. In the following, the ladder performances in terms of charge collection and spatial resolution evaluated during a test beam period at the CERN SPS (Super Proton Synchrotron) in May 2015 are presented.

46. The tracking system of herd

Author

Enrico Catanzani, Xin Wu, Franck Cadoux, Chiara Perrina, Jun-jing Wang, Philipp Azzarello, Giovanni Ambrosi, Daniel La Marra, Yannick Favre, and Gianluigi Silvestre

Subjects
Physics, Large Hadron Collider, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, business.industry, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Monte Carlo method, Detector, Cosmic ray, Tracking system, Tracking (particle physics), Optics, Angular resolution, business, Energy (signal processing)
Abstract

The High Energy cosmic-Radiation Detection (HERD) facility will be one of the future astronomy missions on board the Chinese Space Station. The main objective of HERD is the direct detection of cosmic rays towards the "knee" region ($ \sim1$ PeV), with an excellent energy resolution ($ 1 m${}^2$sr), and long life-time ($> 10$ years). The tracking system of HERD will provide a full coverage of the 5-side sensitive HERD detector, allowing for a sub-degree angular resolution and multiple redundant and independent measurements of the charge of nuclei. Both silicon strip and scintillating fiber tracking detectors are being considered. The HERD tracker design, the results of on-ground tests carried out with particle beams at CERN and comparisons with Monte Carlo simulations will be presented in this contribution.

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