Year: 2013
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: In six years of data collection years in space, the experiment PAMELA has discovered very interesting features in cosmic rays, namely in the fluxes of protons, helium, electrons, that might change our basic vision of the mechanisms of production, acceleration and propagation of cosmic rays in the Galaxy. In addition, PAMELA measurements of cosmic antiproton and positron fluxes are setting strong constraints to the nature of Dark Matter. The continuous particle detection is allowing a constant monitoring of the solar activity and detailed study of the solar modulation for a long period, giving important improvements to the comprehension of the heliosphere mechanisms. PAMELA is also measuring the radiation environment around the Earth, and has recently discovered an antiproton radiation belt.
Authors: P Picozza, L Marcelli, O Adriani, G C Barbarino, G A Bazilevskaya, R Bellotti, M Boezio, E A Bogomolov, M Bongi, V Bonvicini, S Borisov, S Bottai, A Bruno, F Cafagna, D Campana, R Carbone, P Carlson, M Casolino, G Castellini, M P De Pascale, C De Santis, N De Simone, V Di Felice, A M Galper, L Grishantseva, G Jerse, A V Karelin, M D Kheymits, S V Koldashov, S Y Krutkov, A N Kvashnin, A Leonov, V Malakhov, A G Mayorov, W Menn, V V Mikhailov, E Mocchiutti, A Monaco, N Mori, N Nikonov, G Osteria, F Palma, P Papini, M Pearce, C Pizzolotto, M Ricci, S B Ricciarini, R Sarkar, L Rossetto, M Simon, R Sparvoli, P Spillantini, Y I Stozhkov, A Vacchi, E Vannuccini, G Vasilyev, S A Voronov, Y T Yurkin, J Wu, G Zampa, N Zampa, V G Zverev
Institutions: University of Rome Tor Vergata, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Roma Tor Vergata, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Firenze, University of Florence, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Napoli, University of Naples Federico II, P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste, Ioffe Institute, National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Nello Carrara Institute of Applied Physics, University of Trieste, University of Siegen, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2149809013