1. PAMELA mission: heralding a new era in cosmic ray physics
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Valentina Scotti, Valerio Formato, Mirko Boezio, V. G. Zverev, E. Mocchiutti, F. Palma, C. De Donato, O. Adriani, W. Menn, Per Carlson, Alfonso Monaco, A. G. Mayorov, A. V. Karelin, M. Merge, Roberta Sparvoli, G. Castellini, M. Bongi, G. I. Vasilyev, V. V. Malakhov, Riccardo Munini, G. Zampa, Beatrice Panico, L. Marcelli, C. De Santis, Mark Pearce, S. B. Ricciarini, G. Osteria, C. Pizzolotto, M. Simon, A. A. Leonov, P. Papini, S. A. Voronov, A. Vacchi, A. Bruno, Matteo Martucci, E. Vannuccini, M. P. De Pascale, Ritabrata Sarkar, E. A. Bogomolov, S. Yu. Krutkov, S. Bottai, Roberto Bellotti, N. De Simone, Nicola Mori, A. M. Galper, R. Carbone, A. N. Kvashnin, Sergey Koldobskiy, G. C. Barbarino, Y. T. Yurkin, Maria Teresa Ricci, F. Cafagna, M. D. Kheymits, N. Zampa, G. A. Bazilevskaya, V. V. Mikhailov, V. Di Felice, V. Bonvicini, Y. I. Stozhkov, P. Picozza, P. Spillantini, Sergey Koldashov, D. Campana, Marco Casolino, Ricciarini, S. B., Ariani, O., Barbarino, G. C., Bazilevskaya, G. A., Bellotti, R., Boezio, M., Bogomolov, E. A., Bongi, M., Bonvicini, V., Bottai, S., Bruno, A., Cafagna, F., Campana, D., Carbone, R., Carlson, P., Casolino, M., Castellini, G., Donato, C., De Pascale, M. P., De Santis, C., De Simone, N., De Felice, V., Di Formato, V., Galper, A. M., Karelin, A. V., Kheymits, M. D, Koldashov, S. V., Koldobskiy, S., Krutkov, S. Y., Kvashnin, A. N., Leonov, A., Malakhov, V., Marcelli, L., Martucci, M., Mayorov, A. G., Menn, W., Mergè, M., Mikhailov, V. V., Mocchiutti, E., Monaco, A., Mori, N., Munini, Riccardo, Osteria, G., Palma, F., Panico, B., Papini, P., Pearce, M., Picozza, P., Pizzolotto, C., Ricci, M., Sarkar, R., Simon, M., Scotti, V., Sparvoli, R., Spillantini, P., Stozhkov, Y. I., Vacchi, A., Vannuccini, E., Vasilyev, G. I., Voronov, S. A., Yurkin, Y. T., Zampa, G., Zampa, N., Zverev, V. G., Ricciarini, S., Adriani, O. b., Barbarino, Giancarlo, Bazilevskaya, G., Bellotti, R. g., Bogomolov, E., Bongi, M. b., Bruno, A. g., Casolino, M. l., Donato, C. D., M. n., De, C. n., De, Simone, N. D., Felice, V. D., Formato, V. o., Galper, A., Karelin, A., Kheymits, M., Koldashov, S., Krutkov, S., Kvashnin, A., Martucci, M. q., Mayorov, A., Merg??????, M. n., Mikhailov, V., Munini, R. o., Osteria, Giuseppe, Palma, F. n., Picozza, P. n., C. s., T, Scotti, V. d., Sparvoli, R. n., Spillantini, P. b., Stozhkov, Y., Vasilyev, G., Voronov, S., Yurkin, Y., and Zverev, V.
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Antimatter ,QC1-999 ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,space experiment ,Dark matter ,Particle detectors ,Cosmic ray ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,Astrophysics ,Earth's magnetosphere ,Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare ,Physics and Astronomy (all) ,Heliosphere ,symbols.namesake ,PAMELA ,PAMELA, space experiment, cosmic rays, antimatter, darkmatter ,Cosmic rays ,Physics ,COSMIC cancer database ,darkmatter ,Astronomy ,Galaxy ,Antiproton ,Van Allen radiation belt ,Physics::Space Physics ,symbols - Abstract
After seven years of data taking in space, the experiment PAMELA is showing 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. ?????? Owned by the authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2014.
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- 2014