Roma International Conference on Astroparticle Physics

Session

Parallel Session: Experimental techniques

May 26, 2011, 4:45 PM

Rettorato, University Roma TRE, Roma, Italy

75. SiPM thermoregulated fast front end electronics for Time Of Flight detectors in space

Cristina Sbarra (INFN-PD & Bologna University)

5/26/11, 4:45 PM

Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM) are considered very promising in many applications where high timing performance, low cost, hardness to radiation damage and single photon counting are requested. Such applications go from astrophysics, high energy accelerator physics and medical physics. A group of SiPM from FBK-Irst has been tested with a low noise fast amplifier, based on a hetero-junction...

77. CALET: a calorimeter based orbital observatory for High Energy Astroparticle Physics

Prof. Pier Simone Marrocchesi (SI)

5/26/11, 5:05 PM

CALET is a complex experiment that will be installed on the Exposure Facility of the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM-EF) on the International Space Station (ISS) with a launch window in the late 2013. The instrument consists of three modules: a charge module using plastic scintillator to identify the charge of the particle, a thin imaging calorimeter (3 r.l.) with tungsten plates...

43. Astroparticle and Particle Physics with HiSCORE

Dr Martin Tluczykont (University of Hamburg)

5/26/11, 5:25 PM

We propose to explore the cosmic ray and gamma-ray sky (accelerator sky) in the so far poorly covered energy range from 10 TeV to 1 EeV. The main motivation for observations in this energy regime is to solve the origin of Galactic cosmic rays. Further different questions of astroparticle and particle physics could be addressed in this energy regime. Furthermore, new physics questions might...

81. Stand-alone low energy measurements of light nuclei from PAMELA Time-of-Flight system.

Dr Rita Carbone (NA)

5/26/11, 5:45 PM

The PAMELA experiment, built to detect charged particles in cosmic rays, is in orbit since June 2006. The Time-of-Flight system, composed by 24 scintillation counters arranged in 3 double view planes, is a key element of the apparatus: it generates the general trigger, provides measurements of the velocity of the particles entering the detector and allows rejection of albedo particles. It...

98. The data acquisition and transport design for NEMO phase 2

Dr Francesco Simeone (ROMA1)

5/26/11, 6:05 PM

The NEMO collaboration has planned to deploy a prototype tower composed by 8 floor by the end of the year. The aim of this contribution is to give an overview of the NEMO electronic system: the underwater electronics sample signals from photomultipliers and acquire slow-control data both from oceanographic instruments and dedicated sensors, allowing to monitor the operational conditions of...