CRIS2016 - Cosmic Ray International Seminar 2016

Session

Cosmic Rays Direct Measurements

5 Jul 2016, 14:30

Hotel Continental, Ischia (NA)

Conveners

Cosmic Rays Direct Measurements

• Alan Watson (University of Leeds)

Cosmic Rays Direct Measurements

• Alan Watson (University of Leeds)

42. Review of Direct Cosmic Ray measurements

Bruna Bertucci (PG)

05/07/2016, 14:30

In the last decade, direct cosmic ray studies entered in a new era of precision. Access to space with long-term running experiments and state of the art detectors has been the key to advance and to unveil unexpected features in the CR composition and energy spectra. A wealth of measurements is now available in a wide energy range, from few MeV to TeV, which provides new constraints to the...

16. Recent Results of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station

Mr Alberto Oliva (CIEMAT (Spain))

05/07/2016, 15:20

AMS-02 is a wide acceptance high-energy physics experiment installed on the International Space Station in May 2011 and operating continuously since then. With a collection rate of approximately 1.7 × 10^{10} events/year, combined with the particle identification capabilities of 5 independent detectors, AMS is able to accurately measure all the charged cosmic rays (CRs) species separating...

43. First data from the DAMPE space mission

Paolo Bernardini (LE)

05/07/2016, 16:20

The DAMPE (DArk Matter Particle Explorer) satellite was launched on December 17, 2015 and is in smooth data taking since few days after. It was designed in order to work properly for at least three years and, thanks to its large geometric factor (~0.3 m2 sr for protons and nuclei), is integrating one of the largest exposures for galactic cosmic ray (CR) studies in space. Even if primarily...

73. HERD highlights

Giovanni Ambrosi (PG)

05/07/2016, 16:50

The High Energy cosmic-Radiation Detection (HERD) facility is one of several space astronomy payloads of the cosmic lighthouse program onboard China’s Space Station, which is planned for operation starting around 2022 for about 10 years. The main scientific objectives of HERD are indirect dark matter search, precise cosmic ray spectrum and composition measurements up to the knee energy, and...

76. The PAMELA Experiment: A decade of Cosmic Rays Physics in space

Roberta Sparvoli (ROMA2)

05/07/2016, 17:20

It was the 15th of June of 2006 when the PAMELA satellite-borne experiment was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Since then, PAMELA has been making high-precision measurements of the charged component of the cosmic radiation opening a new era of precision studies in cosmic rays. The measured antiparticle component of the cosmic radiation shows features that can be...