PAMELA - A Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics

Abstract

The PAMELA experiment is a satellite-borne apparatus designed to study charged particles in the cosmic radiation with a particular focus on antiparticles. PAMELA is mounted on the Resurs DK1 satellite that was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome on June 15th 2006. The PAMELA apparatus comprises a time-of-flight system, a magnetic spectrometer, a silicon-tungsten electromagnetic calorimeter, an anticoincidence system, a shower tail catcher scintillator and a neutron detector. The combination of these devices allows antiparticles to be reliably identified from a large background of other charged particles. This paper reviews the design, space qualification and on-ground performance of PAMELA. The in-orbit performance will be discussed in future publications.

arXiv commentReplaced some paragraphs in text and some pictures

References in corpus (15)

• Production and propagation of cosmic-ray positrons and electrons
• Positron Propagation and Fluxes from Neutralino Annihilation in the Halo
• Precision Measurement of Cosmic-Ray Antiproton Spectrum
• New Measurement of the Cosmic-Ray Positron Fraction from 5 to 15 GeV
• The Cosmic-Ray antiproton flux between 3 and 49 GeV
• Clumpy Neutralino Dark Matter
• Measurements of Cosmic-ray Low-energy Antiproton and Proton Spectra in a Transient Period of the Solar Field Reversal
• Search for antihelium in cosmic rays
• The Energy Spectra and Relative Abundances of Electrons and Positrons in the Galactic Cosmic Radiation
• Local Flux of Low-Energy Antiprotons from Evaporating Primordial Black Holes
• Searching for Dark Matter with Future Cosmic Positron Experiments
• A High Granularity Imaging Calorimeter for Cosmic-Ray Physics
• A New Limit on the Flux of Cosmic Antihelium
• High-energetic Cosmic Antiprotons from Kaluza-Klein Dark Matter
• Implications of a New Solar System Population of Neutralinos on Indirect Detection Rates

Cited by in corpus (118)

• The Large Area Telescope on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Mission
• Observation of an anomalous positron abundance in the cosmic radiation
• PAMELA Measurements of Cosmic-ray Proton and Helium Spectra
• WIMP dark matter candidates and searches - current status and future prospects
• A new measurement of the antiproton-to-proton flux ratio up to 100 GeV in the cosmic radiation
• PAMELA results on the cosmic-ray antiproton flux from 60 MeV to 180 GeV in kinetic energy
• The cosmic-ray electron flux measured by the PAMELA experiment between 1 and 625 GeV
• Cosmic-Ray Nuclei, Antiprotons and Gamma-rays in the Galaxy: a New Diffusion Model
• The cosmic-ray positron energy spectrum measured by PAMELA
• A review of indirect searches for particle dark matter
• The 511 keV emission from positron annihilation in the Galaxy
• New Gamma-Ray Contributions to Supersymmetric Dark Matter Annihilation
• Cosmic-ray propagation with DRAGON2: I. numerical solver and astrophysical ingredients
• Galactic secondary positron flux at the Earth
• Minimal Dark Matter predictions for galactic positrons, anti-protons, photons
• Dark Matter Candidates: A Ten-Point Test
• A statistical procedure for the identification of positrons in the PAMELA experiment
• Bayesian analysis of cosmic-ray propagation: evidence against homogeneous diffusion
• Dark Matter and Pulsar Origins of the Rising Cosmic Ray Positron Fraction in Light of New Data From AMS
• Decaying Dark Matter and the PAMELA Anomaly
• The Case for a 700+ GeV WIMP: Cosmic Ray Spectra from PAMELA, Fermi and ATIC
• Solution of heliospheric propagation: unveiling the local interstellar spectra of cosmic ray species
• Inverse Compton constraints on the Dark Matter e+e- excesses
• Time dependence of the e^- flux measured by PAMELA during the July 2006 - December 2009 solar minimum
• Constraints on Dark Matter annihilations from reionization and heating of the intergalactic gas
• Antideuteron fluxes from dark matter annihilation in diffusion models
• Current status and desired accuracy of the isotopic production cross sections relevant to astrophysics of cosmic rays I. Li, Be, B, C, N
• Dark Matter Signals from Cascade Annihilations
• Deriving the properties of coronal pressure fronts in 3-D: application to the 17 May 2012 ground level enhancement
• Inference of the Local Interstellar Spectra of Cosmic Ray Nuclei Z<=28 with the GalProp-HelMod Framework
• Observations of the December 13 and 14, 2006, Solar Particle Events in the 80 MeV/n - 3 GeV/n range from space with PAMELA detector
• Imprints of Cosmic Rays in Multifrequency Observations of the Interstellar Emission
• Antimatter Signatures of Gravitino Dark Matter Decay
• Cosmic rays from Leptonic Dark Matter
• High Energy Positrons and the WMAP Haze from Exciting Dark Matter
• Proton fluxes measured by the PAMELA experiment from the minimum to the maximum solar activity for the 24th solar cycle
• GLE and Sub-GLE Redefinition in the Light of High-Altitude Polar Neutron Monitors
• The Si/CdTe semiconductor Compton camera of the ASTRO-H Soft Gamma-ray Detector (SGD)
• Status of the GAMMA-400 Project
• AMS-100: The Next Generation Magnetic Spectrometer in Space -- An International Science Platform for Physics and Astrophysics at Lagrange Point 2
• Limits on the WIMP-nucleon scattering cross-section from neutrino telescopes
• Measurements of Cosmic-Ray Hydrogen and Helium Isotopes with the PAMELA experiment
• High-energy Cosmic-Ray Positrons from Hidden-Gauge-Boson Dark Matter
• Implications of the first AMS-02 measurement for dark matter annihilation and decay
• Time dependence of the electron and positron components of the cosmic radiation measured by the PAMELA experiment between July 2006 and December 2015
• Constraining the origin of the rising cosmic ray positron fraction with the boron-to-carbon ratio
• A Markov Chain Monte Carlo for Galactic Cosmic Ray physics: I. Method and results for the Leaky Box Model
• Launch of the Space experiment PAMELA
• Deciphering the local Interstellar spectra of primary cosmic ray species with HelMod
• Minimal renormalizable simplified dark matter model with a pseudoscalar mediator
• Antimatter in the Milky Way
• The MIMA project. Design, construction and performances of a compact hodoscope for muon radiography applications in the context of Archaeology and geophysical prospections
• A discovery of a low-energy excess in cosmic-ray iron: an evidence of the past supernova activity in the Local Bubble
• Charge Measurement of Cosmic Ray Nuclei with the Plastic Scintillator Detector of DAMPE
• PAMELA's Measurements of Magnetospheric Effects on High Energy Solar Particles
• Spatial gradients of GCR protons in the inner heliosphere derived from Ulysses COSPIN/KET and PAMELA measurements
• Anti-deuterons from heavy Dark Matter
• Antiproton and Positron Signal Enhancement in Dark Matter Mini-Spikes Scenarios
• The Fermi Gamma-Ray Haze from Dark Matter Annihilations and Anisotropic Diffusion
• New evidence for charge-sign dependent modulation during the solar minimum of 2006 to 2009
• New minimal, median, and maximal propagation models for dark matter searches with Galactic cosmic rays
• PAMELA's measurements of geomagnetic cutoff variations during the 14 December 2006 storm
• Evidence of energy and charge sign dependence of the recovery time for the December 2006 Forbush event measured by the PAMELA experiment
• When Clusters Collide: Constraints On Antimatter On The Largest Scales
• A generalized approach to model the spectra and radiation dose rate of solar particle events on the surface of Mars
• Time dependence of the flux of helium nuclei in cosmic rays measured by the PAMELA experiment between July 2006 and December 2009
• Increasing the Neutralino Relic Abundance with Slepton Coannihilations: Consequences for Indirect Dark Matter Detection
• Constraints on heavy decaying dark matter with current gamma-ray measurements
• The Gamma-ray Albedo of the Moon
• Effective field theory interpretation of searches for dark matter annihilation in the Sun with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
• Penetrating particle ANalyzer (PAN)
• Heavy decaying dark matter at future neutrino radio telescopes
• A Multi-frequency analysis of dark matter annihilation interpretations of recent anti-particle and gamma-ray excesses in cosmic structures
• Study of the 27-day variations in GCR fluxes during 2007-2008 based on PAMELA and ARINA observations
• Time and Charge-Sign Dependence of the Heliospheric Modulation of Cosmic Rays
• Lithium and Beryllium isotopes with the PAMELA experiment
• Time dependent solar modulation of cosmic rays from solar minimum to solar maximum
• Panglossian Prospects for Detecting Neutralino Dark Matter in Light of Natural Priors
• Helium fluxes measured by the PAMELA experiment from the minimum to the maximum solar activity for solar cycle 24
• Revisit cosmic ray propagation by using ${}^1$H, ${}^2$H, ${}^3$He and ${}^4$He
• Multi-spacecraft observations and transport simulations of solar energetic particles for the May 17th 2012 event
• Diffuse Galactic Gamma Rays at intermediate and high latitudes. I. Constraints on the ISM properties
• Moon Shadow by Cosmic Rays under the Influence of Geomagnetic Field and Search for Antiprotons at Multi-TeV Energies
• Thermalization time scales for WIMP capture by the Sun in effective theories
• The ALTCRISS project on board the International Space Station
• Multi-wavelength Searches for Particle Dark Matter
• A Robust Approach to Constraining Dark Matter from Gamma-Ray Data
• Search for anisotropies in cosmic-ray positrons detected by the PAMELA experiment
• Shedding light on low-mass subhalo survival and annihilation luminosity with numerical simulations
• Chemical Composition of Galactic Cosmic Rays with Space Experiments
• The Pamela Cosmic Ray Space Observatory: Detector, Objectives and First Results
• Temperature spectra of interstellar dust grains heated by cosmic-rays II: dark cloud cores
• A self-consistent model of cosmic-ray fluxes and positron excess: Roles of nearby pulsars and a sub-dominant source population
• Two years of flight of the Pamela experiment: results and perspectives
• Capability of the PAMELA Time-Of-Flight to identify light nuclei: results from a beam test calibration
• Cosmic-ray flux predictions and observations for and with Metis on board Solar Orbiter
• Direct detection of cosmic rays: through a new era of precision measurements of particle fluxes
• Review of Indirect WIMP Search Experiments
• An excess of excesses examined via dark matter radio emissions from galaxies
• Improvements of Track Fitting with Well Tuned Probability Distributions for Silicon Strip Detectors
• First Results from the PAMELA Space Mission
• Dark Sector spectroscopy at the ILC
• Current status and desired accuracy of the isotopic production cross-sections relevant to astrophysics of cosmic rays II. Fluorine to Silicon (and updated LiBeB)
• Optimizing momentum resolution with a new fitting method for silicon-strip detectors
• A radio-frequency WIMP search with the MeerKAT Galaxy Cluster Legacy Survey
• Simulations of systematic effects arising from cosmic rays in the LiteBIRD space telescope, and effects on the measurements of CMB $B$-modes
• Detection of the high energy component of Jovian electrons in Low Earth Orbit with the PAMELA experiment
• Design of the Readout Electronics for the Qualification Model of DAMPE BGO Calorimeter
• The Cosmic Ray Signature of Dark Matter Caustics
• Testing the consistency of proapgation between light and heavy cosmic ray nuclei
• Particle Acceleration in Cosmic Sites - Astrophysics Issues in our Understanding of Cosmic Rays
• Monte Carlo Simulation of CRAND Protons Trapped at Low Earth Orbits
• Towards a precise measurement of the cosmic-ray positron fraction
• Precision spectral measurements of Chromium and Titanium from 10 to 250 GeV$/n$ and sub-Iron to Iron ratio with the Calorimetric Electron Telescope on the ISS
• Compact Scintillator Array Detector (ComSAD) for sounding rocket and CubeSat missions
• A refined model of secondary photon emission from heavy WIMP annihilations in the Galactic Centre
• Detector fabrication development for the LiteBIRD satellite mission
• Impact of Sommerfeld enhancement on helium reionization via WIMP dark matter