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- Title
Understanding cosmic rays and searching for exotic sources with PAMELA.
- Authors
Picozza, P.; Sparvoli, R.; Krainev, M.
- Abstract
The instrument PAMELA, in orbit since 15 June 2006 on board of the Russian satellite Resurs DKI, is designed to study charged particles in the cosmic radiation, with a particular focus on antimatter and signals of dark matter annihilation. PAMELA is also looking for primordial antinuclei, measuring light nuclei energy spectra, studying the mechanisms of acceleration and propagation of the cosmic rays in the Galaxy, and monitoring the solar activity and the radiation belts. A review of the main experimental results obtained by PAMELA is presented in this paper. The observed anomalous positron excess is discussed in terms of annihilation of dark matter particles as well as in terms of standard astrophysical sources. Moreover constraints on dark matter models from antiproton data are shown.
- Subjects
COSMIC rays; SCIENTIFIC satellites; ANTIMATTER; DARK matter; VAN Allen radiation belts; POSITRONS; ANTIPROTONS; DATA analysis
- Publication
Astrophysics & Space Sciences Transactions (ASTRA), 2011, Vol 7, Issue 2, p85
- ISSN
1810-6528
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5194/astra-7-85-2011