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- Bongi, M, et al.
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PAMELA : A satellite experiment for antiparticles measurement in cosmic rays
- 2004
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Ingår i: IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. - 0018-9499 .- 1558-1578. ; 51:3, s. 854-859
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- PAMELA is a satellite-borne experiment that will study the antiproton and positron fluxes in cosmic rays in a wide range of energy (from 80 MeV up to 190 GeV for antiprotons and from 50 MeV up to 270 GeV for positrons) and with high statistics, and that will measure the antihelium/helium ratio with a sensitivity of the order of 10(-8). The detector will fly on-board a polar orbiting Resurs DK1 satellite, which will be launched into space by a Soyuz rocket in 2004 from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, for a 3-year-long mission. Particle identification and energy measurements are performed in the PAMELA apparatus using the following subdetectors: a magnetic spectrometer made up of a permanent magnet equipped with double-sided microstrip silicon detectors, an electromagnetic imaging calorimeter composed of layers of tungsten absorber and silicon detectors planes, a transition radiation detector made of straw tubes interleaved with carbon fiber radiators, a plastic scintillator time-of-flight and trigger system, a set of anticounter plastic scintillator detectors, and a neutron detector. The features of the detectors and the main results obtained in beam test sessions are presented.
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- Aubert, B., et al.
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Performance of the ATLAS electromagnetic calorimeter barrel module 0
- 2003
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Ingår i: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A. - : Elsevier BV. - 0168-9002 .- 1872-9576. ; 500:03-jan, s. 202-231
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The construction and performance of the barrel pre-series module 0 of the future ATLAS electromagnetic calorimeter at the LHC is described. The signal reconstruction and performance of ATLAS-like electronics has been studied. The signal to noise ratio for muons has been found to be 7.11 +/- 0.07. An energy resolution of better than 9.5% GeV1/2 / rootE (sampling term) has been obtained with electron beams of up to 245 GeV. The uniformity of the response to electrons in an area of Deltaeta x Deltaphi = 1.2 x 0.075 has been measured to be better than 0.8%.
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- Aubert, B., et al.
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Performance of the ATLAS electromagnetic calorimeter end-cap module 0
- 2003
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Ingår i: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A. - : Elsevier BV. - 0168-9002 .- 1872-9576. ; 500:03-jan, s. 178-201
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The construction and beam test results of the ATLAS electromagnetic end-cap calorimeter pre-production module 0 are presented. The stochastic term of the energy resolution is between 10% and 12.5% GeV1/2 over the full pseudorapidity range. Position and angular resolutions are found to be in agreement with simulation. A global constant term of 0.6% is obtained in the pseudorapidity range 2.5 < η < 3.2 (inner wheel).
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- Larsson, S., et al.
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PoGO : The polarised gamma-ray observer
- 2004
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Ingår i: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A. - : Elsevier BV. - 0168-9002 .- 1872-9576. ; 525:02-jan, s. 148-152
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A new balloon-borne instrument is proposed which will allow the polarisation of gamma-rays in the energy range 30-200 keV to be measured. A diverse variety of astrophysical sources, such as Active Galactic Nuclei, pulsars and Galactic X-ray binaries are expected to emit polarised gamma-rays. Studies of their polarisation properties will provide a new and powerful probe of the geometry and physical conditions in these sources.
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- Larsson, S., et al.
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The Background of the INTEGRAL SPI Anticoincidence Shield and the Observations of GRBs
- 2004
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Ingår i: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 5TH INTEGRAL WORKSHOP ON THE INTEGRAL UNIVERSE. - : European Space Agency. - 9290928638 ; , s. 649-652
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The anti-coincidence shield, ACS, of the spectrometer, SPI (Vedrenne et al., 2003), on INTEGRAL provides the possibility to study temporal properties of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with high resolution (Rau et al. 2004). To correctly interpret the results of the analysis, a good understanding of the back,ground and noise levels of the instrument is required. The back-round noise of the ACS, oil timescales up to the length of a GRB, has a Gaussian distribution and its power is independent of frequency, that is, it is white noise. However, it does not follow a Poisson statistic since on average the variance is similar to 1.6 times larger than the mean, and varies significantly. We find a systematic relation between the mean count rate and its variance. The ratio, variance/mean, decreases as the mean count rate increases. As well as helping to understand the cause of this effect, this characterisation is useful when modelling the time variability of GRBs. To illustrate the discussion we present some GRB light curves detected by the SPI/ACS and shortly discuss the analysis that has been made of them.
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- Pearce, Mark, et al.
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CLIMB : cosmic light isotopes and muons with balloons
- 2004
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Ingår i: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A. - : Elsevier BV. - 0168-9002 .- 1872-9576. ; 525:02-jan, s. 114-117
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A new balloon-borne experiment is proposed which will measure high-energy light isotopes at the top of the Earth's atmosphere and cosmic ray muons at fixed altitudes within the Earth's atmosphere.
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