WiZard

 

Collaboration:

In addition:

PAMELA

NINA1 and 2

Balloon Flights

Location of the experiment:

NINA 1 and 2 were placed on satellites (Russian Resurs-04 n.1 and Italian MITA);  PAMELA will be launched on board a Russian satellite Resurs-DK1

Test Beams to calibrate and test the detectors: PS and SPS at CERN, GSI at Darmstadt, Nucleotron at Dubna and TFL at Uppsala

National Responsible: P. Picozza (Roma2)

1. Goal of the experiment

The goal of the researches is to study the cosmic ray composition in a wide range of energies (from few tens of MeV up to some hundreds of GeV), with particular attention to the antimatter component: positrons, antiprotons and the search for anti-nuclei with a sensitivity on the anti-helium/helium ratio better than 10-8.

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2.

Activities during 2002:

The objectives of the scientific activity in 2002 were:

The following achievements have been obtained:

 

Milestones 2003:

PAMELA: Delivery of the Technological model to TsSKB-Progress

31-07-2003

PAMELA: Delivery of the Flight Model delivery.

01-10-2003

 

 

3. INFN contribution to the experiment in terms of manpower and financial support

4. Publications in refereed journals (in 2002): 8

5. Number of talks at conferences (in 2002): 15

6. Number of undergraduate and doctoral theses on the experiment: 13

7. Leadership role in the experiment:

8. Innovative instruments:

Satellite read-out systems and silicon detector technology for space experiments.

Space qualified CPU and mass memory

9. Competing experiments

AMS

10. International committee which has reviewed the experiment