WiZard

 

Collaboration:

In addition:

PAMELA

NINA1 and 2

Balloon Flights

Location of the experiment:

Nina and Pamela detectors are located on satellites.

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 2001:

The objectives of the scientific activity in 2001 were:

The following achievements have been obtained

BALLOONS: Contributed papers to ICRC

31-05-2001

100%

PAMELA: Completion of the Q-model

31-03-2001

80%

NINA: Data analysis

30-06-2001

100%

NINA/MITA: Mission analysis, preliminary data analysis

30-06-2001

100%

PAMELA: Completion of the tests of the electromechanical integration with the satellite

31-07-2001

50%

Milestones 2002:

PAMELA: Delivery of the Mass and Thermal model to TsSKB-Progress

28-02-2002

PAMELA: Delivery of the Technological model to TsSKB-Progress

30-06-2002

PAMELA: Delivery of the Flight model to TsSKB-Progress

30-09-2002

 

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

4. Publications in refereed journals (in 2001): 9

5. Number of talks at conferences (in 2001): 11

6. Number of undergraduate and doctoral theses on the experiment: 4

7. Leadership role in the experiment:

8. Innovative instruments:

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

9. Competing experiments

AMS

10. International committee which has reviewed the experiment

The INFN National Committee II annually reviews the experiments.