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.
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.