Launch of the space experiment PAMELA

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 455-466

  Casolino, M ^a   Picozza, P ^a   Altamura, F ^a   Basili, A ^a   De Simone, N ^a   Di Felice, V ^a   De Pascale, M P ^a   Marcelli, L ^a   Minori, M ^a   Nagni, M ^a   Sparvoli, R ^a   Galper, A M ^b   Mikhailov, V V ^b   Runtso, M F ^b   Voronov, S A ^b   Yurkin, Y T ^b   Zverev, V G ^b   Castellini, G ^c   Adriani, O ^d   Bonechi, L ^d   Bongi, M ^d   Taddei, E ^d   Vannuccini, E ^d   Fedele, D ^d   Papini, P ^d   Ricciarini, S B ^d   Spillantini, P ^d   Ambriola, M ^e   Cafagna, F ^e   De Marzo, C ^e   Barbarino, G C ^f   Campana, D ^f   De Rosa, G ^f   Osteria, G ^f   Russo, S ^f   Bazilevskaja, G A ^g   Kvashnin, A N ^g   Maksumov, O ^g   Misin, S ^g   Stozhkov, Yu I ^g   Bogomolov, E A ^h   Krutkov, S Yu ^h   Nikonov, N N ^h   Bonvicini, V ⁱ   Boezio, M ⁱ   Lundquist, J ⁱ   Mocchiutti, E ⁱ   Vacchi, A ⁱ   Zampa, G ⁱ   Zampa, N ⁱ   Bongiorno, L ^j   Ricci, M ^j   Carlson, P ^k   Hofverberg, P ^k   Lund, J ^k   Orsi, S ^k   Pearce, M ^k   Menn, W ^l   Simon, M ^l   more..

^a INFN SEZIONE DI ROMA   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH NUCLEAR UNIVERSITY MEPHI   (Russian Federation)

^c IFAC CNR   (Italy)

^d INFN SEZIONE DI FIRENZE   (Italy)

^e INFN SEZIONE DI BARI   (Italy)

^f INFN SEZIONE DI NAPOLI   (Italy)

^g LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^h IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

ⁱ SEZIONE DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

^j INFN LABORATORI NAZIONALI DI FRASCATI   (Italy)

^k ALBANOVA UNIVERSITY CENTER   (Sweden)

^l UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

more..

Author keywords

Antimatter; Cosmic rays; Satellite borne experiment

Indexed keywords

CALORIMETERS; COSMIC RAYS; COSMOLOGY; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; NEUTRON DETECTORS; ORBITS; PERMANENT MAGNETS; SATELLITES;

ANTICOUNTER SYSTEMS; ANTIMATTER; MAGNET SPECTROMETERS; SATELLITE-BORNE EXPERIMENT; SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES; SCINTILLATOR COUNTERS; SPACE EXPERIMENTS; WIDE ENERGY RANGE;

GERMANIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 44849118875     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2007.07.023     Document Type: Article

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