Paolo Papini
(Università di Firenze & INFN, Italy)
6/21/07, 5:20 PM
PAMELA (a Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics) is a satellite-borne experiment devoted to measure charged cosmic rays spectra with a particular focus on antiparticle studies. The apparatus is mounted on the polar orbiting Resurs DK-1 satellite and it is collecting data from July 2006. The low geomagnetic cut-off experienced by PAMELA allows to measure low...
Roberto Battiston
(Universita' di Perugia e INFN Perugia, Italy)
6/21/07, 5:45 PM
Precise knowledge of the hadronic component of cosmic rays is needed to describe the cosmic ray production, acceleration and propagation mechanisms in our galaxy. Present measurements suffer from limitations coming from short exposure time, intrinsic instrumental limitations and restricted energy range. The AMS-02 experiment is a large acceptance magnetic spectrometer to perform high...
Lars Bergström
(Physics Dept., Stockholm University, Sweden)
6/21/07, 6:10 PM
Soon the GLAST satellite will be launched, and a window will open in energy between 30 and 300 GeV, a range where most of the Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are predicted to give a signal, if the dark matter halo follows the predictions of N-body simulations. A review of the various candidates and their potential of being detected in gamma-rays is given.
