Speaker
Nicola Mori
(Universita e INFN (IT))
Description
PAMELA is a satellite-borne experiment, aimed at precision measurements of
the charged light component of the cosmic-ray spectrum. It consists of a
magnetic spectrometer, a time-of-flight system, an electromagnetic
calorimeter, an anticoincidence system and a neutron detector. Recently, the
PAMELA collaboration has finalized the measurement of the absolute fluxes of
boron and carbon and of the B/C ratio. The B/C plays a central role in
galactic propagation studies in order to derive the injection spectra at
sources (both astrophysical and exotic) from measurements at Earth. The data
analysis techniques and the final results will be presented.
Author
Nicola Mori
(Universita e INFN (IT))
