Speaker
Dmitry Podorozhny
(MSU SINP)
Description
The "knee" energy range 1015 - 1016 eV is a crucial region for the understanding of the Cosmic Rays (CR) origin, acceleration and propagation in our Galaxy. The NUCLEON satellite experiment is designed to investigate directly a cosmic ray nuclei energy spectrum and the chemical composition from 100 GeV to 1000 TeV and the atomic charge range up to Z~40 as well as a cosmic ray electron spectrum from 50 GeV to 3 TeV. The effective geometric factor is more than 0.2 m2sr for nuclei and 0.06 m2sr for electrons. The satellite was launched in 26 December 2014. The spacecraft orbit is a Sun-synchronous one with inclination 97.276 and a middle altitude of 475 km. The total weight of the NUCLEON apparatus is 375 kg, and planned exposition time of 5 years. The flight tests of the NUCLEON detector were done and the preliminary NUCLEON experiment results are presented.
| Registration number following "ICRC2015-I/" | 483 |
|---|---|
| Collaboration | -- not specified -- |
Authors
Aleksandr Panov
(MSU SINP)
Alexander Voronin
(MSU SINP)
Andrey Turundaevskiy
(MSU SINP)
Artur Tkachenko
(JINR, BITP)
Danila Polkov
(SDB Automatika)
Dmitry Karmanov
(MSU SINP)
Dmitry Podorozhny
(MSU SINP)
Eduard Atkin
(MEPhI)
Igor Kovalev
(MSU SINP)
Ilya Kudryashov
(MSU SINP)
Leonid Tkachev
(JINR)
Lubov Sveshnikova
(MSU SINP)
Mikhail Merkin
(MSU SINP)
Mikhail Torochkov
(MSU SINP)
Nikolay Gorbunov
(JINR)
Oleg Vasiliev
(MSU SINP)
Sergey Filippov
(SDB Automatika)
Sergey Porokhovoy
(JINR)
Vadim Bulatov
(SDB Automatika)
Viktor Grebenyuk
(JINR)
Vitaly Shumikhin
(MEPhI)
Vyacheslav Dorokhov
(SDB Automatika)
