Conveners
Tuesday Afternoon 2
- Mercedes Paniccia (Université de Genève)
Cristina Consolandi
(University of Hawai'i at Manoa (US))
20/10/2015, 16:30
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) is a high-energy particle
detector designed to perform fundamental physics research in space.
It was installed on the International Space Station (ISS) on May 19, 2011,
where it will operate for the next decade.
During the first 30 months of operations, AMS-02 collected 41 billion events
of cosmic rays between 1 GV and 1.8 TV.
In this work, we...
Claudio Corti
(University of Hawai'i at Manoa (US))
20/10/2015, 16:50
Galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) entering the heliosphere are disturbed by the magnetic field of the
Sun, which varies with a period of 11 years. The solar modulation affects the GCR fluxes up to
few tens of GeV, modifying the shape and the intensity of the local interstellar spectrum (LIS). The
time variation of the galactic cosmic protons at Earth can be studied indirectly on ground with...
Riccardo Munini
(INFN - Universita Studi Trieste)
20/10/2015, 17:10
The satellite-borne PAMELA experiment has been continuously collecting data since 15th June
2006, when it was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome to detect the charged component of
cosmic rays over a wide energy range and with unprecedented statistics. The apparatus design
is particularly suited for particle and antiparticle identification. The PAMELA experiment has
measured the time...
David Alain Maurin
(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
20/10/2015, 17:30
Particles count rates at given Earth location and altitude result from the convolution of (i) the interstellar (IS) cosmic-ray fluxes outside the solar cavity, (ii) the time-dependent modulation of IS into Top-of-Atmosphere (TOA) fluxes, (iii) the rigidity cut-off (or geomagnetic transmission function) and grammage at the counter location, (iv) the atmosphere response to incoming TOA cosmic...
