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Recent results Recent results and and perspectives perspectives on

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cosmic ray matter cosmic ray matter and and antimatter from antimatter from Pamela Pamela experiment experiment

  • M. Casolino

INFN & University of Roma Tor Vergata

  • n behalf of the PAMELA collaboration

Aspen Winter 2009 – Workshop on Physics at the LHC era

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Bari Florence Frascati

Italy Italy: :

Trieste Naples Rome CNR, Florence Moscow

  • St. Petersburg

Russia: Russia: Germany Germany: :

Siegen

Sweden Sweden: :

KTH, Stockholm

PAMELA Collaboration

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89 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 ...

Past, present and future experiment Past, present and future experiment

C 94 C 97 C 98 TS 93 89 M 91

MASS-89, 91, TS-93, CAPRICE 94-97-98 PAMELA

PAMELA

NINA-2 NINA-1

NINA-1 NINA-2

SILEYE-2 SILEYE-1

SILEYE-3/ ALTEINO: SILEYE- 4/ALTEA SILEYE-1 SILEYE-2 SILEYE-3 ALTEA LAZIO-SIRAD LAZIO-SIRAD SIRAD

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Sileye-3/Alteino on ISS (Russian)

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Altea on ISS (US section)

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Neutron Stars

White Dwarfs . 1020 eV protons

1 012 e V p r

  • t
  • n

s

109 eV protons

Pamela in the Hillas plot

Cosmic ray acceleration

p, p- He

B/C Search for Dark Matter p-

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Neutron Stars

White Dwarfs . 1020 eV protons

1 012 e V p r

  • t
  • n

s

109 eV protons

Propagation on the local part of the galaxy

e+/e- Search for Dark Matter (e+)

Pamela in the Hillas plot

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Neutron Stars

White Dwarfs . 1020 eV protons

1 012 e V p r

  • t
  • n

s

109 eV protons

Heliospheric phenomena, charge dependent solar modulation e+/e- p-/p+ Anomalous cosmic rays P, He, C

Pamela in the Hillas plot

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Neutron Stars

White Dwarfs . 1020 eV protons

1 012 e V p r

  • t
  • n

s

109 eV protons

Solar particle events Acceleration, shock, stochastic, CME P, He, CNO e-

Pamela in the Hillas plot

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Neutron Stars

White Dwarfs . 1020 eV protons

1 012 e V p r

  • t
  • n

s

109 eV protons

Magnetosphere: Earth Van Allen belt p, e- Jupiter e- interpl.

Pamela in the Hillas plot

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High precision charged cosmic ray measurement in Low Earth Orbit

Large abundance variations

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High precision charged cosmic ray measurement in Low Earth Orbit

Large abundance variations

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High precision charged cosmic ray measurement in Low Earth Orbit

Large abundance variations

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Adapted from Si mpson 1983 in PDG by M. Casolino

High precision charged cosmic ray measurement in Low Earth Orbit

Large abundance variations

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  • Pamela Detector

GF GF ~ 20.5 cm ~ 20.5 cm2sr sr Mass: 470 kg Mass: 470 kg Dim Dim: 120x40x45 cm : 120x40x45 cm3 Power: 360 W Power: 360 W

Calorim eter SI-W: 44 planes 96 strip 16 X0 0.6 int 22 W 0.26cm

  • p/ e+ selection  90%
  • p rejection factor  105
  • e- rejection factor  104

Tracker (B= .43T)

  •  2.8 µm bending view
  •  13.1 µm non-bending view

MDR from test beam  1 TV ND: 36 tubes 3He Discrimin p/ e > 10 E> 10 GeV/ c

TOF (6 planes, 3 pairs, 48 PMT) : (paddle)  110 ps (ToF)  330 ps (MIPs)

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Time of Flight / Scintillator

  • 6 x-y layers arranged on 3 planes;
  • 48 channels.
  • Albedo rejection dE/dx
  • Part ident. Up to 1 GeV with 150ps resolution
  • Nuclear identification up to Oxygen

3 double-layer scintillator paddles

  • Timing resolution:
  • (paddle)  110 ps
  • (ToF)  330 ps (MIPs)DIMENSIONS

350 mm2 7 mm 180 x 50 mm2 3 S32 420 mm2 7 mm 150 x 60 mm2 3 S31 450 mm2 5 mm 150 x 90 mm2 2 S22 375 mm2 5 mm 180 x 75 mm2 2 S21 385 mm2 7 mm 408 x 55 mm2 6 S12 357 mm2 7 mm 330 x 51 mm2 8 S11

810 mm S1 S2 S3

Adapted from W. Menn

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  • 5 magnetic modules
  • Permanent magnet (Nd-Fe-B alloy)

assembled in an aluminum mechanics

  • Magnetic cavity sizes (132 x 162) mm2 x 445

mm

  • Field inside the cavity 0.48 T at the center
  • Average field along the central axis of the

magnetic cavity : 0.43 T Geometric Factor: 20.5 cm2sr

  • Black IR absorbing painting
  • Magnetic shields

The permanent magnet

Adapted from E.Vannuccini ............................................................ ICRC2005 – Pune (India)

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The tracking system

6 detector planes composed by 3 “ladders”

  • Mechanical assembly
  • no material above/ below the plane

(1 plane = 0.3% X0)

  • carbon fibers stiffeners glued laterally

to the ladders

  • ladder : - 2 microstrip silicon sensors
  • 1 “ hybrid” with front-end electronics
  • silicon sensors (Hamamatsu):
  • 300 mm, Double Sided - x & y view
  • Double Metal - No Kapton Fanout
  • AC Coupled - No external chips
  • FE electronics: VA1 chip
  • Low noise charge preamplifier -
  • Operating point set for optimal

compromise:

  • total FE dissipation: 37 W on 36864

channels

  • Dynamic range up to 10 MIP
  • DAQ: 12 DSPs
  • data compression (>95%)
  • on-line calibration (PED,SIG,BAD)

E.Vannuccini ....................................................................................... ICRC2005 – Pune (India)

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sx = (2.77 ± 0.04) m sy = (13.1 ± 0.2) m

40-100 GeV pions (CERN-SPS 2000) beam-test of a small tracking-system prototype

Spatial resolution

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Imaging Calorimeter Imaging Calorimeter

  • Main tasks:
  • lepton/hadron discrimination
  • e+/- energy measurement
  • Characteristics:
  • 22 W plates (2.6 mm / 0.74 X0)
  • 44 Si layers (X-Y), 380 µm thick
  • Total depth: 16.3 X0 / 0.6 
  • 4224 channels
  • Self-triggering mode option

(> 300 GeV; GF~600 cm2 sr)

  • Mass: 110 kg
  • Power Consumption: 48 W
  • Design performance:
  • p,e+ selection efficiency ~ 90%
  • p rejection factor ~ 10 5
  • e rejection factor > 10 4
  • Energy resolution ~ 5% @ 200

GeV

Adapted from V. Bonvicini

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Neutron Detector

Lebedev Physical Institute Academy of Science, Russia

  • 36 3He containers (2

planes)

  • 9.5 cm polyethilene

moderator enveloped in thin cadmium layer.

  • 60x55x15 cm3, 30 kg,

10 W

  • (10% eff for E<1MeV

n)

  • Triggered counts
  • Background counting

3He tube

Plane 1 Plane 2

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e+ 0.171 GV Bending view e- 0.169 GV Bending view

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PAMELA event

Flight data: 14.4 GV non-interacting proton

From E. Mocchiutti

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PAMELA event

Flight data: 36 GV interacting proton

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Flight data 84 GeV/c interacting antiproton

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Flight data: 2.8 GV electron

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Flight data: 92 GeV/c positron

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14.7 GV Interacting nucleus (Z = 8)

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Pamela during integration in Baikonur Resurs DK integrated Coupling to Soyuz

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Baikonur Cosmodrome

85 km NS 125 km EW Two main Russian cosmodromes (Plesesk for polar launches) Russian enclave in Kazakistan Manned and unmanned launches to International Space Station

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Leninsk / Baikonur

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Integration in Baikonur cosmodrome, Spring 2006

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Pamela launch: Transport from Progress building to Launch Pad, 13-6-2006

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Gagarinsky Start

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Launch on June 15th 2006 Soyuz-U rocket

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Pamela as a Space observatory at 1AU

Jovian electrons Interplanetary Physics, Solar Wind Termination Shock Magnetospheric physics Solar Modulation Solar Energetic particles High Inclination Orbit 70.0o

Galactic cosmic ray Matter / Antimatter / Dark Matter

SAA, Albedo, secondary particle

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The geomagnetic field is an extremely powerful tool to select particle of different origin and nature and study in situ MHD phenomena

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Pamela maps at various altitudes

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Selection of galactic component according to geomagnetic cutoff

Rcutoff=14.9GV/L2

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Particle rigidity vs Vertical Stormer Cutoff e- p- e+ p saa subcutoff Rig=cutoff Galactic positive (above cutoff)

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Rigidity (from Tracker) Beta = v/c (from TOF)

albedo particles antiparticles albedo particles antiparticles

Particle identification: basic principle

p

4He+d

e+

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  • Montecarlo efficency for cuts
  • Trigger efficiency
  • Tracking efficiency
  • Multiple Scattering
  • Back scattering…
  • Systematics under close

investigation, currently 10% uncertainty on abs flux. To be reduced to less than 5% Selection criteria Fitted, single track High lever arm Rigidity R>0 Beta>.2 No anti

albedo particles antiparticles albedo particles antiparticles

Proton Absolute flux

Energy loss from tracker

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BESS

Caprice / Mass /TS93

AMS-01 Pamela

Solar Modulation of Galactic Cosmic Rays

1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 1955 1965 1975 1985 1995 2005 Y e ar Nm, сm

  • 2 s
  • 1

Rc= 2.4 CV Rc = 0.03 и 0.6 GV

)) ( , ( )) ( ( ) , , (

2 2 2 2 2

t E J E t E E E t E r J         Balloon: low frequency modulation Pamela: low and high frequency modulation Long solar minimum Variation in Galactic flux Short Term (months) Long term (years) Charge dependence

(e.g. Asaoka Y. et al. 2002, Phys.

  • Rev. Lett. 88, 051101)

Dati meteor 0.03 GV 0.6 GV, Stozkov 2008

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Solar modulation at minimum of solar cycle XXIII years 2006-2008

July 2006 August 2007

February 2008

Spectral index 2.76 

)) ( , ( )) ( ( ) , , (

2 2 2 2 2

t E J E t E E E t E r J        

Fis = 1.54 is

0.7 R is

  • 2.76

p/(cm2 s sr GV)

Solar modulation parameters (GV) error

JUL06 5.01-01  2e-03 JAN07 4.16-01  2-03 AUG07 4.02-01  3-03

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Trapped proton flux in the Van Allen belt (South Atlantic Anomaly)

Turquoise 0.3 G < B Yellow 0.22 G < B < 0.23 G Blue 0.21 G < B < 0.22 G Green 0.20 G < B < 0.21 G Red 0.19 G < B < 0.20 G Black B<0.19 G

P/(cm^2 sr GeV s)

Trapped Galactic

Integral Pamela flux (E>35 MeV) (PSB97 plot by SPENVIS project, model by BIRA-IASB)

10. 4.7±1.8 8.1±1.8 (5±3) 10-4 verde 6.8 2.6±0.6 5.9±0.5 (2.3±0.3) 10-2 rosso 7.1 3.1±0.5 6.0±0.4 0.11±0.01 nero χ2/ndf γ1 γ0 A

) (

1

E

E A

   

 

GeV

Arxiv 0810.4980v1

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RED: JULY 2006 BLUE: AUGUST 2007 P/(cm^2 sr GeV s) Galactic protons

Primary (galactic) spectra: polar measurements

  • M. Honda, 2008
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RED: JULY 2006 BLUE: AUGUST 2007 P/(cm^2 sr GeV s)

Primary and secondary spectra: Intermediate latitudes

Secondary particles (reentrant albedo) Penumbra

  • M. Honda, 2008
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RED: JULY 2006 BLUE: AUGUST 2007 P/(cm^2 sr GeV s) Secondary particles Penumbra

  • M. Honda, 2008

Primary and secondary spectra: Magnetic equator

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Proton flux at various cutoffs

  • Grigorov, Sov. Phys. Dokl. 22, 305 1977
  • NINA ApJ Supp.132 365, 2001
  • AMS Phys. Lett. B 472 2000.215,
  • Phys. Lett. B 484 2000.10–22
  • Lipari, Astrop. Ph. 14, 171, 2000
  • Huang et al, Pys Rev. D 68, 053008 2003
  • Sanuki et al, Phys Rev D75 043005 2007
  • Honda et al, Phys Rev D75 043006 2007

Atmospheric neutrino contribution Astronaut dose on board International Space Station Indirect measurement of cross section in the atmosphere  Agile e Glast background estimation

  • -- M. Honda, 2008

Arxiv 0810.4980v1

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Solar Particle events 13-14/12/06 – GLE 70

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Moreton Wave, Dec 6th 2006 (from Ed Cliver)

Athay, R. G. and Moreton, G. E.: 1961, Astrophys. J. 133, 935.

OSPAN H-alpha (656.3 nm) - AR 10930

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Kataoka, 2008 hbksw1.stelab.nagoya-u.ac.jp/ryuho.html

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Quiet time spectrum

December 13th 2006 event Preliminary!

Impulsive increase Decrease of high energy component Increase of low energy component

Magnetic Field Neutron Monitor X-ray P,e-

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Discrimination between acceleration processes

  • Shock accel.

E-a exp(E/Eo)

  • Stochastic Fermi

accel. Impulsive events Exp in Rigid/Kinene Bessel function,

  • Direct Acceleration

in magnetic reconnection

Arxiv 0810.4980v1

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Preliminary Results B/C

Preliminary

p d

3He 4He

Li Be B,C track average e±

Boron is a secondary particle. Its abundance is relevant for propagation in the Galaxy

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4% 23%

73%

Adapted from M. Boezio, P. Picozza

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Supersymmetry:

LSP – can not decay But can annhilate

Neutralino as Dark Matter candidate can not decay but can annhilate

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Another possible scenario: KK Dark Matter

Lightest Kaluza-Klein Particle (LKP): B(1)

Bosonic Dark Matter: fermionic final states no longer helicity suppressed. e+e- final states directly produced. As in the neutralino case there are 1-loop processes that produces monoenergetic γ γ in the final state.

From P. Picozza

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Dark Matter Searches

  • Cosmology

Detection, not identification

  • LHC Search

Supersymmetry, not necessarily DM

DAMA

  • Direct Detection

Local structure and nature  Galactic centre Antiprotons: Galactic average positrons: Local galactic 1kpc

  • Indirect Detection

Various galactic scales

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Dark matter search in cosmic ray antiparticles

Only secondary production in the galaxy e.g.:

Depends on propagation in the galaxy

Background – free channel to study rare phenomena such as Dark matter decay

p p p p p p

ISM CR

    

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e e-

  • e

e+ p, d p, d p p

‘Electron’ ‘Hadron’ From M. Boezio

Calorimeter Selection Criteria for Antiprotons

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Alignment

Coherent misalignment Correction with electrons (or electrons + positrons) and comparison with simulation Critical Issue: an antiparticle Can be faked if alignment of the detector is wrongly considered Incoherent misalignment Correction with protons 2 steps: column alignment + inter-column alignment

From E. Vannuccini, P. Papini

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Deflection

Very sharp and conservative cuts Maximum lever (top and bottom planes of the spectrometer must be hit) arm in magnet to keep spillover under control Then release this criterium D=1/R

Antiprotons Protons

+50 GV

  • 50 GV
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Proton spillover background

MDR > 850 GV Minimal track requirements Strong track requirements:

  • strict constraints on 2 (~75% efficiency)
  • rejected tracks with low-resolution

clusters along the trajectory

  • faulty strips (high noise)
  • -rays (high signal and multiplicity)

Protons (& spillover)

From O. Adriani

Antiprotons

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High-energy antiproton selection

p-bar p

10 GV 50 GV

From O. Adriani

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High-energy antiproton selection

R < MDR/ 10

p-bar p

10 GV 50 GV

From O. Adriani

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Antiproton-Proton Ratio

Why Ratios? Reduce systematic error All (most) efficiencies cancel out Subsequently absolute fluxes

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Antiproton ratio measured with Pamela: Comparison with theoretical models

Uncertainties in Galactic propagation Uncertainties in heliospheric propagation Released data 1-100 GeV Currently roughly 10 TB

  • f data

As of March ’08 Out of 8.8 TB

  • 107 p
  • 800 p-

arXiv:0810.4994v1 [astro-ph] 28 Oct 2008 Accepted - PRL

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ApJ 457, L 103 1996 ApJ 532, 653, 2000

Antiproton ratio measured with Pamela: Comparison with experimental data

arXiv:0810.4994v1 [astro-ph] 28 Oct 2008 Accepted - PRL

  • Highest

energy up to now

  • Coherent with

secondary production

  • Uncertainties
  • f Galactic

Propagation

  • Would favour

Moskalenko 2002 (except highest energy)

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Positrons results

  • Till August 30th about 20000 positrons from 200 MeV up

to 200 GeV have been analyzed

  • More than 15000 positrons over 1 GeV
  • Other eight months data to be analyzed
  • Selection criteria based on calorimeter
  • Tuned and tested with

– Montecarlo – Test Beam – In flight data – Cross-checked with Neutron Detector

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Preshower Technique to reduce systematics of proton contamination: Protons:

  • Non Interacting
  • Interacting

Electrons / Positrons

  • Interacting (e.m.)

Optimize electromagnetic/hadronic shower discrimination, reduce systematics

Recipe: M. Boezio, E. Mocchiutti

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  • 1. Take straight track in SmallTop  Select Protons

Take interacting protons in BigBottom (known sample of hadronic shower. No leptons)

  • 2. Define cuts (energy/topology) on 40 layers

Using “BigTop” for e.m. showers (electrons) “BigBottom” for hadronic showers (protons)

  • 3. Apply cuts to the positron sample
  • 4. Apply cuts to electron sample to estimate efficiency

P hadronic shower e+/- e.m. shower

Preshower Technique to reduce systematics of proton contamination:

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Positron selection with calorimeter

p (non-int)

e e- e e+

p (non-int)

Fraction of charge released along the calorimeter track (left, hit, right)

p (int)

p (int)

Rigidity: 20-30 GV

From P. Picozza, M. Boezio, E. Vannuccini

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Positron selection with calorimeter

e e-

Fraction of charge released along the calorimeter track (left, hit, right)

p p e e+

+

Energy-momentum match

Rigidity: 20-30 GV

From P. Picozza, M. Boezio, E. Vannuccini

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Positron selection with calorimeter

e e-

Fraction of charge released along the calorimeter track (left, hit, right)

p p e e+

+

  • Energy-momentum match
  • Starting point of shower
  • Longitudinal profile

Rigidity: 20-30 GV

From P. Picozza, M. Boezio, E. Vannuccini

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Positron selection – indipendent selection/check with ND

e e- p p

e e- e e+ p p

Neutrons detected by ND

Rigidity: 20-30 GV

Fraction of charge released along the calorimeter track (left, hit, right)

e e+

  • Energy-momentum match
  • Starting point of shower
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Status of Positron - Electron ratio

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Status of Positron - Electron ratio

Secondary production ‘Leaky box model’ (Protheroe 1982) Secondary production ‘Moskalenko + Strong model’ (1998) without reacceleration

Primary production from  annihilation (m() = 336 GeV)

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arXiv:0810.4995v1 [astro-ph] 28 Oct 2008 Accepted on Nature

Pamela e+ results

  • Till August 30th about

20000 positrons from 200 MeV up to 200 GeV have been analyzed

  • More than 15000

positrons over 1 GeV

  • Other eight months

data to be analyzed

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arXiv:0810.4995v1 [astro-ph] 28 Oct 2008 Accepted on Nature

Pamela e+ results

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qA<0 measurements (now, 22 years ago) Solar modulation up to 10 GeV

Comparison with solar cycle – low energy

A+ A-

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qA>0 measurements (11 years ago)

Comparison with solar cycle

A+ A-

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  • Charge dependent solar

modulation

  • Separate qA>0 with qA<0

solar cycles

  • Evident in the proton flux
  • Observed in the antiproton

channel by BESS

  • Full 3D solution of the Parker

equation – drift term depends

  • n sign of the charge

Low energy positrons

BESS

Caprice / Mass /TS93

AMS-01 Pamela

Miyake, Yanagita, 2008 A+ A-

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Pamela

Pamela e+ Pamela p-

A+ A-

Clem et al. 30th ICRC 2007

Charge dependent solar modulation

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According to BBE2008

  • Supersymmetric neutralino cannot explain the
  • data. (Majorana particle) no hard positrons

directly (helicity suppression of light fermions in the annihilation process)

  • Better a Dirac particle, or a spin-1 particle

like Kaluza-Klein dark matter

  • Photons radiated from charged virtual particles

(“virtual” internal bremsstrahlung (IB), or direct emission) can have a significant impact

  • n the resulting gamma-ray spectrum, leading

not only to an even more pronounced cutoff, but also to clearly observable bump-like features at slightly lower energies

  • very large boost factors are needed.
  • a strong enhancement can also be expected in

the gamma-ray flux at photon energies close to m_neutral

arXiv:0808.3725v1

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Potgieter at al. arXiv:0804.0220v1

  • C. Grimani A&A 474, 2, November I 2007, pp.339-343
  • Adv. Sp.Res. 39, Issue 2, 2007, p. 280-284.

High energy nearby Pulsar contribution?

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Atic results on electron flux at 300-500 GeV

Nature, 456, 362 20 November 2008 doi:10.1038/nature07477

  • No separation

between electrons and positrons

  • Requires high

boost factor

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  • Pamela is operating successfully in space
  • Expected three years of operations –

completed more than 2.5 years- Mission will hopefully be extended

  • Next step:positron and electron absolute

fluxes

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